Ξέρεις ότι είσαι Deep Sky Observer όταν...

[B.D. Foxmoor]

(Το βρήκα στο Ιντερνετ, μερικά είναι πολύ καλά )

 

You know you're a Deep Sky Observer when...

 

1. You consider the moon a major annoyance.

2. You consider Jupiter 'light pollution'.

3. You consider meteors 'light pollution'.

4. You consider the Milky Way 'light pollution'.

5. You contemplate ways of destroying the Earth because it's in the way.

6. You pack Dry Ice around your head to reduce the "noise" from your retina and optic nerve.

7. You refuse to use the ladder with your 20" f/6 at the Winter Star Party stating, "If I use that, the objects are too far north."

8. You consider the H-II regions of distant galaxies as individual observing targets.

9. You spend most of your time looking at or for objects you can barely see.

10. Your favorite objects are objects you can barely see.

11. You enjoy looking at faint fuzzies with the smallest possible aperture.

12. You enjoy looking at faint fuzzies with the largest possible aperture.

13. You like to choose objects that are easier to imagine than to see.

14. Your observing schedule demands that you search for objects in twilight.

15. You wonder how your favorite objects missed getting included in the New General Catalog or the Index Catalog.

16. You're not sure that anything in this solar system counts as Astronomy any more.

17. You're amazed that anyone needs artificial light to read charts.

18. You could do a Messier Marathon from memory, if you still bothered with Messier objects.

19. You can read all the NGC abbreviated visual descriptions without using the key, but you have to be careful not to cheat by just remembering what things look like.

20. You view a major earthquake as an opportunity for a close-in dark-sky star party.

21. You are attending a major star party (guess which one), and you ask the organizers to turn down the Milky Way.

22. You believe M13 ruined your dark adaptation.

23. You welcome (and have even considered instigating) power cuts, but only if they occur on clear moonless nights.

24. You observe M42 at the end of the sessions because it DOES ruin dark adaptation!

25. Your choice of a new vehicle is determined by the size of your scope.

26. Vacation time is planned around the Winter and Texas (or other) Star parties.

27. Arp is not a funny sound, but the name of one of your favorite galaxy catalogues.

28. You challenge friends by saying ..."Let’s do something stupid”...as you hunt for deep sky objects on a lazy, full-moon night because you are faint-photon starved.

29. You find auroras a complete annoyance because they ruin sky contrast and dark adaptation.

30. You memorize the NGC catalog and can recite type and magnitude off the top of your head when asked "What is a NGC 1000?"

31. Your ideal site would require oxygen.

32. Your ideal vacation would be in Namibia, but...

33. Your ideal telescope would be immovable.

34. You prep your eyes by applying pupil-dilating drops until they open to 10mm.

35. You travel to Australia to read your star charts by the light of the Milky Way.

36. You plan a two month trip to Australia and spend all of it in the middle of the continent trying to find every southern DSO.

37. Instead of vitamins you take bilberry pills.

38. You actually know where to get bilberry jam, and make a point of consuming some prior to observing sessions.

39. You'd rather observe than go on a hot date.

40. For some reason you're always depressed when that time of the month (full moon occurs).

41. In preparation for another DSO bout, you carefully massage your eyes to make sure all your rods are discharged.

42. You pay $3500 for a pupil enlargement operation even though you own a 1 meter light bucket

43. You complain you can't really see the faint stuff because the Gegenschein is too bright.

44. You consider how to blow-up the SUN in order to reduce light pollution.

45. While spot checking the collimation of your dob, you note that with concentration you can just begin to detect spiral structure in the dust coating your primary.

46. You take deep-sky pictures during a total eclipse of the moon.

47. You bitch about severe light pollution when the limiting magnitude is "only" 6.5.

48. You actually know how to USE setting circles.

49. You have NO use for setting circles. Star hopping to a 18th mag. smudge is a breeze.

50. You actually USE 'Uranometria', and can quote page numbers.

51. You frequently disagree with Burnhams, and have seriously considered publishing your OWN "observer's guide".

52. You see absolutely no value in using a Telrad.

53. Your principal finder scope is larger than 80mm.

54. You consider 15 minutes to be a 'quick' exposure.

55. You see more DSOs on your laptop screen during an evenings' observing session than you do through the eyepiece.

56. You have seriously considered starting up your own anti-satellite lobby.

57. You have blackened the edges of your eyeglasses.

58. You are briefly taken aback by the brightness of a normal flashlight under "normal flashlight" circumstances (power outages, e.g.)

