What's on your mind today?

[Tank]

I had a little aquarium that was just sitting around. I now have a little aquarium sitting around with a Sundew and Venus Fly Trap in it. 

[Tank]

New toy 

No idea where I'm going to keep it!

[Icarus]

 Scope looks to be something like a 125 mm reflector. It has a fairly short focal length which will make eye piece FL critical. Very good choice of a hobby telescope. Small enough to be portable and big enough to observe some of the  celestial objects less bright for smaller scopes..

Now all you have to do is find observation sites that are not light polluted. Enjoy the astro world, it is thoroughly fascinating.

[Asmodean]

I had a little aquarium that was just sitting around. I now have a little aquarium sitting around with a Sundew and Venus Fly Trap in it. 

The Asmo approves of keeping evil plants as home guards.

[Tank]

Scope looks to be something like a 125 mm reflector. It has a fairly short focal length which will make eye piece FL critical. Very good choice of a hobby telescope. Small enough to be portable and big enough to observe some of the  celestial objects less bright for smaller scopes..

Now all you have to do is find observation sites that are not light polluted. Enjoy the astro world, it is thoroughly fascinating.

Celestron Astromaster 130. Half price on a deal. Ans I'm on the learning curve now

[Tank]

I had a little aquarium that was just sitting around. I now have a little aquarium sitting around with a Sundew and Venus Fly Trap in it. 

The Asmo approves of keeping evil plants as home guards.

Flies tremble ans scatter

[Asmodean]

Instill fear in them, then rule them absolutely. With a iron hand and dictatorial intent.

[The Magic Pudding..]

Instill fear in them, then rule them absolutely. With a iron hand and dictatorial intent.

What sort of fear?

To put it another way, the image of the vagina dentata captured what Freud described as (or perhaps, what Freud experienced as) a fear of castration

I don't recall ever having such a fear, Freud was a fkn weirdo anyway.

What is the go with naming of this thing though?
I find it hard to swallow the white flower is so lovely they name it after the goddess of love.

These people confirm what I'm thinking so it must be true.
https://herbspeak.com/venus-flytrap-name/

[Tank]

Interesting.

[Recusant]

Instill fear in them, then rule them absolutely. With a iron hand and dictatorial intent.

What sort of fear?

To put it another way, the image of the vagina dentata captured what Freud described as (or perhaps, what Freud experienced as) a fear of castration

I don't recall ever having such a fear, Freud was a fkn weirdo anyway.

What is the go with naming of this thing though?
I find it hard to swallow the white flower is so lovely they name it after the goddess of love.

These people confirm what I'm thinking so it must be true.
https://herbspeak.com/venus-flytrap-name/

Cool find--I'd never explored the etymology of its name. Thanks! 

I know that Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty, so I questioned that part. Turns out "Dionaea" is a sobriquet or cognomen for her -- "the daughter of Dione."

[Asmodean]

What sort of fear?

One of being slowly digested alive for one's insolence.

Freud was a fkn weirdo anyway.

Yeah, The Asmo suspects that he was at least some kind of pervert.

[The Magic Pudding..]

I often peruse imgur, perhaps I shouldn't.
There's this looping video, a big tall guy with his,,, associates all around him and he punches to the ground a little Nazi guy.
I'd be OK with it if the Nazi was doing a dastardly Nazi deed at the time.
I'm OK with Indiana Jones punching Nazis, Inglorious Bastards didn't have me siding with the wrong side

https://i.imgur.com/eKxWG5l.mp4



Strange logic

Looser should have two "o"'s in it.

[Icarus]

Tank, by now you will have discovered some of the stuff of interest about your new scope. That is a decent first telescope that will serve you well enough unless you become addicted to star gazing.

The objective lens is not a lens at all. It is a parabolic first surface mirror. At 130 mm it has pretty good light gathering ability. The bigger it is the more light it can gather. Telescope advertising usually tells the prospective buyer how many power it can develop. That is the first bit of marketing gimmickry. The real capacity of the telescope is its light gathering ability not the magnification.

A reflector can have a larger light gathering element for the money than a refractor. A decent refractor lens of 130 mm would cost a bundle.

If you are using a 10 mm eyepiece, the magnification will be way the hell too much. The field of vision will be very small and the slightest jiggle of the scope will cause the image to dance the fandango.  Divide the focal length of your scope by the FL of the eyepiece.....650/10 and you get 65 magnification. If you have a better eyepiece like a 25, then the magnification is 650/25 and the mag is 26 which is Far more practical. If you save enough money you can buy a 40 mm eyepiece which will deliver much better image quality.

I'll wager that you will be using your camera to adapt to the scope. Since you are an accomplished wood worker I suggest that you abandon that flimsy tripod an build yourself a Dobson mount.  That kind of mount  will keep the vibrations and blurring out of your elapsed time images. The Dobson can be rigged to track the object that you are chasing.
 
I anxiously await your pix of Cassiopeia or one of the other spectacular objects in gods' back yard. Of course your circadian clock may become a bit twisted.  Best viewing is usually at 2,...3.... 4 AM when the rest of the world sleeps and does not mess up the air with pollution, noise, and stray light.

[Tank]

I have seen Saturn and the moon so far. The weather is my enemy here. I use the 22mm eyepiece for the moon and 10mm for Saturn.

[Tank]

Ready for Halloween last night.