Calling all Astroholics!

[sheeny]

You know you’re an astroholic when:
The stools at your home bar are Stellar Observing Chairs.
Your outdoor furniture reclines, swivels, and has binocular mounts attached to the head of the chair/seat, and a gimballed drink holder on the armrest.
Your computer’s clock is set to 24 hour format universal time.
Your skin is a pale “moon tan” from sleeping during the day.
You have a red light in the kitchen so you can come inside to make a cup of tea or coffee without destroying your night vision.
Your umbrella stand is an old Newtonian telescope tube.
Your door stop is a counterweight.
You watch more NASA TV than movies.
You listen to more astronomy podcasts than music.
The back seat of your car has been replaced with a custom made scope cradle.
Your telescope is worth more than your car.
You plan your holidays around eclipses or shuttle launches.
Your letterbox is a pier mounted SCT with the corrector plate and mirror removed.
Your letterbox is polar aligned.
Your letterbox has Goto.
You use binoculars or a telescope to read your rain gauge.
You bought a cheap weather station to have an alternative interest when it’s cloudy.
You refuse to sleep if the sky is clear no matter how tired you are.
You own a 12V hair drier (and have short hair).
The ladder you clean out your gutters with is the one you use to view through the eyepiece of your dob.
You can see into the backyard 2 doors down if you look around when viewing through your dob.
Base jumpers queue to look through your dobsonian scope.
Birthday party photos are HDR processed, stacked, levelled, curved, deconvoluted, and high pass filtered to reveal the subtle details in the candle flames.
You spend more work time surfing Ice In Space and Cloudy Nights than working.
Your spouse calls you by your IIS or CN username.
Your garden shed has a roll off roof, but your mower rusts outside in the rain.
Police have approached you with large bright lights held out to the side, to see what you’re doing in the dark, and you refuse to open your eyes because it will spoil your night vision.
You have a parallelogram mount and large binoculars set up beside the outdoor spa.
Your frizbee has the constellations marked on it.
You have a spectra of your kitchen light.
Your computer has an afterimage of photoshop burned into the screen.
Your DSLR camera has a sticker: “My other camera is an SBIG”.Do you qualify?:P (You only need one!!!!)

Got any others?:D

Al.

[TrevorW]

Your know your an astroholic when you consume a bottle of red while observing or waiting for that phot session to end, then trip over your case drop your camera lens, thank the gods when it's not broken and vow never too drink again while observing.

:drink::D:stupid:

[erick]

Help, I ticked too many of those! :help:

[astroturf]

I think I could own up to a lot of those
but not the polar aligned letterbox :lol:
I;m having trouble just getting the telescope aligned
At present EVERY image I have ever taken is being Photoshopped :)

Bryan

[jjjnettie]

Birthday party photos are HDR processed, stacked, levelled, curved, deconvoluted, and high pass filtered to reveal the subtle details in the candle flames.

How did you know???
It's uncanny!!

[madtuna]

oh geez... I thought I was so clever putting a red bulb in my kitchen and my trips to the US are planned around the shuttle launches.

is there a self help group anywhere on here?

[Garyh]

Geesh...I`m in trouble too!
Have to tick a few of them..:help:
Including reading the rain gauge with the bino`s..lol

[leon]

Hmmm, yep, I could say yes to a few of those myself, and I suspect that every one of these would apply to one person or another at some time during their Astronomy years.

leon

[sheeny]

This is it, Steve! You are among friends...

We'll help you be the best astroholic you can be!:thumbsup:

BTW I must confess to being approached by 2 Police men one night while observing with binoculars at the local lookout. :lol: If only I was smart enough to close my eyes!:rofl:

Al.

[AstralTraveller]

I'll add a couple

You own a 2.5l thermos
Your most valuable item of clothing is a freezer suit
You keep forgetting that a 'newt' may be an amphibian
Friends know to only invite you around at full moon
You have >100 astronomy sites bookmarked
Your idea of eye relief isn't a sweet young thing (or, at least, that isn't how you usually use the term).Guilty on all counts. (Oh, OK, most counts:whistle:)

[madwayne]

Guilty of way too many of those and how about adding;
Having your favourite astro vendor/s on speed dial.

Great thread.

Cheers and beers.

