Aaron says hello

[ballaratdragons]

My name is Aaron. I am 9. And i typed this all by myself. And my Dad is Ken, I'm intrested in telescopes and planets in space. I love this website becuase I like the space pitures. :astron:

[atalas]

Hi Aaron! thats great to hear ,it wont be long and you will be taking your own space pictures. Tell Dad to buy you a Telescope !


Louie :cool:

[slice of heaven]

Hi Aaron
Great interest you have.
The skies an amazing sight.
It's good to see kids like yourself interested in astronomy.

Slice

What do you call a little Dragon?

[ballaratdragons]

thankyou call me arry.

[[1ponders]]

Hi Arry and :welcome:

Good on you for taking an interest in Astronomy. Its great fun!!:cool2: I got my first telescope when I was not much older than you. ( and that was a long time ago :) ) It was a little 60mm Tasco refractor and I thought it was the best present I had ever been given. Through it I cold see heaps of craters on the moon, Jupiter and its moons and belts and zones, Saturn, the orion nebula. You're pretty lucky your dad has such a big scope. You can see so much more than I ever could with my little scope.

Hope to hear more of what you're looking at. (Don't let Dad hog the scope too much. Make sure you get a go. Shhhh)

[jackenau]

:cool: Welcome Aaron, I would have to agree with you the pictures posted on this site are very good, I have some grandkids your age and younger and they love nothing more than to look through the telescope, look at the pictures and then tell the other kids at school what they have seen.

Make sure dad gives you even viewing time. He is a great influence to us all.

Good luck :astron: Ken M

[ballaratdragons]

sorry, but he already hogs it!last time we looked through it was about in January or Febuary becease of the fogy wether! Can't wait for the star camp, goodnight, I've got to go to bed.

[ving]

Hi and er... goodnight Arry.
and welcome aboard. :)

[rumples riot]

Hi Arry, glad you like the space images that we post on the site. Is there any images that you want to see, that no one has posted yet? Perhaps we can take some images for you?

[toetoe]

G`day Arry and welcome to the chit chat place. Looking forward to seeing you popping in on the forums again pretty soon ok. Enjoy the pictures as much as i do.;)

[ballaratdragons]

Hello rumples riot. I would like to see a photo ofthe whole milkeyway, becease I've never seen a whole photo of it. thankyou.
My brother Jake would like to say hello.
Hello my name is jake and i am 12 years old. I think telescopes are amazing because you can see so far and see fantastic things. im doing a school science project on how telescopes work. Dad let me use his big telescope all by myself. It was cooly awesome. but i could not find the trantula. Thank you for listening to me.

[rumples riot]

Arry I don't know if I can image the whole Milky Way, but I guess I could give it a try. Can you wait for six months or so? It is very large and I would need to use my camera with only its little lens on and would need to take lots and lots of shots. however if you want Eddie has a shot of it on his site. Ask Dad to show you Eddies site, he will know how to find it.

Jake I am sure that all of us here are glad you have an interest in Astronomy and you are lucky that your Dad has such a good scope. You will learn lots from him. Stick with using the scope and we are all more than happy to listen to you.

Ken you are lucky your kids are interested in Astronomy, something to share with them for the rest of your life. Wish my nephews had the same sort of interest.

[ballaratdragons]

Thanks guys. They are excited about getting answers.
They both enjoy the pics in here and they love Vings Cow!

They asked if they could talk in here.

Both of them are good at naming the objects I show them through the scope.

Anyway, I will not say any more, this is their thread. I will leave it to them.

[jackenau]

It is refreshing to see commitment from the younger generation, which is obviously (hopefully) driven from Ken.

To such wonders as the sky has to offer must be a rareity amongst so many.

Share it with the many who do not have the luxury of such a reward.

and "guys you cannot see the cow who jumped over the moon"

At least not with Vings Scope.

Keep up the participation.


Ken M

ps who's the happy dude in the front right of the photo, he looks really impressed.

[ballaratdragons]

Arry here. The happy (sad) dude is Baily. He always looks like that!Plus theres no such thing as a cow jumping over the moon.
Dad dosen't make us like the sky. We just do like it.

I'm Jake, take a cow up in a space ship and throw it over the moon and then there is a cow over the moon.

[Striker]

Hi Arry......welcome to the forums...Its good to see we will have maturity now with Arry instead of Ken......lol....

Love you ken..........

[ballaratdragons]

I'm back. Yeah,Yeah striker. jake and I are getting our own telescopes prbably soon. Dad said they will be refracters. going to eat our tea now.

[ving]

hey arry and jake, get dad to take you over to my cow naming comp thread! :D

[ballaratdragons]

we just went there. what do we win if we win. a telescope?

[ving]

LOL
if I had the money for it i would... there isnt really a prize :confused:

[ballaratdragons]

We askes dad if he could take a piture of us to put on here. This is us. Dad will put the piture in.

[[1ponders]]

Hey! Official mascots. Hey, Arry and Jake, get him to get you a couple of "Iceinspace" t shirts.

