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Well boys, last night the sky here at 3133 was pretty clear. Moon was almost full, and had aligned itself perfectly with my driveway. Few people have asked me, why'd you get Bino's.. you just wasted money. Jump on the net instead and find a few pictures close up of the moon.
I can now happily say that i'd pay that amount of money again just for a 5 minute gaze. It was brilliant. Pictures from hubble, or any other scope for that matter don't do it justice. I could see the craters on the top right, and it was so bright. Hopefully the next few nights are clear as well, so I can show my father.
I can see now that when the moons out, how it dulls everything else. I'm not sure of the name, but the 3 stars aligned, with a handle above them (and one in the middle with a strange glow around it, not visible to the naked eye) was dimmer last night than usual.
I brought my chair out to stabilize and it worked very well (particularly because my driveway is slanted, and the positioning of the moon was perfect which allowed me to get on my knees for some leverage - however this will only work for objects ~45 degs from the ground (assuming directly up is 90)
When the budget allows, i'm definitely considering an amateur telescope (~$400.00 if possible) as I really wanted to zoom in more. Just something I can use to point and look at a little closer.
Long winded post yes, but I have to ask - to the right of the moon last night I saw a relatively bright star to the naked eye. However, when looking at it through the binoculars it was very red/orange. I'm colourblind-ish, but I got my brother to confirm it.
Mars? Or another star? If I remember, blue-ish tinged stars are the hottest, and red is a star towards the end of it's life cycle and very cool??
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