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Hailing Frequencies...

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solarbreeze

solarbreeze

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Well, to be accurate....that should be 'snowing' frequencies taking the recent cold snap into consideration.

However, it was during this recent cold snap that I decided to don my warmest clothes and take a stroll down to the beach with my 10 x 50 bins.

Gazing heavenward, I wasn't overly impressed with the view to be honest.

Just one big red star dominating the south-west horizon.

It was then that I mused:

" I really should have come here at night-time, not day-time..."

Being in the right place at the right time is important.

When Hale Bop finally went out of view for many in the Northern Hemisphere back in 1997, I didn't really give it a second thought. But an unplanned trip to South America that Autumn enabled me to see it once again from a remote Andean village.

And Ohhhh what a sight that was.

Wiki Claims:

The comet was much less impressive to southern hemisphere observers than it had been in the northern hemisphere,

I personally beg to differ.

So....

Back to the beach again.

A very happy nocturnal hour with my bins and frostbite in my toes and fingers. I'm nearly savaged by a rabid Alsatian into the bargain.

I'm resurrecting some half-forgotten knowledge....or trying to at least.

" Polaris.....gotcha !!"

" Orion....off course ....it's the middle of winter, he's always there then.."

It's coming back to me slowly but surely.

It wasn't book knowledge, but merely what my father had once taught me.

Alas, my father is no longer with me.

But the stars....the things he loved the most.

Well they are.

And I now know why he loved them.

It was Christmas, almost new year....a time for sentimentality.

I've been for a few nocturnal walks down to the beach since.

Christmas is now another 12 [ish] months away.

I'm wondering whether I should ask Santa for a telescope?

I'm wondering if I can really wait that long?

In the 'cloudy' meantime, I've hitherto silently... really been enjoying this forum tremendously.

What a knowledge base...

What truly amazing images have been, and are being captured...

Thank you.

I'm Mick

Hello. :)

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glowjet

glowjet

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Hi Mick,

A warm welcome to SGL, lovely to take the bins for a walk, try taking along a copy of Sky & Telescope`s Pocket Sky Atlas by Roger Sinnott and a small red torch for company, enjoy your Astronomy and the forum.

John.

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Glider

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Standing on a beach in Norfolk, I looked down not up as you did, just as a wave went past my feet and then receded. As the sand particles rolled in the light of my camp fire and twinkled in the light I remembered an episode of Cosmos where it was quoted that there are more stars in the sky then there are grains of sand on a beach.

Hope I wasn't standing on someone!

Welcome to SGL.

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