[spearo]

hahahahaah
hilarious and so true , i've ticked off many

Myself and the better half (she actually agreed to this) have all of our monthly ADOs (Accrued Days Off) at work planned for the next year for Fridays closest to the New Moons so I can go to the observatory from Thursday nights.

it's sad but true....
frank

[sheeny]

Yep, yep, yep.... valid symptoms!:lol:

Al.

[sheeny]

I can relate to that! I don't remember doing exactly that but I have pretty much resolved not to drink and operate the scope. I remember a very frustrating session trying to show a friend how good my scope was but the goto wasn't gotoing very well, and my trouble shooting skills were inhibited by the alcohol... fortunately, he was drunk, so he didn't notice too much...:P I think I got away with it...:lol:

Al.

[Lester]

Yep, me to.

And loving it.

[spacezebra]

What does this mean!!! What are you trying to tell me!

Your computer’s clock is set to 24 hour format universal time. Yes
You watch more NASA TV than movies. Yes
You listen to more astronomy podcasts than music. Yes
You plan your holidays around eclipses or shuttle launches. (Plan holidays around Star Parties)
You bought a cheap weather station to have an alternative interest when it’s cloudy. Yes
You refuse to sleep if the sky is clear no matter how tired you are. Yes
You own a 12V hair drier (and have short hair). Yes
You spend more work time surfing Ice In Space and Cloudy Nights than working. Yes
Your spouse calls you by your IIS or CN username. Yes
Your frizbee has the constellations marked on it. No - My umbrella has constellations on it!:eyepop:
Cheers Petra d.

[sheeny]

You are an astroholic when:

You have a red light on top of your dob to warn aircraft.
You use a green laser pointer for Powerpoint presentations.
You read ephemerides more than the newspaper.
The rear window of your car has a centre spot so you can collimate the rear view mirror.
Your sleep is broken into 2 or more sleep periods based around astronomical events or imaging runs.
You cringe when someone mentions a shooting star, and then nonchalantly name the meteor shower it belongs to.
You surf Google Earth when bored looking for launch sites, observatories, or impact craters.
You've visited Coonabarabran while on holiday.
You eat dinner before astronomical twilight is finished.
You take batteries out of your torch to make your laser pointer work.
You close your eyes while working on your scope during the day.Al.

[sheeny]

Wow!:eyepop: Now that's a serious symptom!:D

Al.

[spacezebra]

You use a green laser pointer for Powerpoint presentations. Yes
You read ephemerides more than the newspaper. Yes
You cringe when someone mentions a shooting star, and then nonchalantly name the meteor shower it belongs to. Yes
You surf Google Earth when bored looking for launch sites, observatories, or impact craters. Yes
You've visited Coonabarabran while on holiday. Yes - in January!!!!
You take batteries out of your torch to make your laser pointer work. No - took batteries out of torch for the fan on my scope!This is really scary - Is there an association that I can call for this ailment? Which Dr can I call?

Cheers Petra d.

[Screwdriverone]

I just came up with a few myself,

What about when:

* You drive down the M4 and wonder where the Antares turn off is?

* Your favourite beer glass is FPL51 ED with a 2x barlow built into the bottom

* On a clear night, you gaze up, see a satellite and refer to it by name.

* You get PMT every two months just before the AS&T is due in the letterbox (Pre Magazine Tension)

* On clear nights the neighbours see you outside with two sets of binoculars, a laser pointer and a massive telescope and no longer call the police or bother to close their blinds when getting undressed.

* You wonder why the kids school photos dont have "diffraction spikes" in them.

* You scour the Crazy John's and Telstra Shops looking for a mobile phone with a 6MP modded long exposure camera with T-thread and IR filter removed with peltier cooling and has a Vixen style dovetail bar as an option.

I am sure I will come up with more..... ;)

Cheers

Chris

[PhilW]

- You own a hair dryer (and have NO hair, at least none worth mentioning). :whistle:

ps just want to make clear that's my son in my avatar pic, not me; he has plenty of hair, which I threaten to steal on a regular basis.

[sheeny]

Ah, yes!:lol:

Of course!;)

Al.

[Screwdriverone]

Classic AL, the centre spot on the back window :lol: :lol:

Sorry to say I am still laughing at my beer glass one.....

Oooh, here's another one:

* When friends ask to see photos of your loved ones, you flip out your wallet and pics of Jupiter, Omega Centauri and M104 fall to the ground....

* The spy eye in your front door has a cheshire cross hair in it.

