Start to star gaze

[trout39843]

Well brothers and sisters, I was given a Polerus 114 telescope in the box earlier this week. No instructions, just the thingy.
Looking at the picture on the front of the box and my caretaker skills of reason, I finally got it put together the right way (had to change pieces many times).
Many thanks to brother jay who fed me a load of advice.
Tonight I hope to look at those little points of light I've been wondering about as bigger points of light.

[Drone]

Good luck Trout. You would not be able to see much in my part of the world tonight.

[jay]

Enjoy it bud, and I’m only a phone call away.

[EBJ]

It was Jay who put me onto star gazing, unfortunatly i do not do as much as i used to do.

[thecaretaker]

Enjoy your star gazing hobby. We men have to have our little hobbies, if only to spend time away from our wives. If we didn't look busy, they would only find us something else to do lol

[Keyolder]

The night sky has always fascinated me, the many millions of stars galaxies and the distances involved is mind blowing, well for me anyway. Living in London there is too much light pollution, but if I’m ever out in the sticks I always take a moment to look up and admire the speckled darkness

[Vera]

My favorite is just going out into the back garden and lying on my back looking up

Loads to see stars planets galaxies moon but a particular favourite is the ISS and the recent Starlink satellite releases (although not great for looking at stars).

Enjoy Trout.

[Keyolder]

Loads to see stars planets galaxies moon but a particular favourite is the ISS and the recent Starlink satellite releases (although not great for looking at stars).

Oh yes I’ve tracked the ISS a couple of times, it moves unbelievably fast though. Also tracked a couple of the Starlink satellite releases last year

[londonlad1939]

I used to be quite into star gazing when I was younger, My parents brought me quite a good telescope for my 16th, in the summer nights when there was no clouds it took me about 2 weeks to pin point the moon lol, I would aim my telescope directly at it and just move it mill by mill and still took me about 2 weeks, but once I had found it WOW what a sight, I could literally see the craters and everything.

[Vera]

There are lots of local astronomy clubs some with thier own sites for observing.
If you have the spare money then astrophotography brings a whole different element to it.

This is some of my nephews work..
https://www.flickr.com/photos/146138560 ... 1848cec4ee