jamest wrote:

CdesignProponentsist wrote:

jamest wrote:

Arnold Layne wrote:Welcome to the world-in-itself, James!!

Have a look around!

The world's a beautiful and magnificent place, wherever it resides.

I've been thinking about getting into astronomy - buying a scope, etc. - so have been doing quite a lot of reading recently. I keep coming across facts like the above. Fucking amazing... can't deny it.

I envy you. Do it

Discovering all the amazing stuff in the universe was such a wonderful trip in my life and added so much meaning to my life, I wish in a way I could forget it all and discover it all over again.

You know everything about the universe?

jamest wrote:

BlackBart wrote:
Might also be worthwhile finding a Astronomy club in your area - they usually do viewing nights and you'll be able to see what various telescopes can do. ISTR you're somewhere on the south coast? Sussex? In which case it might be worthwhile checking out Herstmonceux Observatory which does open evenings where you can have a look through a Fuckoff 9000 Telescope.

There's an observatory in Hampshire which is only about a 45 minutes drive away. Unfortunately, all of their open evenings are sold out right through to the end of April. I live in West Sussex and it's nearly a 2 hour drive to the Herstmonceux Observatory from here, but maybe that's my only option. Thanks for the info.

Oh, and if you haven't already, install Stellarium which is an awesome Planetarium program which lets you explore the sky and zoom in on Planets and Nebulae and lets you simulate what you'd see through various telescopes. And it's free to boot.

http://www.stellarium.org/en_GB/

I'm going to do that now, thank you.

campermon wrote:My favourite, which the kids at school like;