* Your shaving mirror is BK7 with better than 1/12 wave dispersion.

Chris

[Screwdriverone]

And finally (for now) anyway,

* You punch the air and celebrate when you crack every milestone for posting on IIS.

(yes this is my 300th post)

Woooohooooooo - High FIVE!


Cheers

Chris

[sheeny]

You are an astroholic when:

You own more than one jump starter pack and you're not a mechanic.
You know NGC4755, M42 and M45 are the Jewel Box, The Great Orion Nebula and the Pleiades respectively.
Your laptop computer has water marks on it.
You use astro and image processing software more than MS Office.
You own more than one camera, scope and/or binoculars.
You know what time the GRS will transit tonight based on last night's observations alone.
You know at least 3 ways to find the SCP or NCP from other asterisms.
You know what spectral class the sun is.
You have fingerless black woolen gloves.
When you see the first star at night you assess the seeing and transparency rather than make a wish.Al.

[sheeny]

:rofl:Very good! I don't drink beer but I can imagine a Powermate shot glass!

Al.

[Matty P]

:lol::lol::lol:

An absolute classic!

[Screwdriverone]

Ha ha ha ha,

Is this another reason to consider yourself an astroholic, constantly checking the IIS website to add to the astroholic thread that Sheeny started?

* You run out of petrol in your car after travelling an extra 70km out of your way on the Motorways after leaving work just so you can boast that you saw 4 Messier objects on the way home (M5, M7, M2 and M4)

* Your neighbours hear you calling your dogs in for dinner "Here Schmidt, here Cassegrain"

* Your next child's name is going to be Ritchey Chretien ..........

* You fondly call your wife's G string tan line in summer the "Cassini Division"

thank you, thank you very much, I am here all week, try the veal.....

Cheers

Chris

[Screwdriverone]

Originally Posted by Screwdriverone
* When friends ask to see photos of you loved ones, you flip out your wallet and pics of Jupiter, Omega Centauri and M104 fall to the ground....


Funnily enough Matty, when I thought of that one, I was thinking of you. :rofl:

Chris

[sheeny]

Definitely!;)

:rofl:The Messier Marathon drive!

I immediately thought "Sirius" and "Procyon"...



You're on fire, Chris!:lol:

Al.

[wavelandscott]

Funny funny thread!

Guilty!!!

[Screwdriverone]

I'm not finished yet! :D

* Your local council sets up a task force and posts security guards at the end of your street to catch the "roaming gangs of teenagers" who keep smashing all the street lights in your area.

* You leave so many copies of astronomy magazines around your bedroom, your wife starts thinking Sir Patrick Moore is "hot"

* You let your boss think you are surfing porn at work when you are really checking the ICE TRADE Classifieds for some HOT deals.

* When all of your workmates stand around the water cooler complaining how its raining all week because some bugger washed his car, when you really know its because someone in your area has just taken delivery of his/her new telescope.

* You and your mates all go to the Footy Grand Final in your IIS beanies (still waiting on the IIS beer cooler Mike!)

* You keep a few endangered species in your backyard shed so that everytime one of the neighbours tries to start building their house on the vacant block of land next to yours, you lob one over the fence and call GreenPeace who delays the building for six months while they "rehabilitate" the critter.

and probably the number one reason you know your are an Astroholic is when:

* You wash your primary mirror more than your car!

Cheers for now

Chris

[Ric]

Guilty of a few of them.:whistle:

Ok, maybe more than a few.:P

I really like the letterbox idea though.:confuse3:

Cheers

[AstralTraveller]

You wash your car? It rains in Sydney doesn't it? When it rains mine gets washed inside and out.

[AlexN]

im guilty of so many....

How bout this..

When the total cost of all your equipment could feed a family for over a year.

You get up and leave a table in a restaurant mid meal to zap outside quickly to watch the IIS flyover (I did this last brisbane pass :) )

[Screwdriverone]

Hi Alex,

Dont you mean ISS? :lol:

One last one from me before I head to bed.

* When you sneak around the neighbourhood during the day rewiring all the Foxtel dishes so that when the neighbours all turn their TV's off at night, they all automatically turn into a VLA (Very Large Array) to make a 3km telescope

Ok, so I am tired, sue me

Chris

[AlexN]

Chris.. Yes, I did mean ISS...

Suppose you could add...

*you confuse your astro-acronyms due to there being too many of them stored in your melon..

