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Star Trek Theme?
The Planets - Holst?
What are your favorite Space Songs?
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StarWars theme (first)
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Star Trek Theme?
The Planets - Holst?
What are your favorite Space Songs?
The "space music" albums that get played the most by me while observing in no particular order of preference:
1. Hawkwind: _The Space Ritual_
2. Tammy Wynette: _Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad_
3. Enya: _Shepherd Moons_
4. The Allman Brothers: _The Allman Brothers Band Live at the Fillmore East_
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Main theme from the Carl Sagan series...'Cosmos'. This is a piece by Vangelis entitled "Heaven & Hell"!!! A lot of Vangelis' work is similar...remember the theme from "Chariots of Fire"??? Holst's "The Planets" is my favorite album to observe by!!...and believe it or not, I enjoy some of the more "mellow" stuff by The Moody Blues!!! That and a pot of hot coffee......PRICELESS!!! 
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"Space Truckin'" by Deep Purple.
(Not really a fave, but a space song).
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Monty Python's "Universe Song" from "The Meaning of Life."
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"Major Tom (Coming Home)" ~ Peter Schilling
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Children of the Sun - Billy Thorpe
Space Oddity - David Bowie
Rocket Man - Elton John
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Blue Moon--pick your version (You Tube). . . and of course. . .
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Well, I'm not so sophisticated. I direct a Harmonica Therapy club for people with Chronic Lung Disease. Our best song is Twinkle Twinkle.
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Under the milky way - The church
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Monty Python's "Universe Song" from "The Meaning of Life."
Boo yeah!
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This thread has run in other forums but what the heck.....
For this week Christine Lavin's "Venus kissed the moon tonight"
And you can hear her Planet X (abt the controversy about Pluto written 10 years ago) on PBS here Christine Lavin's Planet X song
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"Cygnus x-1 Book 1" off of Rush's album A Farewell to Kings
There's a "Cygnus x-1 Book 2" on the next album Hemispheres that transitions from space and a blackhole to a sort of celestial Greek mythology.
Black Sabbath- "Into the Void" and "Planet Caravan"
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I can't believe I forgot my fave band Pink Floyd. "Astronomy Domine" and "Interstellar Overdrive"
I know I'm forgetting other bands and songs, but it's time for bed.
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I remembered the old Star Trek theme, But back in the late 60's It was the Oliver version of Hair's "Good Morning Starshine" that was on the pop stations back then. I had a 3" Newtonian from Monkey Wards and was listening to my 5-tube clock radio I had out in the late summer mornings, splitting the trapezium before school started for the season. IT FIT! BTW it was old KIMN radio, Denver.
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MIke Oldfield, "Saved by a Bell" Has great lyrics about amateur astronomy.
Anything else by Oldfield
"Under the Milky Way" by the Church
Thats all I can think of....besides the obvious ones.
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"Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" by KLAATU has always been one of my favorites. KLAATU - "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft"
The Carpenters covered this song somewhat later. This is an interesting version of it...The Carpenters - "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft"
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"2000 Light Years From Home" by the Rolling Stones. Good, trippy stuff.
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"Supernatural Thing" by Ben E. King.
How many songs can rhyme "interplanetary"??
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"The Age of Aquarius" by the Fifth Dimension has always been spacey to me.
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The honest man
Will still survive annihilation.
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If you like really far out jazz, you might like the inter-galactic stylings of Sun Ra's albums titled "Space is the Place" and "Out in Space".
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"Natural Science"-Rush
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"Watcher of the Skies" by Genesis (inspired by Childhood's End)
"The Intergalactic Laxative" by Donnavan
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You just can't beat Fireball XL-5
Check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmVkn9ULqNI
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The Southern Cross by CSNY (Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young).
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You just can't beat Fireball XL-5
No you can't. Miss Dorothy bought me the whole season on DVD couple of years back. After all these years, I find I STILL have a crush on Dr. Venus, BTW. 
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You just can't beat Fireball XL-5
Check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmVkn9ULqNI
You mean that show from the 50's or 60's that was all puppets? Even then, that seemed creepy to me. Too Twilight Zone-ish.
