Stargazing whilst driving.

[Fordos Moon]

Does anyone else find themselves looking up at the sky while driving to and from work? A number of times I am checking out the moon, wondering where Saturn would be behind the clouds and stuff. I should stop it but I can't help it.

Or is it just me?

[laser_jock99]

You'll end up in the ditch!

[The Sailor]

Sorry but I leave that to my passenger, bit silly.

Jim

[swamp thing]

I hope it's just you

[DirkSteele]

As a passenger, I do it all the time.

[Tom_m7117]

Naughty naughty

[Fordos Moon]

I maybe exaggerated a bit, it is more the urge to do it I don't drive with my head out the sunroof!!!

[Fordos Moon]

I feel like a scolded child.

[The Sailor]

I am more interested in the car in front and behind, astronomy is a hobby to me, more inportand things to do when driving!!

Jim

[Kai]

I am more interested in the car in front and behind, astronomy is a hobby to me, more inportand things to do when driving!!

Jim

Yup like texting or eating burgers

[Fordos Moon]

Jim you are completely right, i just get excited when I see the moon!

[Fordos Moon]

Eating burgers is a hobby?

[Bart]

Eh.....I do this as well. I do obviously, as do you, I imagine, move my line of sight from the road to the sky AND BACK AGAIN. I look up while driving to determine if I'm gonna get an opportunity to observe. In other words, I don't look up gazing at a blanket of clouds!!

It was while doing this I saw my second Sun Dog, beautiful.

Barry

[Fordos Moon]

Barry I really appreciate your post! I was working out how to contact the mods as I thought it might have come across badly, what you say you do is just what I do!

[The Sailor]

Yup like texting or eating burgers

Kai, I think you might lose one of your Mod stars for that

Jim

[peeceeTal2M]

Don't they call this "driving without due care and attention" or am i being a killjoy ?

[Bart]

I'm gonna come out here and say I do many things while driving!!! Some of them could be construed as safe.

[knobby]

I thought I was mental when I started a thread in the photography section 'mobile phone pictures taken from your car'

I feel so much better now

But seriously... I do look up! Only in traffic though

[philhas]

When I feel the urge to take a look at the night sky I try and stop off, its usually somewhere on the A19 near the North York moors....Sky's are lovely and dark in that area.

[Robny]

I've occasionally feel the need to glance up but annoyed when the roof line of my car spoils the view

Betta make sure my next car doesn't have a panoramic roof otherwise ill be driving everywhere with my seat reclined on my back.

Only joking of course

Hmm or am I

Hehehe

[Kai]

I must admit one of the best views of the Leonids was driving around the M25 at 3 in the morning after arriving back in the Uk after a holiday in Sri Lanka

Pretty hard to concentrate on driving when you have a widescreen view of a first class meteor shower

[cantab]

Just so long as you don't start trying to poke the Dob out the sunroof you should be fine.

[Fordos Moon]

I think maybe I titled this thread badly but I think you've all caught my gist now :-)

[DaveS]

Does anyone else find themselves looking up at the sky while driving to and from work?

Humph...I travel to and from work on the Tube, no chance of seeing stars, unless I don't watch where I'm going.

[Chris Rowland]

I got some really good views of Hale Bopp on the road from Devizes to the A4. Pulled off and stopped to enjoy it more.

Also stopping at a field entrance near Shalbourne, much better with the headlights off.

Never got to the point of carrying a scope though, maybe I should have.

Chris