[AstralTraveller]

Steve, this is getting to be far, far, far too much information. You imagination (amongst other things) is certainly over-active. Calm down, have a cold shower, and go to bed.

[AlexN]

Or a A0 print of a RCOS 32" scope on a paramount with a 12mp OSC CCD imager in a fully motorized dome observatory.. mmmmmmm ttooooooysss!!

[erick]

Thanks everyone - this is all sooooooo funny :rofl:

[Screwdriverone]

Exactly what I thought AstralTraveller, although I am a "bit" more worried as to why Farrah Fawcett is still considered a pin up? Get out of the seventies Steve!

Some more for todays kick off:

* You have red lenses on your car headlights.

* There is liquid paper on your Pink Floyd Album cover which now correctly reads "The FAR Side Of The Moon"

* You actually have a Pink Floyd album cover

* You have to pay offset carbon footprint credits for your observatory power consumption.

* Hubble images start to seem "low resolution" to you.

* You have a Hydrogen Alpha filter on your 52" plasma TV

* You consider a 12" OTA on a EQ6 to be "Grab and Go"

* Your car's reversing camera has a correct image finderscope and takes darks and flats every alternate image.

And another way of putting Steve's Bintel line is:

* Your local telescope shop has a restraining order out on you.

I am sure there will be more..... :lol:

Chris

[Galactic G]

* You've considered buying a Subaru just because you like the badge.

* You walk into a room with those glowing sticking stars on the roof and insist on rearranging them into proper constellations and magnitudes.

* Your telescopes have names.

* Every time you walk outside you look up to judge the seeing and transperency....even through the daytime.

[sheeny]

That's because a lot of it's true, and that that isn't is awful close!;):D

Al.

[AstralTraveller]

I submit the following, all based on fact:

Your astrophotos are published internationally
NASA wants your astrophotos
You make beautiful mirrors and telescopes

You write astronomical software

You have published your own set of star charts
You have discovered dozens of comets
You have discovered dozens of supernovae
You make >10,000 variable star magnitude estimates each year
You've traveled >500km to observe a grazing occultation
You observed said occultation in the rain
You've blown up you car's motor on the way to a graze and still made it to the event
You run an astronomy website
You have >1000 posts on said website
You organise trips to solar eclipses
You can starhop to DSOs all night without looking at a chart
You can read a weather prediction and assess whether 'fine' means 'clear' or 'cloudy but not raining'.

[sheeny]

You know you're an astroholic when:
Your children are named from eldest to youngest: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, etc
You can find Venus and Jupiter during the daytime without consulting ephemerides.
You keep binoculars beside the bed and sleep with the curtains open in case you wake up and the sky is clear.
Your bathroom mirror is a front surface optical flat.
You spend more time in the observatory than in the lounge room.Al.

[varmint]

How about these (sorry I'm from the other side of the pond... in upside down land...):

*when you nearly bully you friends into buying a telescope just so you can spend the astrobucks they didn't know they had.
*when you provide said friends spreadsheets with a detailed bill of materials with costs, shipping, taxes and hyperlinks to the e-tails selling said gear
*when the first thing out of your kids mouths when you get home from work on a clear day is "Daddy? Are you going to look at stars tonight?"
*when you answer "Yes" and they yell to their mother, "looks like we're daddy-less tonight again mom!"
*when your husband/wife calls your telescope your "second husband/wife"
*when you grab your wife's wool sweater and wrap it around your head because your beanie is in the washing machine
*when you scare the c**p out of a neighbor walking their dog in the dark by slewing your GOTO scope as they unsuspectingly walk by your yard... on purpose

Ok, some are lame... but unfortunately for me all are true...

[TrevorW]

The only friend you have is the dog and they won't even stay out with you on a cold winters night

[jjjnettie]

* Your neighbours hear you calling your dogs in for dinner "Here Schmidt, here Cassegrain"
Our dog's name is Canis Major. Major for short.

*Your frizbee has the constellations marked on it.
One of my doona covers has constellations printed on it, another has a Thunderbirds theme. NO, the children don't get to use the Thunderbirds one, that is MINE. :D


My name is Jeanette, and I'm an Astroholic.

[jjjnettie]

** When friends ask to see photos of your loved ones, you flip out your wallet and pics of Jupiter, Omega Centauri and M104 fall to the ground....

