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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Hahaha, nice one!
