RE: My Astro Photo Of The Day
November 18, 2010 at 6:11 pm
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2010 at 11:46 pm by orogenicman.)
(November 18, 2010 at 12:47 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Dude...where are you, Indiana? Dammit. I want use of your telescope. Just for a night.
Hi there. No, I live in Louisville, Kentucky. Our club's observatory is in southern Indiana, though I only use the facility to have access to an electrical outlet and dark skies (and to make a cup of Joe when I get cold). I own my own scope. I also use a site with a few close friends at Taylorsville Lake State Park, which is a much darker site. I take most of my photos there.
Here is a picture of my set up (that isn't me, of course), minus the astrophoto equipment:
![[Image: main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_it...alNumber=2]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=louisville-astro.org%2Fgallery%2Fmain.php%3Fg2_view%3Dcore.DownloadItem%26amp%3Bg2_itemId%3D15362%26amp%3Bg2_serialNumber%3D2)
If you are ever in Louisville when we have clear skies, let me know. I could arrange to take you and any friends and relatives over to the observatory. We have a full astrophotography set up plus a large 16" newtonian telescope for general use in the main observatory building. We also have a new general purpose building, which is used for storing other scopes (we have two other very large scopes in there, plus some smaller ones, all of which are for use by our members). That building is also used for a classroom, and is set up for presentations and planetarium programs. It even has a kitchen and his and her bathrooms (a necessity when you're in Hoosier wilderness).
I meant to post a close up of the moon from my composite image. Here it is. Enjoy:
![[Image: IMG_1630-1.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i132.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fq9%2Fjryates%2FIMG_1630-1.jpg)
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"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! "
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