59. You hire a crop duster to spray the surrounding area because last night the fire flies kept ruining your dark adaptation.

60. You think GM's Daytime Running Lights are some kind of evil alien scheme.

61. You can make ten trips lugging equipment back and forth across a cow pasture without stepping on a single cow pie, using only the illumination of that garishly bright Milky Way to guide you.

62. You wear sunscreen during full moon periods.

63. You wear sunglasses during full moon periods.

64. You wear red sunglasses all day in preparation for viewing that night.

65. You've been thinking that a 14th century black monk's hood is a pretty cool idea.

66. Night lights are a nuisance in your house.

67. You wear an eye patch during the viewing session.

68. The dome light of your car is painted red.

69. You paint the LED's on your equipment with red fingernail polish so that they are dimmer.

70. You begin to realize that even the deepest red flash light is affecting your vision.

71. You remove the LED on your drive control panel, because THAT ruins your dark adaptation.

72. You use an infrared flashlight.

73. You keep thinking that if only the stars would go away, it might really get dark.

74. You always set your scope up so that you can't move your car until daylight.

75. You bring a gallon of coffee (or 12 pack of Diet Coke) to the viewing session. If the caffeine doesn't keep you awake the urge to "go" does.

76. You keep a cross-index of stuff that you have looked at on 3x5 file cards organized by object catalog number, so you can easily find your logged observations of any specific object.

77. You have elective surgery to replace your eye's natural lenses with f/0.8, oil-spaced, apochromatic triplet objectives designed by Roland Christen.

78. You think about how to smash the nearby streetlight without getting caught.

79. You think about how much the penalty would be for smashing the nearby street lamp.

80. You're caught by the police climbing light poles at night trying to "unscrew" the bulbs.

81. You ask your neighbors over to star gaze, so they will know to turn out their porch lights.

82. You complain you can't really see the faint stuff because the Zodiacal Light is too bright.

83. You can talk with a red flashlight in your mouth.

84. You can actually understand someone talking with a red flashlight in THEIR mouth!

85. You get a "DSO" tattoo on your arm.

86. You name your kids after deep sky objects.

87. In order to provide better spousal communication, you buy your wife a light bucket and compare notes.

88. Your wife places a picture of herself in your favorite star atlas, to remind you of what she looks like.

89. Your spouse is wearing a sexy evening garment with wine glasses in hand and you want to stay outside in -10 degree temperatures to catch a few more NGC's.

90. You get red contacts made 'cuz the red goggles have been letting too much white light.

91. You glue glow-in-the-dark M-objects on your living room ceiling for practice observing during overcast evening.

92. When the sequence "OBAFGKM" feels more natural than "ABCDEF...

93. You plan your trips past the Arctic/Antarctic Circle to coincide with the appropriate solstice

94. You look forward to that time of the night when certain edge-on spirals pose at 45 degrees.

95. You pour those Cheerios for breakfast at 6:00am in the morning only to realize you haven't been to bed yet.

96. You refer to your Cheerios breakfast as "my bowl full of M57's.

97. You start looking for the central star in one of your Cheerios....and you see it!

98. You drive to the observing site in a Ford Galaxy.

99. Whose license plate number starts with "NGC"

100. You can make observations of mag 18 galaxies from your driveway with your favorite Tasco 50 mm refractor!

101. You see the letters "sex" and your first thought is of the constellation sextans!

[Tsaprazi]

πολύ καλό...

[alepohori]

Πολλά έχουν πολύ πλάκα, αλλά τα 96-97 είναι από τα κορυφαία!! Πολύ καλό Άγγελε!

[B.D. Foxmoor]

Δημήτρη και εγώ ειδικά με αυτά γέλασα πολύ!

[m 51]

Ο τύπος είναι απίστευτος... ΦΟΒΕΡΟΣ, έχεί το ΑΠΟΛΥΤΟ δίκιο, σε ό,τι λέει, είται με μεταφορική έννοια, είτε κυριολεκτικά.

Το 96 ήτανε πράγματι όλα τα λεφτά,

όπως επίσης ήτανε φοβερό και το 101.

Προσωπικά, με εκφράζει ΣΤΟΝ ΑΠΟΛΥΤΟ βαθμό το Νο.24, γιατί αυτό είναι αλήθεια, και ναι, είναι.

Προσωπικά, τα λαμπρά Μεσσιέ δε μου αρέσουν, γιατί πολύ απλά, η ύπαρξή τους επισκιάζει τους πραγματικούς αστρονομικούς στόχους. Για μένα, βαθύς ουρανός σημαίνει οτιδήποτε πέρα από το γαλαξία μας (ίσως λόγω των παρατηρησιακών μου προτιμήσεων).

