Comet still growing!!!!!!!!

[Scarlett O'Hara]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20071115/sc_space/incrediblecometbiggerthanthesun

This thing keeps growing and growing!!!!!!!!

[pooker]

Very cool :)

[Fish-Bait]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20071115/sc_space/incrediblecometbiggerthanthesun

This thing keeps growing and growing!!!!!!!!

Now that I am back out in the boon docks I can pay more attention to this kind of stuff. I have been thinkin' about purchasin' a nice telescope. I had one as a kid that was pretty neat, Katrina took care of it for me so now I have nothing. Thanks for posting this.

[Conveyor Belt]

Now that I am back out in the boon docks I can pay more attention to this kind of stuff. I have been thinkin' about purchasin' a nice telescope. I had one as a kid that was pretty neat, Katrina took care of it for me so now I have nothing. Thanks for posting this.

Make sure you get a reflecting telescope.

Before making the purchase, pick up a few issues of sky and telescope magazine to read up on the latest and look at the ads.

[Fish-Bait]

Make sure you get a reflecting telescope.

Before making the purchase, pick up a few issues of sky and telescope magazine to read up on the latest and look at the ads.

I really just want to link up to the hubble.

[Conveyor Belt]

I really just want to link up to the hubble.

When I get some money after graduation, I want to get a telescope with a motor and camera mount and do some of those 3-4 hour exposure nebula pics. I think those are awesome.

[Fish-Bait]

When I get some money after graduation, I want to get a telescope with a motor and camera mount and do some of those 3-4 hour exposure nebula pics. I think those are awesome.

My cousin' has a big reflector. it's about 5 foot maybe 6 foot long and prolly about 8 inches in diameter. It's got the motors and stuff on it. It's pretty neat. I would like to gander at the shuttle as it passes by, that would be neat to me.

[pooker]

I had a telescope I picked up at a garage sale for five bucks, it could see the moon real well but that was it. I wanna pick one up soon, isn't our sun considered small compared to other sizes. I remember there was three classes but memory escapes me.

[Conveyor Belt]

Most casual star/moon gazing can be accomplished better with a really great pair of binoculars. For deeper space and nebula viewing and photography, a reflector telescope is the best way to go.

It sucks that space is in black and white, though. I was expecting all the colors you see in photographs.. but alas... no. just a big gray spot in space... huh.

[Remington]

As a former non-reflector telescope owner, I can tell you that if you buy a refractor without a motor, you might as well be throwing your money away. I would finally lock into a planet or something like that and before I could get it focused good, it would move off of the scope. Those motors just make it so much easier and the reflectors are so much better. But been told to get at least a 6". A 10" would be nice. I'M TALKING ABOUT MIRRORS!!

[ComputerDude]

As a former non-reflector telescope owner, I can tell you that if you buy a refractor without a motor, you might as well be throwing your money away. I would finally lock into a planet or something like that and before I could get it focused good, it would move off of the scope. Those motors just make it so much easier and the reflectors are so much better. But been told to get at least a 6". A 10" would be nice. I'M TALKING ABOUT MIRRORS!!Hey I've been thinking of getting one so anything you can recommend will be appreciated.

[Conveyor Belt]

As a former non-reflector telescope owner, I can tell you that if you buy a refractor without a motor, you might as well be throwing your money away. I would finally lock into a planet or something like that and before I could get it focused good, it would move off of the scope. Those motors just make it so much easier and the reflectors are so much better. But been told to get at least a 6". A 10" would be nice. I'M TALKING ABOUT MIRRORS!!

My refractor has these cable arms sticking out that you turn slowly to keep the object in view as the earth turns. Who knew the earth was spinning so fast? I really had no idea until I got my scope and started studying the skies more intensely. I really love the photography aspect of astronomy. There's really not more you need to make great pictures other than camera that you can program the shutter and some filters to make space come into brilliant colors... and that motor that keeps everything in perfect view.

Star track pictures are great, but I really like the ones where everything is in focus.

[Ted]

. . . . . Who knew the earth was spinning so fast? . . . . .:smt001 Yep. About 1000 mph at the equator.

[Remington]

A reflector is the way to go. I had those little things that adjust the scope....but they weren't too precision and made the scope move in jerks. The motor is so much better because it tracks the object you are looking at exactly. Also, with the little computer that comes with it, you can tell it you want to look at Saturn and it will go to it without you having to find it in the sky. You just have to initially enter where you are and lock into Polaris first so that it will track correctly. To me, Polaris (or the north star) is pretty easy to find, but some may have to learn how to find it. Once you find the big dipper, it's easy to find Polaris

[Fish-Bait]

:smt001 Yep. About 1000 mph at the equator.

It's a wonder it don't sling those Brazilians off!