The Astronomy Thread

[bacon]

 

[Mudcat]

I understand this is a true story

 

[Mudcat]

Pluto and its moon (some would call them a binary dwarf planet system) Charon

 

[Mudcat]

Now that we have gotten up close it can be confirmed: Charon is a ball in space.

 

[housepicks]

I spent slot of time watching the eclipse. Because my daughter wanted to wAtch the eclipse. But let it be known, space is gay. I don't care about space. space is a waste of my time. Let it also be known I once owned a telescope. I could enter my zip code on it and it would position itself to various constellations. Once I was pretty drunk and thought I would get a better view so I took it up on the roof of my house. The view was still the same. I was pretty stupid. And gay.

 

[Matty]

Once I was pretty drunk and thought I would get a better view so I took it up on the roof of my house. The view was still the same. I was pretty stupid. And gay.

Most consumer telescopes are garbage. Went to this guy's house once, he had a 10" refractor set up on his deck. He pointed it towards Saturn, and then to some nebula whose name I forget. It was mind-blowing. Looking at photos online is one thing, but staring at the same stuff "live" is incredible.

 

[roguejuror]

Did you see the little rings?

 

[Matty]

Yah man, very clearly. The whole thing was gray, but it was very well-defined. The nebula was a lot more spectacular though, it filled the field of view.

*It was a 10-inch *reflector*, my bad.

 

[housepicks]

Fag

 

[Matty]

:

Neil Armstrong thinks ur face is fag.

 

[housepicks]

Hard to think when you're dead.

 

[RayRay]

i would buy a telescope if i lived in a building like yours, matty... well, if there were other occupied buildings across the street and shit... wait, what were we talking about?

 

[Matty]

i would buy a telescope if i lived in a building like yours, matty... well, if there were other occupied buildings across the street and shit... wait, what were we talking about?

I have these: http://www.amazon.com/Celestron-SkyMaster-Binoculars-Tripod-Adapter/dp/B00008Y0VN

 

[Mudcat]

When I refer to Charon, or think about it, in my mind I am thinking/saying Karen.

It makes space seem like a friendlier place. Karen out there.

 

[Mudcat]

Like, hey Karen.

Or, look, there's Karen.



See what I mean?

Ya you see what I mean.

 

[bacon]

 

[Matty]

NASA just released 8,400 high-res photos taken by the Apollo crews with a super-high-end Hasselblad camera. The quality is amazing.

Zoom in on this shit:

https://flic.kr/p/y6Lz9e

https://flic.kr/p/yLXR8Y

https://flic.kr/p/yLZjtE

https://flic.kr/p/yM55G9

 

[housepicks]

I'm not clickin on that, who really gives a fuck about those pictures.

Whipdee do.