3 Weeks 4 Dreamwidth: Day 5: Star-gazing
Apr. 29th, 2023 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stonepicnicking_okapiThere's still about an hour left in the day here, so here goes.
Today is International Astronomy Day.
Question: Have you ever looked through a telescope or gone to a planetarium? Do you have a favourite celestial body?
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I took Astronomy as my science in undergraduate and spent some time with telescopes then but that's the last time (so about 20 years ago). I do love the idea of star-gazing and plaentariums, but between the clouds and the light pollution, I don't do much star-gazing. My sister has a very fancy telescope and I believe she has done some proper star-gazing and belonged to clubs at one point. If I ever visit her, maybe I will. I did take the boys to the Smithsonian Air & Space museum over the Xmas holidays, and that was fun.
My favourite celestial body is the rock formerly known as Pluto!
I did a star/planet spread and realized I have a few Saturn stickers so I may do a separate spread for just Saturn. Scan quality is not great. Using some of the textured paper which I love.
Today is International Astronomy Day.
Question: Have you ever looked through a telescope or gone to a planetarium? Do you have a favourite celestial body?
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I took Astronomy as my science in undergraduate and spent some time with telescopes then but that's the last time (so about 20 years ago). I do love the idea of star-gazing and plaentariums, but between the clouds and the light pollution, I don't do much star-gazing. My sister has a very fancy telescope and I believe she has done some proper star-gazing and belonged to clubs at one point. If I ever visit her, maybe I will. I did take the boys to the Smithsonian Air & Space museum over the Xmas holidays, and that was fun.
My favourite celestial body is the rock formerly known as Pluto!
I did a star/planet spread and realized I have a few Saturn stickers so I may do a separate spread for just Saturn. Scan quality is not great. Using some of the textured paper which I love.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2023-04-30 04:21 pm (UTC)Interesting read! I did not know about toroidal planets! Thanks for sharing the link!
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2023-04-30 07:43 pm (UTC)I'm a sucker for strange planets, theoretical or observed. I miss when every such article spawned a gush of stories to science fiction magazines.