Does anyone else like to look at the stars?

[shiv]

I don’t have a telescope or anything, but I’ve always liked to look at the sky. I can always see Orion off my back porch in the fall and it’s kind of a fall tradition for my girls and I to go look at it on clear nights.

Sky Map in Real Time | Stelvision

An online sky map to identify constellations and major stars and planets easy to see with the naked eye.

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[RollyInRaleigh]

Yes…we do often. They don’t want us studying too hard…

 

[GatorOK]

Yes. Sit out by my pool and just look up. Live is a non light evasive neighborhood and makes for great stargazing.

 

[TopHook]

There's an app for that. Think it's called star finder.

 

[hmt5000]

I lived out in Wyo for a couple years. I would just use spotting scopes to stare at the sky. You could see satellites like they were airplanes. The sky was so clear and zero light pollution.

 

[shiv]

It always kind of mesmerizes me. It puts a huge scale on the reality I live in and it almost confuses me.

How did it all happen? Not from a scientific perspective, but more philosophical

Even assuming an intelligent design, how in the heck did it unravel this way? Why are all the stars in such specific locations? Why do they seem so organized, but also random?

 

[shiv]

I lived out in Wyo for a couple years. I would just use spotting scopes to stare at the sky. You could see satellites like they were airplanes. The sky was so clear and zero light pollution.

A couple times I’ve been out there, one of my favorite things was the lack of light pollution.

 

[LafesterMacintosh]

Saw the starlink satellites about a week ago after a night of harvest. It was pretty frickin cool. They passed an airplane like it was nothing.

 

[tiderollsonu]

Do porn stars count?

 

[shiv]

Saw the starlink satellites about a week ago after a night of harvest. It was pretty frickin cool. They passed an airplane like it was nothing.

Were there a bunch of them in a row?

 

[shiv]

Do porn stars count?

Sure they do

 

[CuriousFiend]

Yo @Croot_Overlord

Subject: Light pollution.

*Below are two GEarth shots taken from approx ~10km up(*6.2m)

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•1st image: Prolly recognize where this is.
•Google sez the area is around 1.7km above sea level.(*bit over a mile)
•And based off what Googz also reckons population wise, I'd guess there's at least 200,000 individuals within this screenshot's total area.(?)

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•2nd shot: Where I'm at.
•1.5km above sea level(*almost a mile)
•Barely 4,500 cunts in this entire area.


#1 & #2 in contrast:

Dunno but I'd guess #2 might seem almost deserted from your pov(?)—it kinda is, though the entire area defs ain't unused or abandoned... I mean, I'd strongly advise against freely wandering seemingly empty farmland round here, coz the average farmers are fuckin hardcore cunts aye & there's a hell of a lot more firearms in this country than what sniveling NZ "authorities" claim.
Fuckin duck shooting season sounds like a month long dawn til dusk shootout in every direction.

Anyways, the expansive urbanization in #1 is beyond my worldly experience so far.
I've been to the largest NZ cities Aucks, Hamiltron, Wellies, CChurch & others—all absolutely bloody nightmarish imo, coz of the urban density. eg: Aucks was actually 5 smaller cities that eventually merged into the current Auckland "Super City"-aka: an immigrant infested shithole(*imo the worst place NZ)

Seems like urbanization in #1 also occurs beyond the central areas too(?)—I mean that it kinda looks like the farmlands are quite dense-(*relative to #2)(?)

Sorry, I'm mad stonaged and rambling again.

The point I'm trying to get at is to present some degree of relative perspective between these two locations to contrast potential severities of light pollution for each.

Shit, last week some unidentified individual who may or may not be that Uи··Ðяαε cunt—might've magically blown away an annoying streetlight at the top of my driveway. Now my whole section is in almost complete darkness at night and the sky is much more easily visible—butt light pollution from the region all seems to form this "get fucked" visibility inhibiting layer, so I can't see much beyond the larger & brighter stars & shit.
Like wearing glasses that're smeared with semitransparent gunge.

Yet if I drive 2-3 hours north and then 1.6km up the volcano to the ski lodge,...apparently this is high enough and far enough away from light pollution sources that the view is relatively crystal clear. It is incredible. Last time I went up there I was able to see urban centers that're around 4-6 hours away.
[*that was the night I almost mowed down the white bigfoot looking fucker about halfway up while getting my Tokyo driftskies on at 1am boosting up the volcano road-(*pretty sure it was just an army cunt in winter gilly)]

Omfg How the actual fuck am I still rambling.

The End.

 

[imprimis]

Those early astronomers had to have taken some really potent psychedelics before going star gazing.

 

[LafesterMacintosh]

Were there a bunch of them in a row?

Yep. Straight as an arrow, it was really cool to see. Looked just like this picture and they were fuckin movin fast.

 

[TopHook]

How high were you last night?

 

[shiv]

Yo @Croot_Overlord

Subject: Light pollution.