 

Γιάννης

[vag_stephanou]

Εχμ, πολλά λαμπρά messier ΕΙΝΑΙ μακριά από το γαλαξία μας...

[nansy]

Έχω να ομολογήσω ότι δεν συγκαταλέγομαι ως Deep Sky Observer αφού σχεδόν κανένα από αυτά προσωπικά δεν με εκφράζει.. Τελικά δεν είμαστε όλοι για όλα..

[Bi2L]

Απιστευτο!! Αγγελε εριξα πολυ γελιο....αλλα ΠΟΛΥ!!

Μπορω να πω οτι παρα πολλα με καλυπτουν πληρος! Εχω κανει και εγω παρα πολλες σκεψεις!

Βεβαια πιστευω οτι παραπολλα τεριαζουν και σε πολλους εδω ...πχ Alepohoris, Planetman, Themis, Μανουσος κτλ κτλ

 

 

Απλα φοβερα...1,2,5,20,23,25,31,32,33,34,35,37,38,39,40,44,56,63,66,68,69,70,71,73,77,78,79,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,93,96,97,99,101

και μερικα αλλα...που μου θυμιζουν εμενα

[Fred Ley]

I have to agree with the list. Oh yeah!

 

-Fred

[Μανούσος]

Όντως και πολλά από αυτά τα έχουμε κάνει κι όλας...

[takis63]

Όντως και πολλά από αυτά τα έχουμε κάνει κι όλας...

 

Κρύβε λόγια, κρύβε λόγια

[eliasg2004]

Καταπληκτικό!!!

[BorgDrone]

Το τύπωσα για να το πάρω μαζί μου. Δεν προλαβαίνω να το διαβάσω όλο!

[spaceadmirer]

πολυ καλο μπραβο!!

[themis_kart]

Καλά όλα αυτά αλλά να σας πω και το δικό μου. Τους πρώτους μήνες όλα τα έβλεπα γαλαξίες παιδιά. Αν έβλεπα κάτι, μου θύμιζε την αστρονομία κατευθείαν.

Έτσι στην Κεφαλλονιά στο δωμάτιο που έμενα, ήταν ντυμένο με ξύλο ρομποτέ. Αυτό το ξύλο έχει πολλούς τους λεγόμενους ρόζους .

Ε αυτά ήταν τα περισσότερα Μ51...!!!!!!

Καταλάβατε!!!! Τεράστιο κόλλημα Θέμης ο Γαλαξιάκιας!!!!

[m 51]

Θεμης ο Γαλαξιακιας, ε? Μου θυμιζεις εμενα, αν υψωσεις το ''Θεμης ο Γαλαξιακιας'' οχι στο τεραγωνο, αλλα στην εφτακοσιοστη εξηκοστη τεταρτη. (Ξερεις το κολλημα που εχω με τους γαλαξιες, τα λεγαμε και στο site του Ροσσολατου, πριν καιρο).

Θεμη, μας βλεπω να αρχισουμε να βγαζουμε σπειρες απο τα αυτια, και να διογκωνεται το κεφαλι μας....

 

Γιαννης

[Bi2L]

Up

 

Για να θυμούνται οι παλιοί

Και να μαθαίνουν οι καινούργιοι!!

 

 

Δεν συμπληρώνουμε μερικά ακόμα

 

 

 

 

Εδω μερικά ακόμα που βρήκα με ένα μικρό ψάξιμο...

 

101. You look forward to that time of night (year) when the Milky Way goes all the way around the horizon.

102. Find an 8" F6 with a really good primary and think "This will make a nice finder on my big DOB."

103. You just finished a 30 minute exposure and realize that you never cocked the shutter.

104. You drive 130 miles to a remote site in pouring rain and sit there all night hoping it will clear.

105. You have learned to judge your dark adaptation (and the quality of the dark site) by how good M-13 (or some other big, bright DSO) looks naked eye.

106. You have learned to judge your dark adaptation (and the quality of the dark site) by how good M-33 (or some other big, low surface brightness DSO) looks naked eye.

