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Deer Lick galaxy group,from my backyard observatory
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12-24-2020 06:58 AM
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You must have quite the setup in your backyard. I am a 4th year astrophysics student.
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Heh I did astronomy at uni years ago... a few of us around I see. Nice deep sky photography; didn’t yet get a chance to listen...
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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You must have quite the setup in your backyard. I am a 4th year astrophysics student.eh 6794-2.0
setup
scope :Takahashi FS128
Mount :Takahashi EM 200
CCD : SBIG ST10Last edited by emilP; 01-03-2021 at 08:49 AM.
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Originally Posted by eh6794-2.0
(well if you ignore all the time I spent on doing music that I should have probably spent on my assignments haha)
I did a final year project on a Classical Nova using HST data for high time resolution spectroscopy....
I used to know what that means
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But in all seriousness Astronomy has moved on incredibly in 20 years, my textbooks and lectures in things like cosmology are all obsolete.
Exciting time to be part of the field! Do you think you’ll carry on with it?
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I wish you to see some beautiful objects in 2021 ,gentlemen !
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Originally Posted by christianm77
In America, we go straight to a PhD program and skip the Masters. Last quarter I blew it and got two C's in Mechanics and Thermo, so I don't know if I can get into a decent grad school with those low grades. Even if I can get into a decent grad school, I don't know if I want to go another 6 years. Also, it's hard to get into grad school if you don't have research experience, and I have none.
I'm taking a really cool Cosmology class this quarter. I'm going to try to impress the professor and get a research position. If I get perfect grades and a research position, maybe grad school will be an option. I don't have to decide until next year (I think grad school applications go out around January).
Having said that, I have ALWAYS wanted to be a physicist and you can't do that if you don't have a PhD. So I dunno. Also, as you said, it's an exciting time. You are right. There are a lot of new telescopes (in orbit and on the ground) coming online in the next few years. We will begin to really push the science with the data we acquire.
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Originally Posted by emilP
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I ground a 10" mirror, f6.8, under Sidewalk Astronomy creator John Dobson a number of years back, about 1992 or so.
And built the Dobsonian mount for it also. Hell of a piece of glass, at altitude and clear air some great views. For a ten, it does amazing dim fuzzies (nebulae and most galaxies tend to be very faint, hence the moniker).
But you don't do astro photography with that setup. Sigh.
Nice image and backyard setup.
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Astrophotography of Andromeda ,Céroux September 2020
L:30X5m
R=Bl=G :10x 5m
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My alma mater has access to a observatory with lots of good size Victorian telescopes; the only problem being that in the interim someone built what Americans would call a ‘freeway’ next to it. Ah well. Astronomy is not a pursuit for cities, which is where the jazz is. (Well of course if you are a pro you fly out to Chile or whatever. Or operate space telescopes remotely... )
One enduring memory was almost freezing my eye to the eyepiece making sure the guide star remained centred because the guidance motors on the telescope were not the best. I was taking a spectrum of M42; you know, here are the Hydrogen emission lines, that kind of thing.
So I did look through a telescope for my degree! But yeah....
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Originally Posted by emilP
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Originally Posted by eh6794-2.0
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Originally Posted by emilP
John
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dr. brian may of queen probably being the best known pro guitarist astro physicist!!...though ray davies (kinks) and wilko johnson are both longtime astronomy enthusiasts
cheersLast edited by neatomic; 01-04-2021 at 02:21 PM. Reason: typo-
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Originally Posted by neatomic
;-)
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Christian
you’ll notice that I played Dbdim7 with a Bb on the top,like discussed on the 2016-03-16
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Originally Posted by emilP
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Originally Posted by emilP
cheersLast edited by neatomic; 01-05-2021 at 07:21 AM. Reason: typo-
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Originally Posted by neatomic
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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Originally Posted by eh6794-2.0
An amateur dobsonian light bucket with a big deep field eyepiece and a fat globular cluster is as good as it gets in my view... EmilP's got a pretty mega set up if you ask me.
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Stopped by the visitors center for the Mauna Kea Observatory, 9000 feet up the mountain. Was fascinating. Didn't go to the top where the scopes are set in their various buildings, because you need a low-gear manual transmission or you burn your brakes out coming back down 4,000 feet of thin air and steep windy gravel road.
But no astronomers normally go up there anyway. Even back in 1996, they worked in a building on the NW side of the island at seaside. All imagery was digital data, ported directly to their computers.
From all 13 different scope facilities.
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