[sheeny (Al)]

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? (You only need one!!!!)

Got any others?

Al.