Calling all Astroholics!

[joelkujala]

yeah thunderbirds rule ,and team america was a poor crass ripoff ,i wonder what the original actors from tbirds are doing now ???? hope there not just hanging around in a closet somewhere .!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jen]

i love this thread

[Jen]

When you have the constellations on your mobile phone as a screen saver

[kinetic (Steve)]

Hi all,

Very funny thread that I have just read.
I'm guilty of this one that I can add:

You find yourself constantly fending off accusations from the wife
about the run-down state of the house and yard and it causes an
argument where you say, "well I don't have any bloody time these
days!", whereby you retire to cool off in your backyard observatory,
featuring every comfort and aesthetic improvement known to man,
the sweet smell of fresh paint, in a tranquil setting at the end of
a row of very well laid pavers.

Steve

[sheeny (Al)]

You know you're an astroholic when:

• You leave notes on the fridge in Dreyer abbreviations
• You practice estimating star magnitudes with oncoming car headlights
• You can swear in Dreyer abbreviations
• You read notes on the fridge in Dreyer abbreviations and know what it means
• You have written Dreyer abbreviations as part of your message inside a card (birthday, farewell, etc) to a fellow astroholic
• You don't bother turning the kitchen/bathroom light on when you get up in the middle of the night because you don't want to destroy your night vision in case you want to have a quick look outside before going back to bed

[vash (Ashley)]

- you enter go-to commands into your TV remote

[renormalised (Carl)]

-you pull single frames from your favourite DVD movie, calibrate, stack them and then run a LR deconvolution filter over them before exporting that to PS for further work.

-pressing the arrow buttons on your remote, you expect your TV to slew to the appropriate RA and DEC co-ordinates

-you've subscribed to the "Astro-Channel" on your Pay TV service.

[AlexN]

- iis is your homepage and takes up 90% of your web browsers history
- You think a night is ruined because of cloud cover, no matter what your plans were
- You spend more of your wage on astro-toys than food.
- You live a nocturnal life.
- You set your alarm to wake you up for astro events (GRS transits, occulations etc.)

[Glenhuon (Bill)]

Originally Posted by Screwdriverone

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

I'm with you Chris

Bill

[kinetic (Steve)]

Oh and here's another.

My beautiful daughter, apple of my eye, I will always remember her birthday.
It was the day after the Dec 2002 solar eclipse.
I could have driven to Ceduna that day.... but I had to stay in Adelaide
because my wife was being induced the next day. True story.

Steve

[varmint]

Tell me if I've pushed this one a little too far...

* You hear "Red Light District" and think, "wow must be a cool astro-friendly community"

[Jen]

Originally Posted by varmint

Tell me if I've pushed this one a little too far...

* You hear "Red Light District" and think, "wow must be a cool astro-friendly community"

that one made me think that the town would be full of hookers hahaha

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

*you never worry about getting lost at night because you can navigate by the stars and planets
*you can tell the time by the stars and planets
*you buy childrens colouring in books on space because they have astro stickers in them, and your children are grown up.
*A true Astrofem never wears makeup, day or night, because you never ever know when you'll be looking through an eyepiece.

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

Yes, multiple ticks on those or variations of them, as well as:
* Had no astronomy friends in town, so I started my own Astronomy Club (GAA).
* Still not enough, so I was the event organizer for a science fair http://www.nightskysecrets.com/blog/..._01_index.html
* Thought more people needed to hear about astronomy and science , so I start my own science radio show.
* Science radio show had too small a listening audience, so I set up a podcasting site http://www.askthescienceguru.com to get the message out to the world

[Jen]

when you get home from work and you check your emails and you have 29 emails today in your Inbox and they are all from IceInSpace

[Jen]

just checking in for my daily post fix

[jungle11 (Greg)]

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

[Jen]

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

(jen passes the chainsaw over to Greg)

[andrewk_82 (Andrew)]

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

My trees are in the neigbours yard. I wonder if they would notice if they went missing ?

[sheeny (Al)]

Originally Posted by andrewk_82

My trees are in the neigbours yard. I wonder if they would notice if they went missing ?

Aaaaahhhhh! I seeeee!

The dark tracksuit and balaclava is not for keeping warm while observing.... it for sabotaging the neighbour's trees under the cover of darkness...



A sign of a true astroholic!

Al.