Amateur astronomy: Space is pretty awesome

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Hobbies, Crafts, & Houses > Amateur astronomy: Space is pretty awesome

causticfluids: Dec 25, 2006; Congratulations on not getting fit in 2011!

My wife and I went out with our landlord and I observed some Jovian moons for the first time - amazing. I'm not new to astronomy (physics major here) but I haven't stargazed in probably 2.5 years. I used to live in the woods in NH so we would just take my binoculars and lay on the car. We found a couple of globular clusters and spent our time locating and identifying constellations. I'll have to dig out my binos again. My university has a 14" telescope and nice observatory and I've gone out there twice. Both times though, the lines were huge, and instead of a galaxy or something they pointed to a faint star, and then to the moon for the kids present. This Saturday though it's a dark-sky session, and I may have to check it out.

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