RE: Sometimes its nice to just look at stars, lots of them.
December 11, 2012 at 1:53 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2012 at 1:58 pm by orogenicman.)
(December 11, 2012 at 1:04 pm)Voltron Wrote: My wife thought I was mad when I told her I wanted to drive out to the West Desert for my birthday a few years back to look at the stars. We drove out to one of the clearest darksky spots in our state when the moon was not out. It was fairly spooky to be out in the pitch black high desert alone to be truthful. Aside from some wind, nothing distorted our view, everything was amazingly visible. After seeing the Milky Way and the countless stars, my wife has now joined me in a fascination with astronomy. We will be taking a trip again this year, this time to Bryce Canyon for a weekend of stargazing.
orogenicman, I have enjoyed the images you have been sharing with us. Thanks for posting them.
Thanks. My favorite memory of stargazing was at Arches National Park, in Utah. When they say it is "Big sky country", they aren't kidding! It was truly one of the outstanding star gazing experiences of my life. By the way, if the weather cooperates, I plan to do some more astrophotography tomorrow night. So stay tuned. If conditions are right, my menu includes the Pelican nebula early in the evening, followed by the jellyfish nebula starting at 11:00. IF conditions are right.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
