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Title: Suburban observing/sketching objects to improve visual work Post by: skyjim on March 21, 2002, 11:03:00 AM Here's a link to an excellent article at Cloudy Nights - a fine web reference for telescope reviews:
www.cloudynights.com/Observation/suburb.htm (http://www.cloudynights.com/Observation/suburb.htm) Thanks to Engaaraa for getting me thinking about a need for this type of link! Jim Title: Suburban observing/sketching objects to improve visual work Post by: engaaraa on March 21, 2002, 02:30:00 PM What a great article. If the sky is clear I'll start tonight.
Title: Sketching Post by: skyjim on March 21, 2002, 03:20:00 PM Excellent, Engaaraa!
Title: Re: Sketching Post by: yales on March 21, 2002, 11:33:00 PM Dark Skies Facilitation Projector
(http://66.39.117.224/images/Slingsho.jpg) (JUST A JOKE! Don't try this ANYWHERE!) Join this instead: www.darksky.org/ida/index.html (http://www.darksky.org/ida/index.html) Sorry for the interruption! Title: Cloud dodging Post by: engaaraa on March 22, 2002, 12:34:00 PM Is this a sport?
Any sketches I would have done last night would be of clouds. I did have a geat look at the moon last night through the clouds, the shadow was cutting it at a great poisition to appreciate the apenines and that crater infested area in the south. When I got the chance to see Jupiter four moons were to the same side, three of them almost the same distance forming almost a perpendicular line. Normally they all look aligned with Jupiter. Last night one could appreciate how much their orbits depart from Jupiter's equatorial plane. Any way, I'll give this a try every night available and when I start seeing the good stuff I'll report. Other wise I might try Yale's device... Title: Re: Cloud dodging Post by: skyjim on March 22, 2002, 01:31:00 PM I've often been a suspect in my neighborhood when a streetlight burns out.....
Have fun, Engaaraa! Title: Aha! Post by: engaaraa on March 22, 2002, 02:15:00 PM You are experinced in that too eh?
Should I aim at the bulb (too easy to replace) or at the light sensor? LOL. Title: Re: Aha! Post by: skyjim on March 22, 2002, 05:20:00 PM If you are very clever, you can project a beam of light onto the light sensor, turning it off at will. Some systems are too smart for this ploy, and use signals from the sensors on multiple lights to prevent a failed sensor from putting a light out of business...... :) (http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif ):)
Title: Re: Aha! Post by: dsnay on July 15, 2002, 03:22:00 PM I took a more mundane route. I called the local lighting
company (We have a private one in our town) and asked for a timer on the light. Three weeks later, there was a truck outside my house putting it on. Now the light is off from 9:00PM - 1:00AM every night. Sometimes you just have to ask. ttfn, Dave Title: Re: Aha! Post by: irwincur on March 17, 2003, 10:29:00 PM In the past I did some sketches and it really does help you focus on details. It is amazing what you can see in a field when you are looking really hard at it to gain precise star positions and brightnesses.
Title: Re: Suburban observing/sketching objects to Post by: Jadison on July 15, 2003, 07:30:04 AM Quote I took a more mundane route. I called the local lighting Would never happen here in San Antonio only place to get electricity is CPS, it wouldn't make much of a difference too I'm afraid :-/ I'll have to try the sketching when I get a chance to visit any of my family outside of town/state (would love to visit my cousin up in El Rito, NM...her property has an amazing and completely preserved view of the nightsky. |