General Chat

It has the facility to do that, you can ask it to show the constellations in different formats.

You will soon relearn them. Lots of ways -from the plough, arc to arcturus, drive a spike to spica. The two stars that form the front of the plough point towards the north star (polaris) and from there you can pretty much pick out the remaining bright stars and find your way round the sky.

Actually, if you can find the plough and orion (in the winter) then pretty much everything else is dead easy. Then use some binoculars and you will multiply the things you can see at least tenfold! Then you get obsessed and start spending thousands on equipment and turn into an anorak wearing geek.

No Eldrick,you are wrong. I know Orion,the Plough, Casseopiea and Taurus and Polaris.Oh and Cygnus.

I have known them for a long time.All the others are too hard.

I have downloaded the site you recommended but don't know how to get into it. New fangled contraptions!Where do you put a spanner on them?

Will wait until OH gets home tonight and proceed from there.It will still be too hard though!

lol your cup is half empty. Make it half full instead.

It actually isnt too hard, but even if it was, things that are hard are worth doing more than things that are easy. Just do it a bit at a time. Its a good excuse to sit in the garden on a summers night with a glass of wine, working out what is what and where it all fits together :-)

I downloaded the site, had a look.

I can see more stars if I go outside! To be fair, there are few street lights were I live (none in my street) and it's a very small town.

Can I get rid of that silly bushes thing? I didn't click on "landscape". Those bushes look nothing like anything we have here lol I think they are the same bushes that appeared when I first opened the site, and got Paris.

So I am told. I did go onto other hard things after the astronomy and found them more to my taste but I would like to re-learn the constellations,if only to look like i know something.

If I am going to get interested I had better hurry up.Patrick Moore is not too far away from me and, if I want to ask him, I will have to catch him before he disappears completely into his trousers.