I am a newbie to astro

IceAngel · Post by **IceAngel** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 10:20 pm

i dunno.. my office friends tell me is 24th, then my sch calender writes 23th Oct..

samuel, will u be free on that one day holiday? if u can make it, maybe we will "invade" ur house the whole day.. hehehe.. dun mind??? :? :?

IceAngel · Post by **IceAngel** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 10:23 pm

weixing wrote:Hi,
I've post this link on the yahoo! Group before... So post here again for the newbie.
It is actually the lecture notes for the introductory astronomy course offer by The Department of Physics of The University of Hong Kong: "Nature of the Universe I & II'':

http://bohr.physics.hku.hk/~nature/CD/f ... index.html

Hope useful to the newbie...

wow.. tat's cool.. haha
do any of you know anyone in HK who is in Astronomy?? bcoz the end of this month i am going to HK for a week.. so i might be able to check wat scopes they have there or contact them and learn from them too.. 8)

Grievous · Post by **Grievous** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 10:55 pm

harlequin2902 wrote:Hm, so I think I'd better start putting together an eyepiece-edu kit for such sessions in the future.

Looking forward to it

Hrmmmmm, maybe do one "Premium Eyepc Kit" for the rest of us??

Charlie

Post by **zong** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 11:16 pm

To clear the doubt about deepavali, it's really 24th october.

The Indians have their own way of calculating dates (thus the calendar difference duh

), and due to some unforseen things they calculated deepavali to be 23rd, at the start of the year. However, as the days go by they realise it's a miscalculation and so deepavali is now 24th. I have Indian friends in my class, that's how I know.

Yeah I'd like to play around with scopes too... Samuel, how many have you got in your house? I'd like to play around with one, cos I don't happen to own any... so if you've got quite a number, I'd like to pay a visit, learn something new, and play around with your scopes (and hopefully see something at the opposite side of your house

)

IceAngel · Post by **IceAngel** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 11:25 pm

haha... read the equipment database thread, he said he got 3 scopes in his house

starfirez · Post by **starfirez** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 9:57 pm

if it is 24th i might not be able to make it

will be have lessons in the morning or afternoon or night ah teacher samuel?

IceAngel · Post by **IceAngel** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:56 pm

how come is holiday still need to go school???
hmm... sch until wat time??

Kamikazer · Post by **Kamikazer** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 8:34 pm

anybody know how to locate celestial north or...
did you all with equatorials align by geographic north or magnetic north
(magnetic north is not exactly aligned with geographic north)

Post by **weixing** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:39 pm

Hi,
I normally just use the compass to align my EQ mount for visual purpose. If require more accurate alignment, I use the drift star polar alignment method....

IceAngel · Post by **IceAngel** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:02 pm

wow.. drift star polar alignment method?? can tell us more about that???