A short guide to observing
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Dark adaptation takes twenty minutes and one bright screen to ruin. I wrote most of this on a calm Tuesday morning.
Fern Orbit
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What I learned from star hopping
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The moon is not an obstacle; it is the easiest target there is. Clouds rolled in an hour after sunset, as they so often do.
Revisiting double stars
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Sketching at the eyepiece makes you actually look. Binoculars show more of the sky than most people expect.
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The moon is not an obstacle; it is the easiest target there is. Most of what I know about double stars came from getting it wrong first. I like nebulae that shows the marks of how it was made. More
About this site
Beginner guides
I shifted my mind about the milky way twice while writing this.
Observing logs
This got going as a quick note and bit by bit turned into something longer.
Sky sketches
The best nights are the unplanned ones.
Dark-sky outings
I keep a short list of things to try next; sketching at the eyepiece is near the top.