107. You try to convince the "shallow sky observers" that comets and asteroids are much more interesting than planets.

108. Your collection of astrophotos weighs more than you.

109. Your collection of disks of CCD photos weighs more than you.

110. You can point out the locations of deep sky objects, in broad daylight.

111. You have considered making mega - binoculars out of two 10" scopes.

112. You have considered buying nearby real estate in order to demolish it.

113. You believe telescopes should qualify for religious tax exemptions.

114. You regard sky charts as 'Ancient history' books.

115. You gave up smoking not for health reasons but because it ruined your night vision.

116. You have considered moving to another hemisphere to see some new sights.

117. You get O-III Filter contact lenses

118. You can see planetary nebulae in other galaxies... without an O-III filter.

119. You know the magnification & FOV of all your eyepieces in every telescope ever made.

120. You divorce your wife because she's "too distracting" at night.

121. You have replaced your eyes with that of a cat... and still use night-vision equipment on your scope.

122. You are saving to put your own telescope in space.

123. You've memorized the Palomar Sky-survey because "its good as a finder-chart."

124. You have a 16"-telescope... as a finder.

125. You were too busy at night to have made children.

126. You try to use gravitationally bended light to view distant objects.

127. You can visually identify the redshift of quasars.

128. You try to view galaxies... through the spiral-arms of other galaxies.

129. You make your own filters.

130. You make your own eyepieces.

131. You live in the desert, but only at night.

132. You don't have a CCD-camera because the PC-screen ruined your adaptation, and "it looked better visually anyway."

133. You can find more than 10 non-NGC objects... without looking through the scope.

134. You find 17th-mag. stars "annoyingly bright."

135. You think you can see the Hubble-Deep-Field... without a telescope.

136. Your eyes only contain rods.

137. Your pupils are always larger than 7mm.

138. You've painted yourself black to avoid reflections.

139. You've painted everything in a 100-mile radius black to avoid reflections.

140. You're dreaming about painting the whole world black.

141. A mirror with 95%-reflectivity is "not good enough."

142. You cool your surroundings with liquid nitrogen to avoid thermal uprising.

143. You're making a suit to cool yourSELF with too.

144. You have to use sunglasses when viewing objects brighter than 15th magnitude.

145. You have forgotten what the world looks like during the day.

146. You have forgotten what the world looks like at night, 'cause you're always looking up.

147. You know the periods of extra-galactic Cepheid variable stars... from experience.

148. You have found several comets, but you're too busy observing to report them.

149. You have reported several comets, but they're too faint too see by anybody else, so they don't believe you.

150. You go to bed if naked-eye visibility is worse than 7th mag.

151. You claim to have seen Stephan's Quintet without a telescope.

152. You find Pluto too bright to view with a 4-inch.

153. You've become so nearsighted (by squinting), that you no longer need eyepieces.

154. You've coated your eyes so that they're anti-reflective.

155. You only look at objects when they're at most 5 degrees from the zenith.

156. You can accurately track objects with your DOB at 700-times magnification... with one finger.

157. You have a voice-controlled dome so you don't have to leave the telescope.

158. You have trained your bladder to hold it for up to 18 hours on those long arctic winter nights.

159. You think the telescope is part of the family.

 

πηγη http://www.astronomyguru.com/dso.html

[ourania]

Καλά όλα αυτά αλλά να σας πω και το δικό μου. Τους πρώτους μήνες όλα τα έβλεπα γαλαξίες παιδιά. Αν έβλεπα κάτι, μου θύμιζε την αστρονομία κατευθείαν.

Έτσι στην Κεφαλλονιά στο δωμάτιο που έμενα, ήταν ντυμένο με ξύλο ρομποτέ. Αυτό το ξύλο έχει πολλούς τους λεγόμενους ρόζους .

Ε αυτά ήταν τα περισσότερα Μ51...!!!!!!

Καταλάβατε!!!! Τεράστιο κόλλημα Θέμης ο Γαλαξιάκιας!!!!

 

Και γω βλέπω στο ξύλινο ταβάνι αστερισμούς

Το 107 μου θύμισε έντονα τον ΚωνσταντίνοΜ το καλοκαίρι που μας πέρασε στις Σέρρες με τον ΟΦΑ.

 

Ωραίο θέμα.Γέλασα πολύ

[kookoo_gr]

επισης ενα που θυμιθηκα, δεν θυμαμαι την πηγη, ειναι οτι το σπιτι που θα αγορασεις θα ειναι σε τοποθεσια με λιγη εως καθολου φωτορυπανση για να βλεπεις dso (οπως και στην περιπτωση μου)

[planetman]

Όταν βλέπεις πινακίδες αυτοκινήτων, βλέπεις το νούμερο και σου έρχεται κατευθείαν στο μυαλό η εικόνα του τάδε ngc αντικειμένου, μου έχει συμβεί πολλές φορές. Προχθές είδα πινακίδα "κάτι-2419" και κατευθείαν σκέφτηκα το intergalactic wanderer!