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By John Serrie
Planetary Chronicles 1 and 2
"and the STARS go with you" (dedicated to Christa Mc Auliffe)
by Michael Stearns
Encounter
I have collected well over a hundred CDs with outer space in mind.
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Quote:
You just can't beat Fireball XL-5
Check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmVkn9ULqNI
Yup it was a great show for me as a youngster (early 1960's), but I prefer the original version of the song that closed the TV show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXGGuqXB8h4&feature=related
The lyrics start:
I wish I was a space man.
The fastest guy alive.
I'd fly you round the universe,
In Fireball XL-5......
Oh, and in case someone wonders how big the XL ships were, here is the 'flyable' version of XL-5 (well, the texture label says it's XL-10) on hover moving past the Vehicle Assembly Building (from the space flight simulator ORBITER, note the size of the shadow of XL-5 on the ground):
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howard
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Spaceman, by the late great Harry Nilsson.
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rmollise
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Quote:
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You just can't beat Fireball XL-5
Check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmVkn9ULqNI
You mean that show from the 50's or 60's that was all puppets? Even then, that seemed creepy to me. Too Twilight Zone-ish.
60s. Only lasted a couple of seasons. Creepy? It was done by the same dudes as did Thunderbirds, for gosh sakes.
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JayinUT
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Holst's Jupiter from The Planets (the entire album)
I agree with many of the ones submitted. Here are some fun ones:
Theme song to 365 Days of Astronomy PodCast
Weird Al "Yoda"
I like the song to the sitcom The Big Bang Theory:
The Big Bang Theory by Barenaked Ladies (though part of it is in dispute if not repute).
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Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.
— Ptolemy, c.150 AD
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Edited by JayinUT (05/25/09 07:18 PM)
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Not strictly 'space' songs, but some movements from Beethoven's late piano sonatas are quite transcendental and profoundly other-worldly, and of course there's his 'Moonlight' sonata.
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Not strictly "space songs"...but I also grew up watching 'Fireball XL-5', 'Supercar' (flown by Mike Mercury), 'Stingray'! But I never really got into 'The Thunderbirds'...go figure!  
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"Big Bad Moon" by Joe Satriani. He also made an album with the very important question "Is there Love in Space?" as its title.
"Workshop of the Telescopes" and "Astronomy" by Blue Öyster Cult (note: the latter is *not* by Metallica)
"2112" by Rush (and various other songs with some hints on astronomy here and there)
"The observer" by Haggard (the whole album is dedicated to Galileo Galilei. Haggard is a crowd of two dozens musicians from Munich, Germany. They combine medieval instruments and tunes with slightly more modern metal elements. Check it out on youTube!)
"Hello Spaceboy" by Pagan's Mind (composed by David Bowie)
"Another Moon Song" by Wolfhound (German bassist Wolfgang Schmid's band during the late 80ies)
"Under a Glass Moon" by Dream Theater. Beware of not knowing Dream Theater ;-)
Enjoy!
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Did anyone mention "EXP" and "Third Stone from the Sun" by Jimi?
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Quote:
"Cygnus x-1 Book 1" off of Rush's album A Farewell to Kings
There's a "Cygnus x-1 Book 2" on the next album Hemispheres that transitions from space and a blackhole to a sort of celestial Greek mythology.
Black Sabbath- "Into the Void" and "Planet Caravan"
WOOT WOOT!!!! You go!!
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Quote:
"2112" by Rush (and various other songs with some hints on astronomy here and there)
"Under a Glass Moon" by Dream Theater. Beware of not knowing Dream Theater ;-)
Enjoy!
Tom
Rush is always a joy to have on the stereo! As far as Dream Theater goes, they came out when I was in high school and I thought they were the new Rush but now looking at it....not even close. 
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Quote:
As far as Dream Theater goes, they came out when I was in high school and I thought they were the new Rush but now looking at it....not even close.
Well, the only thing Rush and Dream Theater really have in common is the "progressive" tag. I count both bands among my favorites. Rush is more melodic, easier to listen and they really groove! Rush never released a weak album.
Dream Theater has IMO released at least one weak album (Falling into Infinity). But what they show on the "Score" DVD is fantastic: the "Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence", accompanied by an orchestra is definitely a masterpiece that will stand the test of time. They are not the first rock band to play with an orchestra, but "Score" is the first time where this truely worked. And James LaBrie is the better singer ;-)
Tom
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Dream Theater is *WAY* too intense for me!
