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stefano_azevedo from Pindorama (Brazil) on 2005-07-28 20:40 [#01678068]
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i live in a big city from where i cant see the stars, but
last weekend i went to the country side and spend my night
staring the sky.
there i realized that Sirius is the only star wich i know
the name.

i guess most of us dont know the constelations. but we
should.
im searching the internets for some info.
id be glad if you join my research and tell some stories of
sky watching .)

forck_02lynix from brooklyn on 2005-07-28 20:45 [#01678071]
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i took an astronomy class during my second year in college.
it was focused on stars and galaxies, and damn does it put
you in perspective. interesting as hell, i would love to
take it over. maybe when i go back to school when i'm 40 and
need to learn new design software.

rotunda on 2005-07-28 20:48 [#01678072]
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freaks me out, its too freaking big up there

gay_dad from 5 go mad in Dorset (Chile) on 2005-07-28 22:12 [#01678092]
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It's great project. I know the Big Dipper, as it looks like
a saucepan, or olla, and Orion, which I can see by his belt,
or cinturon. That's it. Sometimes I can see the Milky Way
but then I get confused.

recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2005-07-28 22:17 [#01678094]
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population 220 where i live, i see stars, i love them
learn them
watch for meteor showers
watch for shooting stars
eclipses

just dont throw rocks at glass houses

run the bottom two stars of the big dipper and they lead you
a straight line to the little dipper

stefano_azevedo from Pindorama (Brazil) on 2005-07-29 06:47 [#01678235]
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ill draw a constelation map and stick it to my bedroom
ceiling.
ill get a glow-in-dark pen for my stars.
then next time i go to a beatiful place out in the contry
ill know the stars by heart.

but first i need a sky map, wich i cant find on the net.
maybe id get something searching on books in a library.

DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-07-29 06:53 [#01678238]
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I wish one could see the stars in London but unfortunately
there's way too much damn light pullution from unecessary
streetlamps and cars.

I remember when I lived in Bolivia for a time near the
cerros (something between a hill and a cliff) on the
outskirts of the capital city and the stars were the most
amazing thing because you could fully appreciate them and
just lie there and reflect on how huge a universe really
exists out there beyond our planet.

bob from Nottingham (United Kingdom) on 2005-07-29 06:58 [#01678241]
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best thing you can do is get a pair of binoculars, with a 10
x 50 magnification. i used to have a telescope (half decent
one at that), but i used the binoculars more because the
telescope was so unwieldy.

used to be well into astronomy, still got a few books
somewhere.

you can see the four major moons of Jupiter with a pair of
binoculars.

obara from Utrecht on 2005-07-29 07:20 [#01678264]
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i like watching falling stars. i think there is a special
time of the year when you can see lots of them .

well, is there ?

bob from Nottingham (United Kingdom) on 2005-07-29 07:41 [#01678284]
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there was the leonid meteor shower about a week ago. did you
see that one?

stefano_azevedo from Pindorama (Brazil) on 2005-07-29 07:50 [#01678296]
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meteor shower are invisible for me in a 50km ray!

stefano_azevedo from Pindorama (Brazil) on 2005-07-29 15:45 [#01678773]
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i found this
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