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What was your worst astronomy purchase?
StarryEyed replied to sojourneyer's topic in Discussions - Scopes / Whole setups
Sky watcher 80f5 shortube. The worst telescope I've bought. After all the mods of stopping down blackened edges reseating lens tunning the focuser adding a 32mm Televue plossl I took it to the Canary Islands and it gave me one of the best views I ever had of the night sky. So good it took my breath away and in the process became the best telescope for the money I ever bought. Wouldn't have had those two nights if not for an 80f5. -
If your image needs to be nice before you can appreciate it then your a photographer. If you can appreciate your image because of what it shows you then your an astronomer. If you can't appreciate anything about your image your about to give up or spend more money.
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Think it's out off Germany. Not clear though. https://www.arup.com/projects/european-extremely-large-telescope-enclosure
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I watched it last night. Spectacular isn't it, particularly the aspect of using hydraulics to counter act the motion of earth quakes. There's as lot of concrete getting poured there. But a lattice girder will always make me sit up. Just seeing the scale of it made me go wow. What a job to work on. Have to find out who the engineers are. No surprise it's Arups. Worked there years ago as a youngster. That would have been a dream project to be involved in. Found site webcams https://elt.eso.org/about/webcams/
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It's life Jim, but not as we know it... Jim being James Webb
StarryEyed replied to Mr Spock's topic in The Astro Lounge
You can't group teenagers this way. It's not a collective opinion they share in their early teens. They each believe they are the centre of the universe. When they become college students they have started communicating with each other then the brush can be applied. -
It's life Jim, but not as we know it... Jim being James Webb
StarryEyed replied to Mr Spock's topic in The Astro Lounge
The data coming from Webb is emperical. The teams working with that data are looking to produce an evidence based result. One that stands up to scrutiny. Then you need to repeat on a bigger scale. You can't allow the theoretical and practical to get mixed up even though they directly influence each other. The truth is we don't have the money to risk failure. Science doesn't get funded easily. I've seen research scientists basically selling their soul for funding just to keep their work alive. Others as soon as they get published move to lecturing (far smarter than me just friends) just so they can have some stability for their families. Theories are free. The collection of empirical data envitably costs money. -
It's life Jim, but not as we know it... Jim being James Webb
StarryEyed replied to Mr Spock's topic in The Astro Lounge
Have to admit putting all other TV and streaming on hold while I rebinge (did I invent a word) Red Dwarf. I don't know why or how this happened. Probably got bored waiting for an episode of the sky at night. I'm nearly done episode 2 series XII. Normality will resume shortly. (Sounds like a plot line) -
It's life Jim, but not as we know it... Jim being James Webb
StarryEyed replied to Mr Spock's topic in The Astro Lounge
Smart science is demonstrating the need for a bigger better experiment than the last one. Otherwise your out of a job. -
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It's life Jim, but not as we know it... Jim being James Webb
StarryEyed replied to Mr Spock's topic in The Astro Lounge
Just to bring it back on track this is a really exciting announcement. Can you imagine all the jaws hitting the floor when they saw the data. -
It's life Jim, but not as we know it... Jim being James Webb
StarryEyed replied to Mr Spock's topic in The Astro Lounge
Science wouldn't be as much fun without him that's for sure. Certainly the infinite monkey cage wouldn't work. -
It's life Jim, but not as we know it... Jim being James Webb
StarryEyed replied to Mr Spock's topic in The Astro Lounge
Did you know the physics students at Manchester refer to him as "Shiny shiny Cox" -
Warming it up for you or warming its backside on the radiator. You'll suffer the consequences for a day or two of you make it budge.
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It's life Jim, but not as we know it... Jim being James Webb
StarryEyed replied to Mr Spock's topic in The Astro Lounge
First things first an overwhelming body of evidence of basic life. Which is not something Webb can provide. Obviously life on earth is an example of one for context. You have to apply the scientific method and tick that box first before you can explore the other possibilities. If we don't then NASA might as well have said yes aliens are hot rodding around our atmosphere for kicks. But regardless more exoplanets with bio markers please. -
Astronomy Clubs near Camberley/Farnborough?
StarryEyed replied to Gmx76's topic in Getting Started General Help and Advice
Don't forget your already a part of a club here on stargazers! But I just had the notion of a discord server. It's there such a thing run on here? Seem to have them for every other flipping thing.