K3ny0n

Brilliant first image, I can't wait til I get out there with the new scope, fingers crossed for Wednesday.

Rob.

Am I mad or isn't it simply easier to just remember the planets?

Remembering a mnemonic and then transposing the initial letter into the planets seems like hard work. Twice as much to learn.

This was when I was in school 5/6 year old.

Rob.

The only one I know is for resistor colour codes.

I remember them darn things when I was doing my apprenticeship, could never get my head around them.

Rob.

My-Very-Easy-Method-Just-Speeds-Up-Naming-Planets

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You cant use that aswell.. no Pluto.

Rob.

This is what I was learnt in school to remember the nine planets in order:

Many - Very - Energentic - Martians - Jump - Straight - Under - Nine - Planets.

Mercury - Venus - Earth - Mars - Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune - Pluto.

M - V - E - M - J - S - U - N

Ugh, I need a new motto.

Suggestions..

P.S - I do remember them without a poem!

Very sad news, inspiration for many including me.

Rob.

No problem mate. I checked the spirit level out and it looks like it works a treat. You have to compare it to a spirit level and click calibrate then when your phone is level it turns green and sounds a beep. Pretty good app.

Rob

Scope Help on the iPhone is a really cool free app, uses your GPS location and gives you accurate Long/Lat, gives you accurate sidereal time, a spirit level (not sure how accurate) and some other cool stuff.

Rob

PS I think I did a couple before this one but unfortunately the pictures have been lost.

Managed to find an earlier photo , but its of the moon , 4th Jan 1990 - 1/15 th of a sec Kodak 400 ASA film.

Sorry to make you sound old JCM but I wasnt even born then! Haha.

Still yet to photograph anything yet, telescope comes next Thrusday though

Rob