Starship Asterisk*

Janeway3 here. Thank you for the wonderful pictures. It will probably take me some time to get to grips with them but I will keep studying them and slowly things will sink in. There is a lot of cloud about where I live so not a lot of skygazing is getting done,but I look forward to trying to find th...

Janeway3, you wanted to know some constellations. I thought I might post a few pictures of constellations here. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dKy0uZxRVD4/TMMQcFakE9I/AAAAAAAABDY/DfrFU9j3rHY/s400/Big_Dipper_m.jpg You live in Great Britain, don't you? That means you live so far north that there is one ve...

I saw the planet like you said and it was covered with what looked like craters. Is this what I was supposed to see,and if so,I can,t tell you how excited I was and still am about what I saw. Nope- no craters on Jupiter! Are you sure you had the binoculars focused properly? Because if you look at J...

Janeway 3 here. Starstruck, You said I could see Jupiter through binocs. I went ratching through the cupboards and found our very large set and pointed them at what you said was Jupiter. O.M.G. I was gobsmacked. Now then,I did say I was a complete amateur at this star gazing lark but what I saw thro...

Yes it does.

I know little if anything about astronomy but I love looking at the sky on a clear night. Recently ,I have noticed a light,I don,t think it,s a star, maybe it,s a space station or some such thing.(See I told you I knew nothing about astronomy,) but this star or whatever is,nt a plane,it doesent seem...