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Old 09-07-2010, 07:31 AM
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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"...
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Old 09-07-2010, 07:38 AM
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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...
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Old 09-07-2010, 08:24 AM
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It's been a bit cloudy down your way Al???
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Old 09-07-2010, 09:20 AM
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How'd you guess? Are they that thick you can see them from there?

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Old 09-07-2010, 09:27 AM
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My own clouds are blocking the view to your clouds Al.
sigh.....
I tired of doing repro's on old data.
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Old 09-07-2010, 09:34 AM
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You know you're an astroholic when you have your own clouds!



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Old 09-07-2010, 09:41 AM
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You know you are an astroholic when after getting rid of the family for a week on new moon it rains...
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Old 09-07-2010, 10:52 AM
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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, .
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Old 09-07-2010, 01:05 PM
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When you go to sleep on a clear night and then it takes you a week to live it down.
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Old 09-07-2010, 01:22 PM
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You know your an Astroholic when you consume a bottle of Red waiting for the image run to finish
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Old 09-07-2010, 04:27 PM
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When you go to sleep on a clear night and then it takes you a week to live it down.
Ahhh but there are no clear nights in Melbourne - so that can't be an issue.
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Old 09-07-2010, 05:00 PM
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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, .
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.
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Old 10-07-2010, 12:12 PM
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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.
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Old 11-07-2010, 03:21 AM
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When its neally 3:30am and the sky is so clear that you wanna wake up the whole household just to tell them that
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Old 11-07-2010, 08:02 AM
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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

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Old 18-07-2010, 08:51 AM
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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........
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Old 18-07-2010, 11:29 AM
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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!!!
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Old 18-07-2010, 11:31 AM
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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........
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Old 21-07-2010, 05:40 PM
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You know you are an astroholic when you are too engrossed to visit the indoor loo during an image session
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Old 21-07-2010, 09:15 PM
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When you go into an Astro chat room till 3:30am
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