Wow - just wow!

[g30rg313]

5 minutes ago, Eddster said:

Mine too. I think the scope would receive a sledgehammer too if I tried to pull that stunt!

Ouch!! 

[cloudsweeper]

7 minutes ago, Eddster said:

Mine too. I think the scope would receive a sledgehammer too if I tried to pull that stunt!

I didn't exactly wake my wife when I last viewed Saturn, but she was disturbed by my excited ooooing noises coming from beneath the bedroom window!

Doug.

[AstroAdam]

Never get bored of reading about 'wow' moments.  I'll never forget my first ones with Jupiter and Saturn.  Amazing thing is how they still get me there every time...!  Got an addition to the 'frac family coming shortly from a member on here... just waiting to pick it up - Really looking forward to giving it first light on Jupiter.

[Neil W]

21 hours ago, Chris Lock said:

Nice report , last time I was out the view of Jupiter was being well and truly destroyed by the jetstream so I'm glad at least others are getting good views! 

Te micro obsy sounds cool, did you post any pics in the DIY obsy section? If so I'll take a look

I haven't posted any yet....need to get it finished first!

[Neil W]

Ok - just posted some photos in the DIY obsy section....be gentle folks its my baby....

 

[Mav359]

Jupiter never gets old i can spends hours just watching but for me theres no WOW moment like Saturn for the first time

I'm off to check your Micro Obs

[OneEyedSam]

On 18 March 2016 at 16:27, DevonSkies said:

Lol... I call mine "Gary"!

Where did you buy a Barlow tax free ?

[iPeace]

A simple 'wow' will suffice

[Duke2k]

I had the same wow feeling a couple of nights ago. It was cloudy all day and when I took my dog out before bed the sky was clear. Scope time! Jupiter was my first object and the first thing I noticed were 2 round shadows near the limb. Io and Ganymede were visible with both shadows so I grabbed my new camera and tried my first imaging run.

I was in such a hurry I forgot to use the IR filter but I'm pleased with the result

[brantuk]

That's one awesome shot Duke2k

[Duke2k]

Thanks BrantUK. That's my very first proper image of Jupiter. I have tried holding a camera to the eyepiece before but never had a planetary camera until earlier this week.

The seeing was awful but running at 160 frames per second it seems to have overcome the turbulancein the atmosphere. 

AS1224 CPC9.25,  5000 frames stacked from 10,000 in AS2

[brantuk]

Very impressive catching two moons and their shadows so clearly like that - especially on your first go with the new cam.

[rowbow]

On 3/18/2016 at 10:59, Piero said:

Great report mate!  

Sometimes I wonder what would happen if television were not available. Possibly amateur astronomy would engage more people?  At least people would socialise a bit more rather than staying immobile on a sofa and watching people moving, shouting and laughing inside a box!

The birth rate would go up 

[RT65CB-SWL]

On 18 March 2016 at 09:18, baldeliftman said:

Hi if we could get EastEnders to put stargazing in there script my wife would have a look,better still coronation street they could have ken barlow with a telescope looking at the planets.They would all be doing it. 

Coronation Street did... Norman 'Curly' Watts.

[Dave In Vermont]

< ----------<putting on psychology/sociology hat> This is where the relatively new field of 'video-astrophotography' comes into play. Soon I see a new generation of stargazers - who run their telescopes remotely by their computer-screens and view the view from within their houses on a screen. No longer needing to go out in the cold, heat, humidity, etc.

Of course I also see the human-race losing legs and feet in subsequent generations from disuse. Fingers and thumbs growing smaller for the ever-shrinking keyboards - as well as eventually losing arms/legs as voice-recognition technology advances.

Do forgive my cynicism,

Dave

[Physopto]

I don't think it is wives per se, more like astronomers and the rest! Maybe we are just that bit strange........

Nope! Don't think so!

[The Head Gardener]

Err, hem, hem, clearing throat . . . another wife here . . . I'm the one encouraging Max to go and buy another 'scope, I'm the one who takes our dog into the garden and rushes back inside saying "get out here, the visibility is great", I'm the one who towed our caravan to Kielder for the Starcamp!

Yes, there are some wives who don't share the interest, but not all.. 

Oh, and if it helps, try this idea on your non-enthusiastic spouses:-   I would much rather husband was in the garden looking at the stars than out with a bunch of drunken mates getting into all sorts of "no dear, I really don't want to know what happened after the nth pint".. trouble!     I know where he is, I know who he is with. ??.  

Granted I would much prefer he focussed his interest on astronomy than the motorbikes that are truly his first love (I still remember the damage last time he came off one of them . . .)  but I know that is unlikely to happen.  ?

Jayne

[The Head Gardener]

PS to Duke2k - fabulous picture!

Jayne

[Physopto]

5 minutes ago, The Head Gardener said:

Err, hem, hem, clearing throat . . . another wife here . . . I'm the one encouraging Max to go and buy another 'scope, I'm the one who takes our dog into the garden and rushes back inside saying "get out here, the visibility is great", I'm the one who towed our caravan to Kielder for the Starcamp!

Yes, there are some wives who don't share the interest, but not all.. 

Oh, and if it helps, try this idea on your non-enthusiastic spouses:-   I would much rather husband was in the garden looking at the stars than out with a bunch of drunken mates getting into all sorts of "no dear, I really don't want to know what happened after the nth pint".. trouble!     I know where he is, I know who he is with. ??.  

Granted I would much prefer he focussed his interest on astronomy than the motorbikes that are truly his first love (I still remember the damage last time he came off one of them . . .)  but I know that is unlikely to happen.  ?

Jayne