But boy, can those guys play!
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RobertED
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Yeah!, I'll vote for Black Sabbath's 'Planet Caravan'!!! Good tune!   
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I have Farewell to Kings on right now. Woohoo!
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Without Question
Dark Star by the Grateful Dead
Dark star crashes, pouring its light into ashes.
Reason tatters, the forces tear loose from the axis.
Searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion.
Shall we go, you and I while we can
Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?
Mirror shatters in formless reflections of matter.
Glass hand dissolving to ice petal flowers revolving.
Lady in velvet recedes in the nights of good-bye.
Shall we go, you and I while we can
Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?
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"Natural Science" by Rush
[1. Tide Pools]
When the ebbing tide retreats
Along the rocky shoreline
It leaves a trail of tidal pools
In a short-lived galaxy
Each microcosmic planet
A complete society
A simple kind mirror
To reflect upon our own
All the busy little creatures
Chasing out their destinies
Living in their pools
They soon forget about the sea...
Wheels within wheels
In a spiral array
A pattern so grand
And complex
Time after time
We lose sight of the way
Our causes cant see
Their effects
[2. Hyperspace]
A quantum leap forward
In time and in space
The universe learned to expand
The mess and the magic
Triumphant and tragic
A mechanized world, out of hand
Computerized clinic
For superior cynics
Who dance to a synthetic band
In their own image
Their world is fashioned ---
No wonder they dont understand
Wheels within wheels
In a spiral array
A pattern so grand
And complex
Time after time
We lose sight of the way
Our causes cant see
Their effects
[3. Permanent Waves]
Science, like nature
Must also be tamed
With a view towards its preservation
Given the same
State of integrity
It will surely serve us well
Art as expression ---
Not as market campaigns
Will still capture our imaginations
Given the same
State of integrity
It will surely help us along
The most endangered species ---
The honest man
Will still survive annihilation
Forming a world ---
State of integrity
Sensitive, open, and strong
Wave after wave
Will flow with the tide
And bury the world as it does
Tide after tide
Will flow and recede
Leaving life to go on
As it was...
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Pink Floyd:
(Albums)
Darkside Of The Moon
Wish You Were Here
Division Bell
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rmollise
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Quote:
Without Question
Dark Star by the Grateful Dead
Dark star crashes, pouring its light into ashes.
Reason tatters, the forces tear loose from the axis.
Searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion.
Shall we go, you and I while we can
Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?
Mirror shatters in formless reflections of matter.
Glass hand dissolving to ice petal flowers revolving.
Lady in velvet recedes in the nights of good-bye.
Shall we go, you and I while we can
Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?
Right on. Especially the version on the first live album..._Live Dead_...WHOOO...HOOO! 
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JayinUT
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I forgot one, Alan Parsons - Return to Tunguska.
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RobertED
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Wow!...almost forgot about Alan Parsons!! Anything by him is good!
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Rick Woods
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Anyone mention "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" yet?
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And what about music from Jean Michelle Jarre - Oxygene, Magnetic fields or Equinox? I like them very much.
Stefan
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RobertED
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Stefan, I have Jean Michel's "Magnetic Fields" CD!. It's very unusual and wonderful at the same time!!!
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"Lost in the Stars" by Martin Gore
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Edward E
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My favorite is an oldie..."Telstar" by the Tornados very spacey... Also like "Dark Side of the Moon" Album by Pink Floyd after 01:00 AM when out observing, keeps me awake. Thought of two more favs..."Pulsar" by Vangelis and "Starry Starry Night" by Don McLean.
These are great posts! I will have to track some of them down.
Edited by Edward E (06/19/09 05:06 PM)
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...and the newest space song "Rocket Experience" released last week by Buzz Aldrin.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0be5c681fc/buzz-aldrin-s-rocket-experience
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I like one of the pieces by composer Barry Gray:
Barry Gray Music Sampler
In particular, I like the piece, "Sleeping Astronauts" done for "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun". I have that one programmed into the space flight simulator ORBITER for background music during orbital external views. Clear skies to you.
