Can cross M31 off my list …
Written by Rob on August 22, 2007 – 1:05 pm -
I think I may have, for the first time, finally seen Andromeda in the night sky! As much time as I’ve spent looking at the stars over my lifetime, it really is something that it took me this long to find. Perhaps a bit anticlimactic, through binoculars, basically all I saw was a blur, sorta like the photo here from slooh.com, only much smaller. But still, the thought that that little blob has at least as many stars as all the stars in our sky, it really stokes the imagination …
Slooh, by the way, is way cool, an online telescope controlled by subscribers. $20 buys you 200 minutes of telescope viewing time, which works out to be quite a bit of time in actuality. Well worth it so far, I’ve found …
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August 23rd, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Hi - Glad your’re enjoying Slooh and took some pictures! Come back on a moonless night and you can get a much sharper picture of Andromeda - lots of other objects too. There was a little dust in the air last night too. We put a preview page here on our so you can see what the scopes are up to before you decide to go in to the Mission Interface and use your time. If you click on the tab, you’ll get a full report on the weather for seeing, complete with satellite imagry and even night vision webcams:) Thanks again for becoming a member of Slooh! - Tierney O’Dea COO - Slooh.com