Are there any star astronomy names that would fit a baby boy?
Thursday, February 19th, 2009 at
9:29 pm
Girlie Asked:
Are there any star astronomy names that would fit a baby boy? I had a baby girl name chosen cause the ultra sound said it was a girl but "she" came out as a boy!! It took me a looong time to choose a baby girl name...my sister is letting me name the baby. He was born earlier =) I'm stuck on the name!!
help me!!!
Reply:
Orion - It's a winter constellation in the southern sky and he's supposed to be the greatest hunter in Greek mythology.
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Lots of people like programs and you print stuff out but I don't think that works too well. The paper is very flimsy when you print it out and tends to get crudded up when you're out in the field trying to use it. You want something you can spread on your lap or table and it will hang together in one piece.
You need a PLANISPHERE to see where the constellations are, and either a MESSIER MAP or Orion's Deep Sky 600. There are cards which show 110 Messiers on the constellations, with a planisphere you can look for those. Messier did not "catch" all the bright objects on his famous list, so the DEEP SKY 600 map is great to have in your tool box.
You can buy it from Orion Telescopes which also has planispheres. Life will be easier once you have these. Save the computer print outs for latter, IMHO, you just want some easy things you can spread out on your lap while you look.
Final point: DON'T LOOK FOR OBJECTS AT HIGH POWER. Ideally you want a two inch 32 or 40mm eyepiece for your scope. LOW POWER IS A WIDE FIELD, that makes it easier to find things. Once you have found it, you can zero in. My guess is you're using a 25mm or even a 10mm 1.25 inch eyepiece. You want a 32mm 1.25 inch or better yet a 32mm or 40mm two inch eyepiece. These will give you low power views almost like binoculars and help you orient what you see in the scope to what you see on the maps (your Newtonian image will be flipped). But you'll get the hang of it.
One can spend over $600 on a two inch wide field eyepiece, lots of people have, but save that for when "you get the bug real bad" to have high end equipment. For now, you want to do one of two things:
1. Call an astronomy vendor and say "I want your recommendations for an inexpensive two inch chinese wide field eyepiece between 32 and 40mm to help me find stuff."
2. Join astromart ($12, one-time lifetime fee) and post a (free) "wanted" ad: "Looking for inexpensive Chinese two inch eyepiece between 32 and 40mm". Someone will see your ad and contact you with an offer. You'll save your $12 fee right away and be plugged in to a powerful community of buyers, sellers, and discussion groups.
So: for the planisphere and deep sky map, call Orion. You can ask them about a cheap two inch Chinese plossl as well. The Sirius 40mm is fifty bucks. It's 52 degrees apparent field of view, a true wide field will be engineered at 70 degrees or higher. But 52 degrees and 40mm will make it much easier for you to find things. But a better buy for wide field would be Orion's 38mm Q70 for $100. It would probably sell for $50 on astromart. The Q70 38mm two inch will bring in 2.5 degrees of sky compared to about 1 degree for your 25mm. It's not even close. (for comparison, binoculars are about 5 degrees of sky).
In case you're wondering, I suspect the real issue here is you are trying to find stuff at high power and that the "comes with" eyepiece is still too high a power for you to get oriented in the sky.
I could recommend several astronomy vendors but in this case I suggest you call Orion and get the whole package: deep sky 600, planisphere, and Sirius 40mm. If you want to save on shipping try highpointscientific. They carry most of the Orion inventory often at lower prices.
Your smartest move will be to join astromart.
hope that helps,
GN
p.s. I checked the XT10 your comes-with eyepiece is a 25mm 1.25 inch. That's not what a beginner should be using to find things on a ten inch scope. Might be OK for a four or six inch scope. You'll need to look up "field of view" and "apparent field of view" on the 'net to understand the issues, my post is getting too long. Astronomics has an eyepiece field of view calculator, that will be useful too (the calculator comes up when you look at a particular eyepiece).
p.p.s. For higher power views of the planets and moon you'll want an 8 or 10mm eyepiece. Any ol' 10mm plossl will do (you could get a cheap one off astromart for $15 to $25) but I would recommend trying to find an 8mm Edmund Scientific RKE. These go for about $40 used. "Live a little."
p.p.p.s. Not for nothing do amateur astronomers call deep sky objects "faint fuzzies." Hopefully you've seen some before (at a star party, for example) and know what to expect. But the ring nebula (M57) and the dumbbell (M27) show well in any scope and are "in season."
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Maybe you’re right about the light years away objects, you won’t see them much closer mabye. But trust me on that, take a regular 7x or 10x binoculars, and look in the dark sky, I can assure you that you’ll see far more stars than with naked eye. Just go out there and try it, you’ll see.
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Star movement most definitely has an effect on the horoscopes. Indeed, the star movements over time have shaped the horoscopes for each sign. While they do not happen fixed, the changes occur over a very large time scale.
same as gods, superstitions, lucky charms, etc…
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