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How many of you are intersted in astronomy/stargazing and telescopes?

Posted by Yahweh

I think it would be nice if Tildes had a community in which we could discuss these subjects. Stargazing is also a pretty engaging hobby.

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    Silbern
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    I'd love to do stargazing more often, unfortunately for this hobby, I live in a large city so light pollution drowns out most of it. Hawaii has some amazing places for it, unfortunately I'd need a...

    I'd love to do stargazing more often, unfortunately for this hobby, I live in a large city so light pollution drowns out most of it. Hawaii has some amazing places for it, unfortunately I'd need a plane ride to get to them... :(

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    1. NubWizard
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      I used to stargaze in high school with a pretty nice Stellaris telescope. It was so nice living in the country and being able to see all the different constellations and even some of the more...

      I used to stargaze in high school with a pretty nice Stellaris telescope. It was so nice living in the country and being able to see all the different constellations and even some of the more visible galaxies. When I was able to clearly are Saturn, I was blown away and felt really small.

      Then I moved to a city and couldn't see a thing. I would definitely get into it again once I got older and had more free time

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    2. Yahweh
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      Even if you do live in a large city, you dont really need to go far to see a lot more than you usually would. You could even just leave the neighbourhood to notice more of the night sky.

      Even if you do live in a large city, you dont really need to go far to see a lot more than you usually would. You could even just leave the neighbourhood to notice more of the night sky.

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    ilios
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    I really want to get into astronomy but I want to build my own dobsonian first to learn about optics. If anyone has any books or resources I would love to hear about them.

    I really want to get into astronomy but I want to build my own dobsonian first to learn about optics. If anyone has any books or resources I would love to hear about them.

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      Yahweh
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      For now you could visit r/telescopes. A while back a user (I think it was u/_Augustus) built a 16 inch dobsonian. You might want to PM him.

      For now you could visit r/telescopes. A while back a user (I think it was u/_Augustus) built a 16 inch dobsonian. You might want to PM him.

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      1. ilios
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        Thanks, I'll check it out!

        Thanks, I'll check it out!

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    Algernon_Asimov
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    Go to ~science and start making posts (link or text - doesn't matter), and tag them "astronomy" and/or "stargazing" as appropriate. Over time, when there are enough posts in ~science tagged...

    How many of you are intersted in astronomy/stargazing and telescopes?

    I think it would be nice if Tildes had a community in which we could discuss these subjects.

    Go to ~science and start making posts (link or text - doesn't matter), and tag them "astronomy" and/or "stargazing" as appropriate. Over time, when there are enough posts in ~science tagged "astronomy", Deimos or the eventual future moderators of ~science will probably create a subgroup called ~science.astronomy, and maybe one called ~science.astronomy.stargazing.

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    1. Yahweh
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      Thanks for the advice! I am still new to this website so I don't really know how it functions, but hopefully i'll get there.

      Thanks for the advice! I am still new to this website so I don't really know how it functions, but hopefully i'll get there.