[Bi2L]

επισης ενα που θυμιθηκα, δεν θυμαμαι την πηγη, ειναι οτι το σπιτι που θα αγορασεις θα ειναι σε τοποθεσια με λιγη εως καθολου φωτορυπανση για να βλεπεις dso (οπως και στην περιπτωση μου)

Ξέρεις ότι είσαι Deep Sky Observer όταν...

 

160. Αγόρασες το Σπίτι σου σε σκοτεινό ουρανό για να μην είσαι ούτε λεπτό μακρυά από τα αγαπημένα σου DSO.

161. Το σπίτι που αγόρασες μπορεί να μην έχει τα βασικά αλλά... έχει έναν μεγάλο Θόλο στην κορυφή.

162. Αγόρασες σπίτι σε ουρανό 7,5mag ώστε να μην χρειαστεί να αγοράσεις μεγαλύτερο αυτοκίνητο για να μεταφέρεις τον Αστρονομικό σου εξοπλισμό.

163. Το σπίτι που αγόρασες ΔΕΝ να είναι συνδεδεμένο στο Ηλεκτρικό δίκτυο ώστε να μην μπερδευτεί καμιά φορά η Γυναίκα σου και ανάψει τα φώτα μέσα σε αυτό.

164. Έχεις αγοράσει όλα τα γειτονικά οικόπεδα ώστε να μην τύχει στο μέλλον κάποιος γείτονας να σου χαλάσει τα 7,5mag ουρανό που έχεις.

165. Το σπίτι το έφτιαξες σε τόσο μεγάλο υψόμετρο όπου τις περισσότερες ώρες χρειάζεσαι μπουκάλες οξυγόνου για να αναπνεύσεις.

166. Θεωρείς ότι πρέπει να κάνεις μήνυση στις Αεροπορικές Εταιρίες επειδή τα Αεροπλάνα σου χαλάνε την νυχτερινή όραση και κάνουν φωτορύπανση.

167. Θεωρείς ότι πρέπει να κάνεις μήνυση στις εταιρίες που έχουν δορυφόρους καθώς επίσης και στην Nasa γιατι όλοι οι δορυφόροι που περνάνε πάνω απο το σπίτι των ονείρων σου, σου χαλάνε την νυχτερινή όραση και κάνουν φωτορύπανση.

168. Κάνεις σχέδια να καταστρέψεις το Φεγγάρι γιατι το φως του σου χαλάει τα 7,5mag ουρανό που έχεις.

169. Κάνεις σχέδια να καταστρέψεις τον Ήλιο γιατί σου χαλάει την μισή μέρα παρατήρησης.

170. Προσπαθείς να αφαιρέσεις την Ατμόσφαιρα της Γης γιατί απέτυχαν οι προσπάθειές σου να καταστρέψεις τον Ήλιο.

[Bi2L]

Όταν βλέπεις πινακίδες αυτοκινήτων, βλέπεις το νούμερο και σου έρχεται κατευθείαν στο μυαλό η εικόνα του τάδε ngc αντικειμένου, μου έχει συμβεί πολλές φορές. Προχθές είδα πινακίδα "κάτι-2419" και κατευθείαν σκέφτηκα το intergalactic wanderer!

Αυτό είναι κλασσικό Αντε τώρα να δεις πινακίδα 1976 και να μην σκεφτείς το Νεφέλωμα του Ωρίωνα, ή 6960, 6992 και να μην σκεφτείς το Vail.

[michael497]

Και ενα δικο μου... Ξερεις οτι εισαι Deep sky observer οταν εχεις χτισει το σπιτι σου τοσο ψηλα που δεν εχει ποτε συννεφα...

[vossinakis]

το 170 το σκέφτηκα και εγώ. Θυμήθηκα την ταινία spaceballz όπου ο κακός ρούφηξε την ατμόσφαιρα της Γης με μια τεράστια καμαριέρα - διαστημόπλοιο

[Bi2L]

το 170 το σκέφτηκα και εγώ. Θυμήθηκα την ταινία spaceballz όπου ο κακός ρούφηξε την ατμόσφαιρα της Γης με μια τεράστια καμαριέρα - διαστημόπλοιο

η Καμαριέρα Έστρωσε πριν το κάνει; εεε ποτέ!!

 

 

Παντός για το 168 υπάρχει και η ταινία Despicable Me... όπου έχει έναν πολύ ωραίο τρόπο να εξαφανίσει το Φεγγάρι, λες σκηνοθέτης & παραγωγός να είναι Deepsky Observers;;