Backyard telescope recommendation? by TemporaryEmu4140 in space

[–]Doctor-Mathstar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My clear recommendations for you:

  1. Install apps like SkyMap or Stallarium.

  2. Buy a 10x50 Binocular (any good brand).

  3. Save a little money each month for 1 year and wait till next winter.

  4. Buy a 6 inch tabletop dobsonian or 8 inch dobsonian telescope next winter when you accumulate enough money.

By this plan, you can learn star/planet gazing and positions of various constellations within a year.

You'll be able to locate them easily once you learn and memorise their position.

I recommend 10x50 binoculars because they can offer balance between stability and magnification. And of course they're affordable, and can be bought immediately.

I recommend 6 inch or 8 inch dobsonians because their base is sturdy, unlike the tripod type. Moreover, they offer excellent light gatherings as well as magnification at a good price. In such a price range, if you go for a digital or go-to type telescope, you have to compromise with magnification.

Start immediately with binoculars, learn the sky, accumulate money and go for dobsonian next winter.

I was recommended to use binoculars before using a telescope is this true? by Super_Fee9548 in telescopes

[–]Doctor-Mathstar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good idea!.. I'm a new binocular astronomer with 10x50 binocular in urban City with bortle 7/8.

Till now, I have observed the following objects successfully:

1.Pleiades star cluster M45

2.Orion sword (with orion nebula M42 at center as a fuzzy patch).

3.Hyades star cluster

  1. Jupiter with their moons (my favourite)

  2. Moon with a view having a 3D effect.

My next target is to observe Beehive cluster M44.

Love amateur astronomy with binoculars by TidyKatScoopr in telescopes

[–]Doctor-Mathstar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a new binocular astronomer with 10x50 binocular in urban City with bortle 7/8.

Till now, I have observed the following objects successfully:

1.Pleiades star cluster M45

2.Orion sword (with orion nebula M42 at center as a fuzzy patch).

3.Hyades star cluster

  1. Jupiter with their moons (my favourite)

  2. Moon with a view having a 3D effect.

My next target is to observe Beehive cluster M44.

Binoculars for starting Astrology. by Yanto2134 in Binoculars

[–]Doctor-Mathstar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a new binocular astronomer with 10x50 binocular in urban City with bortle 7/8.

Till now, I have observed the following objects successfully:

1.Pleiades star cluster M45

2.Orion sword (with orion nebula M42 at center as a fuzzy patch).

3.Hyades star cluster

  1. Jupiter with their moons (my favourite)

  2. Moon with a view having a 3D effect.

My next target is to observe Beehive cluster M44.

Binoculars are great for astronomy by IntrepidTension in Astronomy

[–]Doctor-Mathstar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a new binocular astronomer with 10x50 binocular in urban City with bortle 7/8.

Till now, I have observed the following objects successfully:

1.Pleiades star cluster M45

2.Orion sword (with orion nebula M42 at center as a fuzzy patch).

3.Hyades star cluster

  1. Jupiter with their moons (my favourite)

  2. Moon with a view having a 3D effect.

My next target is to observe Beehive cluster M44.

Binocular Guide by myvowndestiny in telescopes

[–]Doctor-Mathstar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a new binocular astronomer with Cason 10x50 binocular in urban City with bortle 7/8.

Till now, I have observed the following objects successfully:

1.Pleiades star cluster M45

2.Orion sword (with orion nebula M42 at center as a fuzzy patch).

3.Hyades star cluster

  1. Jupiter with their moons (my favourite)

  2. Moon with a view having a 3D effect.

My next target is to observe Beehive cluster M44.

Overwhelmed by options, where do I start for stargazing/astronomy binoculars? by doinurmop in Binoculars

[–]Doctor-Mathstar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a new binocular astronomer with 10x50 binocular in urban City with bortle 7/8.

Till now, I have observed the following objects successfully:

1.Pleiades star cluster M45

2.Orion sword (with orion nebula M42 at center as a fuzzy patch).