That happened last night at work, sort of. I have photos stored on the MP4, and I had to scroll through all the astro pics first to get to the other sorts of photos. You know the ones I mean, they have people in them, without comets or constellations in the background, and no scopes in the foreground.

[Ric]

Comet McNaught is the background picture on my mobile and I alternate it with the Eagle Nebula.

Cheers

[Screwdriverone]

FAB Jeanette, Thunderbirds are GO!

;)

Chris

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol::lol: LMAO these are so funny cause its true :thumbsup:

Well when i get a good nite observing the sky till 5am hehe and i have to sneak into bed without waking the hubby up i cover up the clock or change it back to 1am :D:P
:jump2:

[joelkujala]

when it starts to rain as i'm driving my car, i start to see constellations appearing in the raindrops on my widscreen.

[sheeny]

OK... I'll fess up... I have 3 Thunderbirds DVDs... I need 3 more to make the set...:rolleyes::whistle:

Al.

[Jen]

:rofl::rofl::rofl:
I've done that too
:ashamed:

[seeker372011]

this is so not me

man you people are sad

why are you not like normal folks watching TV -seen ACA or TT recently?

[Screwdriverone]

TV? watching TV?

I have too many: eating disorders/plastic surgery nightmares/bad service experiences/tenants from hell/Sydney's worst drivers/interest rate hikes/survivor stories/consumer ripoffs/"dancing with ice on the takes two stars got talent who can dance with big brother" problems to be watching TV!

I would rather bathe in a vat of honey and staple my nether regions to a flesh eating ants nest before watching ACA/TT again.

Astroholicism is the answer!

Praise the SCOPE!

Hallelujah!

Chris ;)

[varmint]

These are pretty darn funny!

I thought of some more:

When you hear someone say "Obsession, for Men" in a department store and your first thought is "I didn't know they sold scopes here"

When you start planning events with your friends and telling them the time in UT (did I miss this one from before?)

When you start naming your online video game characters after stars (yes, I do this... but hey, no-one ever takes them so I don't have to do the "what do I name myself this time..." routine)

When you check the lunar phase or your CSC before agreeing to go out with your coworkers for a late night dinner party.

When you start telling your friends "Wow, seeing looks good today" instead of "nice weather we're having, eh?"

[sheeny]

:lol::thumbsup:

Al.

[Screwdriverone]

Yes I had a chuckle at the Obsession one too! :lol:

Chris

[joelkujala]

yeah thunderbirds rule ,and team america was a poor crass ripoff ,i wonder what the original actors from tbirds are doing now ???? hope there not just hanging around in a closet somewhere .!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: :lol:
i love this thread

:2thumbs:

[Jen]

When you have the constellations on your mobile phone as a screen saver :D:P

[kinetic]

Hi all,

Very funny thread that I have just read.
I'm guilty of this one that I can add:

You find yourself constantly fending off accusations from the wife
about the run-down state of the house and yard and it causes an
argument where you say, "well I don't have any bloody time these
days!", whereby you retire to cool off in your backyard observatory,
featuring every comfort and aesthetic improvement known to man,
the sweet smell of fresh paint, in a tranquil setting at the end of
a row of very well laid pavers.

Steve :D

[sheeny]

You know you're an astroholic when:

You leave notes on the fridge in Dreyer abbreviations
You practice estimating star magnitudes with oncoming car headlights
You can swear in Dreyer abbreviations
You read notes on the fridge in Dreyer abbreviations and know what it means
You have written Dreyer abbreviations as part of your message inside a card (birthday, farewell, etc) to a fellow astroholic
You don't bother turning the kitchen/bathroom light on when you get up in the middle of the night because you don't want to destroy your night vision in case you want to have a quick look outside before going back to bed

[vash]

- you enter go-to commands into your TV remote

[renormalised]

-you pull single frames from your favourite DVD movie, calibrate, stack them and then run a LR deconvolution filter over them before exporting that to PS for further work.

-pressing the arrow buttons on your remote, you expect your TV to slew to the appropriate RA and DEC co-ordinates

-you've subscribed to the "Astro-Channel" on your Pay TV service.

[AlexN]

- iis is your homepage and takes up 90% of your web browsers history
- You think a night is ruined because of cloud cover, no matter what your plans were
- You spend more of your wage on astro-toys than food.
- You live a nocturnal life.
- You set your alarm to wake you up for astro events (GRS transits, occulations etc.)

