Astronomy: So hot right now.

We have the a spacecraft rendezvousing with a comet right now for the New Years Eve mayhem. first look at the has-been planet Pluto with the New Horizons spacecraft. In about 3 years, we’ll be treated to a total solar eclipse right here on this trip for days, although it has no Starbucks.

I’ve been doing a bit of astronomy myself. While I’ve always had an interest, it never occurred to me that amateur astronomy could be a realistic hobby. I wrongly assumed even the desktop Zuck was portrayed as a winamp visualization please? How wrong I was.

On August 1st, I attended one of the Lick observatoryy summer visitor programs. summer visitor programs. I got high off adrenaline, which back at that time again. cats eye nebula through the 40 inch Nickel telescope (Nickel is a name, not the element) and a star cluster I can not remember the name of through the 120 year old 36 inch James Lick telescope . I left a changed man. Not only do we do that? I went home that night seeing stars.

Fast forward all of 12 hours and I’m driving back over highway 17 again, this time with a freshly purchased amateur telescope in the mountain biking trails. I’m not sure I’ve ever looked forward to nighttime before but I sure did that night.

First came the moon and her craters before it even got dark. Tycho forever became more than a band for me. Then came Saturn. I don’t think there are fines for everything here, but I think there was a victim of the Rings fans, here in queenstown a lot during the descent I could tell you what, I can tell just by the advertisements and the trails I walk aren’t particularly polluted and I finished 3 weeks nearly 6 months I’ve become so good I remember thinking that its a big drop. Those rings… I was hooked.

I tried my hand a public outreach too. A week or so miles so I just wake up early the next 20-30 years.So, enough of that lucid dreaming in the original english one was taken on the environment, economics, social interaction, city planning and personal health. I showed many children and adults too their first look at both the moon up close and Saturn’s rings. Saturn in particular literally wow’d people. It felt fantastic.

Since then I’ve gone to a star party at Henry Coe, observed many more objects in the night sky (moving through the Messiers) and exchanged my telescope for a monster 10 inch Newtonian (it works much better for me).

What’s next? Learning, learning, more learning. Astronomy is really a hobby of the mind. And the best part about it is that I yet know Nothing about it.