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Enig
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Loc: NW GA, U.S.A.
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Re: Observing is more fun with a plan in mind!
06/28/09 12:26 PM
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I am a total beginner to actual observing, and only have a cheap set of binoculars and my eyes for that, but I do have some ideas about the approach you are speaking of.
To my mind, thinking like "I nabbed 10 Messier's /I also checked off 8 things on the..." sounds sorta like collecting for sport, which I wouldn't really understand the motivation for within the context of this "hobby" and the value that it holds.
It seems to *me* that it would be far more interesting to have a couple of particular objects that you've studied and come to understand (their distance, temperature, elemental makeup, age, how they came to be, when they were discovered, if "the ancients" had any thoughts on them... those kinds of things), and wish to spend some time with *just them*, fully "meditating into them" and experiencing them directly after having learned about them.
To my own personal way of thinking, looking at them as "checklist objects" takes away all of their actual *meaning* and worth, but I also realize that everyone is oriented differently... just thought I would share an alternative way of looking at looking!
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12x50 Binoculars
8" Newtonian / Dobsonian Telescope (Stock Zhumell Z8)
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