[Glenhuon]

I'm with you Chris :thumbsup:

Bill

[kinetic]

Oh and here's another.

My beautiful daughter, apple of my eye, I will always remember her birthday.
It was the day after the Dec 2002 solar eclipse.
I could have driven to Ceduna that day.... but I had to stay in Adelaide
because my wife was being induced the next day. True story. :doh:

Steve

[varmint]

Tell me if I've pushed this one a little too far...

* You hear "Red Light District" and think, "wow must be a cool astro-friendly community"

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol:
that one made me think that the town would be full of hookers hahaha ;)

[jjjnettie]

*you never worry about getting lost at night because you can navigate by the stars and planets
*you can tell the time by the stars and planets
*you buy childrens colouring in books on space because they have astro stickers in them, and your children are grown up.
*A true Astrofem never wears makeup, day or night, because you never ever know when you'll be looking through an eyepiece.

[gaa_ian]

Yes, multiple ticks on those or variations of them, as well as:
* Had no astronomy friends in town, so I started my own Astronomy Club (GAA).
* Still not enough, so I was the event organizer for a science fair http://www.nightskysecrets.com/blog/archives/2007_08_01_index.html
* Thought more people needed to hear about astronomy and science , so I start my own science radio show.
* Science radio show had too small a listening audience, so I set up a podcasting site http://www.askthescienceguru.com to get the message out to the world

:screwy: :help: :D

[Jen]

when you get home from work and you check your emails and you have 29 emails today in your Inbox and they are all from IceInSpace :lol::lol::lol::lol:
:D

[Jen]

just checking in for my daily post fix :lol:

[jungle11]

I live on a property so i'll add this:)

"Considered chainsawing all the trees within 100 metres of the house!

They're worst to the east, wouldn't you know it, so i have to wait precious time for constellations to rise into my FOV!

Grrrrr:mad2:

[Jen]

(jen passes the chainsaw over to Greg) :thumbsup:

[andrewk_82]

My trees are in the neigbours yard. I wonder if they would notice if they went missing :shrug:?

[sheeny]

Aaaaahhhhh! I seeeee!;)

The dark tracksuit and balaclava is not for keeping warm while observing.... it for sabotaging the neighbour's trees under the cover of darkness...

:wink2:

A sign of a true astroholic!

Al.

[Jen]

BUMP :whistle::whistle::whistle:
This is the funniest thread so i had to re-live it again
:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

[Baddad]

Hey Jen, :)

BUMP :whistle::whistle::whistle:
This is the funniest thread so i had to re-live it again

I had just finished reading the same thread. It was before my time.
Some of it is very good. All worth reading.

Well done Sheeny (Al)

Cheers Marty

[Inmykombi]

You know you are an ASTROHOLIC when:

You consult star Maps when fitting " glow in the dark stars " to your kids bedroom ceiling just to make sure they are correct representations of the real thing.

Also:
when you are too tired to get the scope out for a quick fix, but you fall asleep on the kids trampoline, binos in hand, and wake up when a possum starts sniffing you to see if you are food or not.

Also:
Standing in flash rain shower holding a cover over your scope.... while you get soaking wet.

See ya

Geoffro.

[dugnsuz]

Bugger, I'm one...

You own a 12V hair drier (and have short hair).

You spend more work time surfing Ice In Space and Cloudy Nights than working.

Och well!! Accept it, I'm a Nerd!!!
Doug

[Deeno]

oops....!!!
Sorry.
Misread thread title

Hic..!!...!

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol:LMAO yes i have fallen asleep on the trampoiline while waiting for jupiter to come up :whistle::whistle:
:zzz2::zzz2::zzz2::zzz2:
and waken up only to be eaten alive by mozzies :doh:

[Inmykombi]

Yes I am guilty many times Jen.
Once I even managed to hit myself in the nose with the binos at the moment of conciousness / un-conciousness....that kept me awake for a while after that.

Geoffro.

