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TELESCOPE on a cruise?
my wife thinks this is a dumb question but has anyone taken their scope on a
cruise or do any of the lines offer a stargazing night with provided equipment? mark |
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TELESCOPE on a cruise?
my wife thinks this is a dumb question but has anyone taken their scope on a
cruise or do any of the lines offer a stargazing night with provided equipment? Seabourn used to have telescopes on their ships but soon found out they weren't too useful: ships tend to move....making it difficult to zero in on astral objects. It was a nice thought..had it worked. Cruising is like being awake, and dreaming! Visit my cruise page: http://parnami.tripod.com/ |
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 01:39:11 +0000, no name wrote:
my wife thinks this is a dumb question but has anyone taken their scope on a cruise or do any of the lines offer a stargazing night with provided equipment? mark In terms of ships providing equipment, other than organized astronomical cruises (ie. solar eclipses, etc.), I am unaware that most ships have any for passenger use. I would defer to others here of course. Even on the larger ships with stabilizers (ie. RCCL Voyager Class), there is still sufficient ship motion to result in most objects (stars, planets, clusters, nebulae) moving in and out of your scope's field of view when the ship is at sea. With any reasonable eyepiece magnification on smaller objects, this is likely to make viewing largely worthless and frustrating. The exception to this of course, would be when a ship is in port. The problem being that this typically occurs during the day for most itineraries, which does not help for night time viewing. I would also consider the cost and risk to your equipment that could result from it being shipped. I am presuming that you would be taking a plane and such equipment would have to be well protected, since you would have to check it. This risks damage to optics and any electronics that you might have. Bottom line, unless you are on an itinerary where your ship stays in port overnight, I am not sure that it is worthwhile. Even then, you would have to consider possible light pollution related issues and compromised viewing depending upon the nature of the port topography. You might be better off with some high powered binoculars, if you want to do some casual viewing. Speaking as one who majored in astrophysics in college, the nighttime skies away from land can be phenomenal, notwithstanding the aforementioned issues. HTH, Marc |
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TELESCOPE on a cruise?
ctually it ios not a bad idea for those who like that sort of thing, the
navigation deck is blacked out so the forward decks are quite dark and one gets a very good look at the heavens from them with less light pollution than normal ashore even though the rear of the ship is lit up light the fourth of July. |
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Marc Schwartz wrote in
news I must admit I was thinking of relatively low powered scopes when advising about night viewing. marc makes an excellent argument against with the motion. Any scope that has that large a field of view as to not be disturbed by the ships motion is probably too weak for meaningful stargaing ie even of the moon or close planets Marc |
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TELESCOPE on a cruise?
A ship is not a stable platform for a telescope.
I have used binoculars for excellent viewing. --------------------------------------------------------- "no name" wrote in message om... my wife thinks this is a dumb question but has anyone taken their scope on a cruise or do any of the lines offer a stargazing night with provided equipment? mark |
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 07:29:57 -0500, wrote:
A ship is not a stable platform for a telescope. It can be in port. I have used binoculars for excellent viewing. BERNIE, is that you? The Not So Fine Art Of Google - Go To Top Of Thread http://makeashorterlink.com/?E29A321E6 |
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:15:06 -0500 (EST),
wrote: Could someone please explain the voyeur and telescope thing with Sunny nka SUNSET? SUNSET came to RTC to tell us of her "experiences" using her binocs to spy on people's "fetishes" and sex lives and she was reallllly proud of it. Specifically, SUNSET likes to peep on pax on other ships in port with their shades open. SUNSEY reallly likes foot fetishes but I don't for a minute think she stops at anything to see everything. This, of course is a felony. The Not So Fine Art Of Google - Go To Top Of Thread http://makeashorterlink.com/?E29A321E6 |
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Interesting, with your hyperlink to Howie's earlier post, you have shown that
Howie indeed referred to his dickhead as awesome. Therefore, seeing as how you are so adept at making shorter links, could you please do the same with the comments re binoculars that you say SUNSET made? I would like to read her comments and decide for myself. Thank you. On Mon, Jan 26 2004 Cruising Chrissy wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:15:06 -0500 (EST), wrote: Could someone please explain the voyeur and telescope thing with Sunny nka SUNSET? SUNSET came to RTC to tell us of her "experiences" using her binocs to spy on people's "fetishes" and sex lives and she was reallllly proud of it. Specifically, SUNSET likes to peep on pax on other ships in port with their shades open. SUNSEY reallly likes foot fetishes but I don't for a minute think she stops at anything to see everything. This, of course is a felony. The Not So Fine Art Of Google - Go To Top Of Thread http://makeashorterlink.com/?E29A321E6 |
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TELESCOPE on a cruise?
I want to take my telescope on my Alaskan in Aug 2010. I know the boat travels in protected water(calm waters) and the sun doesn't set until 10:30pm. The boat will only be docked one day after sunset. Do you think I will see anything fun and interesting with those conditions? I have not found much information on this topic, so I am thinking it doesn't happen much.... -- bioeve Message origin: www.TRAVEL.com |
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