Sorry Ken :D

[seeker372011]

Great to see you guys here on the forum
my son is 18 and into astronomy, my daughter is 14 and into TV
(oops hope she never gets to read this)

[atalas]

Hello guys !so thats what you look like .

Louie :)

[ballaratdragons]

Yes, that is us. I am into drawing, playing rugby leage, space,. I am Arry.

Jake here. I like castles, writing songs, rugby league,telescopes and playing my price is right game i got for christmas and planets. I dont like tv much. i rather be outside playing in my 2 story cubby or kicking goals or riding my bike. Have you seen all the planets yet. i have seen jupiter and saturn lots of times.

[RAJAH235]

Hi Arry & Jake. Sorry I missed your post the other night. Welcome to the forum. (sounds a bit like Brutus & Caesa, doesn't it)? I hope you enjoy yourselves here, & ask lots of questions. :welcome: and :gday:
Regards, L.

[ballaratdragons]

Thanks Rajah. Thats okay,doesnt realy matter. What was your very FIRST telescope you all started with. Dad said he will get us a refractor but he doesnt want to get a cheap one .he says some cheap ones arent very good and we wont enjoy them.:cool:

[RAJAH235]

Hi Boys. Believe it or not, the first t'scope I had, was one of those cheap 60mm refractors, (not good at all). That was about 15 years ago. I only kept it for 2 weeks & then I returned it. I bought a 'Tasco' 114 Reflector with an EQ mount, & was in time to see a few of the larger impact sites that Comet Shoemaker/Levy 9 made as it collided with Jupiter. That was something to see & remember.
I now have a Meade 10" Dobsonian, similar to your dad's.
I'm sure your dad will guide you in the right way to make your viewing of our glorious night skies even more enjoyable.
Just keep looking up, & dream of what's to come.
Clear skies & dry nights,
Regards, L. :D :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[ballaratdragons]

Thank you. i like your funny picture. We had no fog tonight so dad got out the telescope and he took a picture of us. we had fun and dadtook some pitures of the moon. he is puting them in here he said somewhere. He is waiting for the computer so i have to get off.

[[1ponders]]

Looks cold there:)

[seeker372011]

that eyepiece looks a bit high for you..or do you have a little step ladder?

[ving]

you guys look frozen in that picture!!:cold:

my first telescope was one of those cheap refractors too. It served me well for a couple of months till i bought my current one :)

[ballaratdragons]

Yes, it was freezing out here. :cold: Yes, dad did build a step ladder, but we only use it when it's to high! Hi Rajah, I saw one just like the one you had 15 years ago, in K-mart but I would doubt you would see very far with it! Dad read your letter and said the 114mm reflecter would probably be good for me too. I will have to learn how to look after it properly. :eyepop:

[RAJAH235]

Hi Arry & Jake, Yes, you will have to take good care of any t'scope that you buy. A t'scope is a small 'Time Machine' that takes you back to see things as they were, all those many hundreds & thousands of years ago. Ask your Dad to explain if you're not sure what I mean.
What's that? he chucked you off the computer, just so he could put some pics. in... The hide of the man! :P You'll just have to ask Dad/Mum for an increase in your pocket money, so you can save up & buy your own computer. :thumbsup:
Take care & rug up when you go outside.
Regards, L. :D

[ballaratdragons]

Hi Rarjah,(again) Anyway I've only got 5 cents in my money box and all the rest of my money is all in the bank.:ashamed:

And dad just laghed at my mesage. he said he is paying for my telescope. a computer is what he needs before i get a computer. yippee. :) Dad explaind what you mean, it means that it takes hundreds of thousods of years to get to earth :abduct: and we are seeing it when it left all that time ago. thats good.:)

[RAJAH235]

That's right. What you are seeing now may not exist in it's 'present state' anymore. I hope Dad's new job goes well, & he gets his new computer soon.
Stay warm. Regards, L. :D

[ballaratdragons]

Aaron here, Sorry about the waiting I didn't get time.Guess what :2thumbs: Dads making a thing to join our camera to the teloscope so we can take better asto pictures out of it. :work:

My brother is doing a project on teloscopes for the school science fair. :einstein:

[toetoe]

Hi Aaron,
Nice to see you back again, are you going to help dad with the "thing" he is making for the camera or are you going to supervise and see if he makes it right :)
Wish your brother all the best with his school project for me please.

[[1ponders]]

Boy I wish my son would have gotten excited about his science project. He was doing how stars evolve. I didn't find out about it 'til the night before it was due. Crazy kid, he could have had the best poster in the class but he just wasn't interested enough to ask for information. Is Jake making a telescope or is he just going to hide dad's in his bag for show and tell? :P:D

[asimov]

Hello Arry and Jake! Nice of you to drop in & say hi! Sorry I'm a bit late with this message. I'm really glad you like looking threw telescopes, it's a really good hobby!

All the best.

[toetoe]

Jake,
How are you going with your school science fair project? :atom: is dad giving you a helping hand?? ;)

[ving]

woohoo! I love science projects!! :D

good luckwith it :)