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  1. You can download the charts for several alternative telescopes (sadly, not the originals from the paper version) from the Turn Left website and create your own table with them.
  2. To compare observing spots, primarily. I don't use the Bortle scale myself (I use SQM values and readings), but I noticed that it gives observers an idea of how much darker a spot will be compared to other spots they're familiar with. It's easier to compare Bortle values than SQM values. Average reading in my garden is 21.05 mag/arcsec2 (Bortle 4 I believe). My favourite nearby spot reads 21.41 (Bortle 3).
  3. Excellent scope in my opinion. I use the NexStar Evo 9.25 for outreach activities. Nice, sharp views and although significantly larger and heavier than the 8", still perfectly manageable. Dew shield is probably necessary depending on your location. No experience with AP though.
  4. That's great! 😄 It's good to realise that the light pollution data is based on a method outlined in a paper by Cinzano et al. (link) that uses satellite data and a light propagation model to calculate the sky brightness. It's not based on actual measurements of the night sky. In my experience, the model is quite accurate though.
  5. The Bortle scale is quite subjective and most websites use old VIIRS data to calculate the sky brightness. This website uses the most recent data I know of, from 2022. It doesn't list the Bortle scale but it has a colour legend that more or less matches the usual colours that are used for Bortle maps. If you want to know the actual sky brightness of your observing location, you can buy a Sky Quality Meter. I have one, nifty little devices.
  6. You can also sign up for supernova early warning system alerts like this. Also based on neutrino detectors, and alerts you a few hours before the optical supernova becomes visible.
  7. Hope this stream runs for another 100,000 years 😉.
  8. This is incredible! Pictures like this make it so clear that M78 and the surrounding NGCs are just small, illuminated parts of the huge dust clouds in the area. What a detail. Very, very nice!
  9. You can enter coordinates without cookies in the url, like this: http://clearoutside.com/forecast/52.09/5.12
  10. Yes, both the moving lights and the flashes are most likely satellites. I can't remember a night that I didn't see them. If you enter your location on websites like Heavens Above, you can find out when they are visible with amazing accuracy.
  11. Satellites, most likely. A few years ago I would have suggested Iridium satellites, but the ones that produced these very bright flashes are currently being or already have been de-orbited.
  12. Hi Gonariu and welcome! Don't worry about your level of English, they've accepted my broken English for years now without any complaints 😉.
  13. Interesting paper from Alexander et al. on arXiv: The Autodidactic Universe From this article: "Our universe observes a whole bunch of laws of physics, but the researchers say other possible laws of physics seem equally likely, given the way mathematics works in the universe. So if a group of candidate laws were equally likely, then how did we end up with the laws we really have?"
  14. Most stargazing forecast apps, including mine, use a single weather model as source. It's usually best to use these alongside other sources of weather data, preferably as 'local' (high resolution) as possible. There are convenient websites that allow you compare several weather models at a glance, such as this one. This will give you an idea to what extent the models are in agreement.
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