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Astronomy Domine off of Pink Floyd's Ummagumma-best version ever.
Also, Echoes was originally written with lyrics about the planets; rumor was that the song was composed to be the final sequence for 2001. Syncs up well when you cue "jupiter and beyond" on the DVD (though this guy who synced the two started the music too late):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8747282288684360296
Another good space tune:
"Supernova goes Pop" by Powerman 5000
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Has anyone mentioned Sun Ra on this thread? If not, they should have. That man was in space BEFORE Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard.
Edited by rmollise (07/03/09 09:41 AM)
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Would it be lunacy to add Moon River to this list? It's a stretch but very beautiful...
Moon River, wider than a mile,
I'm crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you're going I'm going your way.
Two drifters off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end--
waiting 'round the bend,
my huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me.
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SV
Scope: Celestron CPC8
Binoculars: Garrett GT80~45, Fujinon 16x70, Regals 10x42, Ultima 9x63, Nikon AE 8x40
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bicparker
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No lunacy...LOL... it was on Space Cowboys, after all.
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17.5" f/5 dob
10" f/10 SCT
5" f/8 refractor
80mm f/6 refractor
66mm f/6 refractor
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OuterSpaced
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Space is the Place, Uncle Rod.
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Ken D.
The most endangered species
The honest man
Will still survive annihilation.
"Natural Science"-Rush
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Philip Levine
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Well....since you asked....
"The Winter Song" by Angel
"Hurdy Gurdy Man" by Donovon
"Love is Just a Four Letter Word" by Joan Baez
Phil
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gripweed44
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I saw Sun Ra once.
It was a extraterrestrial experience for sure.
Thanks Rod
John
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John
Omega Centauri is the finest Globular I have seen with my own eyes.
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Reverie
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Milky Way by MISIA (IYA Japan Theme)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJGKJOe77B8
Another Japanese stuff by Manami Kiyota
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN7t3qLxjuI
Japanese stuff as well by Manami Kiyota
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Kd7xjKkSM
Manami Kiyota's music for the Planetarium "Canon - Beneath the Ceiling of Stars"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss0sKFyLhGc
Moon's Cocoon (Turn A Gundam 2nd Ending)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppv8XMVVSHY
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Reverie
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I forgot to mention these two from Anime Sora no Manimani.
OP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G129C3Vs1E
ED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lb7dmABoQA
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There are observers observing the stars with their equipment, there are also observers observing their equipment with the stars.
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cuir
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Star trekkin'
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Seb
Eyepiece spreadsheet v6.8
Choosing the right eyepiece
Main scope: 150mm Maksutov
Scnd scope: 200mm Schmidt-Cassegrain
Favorite ep: 24 Panoptic and 11m T6 Nagler
Pref'ed filters: Lumicon 0III and UHC
Mounts: EQ6-Pro and Skyview AZ
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Matthew Ota
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The Universe song by Eric Idle (from Life of Brian)
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Matthew Ota
Meade LX250GPS 10 inch SCT (Frankenscope)
Orion ED 80
ETX-90 OTA
Coronado Helios 1 H-alpha
TheSky 6 Pro
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nitrohepcat
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What a cool thread! Thanks for all the suggestions. Here are some of my listening favorites while observing (it helps keep the sounds of the woodland animals from bothering me):
Over the Edge and The Puzzling Evidence Show
Great background if you're listening to headphones, very experimental
protopod.org
Another experimental music/talk podcast
Brian Eno - Music for Airports
Very relaxing ambient music
Symphonies of the Planets
recorded by two automated NASA probes — and all the music itself was produced by the planets and moons of our solar systems
Music from the Hearts of Space
Slow music for fast times, very cool space music
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Meade 8" LX10
Vixen 4" APO w/GOTO
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Cygnus_x1
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"Workshop of the Telescopes" and "Astronomy" by Blue Öyster Cult (note: the latter is *not* by Metallica)
Yeah. We know. But Metallica's version's better.  
Starlight, Knights of Cydonia and Supermassive Black Hole by UK rock band Muse are good songs with a space vibe. These are on the CD Black Holes and Revelations but their other albums also have a good space/sf feel to them.
