Calling all Astroholics!

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

Steve, this is getting to be far, far, far too much information. You imagination (amongst other things) is certainly over-active. Calm down, have a cold shower, and go to bed.

Exactly what I thought AstralTraveller, although I am a "bit" more worried as to why Farrah Fawcett is still considered a pin up? Get out of the seventies Steve!

Some more for todays kick off:

* You have red lenses on your car headlights.

* There is liquid paper on your Pink Floyd Album cover which now correctly reads "The FAR Side Of The Moon"

* You actually have a Pink Floyd album cover

* You have to pay offset carbon footprint credits for your observatory power consumption.

* Hubble images start to seem "low resolution" to you.

* You have a Hydrogen Alpha filter on your 52" plasma TV

* You consider a 12" OTA on a EQ6 to be "Grab and Go"

* Your car's reversing camera has a correct image finderscope and takes darks and flats every alternate image.

And another way of putting Steve's Bintel line is:

* Your local telescope shop has a restraining order out on you.

I am sure there will be more.....

Chris

[Galactic G (Greg)]

* You've considered buying a Subaru just because you like the badge.

* You walk into a room with those glowing sticking stars on the roof and insist on rearranging them into proper constellations and magnitudes.

* Your telescopes have names.

* Every time you walk outside you look up to judge the seeing and transperency....even through the daytime.

[sheeny (Al)]

Originally Posted by erick

Thanks everyone - this is all sooooooo funny

That's because a lot of it's true, and that that isn't is awful close!

Al.

[AstralTraveller (David)]

I submit the following, all based on fact:

• Your astrophotos are published internationally
• NASA wants your astrophotos
• You make beautiful mirrors and telescopes
  
• You write astronomical software
  
• You have published your own set of star charts
• You have discovered dozens of comets
• You have discovered dozens of supernovae
• You make >10,000 variable star magnitude estimates each year
• You've traveled >500km to observe a grazing occultation
• You observed said occultation in the rain
• You've blown up you car's motor on the way to a graze and still made it to the event
• You run an astronomy website
• You have >1000 posts on said website
• You organise trips to solar eclipses
• You can starhop to DSOs all night without looking at a chart
• You can read a weather prediction and assess whether 'fine' means 'clear' or 'cloudy but not raining'.

[sheeny (Al)]

You know you're an astroholic when:

• Your children are named from eldest to youngest: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, etc
• You can find Venus and Jupiter during the daytime without consulting ephemerides.
• You keep binoculars beside the bed and sleep with the curtains open in case you wake up and the sky is clear.
• Your bathroom mirror is a front surface optical flat.
• You spend more time in the observatory than in the lounge room.

Al.

[varmint]

How about these (sorry I'm from the other side of the pond... in upside down land...):

*when you nearly bully you friends into buying a telescope just so you can spend the astrobucks they didn't know they had.
*when you provide said friends spreadsheets with a detailed bill of materials with costs, shipping, taxes and hyperlinks to the e-tails selling said gear
*when the first thing out of your kids mouths when you get home from work on a clear day is "Daddy? Are you going to look at stars tonight?"
*when you answer "Yes" and they yell to their mother, "looks like we're daddy-less tonight again mom!"
*when your husband/wife calls your telescope your "second husband/wife"
*when you grab your wife's wool sweater and wrap it around your head because your beanie is in the washing machine
*when you scare the c**p out of a neighbor walking their dog in the dark by slewing your GOTO scope as they unsuspectingly walk by your yard... on purpose

Ok, some are lame... but unfortunately for me all are true...

[TrevorW]

The only friend you have is the dog and they won't even stay out with you on a cold winters night

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

* Your neighbours hear you calling your dogs in for dinner "Here Schmidt, here Cassegrain"
Our dog's name is Canis Major. Major for short.

*Your frizbee has the constellations marked on it.
One of my doona covers has constellations printed on it, another has a Thunderbirds theme. NO, the children don't get to use the Thunderbirds one, that is MINE.


My name is Jeanette, and I'm an Astroholic.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

** When friends ask to see photos of your loved ones, you flip out your wallet and pics of Jupiter, Omega Centauri and M104 fall to the ground....

That happened last night at work, sort of. I have photos stored on the MP4, and I had to scroll through all the astro pics first to get to the other sorts of photos. You know the ones I mean, they have people in them, without comets or constellations in the background, and no scopes in the foreground.

[Ric]

Comet McNaught is the background picture on my mobile and I alternate it with the Eagle Nebula.

Cheers

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

* Your neighbours hear you calling your dogs in for dinner "Here Schmidt, here Cassegrain"
Our dog's name is Canis Major. Major for short.

*Your frizbee has the constellations marked on it.
One of my doona covers has constellations printed on it, another has a Thunderbirds theme. NO, the children don't get to use the Thunderbirds one, that is MINE.


My name is Jeanette, and I'm an Astroholic.

FAB Jeanette, Thunderbirds are GO!



Chris

[Jen]

LMAO these are so funny cause its true

Well when i get a good nite observing the sky till 5am hehe and i have to sneak into bed without waking the hubby up i cover up the clock or change it back to 1am

[joelkujala]

when it starts to rain as i'm driving my car, i start to see constellations appearing in the raindrops on my widscreen.

[sheeny (Al)]

Originally Posted by Screwdriverone

FAB Jeanette, Thunderbirds are GO!



Chris

OK... I'll fess up... I have 3 Thunderbirds DVDs... I need 3 more to make the set...

Al.

[Jen]

Originally Posted by joelkujala

when it starts to rain as i'm driving my car, i start to see constellations appearing in the raindrops on my widscreen.

I've done that too

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

this is so not me

man you people are sad

why are you not like normal folks watching TV -seen ACA or TT recently?

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

TV? watching TV?

I have too many: eating disorders/plastic surgery nightmares/bad service experiences/tenants from hell/Sydney's worst drivers/interest rate hikes/survivor stories/consumer ripoffs/"dancing with ice on the takes two stars got talent who can dance with big brother" problems to be watching TV!

I would rather bathe in a vat of honey and staple my nether regions to a flesh eating ants nest before watching ACA/TT again.

Astroholicism is the answer!

Praise the SCOPE!

Hallelujah!

Chris

[varmint]

These are pretty darn funny!

I thought of some more:

When you hear someone say "Obsession, for Men" in a department store and your first thought is "I didn't know they sold scopes here"

When you start planning events with your friends and telling them the time in UT (did I miss this one from before?)

When you start naming your online video game characters after stars (yes, I do this... but hey, no-one ever takes them so I don't have to do the "what do I name myself this time..." routine)

When you check the lunar phase or your CSC before agreeing to go out with your coworkers for a late night dinner party.

When you start telling your friends "Wow, seeing looks good today" instead of "nice weather we're having, eh?"

[sheeny (Al)]

Originally Posted by varmint

When you hear someone say "Obsession, for Men" in a department store and your first thought is "I didn't know they sold scopes here"

Al.

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Yes I had a chuckle at the Obsession one too!

Chris