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(Discover) Cool This is what happens when you take your dog star out to go twinkle   (blogs.discovermagazine.com) divider line 6
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Hassan Ben Sobr
2012-01-27 06:27:45 PM
Rats? God.
 
ArtosRC
2012-01-27 06:28:40 PM
Wallpaper mode engage.
 
Prof Honeybone
2012-01-27 06:45:24 PM
Cool. I saw an article about this recently from Stephen O'Meare in Astronomy Magazine. For those who would like to know more about making your own, checkout "Simply Scintillating" in the December 2011 issue.

http://www.astronomy.com/Columnists/Stephen%20Omeara.aspx
 
HotIgneous Intruder
2012-01-27 09:34:12 PM
Very nice. I just went out and tried it and got decent results hand held. Have to try it on a tripod.

/Only three comments? Feh.
//Where's the art & astronomy love? Where.
 
runner_one
2012-01-28 12:51:19 AM
What amazes me is how many people mistake Sirius for a UFO. Even more than Venus in my experience.

Every winter without fail I run into people who are convinced that they are seeing some strange UFO hovering in the sky. I have had phone calls, e-mails, etc. from people who can not be convinced it is a star. I have even went so far as to get out a star chart and show them Sirius, some can not be convinced even when confronted with the evidence. Yeah whatever dude...
 
theodopolis13
2012-01-28 03:22:14 AM
runner_one: What amazes me is how many people mistake Sirius for a UFO. Even more than Venus in my experience.

Every winter without fail I run into people who are convinced that they are seeing some strange UFO hovering in the sky. I have had phone calls, e-mails, etc. from people who can not be convinced it is a star. I have even went so far as to get out a star chart and show them Sirius, some can not be convinced even when confronted with the evidence. Yeah whatever dude...

that's what the gov't wants you to believe.
/i want to believe
//that we're all not that stupid
 
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