I think I mentioned them on another thread but the Canadian rock band Voivod's entire album Dimension Hatross is space themed and they also did an excellent cover of Pink Floyd's Astronomy Domine.
Also, the aforementioned Metallica's instrumental tracks Orion, and Call of Ktulu have a space vibe to them. I don't know if Messrs Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett and Burton had the mighty constellation in mind, or something else entirely, when they wrote Orion but it fits a space theme perfectly.
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Visual Deep Sky Observing - being rebuilt
Observing blog
My astronomy event photos on Flickr
12 inch Dob
8 inch Celestron C8 Newtonian
4 inch Meade SCT
8x42 Leica binoculars
Various TeleVue eyepieces
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Sarkikos
Pooh-Bah
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Holts' The Planets, of course. What else?
Mike
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Zhumell 8" f6 Newt, Bosma 6" f12 MCT (NSO)
6" f5 Newt, 130ST, 4.5" f4.4 Ball w/GLP, ST80 w/Crayford (RFTs)
C4-R (NSO/DS)
90mm f13 MCT (Luna/DS)
SkyMaster 25x100, 15x70
Zhumell 20x80
Barska XWA 10x50, 8x40
OptiView LPR 10x50
Const View 2.3x40
BV-125C
CG5, 2 drv / CG4, 2 drv, wood legs, ScopeStuff saddle / CG3, 1 drv
SV AZ / 501HDV on Bogen 055XB / P+ on Oberwerk
QuikFinder, Telrad
Orion Dynamo Pro 12, Dew-Not
Have GLP and not afraid to use it!
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Cotts
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68 Posts and we haven't mentioned:
"Hey, Mr. Spaceman" by The Byrds
"I'm the Urban Spaceman" by The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
"Phasers on Stun" by FM
"2069: A Spaced Oddity" by US 69
"Everyone's Gone to the Moon" by Jonathan Edwards
"Flying Purple People Eater" by David Seville/Ross Bagdasarian
There are probably more.....
Dave
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14th Floor Observatory
Richmond Hill, Ontario
200 mm Intes f/10 Mak-Cass
80mm WO Zenithstar FD
66mm WO ED
Losmandy G-11 mount with Gemini
Ioptron minitower
Canon XSi
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RobertED
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Michael Lee Thomas: Voyager-Grand Tour Suite
This is like a modern-day "The Planets" by Holst!!!
Very spacey and I highly recommend it!!
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Honken
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFrGfEY-cpI
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ebusinesstutor
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Posts: 460
Loc: Nanaimo, BC, Canada
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Rocket Man - Elton John. 
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Garland Coulson
Orion XT8i Dob & Celestron 80 ED on a Vixen Porta Mount Mini
Baader Hyperion 8-24mm Click Zoom & Siebert Observatory 36mm
Siebert Black Knight Binoviewers
SkyWatcher Observing Chair
Celestron Skymaster 15x70mm binos
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Dave Mitsky
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Here are a few more worthy space songs that haven't been mentioned: the Church's "Under The Milky Way", Shawn Colvin's "Orion In The Sky", CSN's "Southern Cross", the Hoodoo Gurus' "Mars Needs Guitars", Lou Reed's "Satellite of Love", and the Stones' "2000 Light Years From Home".
Dave Mitsky
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Chance favors the prepared mind.
De gustibus non est disputandum.
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JayinUT
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I have another, and I've modified the lyrics. Though the original doesn't mention anything about astronomy, some of the words are appropriate when one goes gazing . . .
Hungry like the Wolf Duran Duran
Modified (please feel free to do your own words and improve my meek and lowly attempt) while going after that object you just can't seem to bag:
"In touch with the sky
I'm on the hunt I'm after you
Frustrated and mad, I'm lost in the glow
And I'm hungry like the wolf
Straddle the tube, in discord and rhyme
I'm on the hunt I'm after you
Brain is alive with juices like wine
And I'm hungry like the wolf
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Location: Lat: 40.514N Long: -112.032W
Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.
— Ptolemy, c.150 AD
My Blog
Edited by JayinUT (10/10/09 02:17 AM)
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rmollise
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Quote:
I have another, and I've modified the lyrics. Though the original doesn't mention anything about astronomy, some of the words are appropriate when one goes gazing . . .