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol::lol: lol thats funny :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[astroron]

When you travel 3000kms to an Astrocamp:screwy:

[marc4darkskies]

My name is Marcus ..... and I'm an astroholic. Here is my testimony ...
You'd rather die than throw away a single Sky & telescope Magazine
All your Sky & Telescope Magazines are stored neatly into magazine holders and sorted by month & year
You begin to think Star Trek techno-babble sounds plausible
You get reeeeeeeally annoyed with friends that think you're an astrologer
You're bemused when people ask how far you can see with your telescope
You feel that Discovery Channel astro documentaries are waaaay too elementary
You've said at least once - not tonight dear, it's a new moon night
You curse & swear when your guiding is off by more than one pixel
You're inconsolable when you have to throw away one sub-exposure
You think the clouds are deliberately working against youMarcus

[Jen]

:eyepop: well i havnt done that YET :lol::lol:
but i have booked my accomodation for the solar eclipse in Queensland in 2012 :whistle::whistle:

[h0ughy]

thats an everyday thing Ron.......:whistle:

[h0ughy]

ooohhhh i thought it was a tad too early for that, but next year or have i left my run too late:whistle: and you have booked out everything:P

[astroron]

That was for one night Dave :rolleyes:

[Jen]

:lol::lol: yep i booked out the whole lot im taking my emoticons with me :rofl::rofl:

[jjjnettie]

2012 is going to be a blast!

[h0ughy]

wow - everything is so true - and one more to add is that the wife doesn't understand the need to look at new gear or that after months of cloudy nights even imaging a full moon is an option:whistle:

[Glenhuon]

[quote=marc4darkskies;432760]My name is Marcus ..... and I'm an astroholic. Here is my testimony ...
You'd rather die than throw away a single Sky & telescope Magazine
All your Sky & Telescope Magazines are stored neatly into magazine holders and sorted by month & year
You begin to think Star Trek techno-babble sounds plausible
Well it is, is'nt it :)

You get reeeeeeeally annoyed with friends that think you're an astrologer
and newsagents that put the Astronomy mags in with the New Age stuff.

You're bemused when people ask how far you can see with your telescope
Yep, hard one to answer that. How many of us can relate to a light year or thousand :)

You feel that Discovery Channel astro documentaries are waaaay too elementary
OMG, I got it bad

You've said at least once - not tonight dear, it's a new moon night
Nope, never gone that far

You curse & swear when your guiding is off by more than one pixel
I should be so lucky
You're inconsolable when you have to throw away one sub-exposure
What! never :)
You think the clouds are deliberately working against you
O course they do, but its karma :)Bill

[h0ughy]

very true Ron - but man what a night:thumbsup:

[Inmykombi]

Cant wait to see the eclipse in 2012
I better book now also..

It would be nice to get together with a lot of other " Ice-in Space-ers"
and have a blast of a time.



Also, youn know when you are an Astroholic.....when your wife asks you to watch the road instead of the Stars while driving at night....
( I have tried the Navigation excuse too many times now )

Geoffro.

[sheeny]

You know you're an astroholic when:


you tell people at dinner parties you have a PHD in astronomy, but you're just referring to your guiding software...
you use the fact that you have a PHD in astronomy to regularly leave the table at dinner parties to look at the sky outside...
your underwear brand isn't "Rio" is "Lostock"...

Al.

[sheeny]

You know you're an astroholic when:


your favourite fruit are oranges cause they look like the sun in H alpha...
you pick oranges with black spots on the skin cause they look like and active sun...
you can look at an orange with black spots on it and correctly guess the julian date of when the sun had spots in the same position...

Al.

[jjjnettie]

It's been a bit cloudy down your way Al???

[sheeny]

How'd you guess? Are they that thick you can see them from there?:P

Al.

[jjjnettie]

My own clouds are blocking the view to your clouds Al.
sigh.....
I tired of doing repro's on old data.

[sheeny]

You know you're an astroholic when you have your own clouds!

;)

Al.

[h0ughy]

You know you are an astroholic when after getting rid of the family for a week on new moon it rains...

[mental4astro]

You know when you're an astroholic when you can match car number plates to its corresponding NGC, Messier, IC catalogue numbers and recite the objects details! All whilst driving, ;).

[pgc hunter]

When you go to sleep on a clear night and then it takes you a week to live it down.

[TrevorW]

You know your an Astroholic when you consume a bottle of Red waiting for the image run to finish

[AstralTraveller]

Ahhh but there are no clear nights in Melbourne - so that can't be an issue. :)

[mithrandir]

The NGC objects with our rego numbers are visible, one in Aries, one in Tucana. The IC objects aren't. Mum has a 6 digit all numeric and Simbad won't give me a match out of SAO or Hyperleda.