*Below are two GEarth shots taken from approx ~10km up(*6.2m)

---

---

•1st image: Prolly recognize where this is.
•Google sez the area is around 1.7km above sea level.(*bit over a mile)
•And based off what Googz also reckons population wise, I'd guess there's at least 200,000 individuals within this screenshot's total area.(?)
View attachment 204643

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•2nd shot: Where I'm at.
•1.5km above sea level(*almost a mile)
•Barely 4,500 cunts in this entire area.
View attachment 204644

#1 & #2 in contrast:

Dunno but I'd guess #2 might seem almost deserted from your pov(?)—it kinda is, though the entire area defs ain't unused or abandoned... I mean, I'd strongly advise against freely wandering seemingly empty farmland round here, coz the average farmers are fuckin hardcore cunts aye & there's a hell of a lot more firearms in this country than what sniveling NZ "authorities" claim.
Fuckin duck shooting season sounds like a month long dawn til dusk shootout in every direction.

Anyways, the expansive urbanization in #1 is beyond my worldly experience so far.
I've been to the largest NZ cities Aucks, Hamiltron, Wellies, CChurch & others—all absolutely bloody nightmarish imo, coz of the urban density. eg: Aucks was actually 5 smaller cities that eventually merged into the current Auckland "Super City"-aka: an immigrant infested shithole(*imo the worst place NZ)

Seems like urbanization in #1 also occurs beyond the central areas too(?)—I mean that it kinda looks like the farmlands are quite dense-(*relative to #2)(?)

Sorry, I'm mad stonaged and rambling again.

The point I'm trying to get at is to present some degree of relative perspective between these two locations to contrast potential severities of light pollution for each.

Shit, last week some unidentified individual who may or may not be that Uи··Ðяαε cunt—might've magically blown away an annoying streetlight at the top of my driveway. Now my whole section is in almost complete darkness at night and the sky is much more easily visible—butt light pollution from the region all seems to form this "get fucked" visibility inhibiting layer, so I can't see much beyond the larger & brighter stars & shit.
Like wearing glasses that're smeared with semitransparent gunge.

Yet if I drive 2-3 hours north and then 1.6km up the volcano to the ski lodge,...apparently this is high enough and far enough away from light pollution sources that the view is relatively crystal clear. It is incredible. Last time I went up there I was able to see urban centers that're around 4-6 hours away.
[*that was the night I almost mowed down the white bigfoot looking fucker about halfway up while getting my Tokyo driftskies on at 1am boosting up the volcano road-(*pretty sure it was just an army cunt in winter gilly)]

Omfg How the actual fuck am I still rambling.

The End.

Huntsville/Madison county is extremely unique as far as the layout. It’s very spread out compared to most cities and doesn’t have the dense population clusters (compared to other cities). However there are still a shitload of people there.

I actually get a pretty good view of the sky looking in one direction from my house because I live on the edge of the city and there isn’t much population that direction

 

[shiv]

How high were you last night?

High on life

 

[TheNJNole]

I don’t have a telescope or anything, but I’ve always liked to look at the sky. I can always see Orion off my back porch in the fall and it’s kind of a fall tradition for my girls and I to go look at it on clear nights.

Sky Map in Real Time | Stelvision

An online sky map to identify constellations and major stars and planets easy to see with the naked eye.

www.stelvision.com

Look a little more closely and you will ultimately see Uranus.....

 

[TheNJNole]

Look a little more closely and you will ultimately see Uranus.....

Get your head outta your ass kid.....

 

[Taggart]

Do porn stars count?

Only if you're looking for black holes

 

[absoluteUnit]

Only if you're looking for black holes

^This post is sponsored by blacked.com

 

[TopHook]

High on life

 

[tiderollsonu]

Only if you're looking for black holes

White dwarfs actually

 

[TopHook]

White dwarfs actually

Did you know the color of your butthole is the same as your nipple?

 

[hmt5000]

 

[hmt5000]

 

[Stray]

I don’t have a telescope or anything, but I’ve always liked to look at the sky. I can always see Orion off my back porch in the fall and it’s kind of a fall tradition for my girls and I to go look at it on clear nights.

Sky Map in Real Time | Stelvision

An online sky map to identify constellations and major stars and planets easy to see with the naked eye.

www.stelvision.com

Sometimes. Here we were able to see Jupiter with four of it's moons.

 

[tiderollsonu]

Did you know the color of your butthole is the same as your nipple

I know there are gaseous clouds around Uranus, pretty sure it's full of Klingons too

 

[Rva]

Some new favorites.

 

[Zgdaf]

Yep. Straight as an arrow, it was really cool to see. Looked just like this picture and they were fuckin movin fast.
View attachment 204777

Wait till there are 25k starlink satellites.. it’s going to fuck up any view.

I like seeing the stars and Milky Way every now and then.. but then a friend spoiled it by saying looking at the stars is depressing because it’s empty, no other living that we know of or have seen.

@Croot_Overlord , Astronomy good activity to do with your kids. You could get a cheap telescope, but be warned it’s like an arms race and the upgrades won’t stop until you upgrade to the Hubble telescope .

 

[Zgdaf]

Interesting article on light pollution.

A simple streetlight hack could protect astronomy from urban light pollution

The spread of light pollution is so fast that it offsets improvements achieved through advances in telescope technology.

www.space.com

 

[CuriousFiend]

Astro What?

astrowhat.com

I sorta know the site owner, he runs this small forum specific to Astrophotography.
Can find some incredible imagery they've captured over the years.

 

[LafesterMacintosh]

Astro What?

astrowhat.com

I sorta know the site owner, he runs this small forum specific to Astrophotography.
Can find some incredible imagery they've captured over the years.

No