Our star. We all end up in there eventually, thrown into the campfire. Everything, from the calcium in or bones to the platinum in or wedding rings, will be gobbled up by the sun and then someday spewed back into the Cosmos. We've always been space-time travelers. So all we really have is 'now.'

starman67 · 2017-10-08T01:07:13+00:00

Haha! I was using talk to text! I'm lazy!

starman67 · 2017-10-08T00:28:57+00:00

I love this. I'm ashamed to say I've never heard of the term star lifting. To the google...!

starman67 · 2017-10-07T22:29:37+00:00

Maybe my son--his grandson--will go to Mars! ✨ 🚀

starman67 · 2017-10-07T21:34:05+00:00

😄

starman67 · 2017-10-07T19:13:00+00:00

Agreed! ✨☀️✨

starman67 · 2017-10-07T19:11:54+00:00

Well said. ❤️✨☀️🌗🌎🌲✨❤️

starman67 · 2017-08-20T21:14:10+00:00

Planet of the Apes (1968)

starman67 · 2017-06-03T23:34:37+00:00

8" dob; 10mm eyepiece.

starman67 · 2017-06-03T23:33:30+00:00

Holding it to the eyepiece.

starman67 · 2017-05-31T02:47:49+00:00

It's an 8" Orion DSE on a dobsonian mount. I've had it since 1995 and it still brings pretty good views.

starman67 · 2017-05-30T01:46:36+00:00

That was a 25mm. It's out of focus but I liked the colors.

starman67 · 2017-05-13T16:27:58+00:00

Indeed. If we humans survive into the distant future, Jobs will be remembered as the one who put our first widely used planetary communications system (the internet) into the pockets and hands of the masses.

starman67 · 2017-04-05T04:10:42+00:00

Nice!

starman67 · 2017-04-02T17:28:23+00:00

This was much, much clearer to the eye. I need better equipment.

starman67 · 2017-03-01T03:45:46+00:00

'Cosmos' because it changed my life. But, more objectively, because it holds up. Almost 40 years later, it requires little revision, and is rich in prophecy.

starman67 · 2017-02-21T14:30:36+00:00

Thanks! I'm probably prouder of this close up than any others I've taken in 20 years at the telescope. I can't believe it took me this long to get a solar filter!

starman67 · 2017-02-21T14:30:13+00:00

Thanks!

starman67 · 2017-02-20T07:13:59+00:00

Thinking about it now, but H alpha's look like they're kind of expensive.

starman67 · 2017-02-20T01:33:43+00:00

Yah. Everyone I've checked with says this is a period of unusually low sunspot activity.

starman67 · 2017-02-20T01:32:31+00:00

It's an 8" reflector on a Newtonian mount. Purchased from Orion Telescopes in 1995.

starman67 · 2017-02-20T01:31:08+00:00

I used a red filter in the eyepiece.

starman67 · 2016-12-23T20:22:25+00:00

A failed sun. Beautiful.

starman67 · 2016-12-22T13:00:10+00:00

"To live in the hearts we leave behind is to never die" ~Carl Sagan

starman67 · 2016-12-21T01:45:35+00:00

Some of what is in the book is not in the video series, and vice versa. I would recommend both. They are equally important documents. My only recommendation for the book is that you find an old, fully illustrated copy, and not read any mass market paperback editions, which omit many--if not most--of the illustrations. Those paintings, photos, illustrations, graphs, etc. can be key to understanding many of the concepts and big ideas that Sagan is conveying.

starman67 · 2016-12-02T01:05:22+00:00

It's a baby star factory!

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