[Ian Robinson]

Can't remember the last night here when there weren't clouds everywhere or it wasn't rainy overnight.

So much rain , I needed to select 4WD to get out of my backyard yesterday.

Gotta spend more time at Astroholic.com , been a while since I looked in.

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol:

When its neally 3:30am and the sky is so clear that you wanna wake up the whole household just to tell them that :rofl:

[alan meehan]

HI i love this thread ticked yes to them all
just a few more

#Retiring from work life early so you can do more observing
#Marking star partys on the calender instead of holidays
#watching tv shows when its cloudy when a night shot comes on you check out the constellations and star positions.

WE DONT NEED HELP EVERYONE ELSE IS SICK

AL

[jjjnettie]

You know you're an Astroholic.......
when you're concentrating so hard on your PHD graph, you don't notice the web a spider is building between the bridge of your glasses and the top of your monitor.
sigh........

[M54]

You know you're an astroholic when you are so absorbed at the eyepiece that you forget to eat or drink...............and then hubby brings you a hot cup of tea!!! :love: :drink: :astron:

[M54]

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

[TrevorW]

You know you are an astroholic when you are too engrossed to visit the indoor loo during an image session

[Jen]

:) When you go into an Astro chat room till 3:30am :lol:

[dugnsuz]

You know you're an astroholic after ploughing through 6 pages of this thread

[jjjnettie]

yak yak yakkity yak :P

[h0ughy]

We pause for a few more photon moments................







































bugger is that the sun rising............................. ........

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol:

[marc4darkskies]

You ponder for ages trying to think of new ways to prove you're an astroholic ...................... hmmmmmmmmmmmm .................

Yes, I know:

You spend over $500 just to send your mount back to Japan for repair :sadeyes:

You shut the curtains on a perfectly glorious day so that you can process your latest image in the dark.

You wax your dome.

You take an inordinate number of photographs of your telescope from every conceivable angle

You think a perfectly white, glaring blister in your back yard is beautiful

At night you get a kick out of seeing all the pretty lights from the equipment in your observatory

You love the sound of your mount when it slews

[M54]

Is that your head or your observatory???:lol::lol::lol:

[renormalised]

You're an astroholic when you do something crazy like a masters degree in the subject...or worse, a PhD:):P

[jjjnettie]

When every single image hanging on the wall of your home is Astro/Space related.
LOLOL
The only human (?) photo hanging up in my house is an autographed piccie of the "Cat" from "Red Dwarf".

[pgc hunter]

You know you're an astroholic when you'd rather be chatting to other astroholics at 3.30am about astroholism rather than actually joining them under the stars :lol:

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol: well it was cloudy for some :rofl:

[dugnsuz]

Mmmmmm Waxy Dome...

[Screwdriverone]

When you look at Houghy's post and think......

hmmmm......I could probably use that as a flat frame

Cheers

Chris

[sheeny]

:rofl:

Al.

[austinstkong]

Ha ha, I see my self slowly fulfilling these points:D

Here's one:
You know you're an astroholic when you won't mind the bank repossessing your house and car as long as you get to keep your observatory and scopes.

[Screwdriverone]

You KNOW when you are an astroholic when:

You have all of Al's applications on your computer. ;)

Cheers

Chris

[multiweb]

When you're indoors taking pictures of your artificial star when the clouds are rollin'.... :nerd: ... no I'm not.. I know this guy...who knows this bloke...

[shelltree]

You know you're an astroholic when...you've already named your telescope and you haven't even purchased it yet :P :whistle:

You lug the Ultimate visual guide to the universe book to work and back so you can read about atoms and radiation in your lunch break (even though it doesn't seem to make much sense at the moment...)

[ZeroID]

You sit at work at your computer with a small hacksaw marking up, cutting and fabricating square alum tube for the spider on your 10 project Dob ..... true.

Amazing what you can do with quite limited tools and resources when you apply all your old engineering background to the problem. And still run the Helpdesk and build PC's at the same time.

[steve000]

Mums place in the country is like this 1 big tree in the north the rest in the east. I have asked her if I can "Modify" the trees.....

Another one there is only 2 weeks in a month where the moon is setting early rising late, its the only time I see my mum presuming she comes outside with me, if its raining, im planning next weekend and showing her how to use stellarium.

Its 2am you only offer to help clean the yard up if mum comes out with you till 2am as well in 0deg temps.

Good ole mums what would you do without them;)