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Old 30-08-2010, 03:01 PM
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Signs your an avid astronomer and may need help (feel free to add your own)

Signs you are a avid astronomer and may need help (if you think that is a problem that is).

1. You try to identify consterlations out the car window while driving home.

2. You can name the 50th most lumonous stars (both by apparent and absolute magnitude) but can't remember your childrens names.

3. You brought your house based on the level of light popultion and number of cloudy days in the area.

4. You salavate and fawn over a 6inch Triplet APO refractor and would rather spend the night with it then a scantly clad women (or man).

5. you can recite pi to 17 decimal places

6. people mistake you for a vampire but you say you only thirst for appature.

7. you can navagate at night without a compass.

8. you don't care who gets what in the divorce as long as you get the scope and the observatory.

9. you own a observatory.

10. you know people from NASA personally.

11. Your doctor recommends you spend some time tanning or you will get rickets.

12. You would sacrafice your left leg, right arm and entire family to live long enough to see a Supernova in this Galaxy and would throw in the other leg and arm if it was Eta carina.

13. you tell photoshop support that you have an idea for deconvolution that they should make standard in CS6.

14. you hate farmers and there pesky desire for rain.

15. wished you lived on the moons far side.

16. know the date of the next full moon/annual eclipse but can't remember when your wife's/husbands birthday is.

17. you timed your wedding so that you could honeymoon in the northen hemishpere at the right time for an object you wanted to image.

18. Your wife/husband/significant other once thought a date under the stars was romantice till you brought the C14-AF XLT.

19. you gave up on china and now grind your own mirrors.

20. you know pandora is for wimps ... your not a man till you sit up till 4am in minus 8 C because you forgot your freezer jacket but the viewing is to good and medical science can probably save your fingers from frost bite.

21. you have heard of the adaptive optics used in the Large Binocular telescopes and wonder if you could build your own or steal one from Arizona without anyone noticing.

22. you can relate to more then three things on this list so far.

feel free to add your own people.
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Old 30-08-2010, 03:21 PM
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You walk around the house at night with sun glasses on to keep dark adapted
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Old 30-08-2010, 03:26 PM
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You go on a bender when it's cloudy to drown your sorrows


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Old 30-08-2010, 03:33 PM
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You walk around the house at night with sun glasses on to keep dark adapted
Or a patch over the eye you use for observing...
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Old 30-08-2010, 04:11 PM
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Guilty of numbers 3, 7 & 10

Hopefully number 9 will happen soon.

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Old 30-08-2010, 04:29 PM
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You make all your social engagements after reference to the Lunar Calendar

Whenever you leave the house, you take your mini-giant binos...just in case.

Your wife notices that all your holiday suggestions are to places with no street lights. (and usually with no streets)

You need a bigger truck to transport all your gear to the next star party.

{guilty on all 4 charges }
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Old 30-08-2010, 04:39 PM
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How about asking your sister in-law to move the date of her childs christening as it fell on a new moon weekend?







And she complied
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Old 30-08-2010, 05:51 PM
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How about asking your sister in-law to move the date of her childs christening as it fell on a new moon weekend?







And she complied
Hahaha, nice one!

I've done the whole trying to identify constellations/planets whilst driving. Luckily it was a really quiet road because I'm pretty sure I was in the other lane for a bit there.

You're currently reading a book about Dark Matter

You've started watching a lecture on Newton's laws etc. and already have three pages of notes

You've almost watched all the available hubblecasts

Astronomy Picture of the Day is pinned in your "tabs"

You have 8 books "in your cart" on Amazon, all astronomy and physics related

When you go outside you don't even realise you're muttering to yourself the names of stars and constellations and are quite certain your family members hear you mumbling "waxing gibbous" and other such things while taking your washing off the line

You get more excited over finding DSO's through a telescope than anything else you can think of

Cloudy nights make you cranky
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Old 30-08-2010, 06:00 PM
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There's a few more signs and symptoms here:

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=33024



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Old 30-08-2010, 06:33 PM
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Cloudy nights make you cranky
Refractor discussions make everybody cranky on Cloudy Nights.

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Old 30-08-2010, 08:03 PM
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don't go to the inlaws for tea and havent for a while the skies always have something for me to see.thats my story and i'm sticking to it!!!!!
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Old 30-08-2010, 08:09 PM
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You travel far and wide to find the perfect (dark) retirement location. So far I have picked Maidenwell...... Ooooops I didn't say that.

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Old 30-08-2010, 08:10 PM
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Pack a 4" EQ Newt on your honeymoon.
Guilty !
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Old 30-08-2010, 08:14 PM
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Diabolically concoct a plan to blow/suck away all the clouds in the night.

Move the moon so it rises after 6am and sets before 6pm almost every single night of the year

Diabolically concoct a plan to combine plan 1 and 2 for the same night. MUHAHAHAHHAHA (lights dim, thunder crashes)
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Old 30-08-2010, 08:22 PM
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I know I need help!
I have started a mental list of every day nondescript objects that remind me of astronomical objects - I plan to take photos!

One example to highlight my condition - on the M5 heading towards the city there is a tar patch that looks like the 'horse head nebula'. I look for it every time I drive over it!

I have about 10 items.....who needs help?
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Old 30-08-2010, 08:45 PM
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Refractor discussions make everybody cranky on Cloudy Nights.

Touche!
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Old 30-08-2010, 08:48 PM
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Pack a 4" EQ Newt on your honeymoon.
Guilty !
and are you still married to the same woman
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Old 30-08-2010, 09:42 PM
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You travel far and wide to find the perfect (dark) retirement location. So far I have picked Maidenwell...... Ooooops I didn't say that.

Adrian
Ahhh! I LOVE Maidenwell !!!
Greatest Dark Skies !
Took the wife there on our vacation last year (as per point three on my earlier (confession) post !!
*(unfortunately she has no interest in anything astronomically related)
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Old 30-08-2010, 10:04 PM
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No, LOL, but it was during Haley comet.
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and are you still married to the same woman

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Old 30-08-2010, 10:08 PM
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-You know you're an astroholic.... when your idea of sexy time is hunting down Abell galaxy clusters in the -20C cold....instead of getting jiggy with it with your Miranda Kerr Look-alike girlfriend

-You know you're an astroholic.... when your dawgs invite you to a pub and shout you booze and hook you up with lap dances but you decline coz you want to stare at tiny near-invisible dust motes alone with dinner plate sized huntsman spiders and deadly redbacks for company coz you afraid that you'll bust a cap from the 100 cloudynights to follow

-You know you're an astroholic... when you hire an entire B-52 air wing to bomb your house coz it's obscuring your western sky even though you could've viewed those objects 2 months or 2 hours earlier

-You know you're an astroholic.... when you buy an SDM or Teeter so you can take it to the next star party and attempt hook in with astro chicks by flauting your hot sexy dob just like how fully sicks pick up by using their fully sik max bling bling cars

-You know you're an astroholic... when you put 50 finders on your scope cos you think it looks super badass

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