Same here. Too many security lights, floodlights from the 5 a side football, and our ‘famed’ shopping centre lit up like a Xmas tree. Got to the point where it just wasn’t worth it.
Always found the Orion Nebula fascinating. Tracking down a Nebula is exciting, and to think that the little white ‘patch’ you could see through the tekescope was really this.
I have yet to see the Horsehead nebula.
i would send all the mps to the black hole
In truth, even with a 10” Dobsonian telescope, the vague smudge you see with any Nebula (and most are too far away to even be a smudge), could just as well be a troop of dancing elephants in tutus, and top hats.
This is where imagination fills in the gaps, and makes it all magical. Want to see a Nebula? Stroll down Orion’s sword, and a smidge to the right(?), and there you are. Oh, and don’t look straight at it, it will skitter away and hide (scientific explanation, peripheral vision sees more, I like my explanation better).
That was the "get out" clause.....incidentally, in these parts its known as Wales Bar so the map is wrongNo need to be hostile about your neighbours
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Yeah must have been rubbish before he invented gravity everyone having to wear lead boots or sticking to the ceilingThat Newton; bloody layabout, swanning around in the orchard all day. Nothing will come of it.
......................... but sadly, the views over the years have gradually become more and more obscured by (in)security lighting. ................................
I have yet to see the Horsehead nebula.
This has always been my pet hobby - so much so I did my degree in Astrophysics and Quantum Mechanics. Not clever just my hobby. Wish I had done engineering instead - would have been of far more use!
Cern has done much good for the World. Tim Berners Lee and the Internet being the most famous but of course the engineering there is incredible. Super conducting magnets have come on leaps and bounds and as already said the advances in MRI etc are down to a lot of work carried out there.
As to Black Holes - there is a lot of mystery surrounding them when there shouldn't be. They are simple "devices". They are not gateways to anything - they are just super dense and suck up everything around them due to their huge gravity.
I still get blown away looking at the stars through my 10" reflector - we are so puny. By rights we shouldn't even be here - but then again nothing should be here either. Where did all that matter come from?
Yeah must have been rubbish before he invented gravity everyone having to wear lead boots or sticking to the ceiling
I'm just grateful the to the bloke who invented colour.
Must have terrible trudging around in black and white all the time.
This has always been my pet hobby - so much so I did my degree in Astrophysics and Quantum Mechanics. Not clever just my hobby. Wish I had done engineering instead - would have been of far more use!
Cern has done much good for the World. Tim Berners Lee and the Internet being the most famous but of course the engineering there is incredible. Super conducting magnets have come on leaps and bounds and as already said the advances in MRI etc are down to a lot of work carried out there.
As to Black Holes - there is a lot of mystery surrounding them when there shouldn't be. They are simple "devices". They are not gateways to anything - they are just super dense and suck up everything around them due to their huge gravity.
I still get blown away looking at the stars through my 10" reflector - we are so puny. By rights we shouldn't even be here - but then again nothing should be here either. Where did all that matter come from?
My pet hobby too, ever since my Dad got me a small used refractor back in 1965; my largest scope is a 178mm Maksutov, but I am really fond of the vintage 63mm Telementor refractor I was fortunate to acquire a few years ago.