• @tee9000
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    What does this mean for my horoscope?

    • Flying SquidOP
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      8310 days ago

      Mostly that it’s still nonsense.

      • @tee9000
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        4210 days ago

        Spoken like a Capricorn

        • Flying SquidOP
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          We Capricorns are naturally skeptical of horoscopes.

          • @chuckleslord
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            210 days ago

            Just like a Sagittarius to say. Or was it… Leo? It was definitely one of those, though.

            This is all, of course, very very real. /s

    • @[email protected]
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      It means everyone is probably getting sick around here and having bad days because Mercury is in retrograde. At least, that’s what my co-worker once said in front of like fifteen people.

      • Flying SquidOP
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        I’ve heard stupider believe it or not. Once some co-workers and I went outside to see the ISS pass overhead and one of them said “can they see the Earth from up there?”

        I forgot to mention- this woman was the chief news anchor for the local evening TV news.

      • @garbagebagel
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        210 days ago

        I think Mercury’s been in retrograde for a really long time, can we ask the astrologers to fix it so the world can go back to being sane?

  • @[email protected]
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    I literally just got into astrophotography and found this out pretty recently. Still nice to see, but it does suck that I’ll have to wait a few years to get cooler pictures!

    This is just with my phone and an 8" reflector telescope on a manual dobsonian base (touched up in gimp):

    • Flying SquidOP
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      310 days ago

      Looks great! Do you do image stacking? You might look into that. I did microscope photography and used it, but it’s also used for astrophotography.

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        Thanks! That image isn’t stacked, but I am just getting into learning about all of that. I think I’m having an issue with clarity (I’m just using my pixel 8 pro and a cheapo phone adapter hooked up to my telescope) so the stacking software I’ve tried isn’t picking up on most frames.

        If I have to begrudgingly thank Trump for anything, it’s pushing me to buy a seestar s50 now before prices go up with the tarrifs so I’ll be getting much better images soon! Not for planets though lol It’s mostly for deep space objects.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          210 days ago

          You can probably get a pretty decent Canon or Nikon SLR for cheap on eBay, especially now that everyone is going mirrorless.

          • @[email protected]
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            Thanks for the advice, I’ll have to look into that! I know I’ll be somewhat limited with the seestar so it would be nice to have a good camera too.

  • @Blue_Morpho
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    Nobody warned me that 2018 was the best time to see Saturn!

    6 years before the rings are aligned at a good angle to earth again?

  • Illecors
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    Maybe a silly question, but are the rings locked to Saturn’s rotation axis? I.e. is it the rings that tilted or both rings and planet?

    • @riodoro1
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      From the planet itself they would appear stationary, yes. From basically any other solar system body they change because basically everything orbits at wonky angles.

  • @ch00f
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    710 days ago

    I love showing people Saturn. Clearly visible even with city light pollution, and rings can be resolved even with cheap hardware.

    Kind of nuts how long people can live without ever seeing the rings for themselves.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      310 days ago

      I saw Saturn at an observatory long before I had my own telescope, but that heart-skip-a-beat moment the first time you see Saturn with your own telescope is like nothing else.

      • @ch00f
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        310 days ago

        I remembering bringing my 5" dobson to a work retreat camping trip. Everyone was pretty boozed up to the point where they were struggling to keep their eyes steady in the eyepiece.

        When one of my coworkers finally got everything lined up he just blurted out “HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT’S SATURN!”

        It was great.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          Oh man, I always wanted a dobs. They were significantly more expensive than Newtonians when I was shopping around (not sure if that’s still true, this was the 90s), so I ended up with a Newtonian.

          • @ch00f
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            310 days ago

            I think you’re mixing up names. Dobson is the name of the mount, and since they’re most commonly used on Newtonians, it’s kind of become shorthand. My 5" and 12" are both Newtonian reflectors on Dobson mounts.

            Maybe you’re thinking of a Schmidt Cassegrain?

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              I honestly don’t remember, it’s been so long since I’ve been into telescopes. But you obviously know your stuff, so you’re right.

  • Destide
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    510 days ago

    It’s close to the moon atm if you have a decent pair of binoculars or a telescope

    • Gregor
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      Where are you from? That can depend on the location.

      • @XeroxCool
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        Location on Earth will change timing for really precise events like occultations. Location on Earth will not affect any DSO’s visual “closeness” to the moon, especially not at the low zoom scale of binoculars. Hemisphere will only change which is on top. At 1/40th the distance to the moon, moving from pole to pole only changes the view the amount standing 1 foot to the left changes the view of an object 40ft away

      • Destide
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        210 days ago

        Hey sorry everyone totally right Northern Hemisphere Europe

        • @theherk
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          410 days ago

          Difficult to identify one’s location without giving away the hemisphere.

            • @theherk
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              I get the joke, assuming you’re being tongue in cheek, but when that ambiguity still remains, one’s location is still not given. Hemisphere is a subset of all locations, so superfluous information. But yeah, I was just kidding around.

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                Yeah, likewise :-)

                And you’re right of course.

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          By having the location specified I would know the hemisphere too

  • Jo Miran
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    When Oryx activated his super weapon, he inadvertently affected Saturn’s axis…

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