Calling all Astroholics!

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

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

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Originally Posted by Jen

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

yak yak yakkity yak

[h0ughy (David)]

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







































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

[Jen]

Originally Posted by dugnsuz

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

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

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

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 (Molly)]

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

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

You wax your dome.

Is that your head or your observatory???

[renormalised (Carl)]

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

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

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]

Originally Posted by Jen

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

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

[Jen]

Originally Posted by 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

well it was cloudy for some

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

You wax your dome.

Mmmmmm Waxy Dome...

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

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







































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

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

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

Cheers

Chris

[sheeny (Al)]

Al.

[austinstkong (Austin)]

Ha ha, I see my self slowly fulfilling these points

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 (Chris)]

You KNOW when you are an astroholic when:

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

Cheers

Chris

[multiweb (Marc)]

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

[shelltree (Shelley)]

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

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 (Brent)]

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 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by 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

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