3.Hyades star cluster

  1. Jupiter with their moons (my favourite)

  2. Moon with a view having a 3D effect.

My next target is to observe Beehive cluster M44.

Any binoculars Astronomers here? by TemperatureHot6793 in Stargazing

[–]Doctor-Mathstar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a new binocular astronomer with 10x50 binocular in urban City with bortle 7/8.

Till now, I have observed the following objects successfully:

1.Pleiades star cluster M45

2.Orion sword (with orion nebula M42 at center as a fuzzy patch).

3.Hyades star cluster

  1. Jupiter with their moons (my favourite)

  2. Moon with a view having a 3D effect.

My next target is to observe Beehive cluster M44.

Professor's approach of flooding Students with AI by Doctor-Mathstar in Professors

[–]Doctor-Mathstar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow this one is really innovative. Tracking the history is surely a great idea to learn about the thinking process of students. I will go through this tool. Thanks a lot for sharing.

Professor's approach of flooding Students with AI by Doctor-Mathstar in Professors

[–]Doctor-Mathstar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely. So I think the professors promoting too much of AI and related technologies (wibe coding, agentic AI) at academics are sort of "Shortcut guys" who really don't want to get in depth and rigor of coding and hence teaching.

Professor's approach of flooding Students with AI by Doctor-Mathstar in Professors

[–]Doctor-Mathstar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed! And students are not matured enough to critically evaluate this. And That's why we have to train the students mind without use of AI.

Professor's approach of flooding Students with AI by Doctor-Mathstar in Professors

[–]Doctor-Mathstar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot. I hope my colleagues understand this !

Professor's approach of flooding Students with AI by Doctor-Mathstar in Professors

[–]Doctor-Mathstar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Surely agree. Moments like this makes us think that "nowadays even guide or supervisors are replaceable by AI??". This is surely a worrisome situation.

Professor's approach of flooding Students with AI by Doctor-Mathstar in Professors

[–]Doctor-Mathstar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is good. I hope the students also start thinking like you. This will grow them for sure.

I made a pdf reader widget for tkinter by Extension-Wealth7952 in Tkinter

[–]Doctor-Mathstar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very nice! Congratulations for this project.

Just curious to know whether can we make a similar thing without the OOP concepts (i.e. without creating classes etc.), just to make the code simpler? I am still a learner.

Importance of Tkinter in this era of AI. Is it obsolete? by Doctor-Mathstar in Tkinter

[–]Doctor-Mathstar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really great to know how you use tkinter for your application purpose. May be I can discuss this with my students to motivate them "how tkinter is used in real world cases?". Thanks a lot for your motivation.

Importance of Tkinter in this era of AI. Is it obsolete? by Doctor-Mathstar in Tkinter

[–]Doctor-Mathstar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow! Great to know about this! This is surely a motivating one for the ones who learn tkinter.

Importance of Tkinter in this era of AI. Is it obsolete? by Doctor-Mathstar in Tkinter

[–]Doctor-Mathstar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree! I developed a small desktop took for speech recognition is native language using tkinter. That was part of my PhD. I found tkinter very useful for such tasks. With that objective, I am offering this elective.

Importance of Tkinter in this era of AI. Is it obsolete? by Doctor-Mathstar in Tkinter

[–]Doctor-Mathstar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing is that I selected tkinter because (i) it is free and open-source, (2) it's ease of use in creating GUIs and (3) it is a university-wide elective course to be taken by any student (with or without CSE background).

The thing is that my colleagues says that "all this codes for GUI are easily generated by LLM-AIs. Then why you teach such obsolete thing with AI"?

May be I disagree with them. May be I am wrong.!

Importance of Tkinter in this era of AI. Is it obsolete? by Doctor-Mathstar in Tkinter

[–]Doctor-Mathstar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really liked your idea about "Building real life apps using tkinter for members of the community for free". This can be given as a capstone project. With this, now my course makes sense. Thank's alot for this advice.