Hungry like the Wolf Duran Duran
"Duran-Duran" (is that like Derwood Kirby's band?)... ? Where do y'all get this stuff?! All I hear on my dadgummed radio is Alan Jackson!
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Rod's New Book:
Choosing and Using a New CAT
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JayinUT
I'm not Sleepy
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Deep out of the past on Duran Duran, words fit. Here's a country song on Light Pollution or how some may feel about their neighbors when observing at home (had a neighbor like this once):
Trace Adkins: Every Light in the House is On
EveryLight In the House is On
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Jay in Utah
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Location: Lat: 40.514N Long: -112.032W
Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.
— Ptolemy, c.150 AD
My Blog
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RobertED
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Typical "big-city" music, Rod!!
I myself prefer something soothing and relaxing!! See above!
P.S.)...and I know who Derwood Kirby is too!!!
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auriga
scholastic sledgehammer
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Smetana, the Moldau. Great for DSO observing and Milky Way surfing.
Bill Meyers
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auriga
scholastic sledgehammer
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For solar eclipses: Here Comes the Sun (the Beatles?) very effective background music for a slide show of solar exlipse photos. Not invented by me but by a friend.
Bill Meyers
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Matthew Ota
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AstronomyX - Really Big Universe
AstronomyX- Really Big Universe
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Matthew Ota
Meade LX250GPS 10 inch SCT (Frankenscope)
Orion ED 80
ETX-90 OTA
Coronado Helios 1 H-alpha
TheSky 6 Pro
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Montana_Nights
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Gustav Holst, The Planets...specifically Mars. Love the climax toward the middle.
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Southwest Montana Astronomical Society, Bozeman Montana
My Kit:
A "new to me" Celestron Celestar 8
25mm and 10mm widefield EP
2x barlow
Various filters and accessories
Many, many books
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RobertED
professor emeritus
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Loc: Johnston, RI
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Agreed!! 'Holst's The PLANETS' is THE best album for observing!!!
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Rat
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Loc: USA
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I like the opening theme to movie 2001 Space Odyssey.
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stevenf
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Loc: Vancouver, BC
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The Whole of the Moon - The Waterboys
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Meade ETX-60BB
Meade ETX-90EC UHTC
Skywatcher ST80
Orion ST120
Skywatcher 90mm Mak
Meade 9x63 binoculars
Celestron Explorascope
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David Knisely
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The Dawn and the Sky and the Sun by Celtic Woman
The Dawn & the Sky & the Sun
As good as it is in the video, it is actually BETTER live (and I finally got to hear it live in Sioux Falls when Celtic Woman performed there). WOW just doesn't do it justice.
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David W. Knisely
Hyde Memorial Observatory
http://www.hydeobservatory.info
Prairie Astronomy Club
http://www.prairieastronomyclub.org
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David Knisely
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Another good one is:
Above the Northern Lights
by Mannheim Steamroller (from the album Mannheim Steamroller CHRISTMAS SONG).
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David W. Knisely
Hyde Memorial Observatory
http://www.hydeobservatory.info
Prairie Astronomy Club
http://www.prairieastronomyclub.org
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Matt Lindsey
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Loc: Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
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Brian Eno and Robert Fripp--"Evening Star"
Porcupine Tree--"The Sky Moves Sideways I & II", "Stars Die" and "Moonloop"
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Matt
12" f/4.9 custom strut Dob.
8x56 binos
Member: Howard Astronomical League
Working on: Herschel I and II lists, RASC challenge objects.
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burb scope
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Astronomy Domine by Pink Floyd
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blb
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Quote:
The Dawn and the Sky and the Sun by Celtic Woman
The Dawn & the Sky & the Sun
As good as it is in the video, it is actually BETTER live (and I finally got to hear it live in Sioux Falls when Celtic Woman performed there). WOW just doesn't do it justice.
Thanks David. They are as easy to look at as there music is beautiful to listen to. I would love to see them live also.
Buddy
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Liz_9000
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I like Ulrich Schnauss's song "Stars", anything by Project Skyward, Steve Roach's song "Something in the Tears" has a beautiful, spacey sound to it... perfect for listening to while star gazing.
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Within each of us there is
a silence as vast as the universe.
We long for it.
We can return to it.
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