*You consider the moon a major annoyance.
*You consider Jupiter "light pollution".
*You spend most of your time looking at or for objects you can barely see.
*You enjoy looking at faint fuzzies with the smallest possible aperture.
*You welcome power outages, only if they occur on moonless nights.
*You see no absolute value in using a Telrad.
*You consider 15 minutes to be a "quick" exposure.
*You remove the LED on the drive control panel, because it ruins your dark adaptation.
*You paint the LED's on your equipment with red fingernail polish so they are dimmer.
*You're amazed that anyone needs artificial light to read charts.
*You believe M13 ruined your dark adaptation.
*You keep thinking that if the stars would go away, it might get really dark.
*You wear sunscreen during full moon periods.
*Your choice of a new vehicle is determined by the size of your scope.
*You wear an eyepatch during the viewing session.
*You always set your scope up so that you can't move your car 'til dawn'.
*You bring a gallon of coffee, or a 12-pack of coke, to the viewing session. *If the caffiene doesn't keep you awake the urge to "go" does.
[(This is about half of what was originally written.) Taken from our astro-group newsletter, reprinted by the San Antonio Astro-Association]
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