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enjar (69) · 5 years ago

That looks like most kids dreams right there getting to use a giant telescope. So many childhood memories of using whatever consumer grade kid telescope I had. Look at the moon or anything else and it was more or less just a blurry image! Still the power to gaze into the heavens at night and catch different events going on was always fun. I don’t stargaze like I use to and only sometimes look up at the sky during a comet event.

Quite cool stuff though. I use to have this little chart of the night sky and try to find the constellations.

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svemirac (71) · 5 years ago

Hey! Last Friday I was looking through the 60cm telescope here at Venus and the Moon during the day. Venus is well nothing special, still too far away and small, especially cause it was day. But the moon, oh my... it was so big, nad you know white-ish in front of the blue sky - 100% scene from Star Wars or some other sci-fi movie where you can see a giant planet in the daylight. DAMN!
YES! I remember my first time playing with very bad room-telescope all blurry and inverted... and the revelation with military binoculars. :D
I'm finding it difficult to get any constellation here, everything is strange and the Orion is upside-down. :D
Fun nevertheless, and both comets and meteor showers are awesome - with comets being much more interesting :)

Anyways, most of the times nowadays I can only see stuff on the PC :) I'm trying to go every other saturday to the observatory and work during the public nights, and I have a plan to start playing with some spectrograph that is available (just for fun). :)

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terrylovejoy (62) · 5 years ago

I'm still here @svemirac ! Good to see you starting to work with some big guns :) If there is something I would recommend anyone interested in space/astronomy should do is visit a large observatory (often they have organised tours). Talking about that one my "bucket list" is to visit Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii.

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svemirac (71) · 5 years ago

Glad to see you here too. :)
Oh yes! Keck twins are awesome! If I ever get there for some work, I'll send you an invitation :)

lemouth (72) · 5 years ago

I would love to be able to visit one of those observatories one day, in the sense of seeing these instruments with my own eyes :)

Nice pics by the way! :)

svemirac (71) · 5 years ago

Hello there, thanks. :)

If you ever happen to be in Sydney in the next 2/3 years, let me know and we can organize something. :) It might be nothing fancy but it is still a thing of wonder.

Glad to see you back and active an all fronts! :)

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sina-adventure (58) · 5 years ago

Is there anybody out there?

Didn't you find anyone using those giant telescopes?

Thanks for the interesting information.

svemirac (71) · 5 years ago

Not yet, and trust me these are the small ones. the optical ones go up to 10m in diameter. While radio ones (there will be some photo of them too) are built up to 300m at Arecibo or that Chinese one with 500m. But usually, nowadays we make lots of smaller ones (about 15-20m) - but radio dish does not need to be so precise as an optical mirror.

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sina-adventure (58) · 5 years ago

trust me these are the small ones.

WOW

I'm interested in astronomy, but it didn't pushed me any further than installing Star chart ∞ on my phone.

Looking forward to your photos and information.

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alexander.alexis (63) · 5 years ago

Cool tools! I too am reminded of the consumer grade telescope I received as a gift some decades ago. The moon was quite easy to catch, but homing in on a star was hard and it was easy to lose it with the slightest adjustment of the telescope's fixation.

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svemirac (71) · 5 years ago

Yeah, planets are still fine to watch. If it is a decent telescope. :)
And seeing all stripe on Jupiter is amazing!

tking77798 (62) · 5 years ago

Awesome photos. These really give a great sense of the scale of these scopes. Are all scopes cooled with liquid nitrogen or does it depend on the camera?

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