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I guess my second longest hobby has been Astronomy, I have had telescopes since around 1961. Today I use a Mead 10" Ecuatorial to enjoy the sky as much as I can........
WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope to the outmost. I firmly beleive that if this software keeps developing I will sell my scope (BS, I would never do that!!!)
So if any of you like astronomy or are curious to see where we are, come from and are going why don´t you download it now and spend the night visiting places that we will never go.......

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx

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Thanks a bunch for the HU, i've been an hobby astronomer since i was a kid: :jump::jump:

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Thanks for that gera, we travel parallel universes my friend. I too have been an amateur astronomer since I was 13. my first telescope was a 4-in. Tasco reflector in 1959. I now haw two, a Celestron C-8 and C-10. My oldest son shares the passion and bought his first telescope two months ago, a 5-in. Celestron Schmitt-Cassegrain.

I also belong to the Piedmont Astronomy Club based out of pockingham Community College. We get to use the large observatory at Snow Camp, NC on occasion. http://www.uncg.edu/phy/tco/

I also have a membership with SLOOH, which truly allows one to look through actual onservatory telescopes. I joined SLOOH because I do not have a great view of the Southern Hemisphere and SLOOH fills that need. For others interested chech here: http://www.slooh.com/. It's a bargain now at $49.95 a year, it was $99.95 a year when I first joined.

Caz
 
Pretty neat!

Thanks for the HU. I have been into astronomy since I was a kid.

gera said:
visiting places that we will never go.......
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I dont know about that... Ive got some people working for me that I would bet come from there! :costumes:
 
Cazzie said:
Thanks for that gera, we travel parallel universes my friend. I too have been an amateur astronomer since I was 13. my first telescope was a 4-in. Tasco reflector in 1959. I now haw two, a Celestron C-8 and C-10. My oldest son shares the passion and bought his first telescope two months ago, a 5-in. Celestron Schmitt-Cassegrain.

I also belong to the Piedmont Astronomy Club based out of pockingham Community College. We get to use the large observatory at Snow Camp, NC on occasion. http://www.uncg.edu/phy/tco/

I also have a membership with SLOOH, which truly allows one to look through actual onservatory telescopes. I joined SLOOH because I do not have a great view of the Southern Hemisphere and SLOOH fills that need. For others interested chech here: http://www.slooh.com/. It's a bargain now at $49.95 a year, it was $99.95 a year when I first joined.

Caz
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Hi Caz......interesting to know another astronomer around here....saw a glimpse of the "green" comet some nights ago......very dim, I think I saw it!!!!!....As you know I am so near the Ecuator that I almost see both all the North and the South Sky in its entirety....Orion and the Southern Cross is always easy to see and many other objects are just great, the Crab Nebula has always been a friend.....obviously outside de city, even though I have a good garden where I have a large piece of sky which the city lights do no hamper it too much.....I spend at least 6 hours per week looking up:jump:
What a wonderful program they made no???..I like to turn all lights out and look for objects at the correct magnification with it and really observe it well..then on a following night I search for it in the scope....I have found some Messier objects like that....love the program, even one of my grandsons loves it, and he is only Two!!!!! knows all the planets and is beginning to learn the moons...incredible.....will look into SLOOTH, thanks.....
 
It's nice to see a few other people on here shares one of my other hobbies, although I don't get to participate in it much at the moment. My first scope was a Jason 90mm refractor from the local department store, and I treated myself to an Orion Starmax 127 MakCas a few years ago. One of these days I hope to have one of the Celestron 14 inch SCT's.

Seems like the only time convenient for me to observe is on the weekends and I think 90 percent of the time there are clouds in the area then!

Darrell
 
hews500d said:
It's nice to see a few other people on here shares one of my other hobbies, although I don't get to participate in it much at the moment. My first scope was a Jason 90mm refractor from the local department store, and I treated myself to an Orion Starmax 127 MakCas a few years ago. One of these days I hope to have one of the Celestron 14 inch SCT's.

Seems like the only time convenient for me to observe is on the weekends and I think 90 percent of the time there are clouds in the area then!

Darrell
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Hi Darrell, just great to know you guys " look up to the sky" like I do....we are now in the "dry season" down here and its windy so we have perfectly clear skies everyday and nights---a little bit hot though---I keep my telescope in the garden during these months. By early May we start getting the first rains and that´s it!!!....hardly any more clear skies until late December....it pours like crazy until then.....but then again what wonderful thunderstorms we get!!!!! I use my camera tripod and spend some hours at night photographing incredible Lighting running all over the coast....love the sky!!!
 
gera said:
Hi Darrell, just great to know you guys " look up to the sky" like I do....we are now in the "dry season" down here and its windy so we have perfectly clear skies everyday and nights---a little bit hot though---I keep my telescope in the garden during these months. By early May we start getting the first rains and that´s it!!!....hardly any more clear skies until late December....it pours like crazy until then.....but then again what wonderful thunderstorms we get!!!!! I use my camera tripod and spend some hours at night photographing incredible Lighting running all over the coast....love the sky!!!
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Hello Gera, I've tried several times to get some lightning photographs but unsuccessful so far. We're just coming into spring here so I hope to get more opportunites later this summer. I love watching the storms build up in the summer. Hopefully I can try some more astrophotography this year too.


I'm sure you guys know of this website, but if not, check out:

www.cloudynights.com

Lots of serious amateur astronomers here.
Darrell
 
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