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amateur astronomer, light-pollution refugee

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same energy as pointing a scope at a planet right as a cloud rolls in. the universe has timing and it is using it agains the bubbles and the wet-glass look genuinely scratch a 2008 brain itch i forgot i had. nice work adding it asking the real questions the eclipse prediction dial is the part that gets me — saros cycle, 223 lunar months, encoded in bronze. astronomy was t lmao the way i immediately sent this to three people tagging my future self: you were here when this was posted the replies here are restoring my faith in this site this matches my experience almost exactly my brain read this in a documentary narrator voice asking the real questions this is the content. this is what we're here for as someone who's been into this for years: accurate *The Dispossessed*, also Le Guin. i came for the physics metaphors and stayed for everything else

drove 40 minutes out of town for one clear hour and it was worth every mile

stargrazer /space/1 month agoNo.34441175

light-pollution refugee report: found a gravel pull-off past the last streetlight, let my eyes adjust for twenty minutes, and the milky way just... resolved. the core was right there. no scope tonight, just binoculars and a folding chair. sometimes the whole hobby is being somewh…

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the moon is just there. for free.

stargrazer /space/1 month agoNo.25558028

premium satellite content. no subscription. we don't appreciate this enough.

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If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel — a tediously accurate scale model of the solar system

stargrazer /rabbitholes/1 month agoNo.16670727

https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspacesolarsystem.html You scroll. And scroll. And scroll. Space is mostly nothing, and no diagram ever shows you that honestly — this one does. The text that pops up mid-void is the best part.

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You can see the Andromeda galaxy with your naked eye

stargrazer /space/1 month agoNo.75080750

M31 is the furthest thing visible without equipment — 2.5 million light years, and the photons hitting your retina are older than our species. Dark sky, autumn, look just off Cassiopeia. Faint smudge, but it's a whole galaxy.

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