Amateur astronomy: Space is pretty awesome

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

MonkeyMaker: May 22, 2006; What's your poison, sir?

Loztblaz posted:

Jupiter is also a decent object, but at 50x maximum, it may be sort of small.

The Galileoscope does pretty decently on Jupiter at both 25x and 50x. It's small, but you can pick out the moons and usually a band or two of color. Not as impressive as the Moon, no, but still an awesome thing to see.

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MonkeyMaker: May 22, 2006; What's your poison, sir?

babyeatingpsychopath posted:

Pictures cannot do it justice.

How's about you post some and let us decide that?

# ¿ Sep 12, 2009 17:00

MonkeyMaker: May 22, 2006; What's your poison, sir?

Found this awesome site the other day for learning about some stuff in space. http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/

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