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I used my first real telescope like two months ago and saw Jupiter. It was fucking jawdropping.
Yep. It's pretty cool to look at the giant red spot as Jupiter rotates. Saturn is fantastic this year as it is highly angled at us, so it is easy to see the rings, Casino division and other details. Mars was as close to us in 11 years around May, still bright but not as big.
 
Maybe. Every park I've backpacked in though I've called the ranger station ahead of time to ask questions about and I always ask about carrying. The response is always the same, "I never go out unarmed".

I've had run ins with black bears a few times in Wisconsin and once in Oklahoma. one ran right up on me, looked at me funny, barked, and that was it. Another time we were following one down a trail, never saw it but kept finding fresh footprints and bear shit. It just kept heading away from us, we eventually turned and set up camp.

I've also been out when an active wolf pack was in the area, and that was actually awesome to listen too all night.

Wild boars are actually my concern when backpacking though, they are the reason I carry. For bears I just put ammonia out around camp now, they stay away.

"I never go out unarmed"

What a pussy, what happened, your balls dropped off?


What happened to the good old days where a man would wrestle a bear if they were attacked? When did this generation became such wusses? Is there no MAN left on this planet, what the fuck?

My grandpa still has the marks of the balls of the bear he kicked in the groin on his feet when he was attacked by half a ton grizzly. He kicked him so hard that it left fucking ball marks on his feet!

Also, packing in case of bacon attack? I'm not even touching that.:waw:
 
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How hard is it to learn to aim a telescope? With our backyard, it would be neat to have one.
You've got a fairly large property, so all you'd need to do is set up a target at one end, and the 'scope at the other, stick the lowest power eyepiece in and center the target, and then sight in the spotting scope.

After that, assuming you've got a good tripod with fine adjustment (or an equatorial mount), it's pretty easy.
 
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I once had to live in a bear cave with a momma bear and 2 cubs after our plane went down in Himalayas. I made the momma my bitch and made her fetch me food. Too bad the cubs died of starvation, but I ate them too.

A fella with his trusty MP5 Spammer can bring the natural world to its knees.
 
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I once had to live in a bear cave with a momma bear and 2 cubs after our plane went down in Himalayas. I made the momma my bitch and made her fetch me food. Too bad the cubs died of starvation, but I ate them too.
You kinda sound like you'd be the tourist that gets killed by a moose after trying to take a selfie with it and it's baby on the side of the road.
 
A fella with his trusty MP5 Spammer can bring the natural world to its knees.

Give me an MP5 Spammer and I'll give you the world.

You kinda sound like you'd be the tourist that gets killed by a moose after trying to take a selfie with it and it's baby on the side of the road.

I'm not an 18 year old chick, I don't take selfies.
 
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It probably took my buddy like 10 minutes or so to get Jupiter dialed in. I'm assuming the more you do it, the easier it gets.

I would love to take a look at Jupiter.

Mars and Saturn too.


(I didn't make any Uranus jokes, I'm either maturing or the life has taken its toll on me and made me a boring asshole)
 
How hard is it to learn to aim a telescope? With our backyard, it would be neat to have one.
My parents had one. No computer, just regular old, easy peasy telescope. Could see Saturn but it was literally a white disc with white ring around it. Just looking up we knew where Saturn was so it was about a minute to locate it with the telescope. The coolest part was watching it for 30seconds+ straight in the telescope & watching the effect of the earth's rotation. It took about 30 seconds for it to go from the center of the field of view to the edge. That had no computer set up. I got all excited about it & looked into them & now they have ones that are computer controlled where it's pretty easy to point & let the computer tell you (or do it automatically) where to point.
 
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It probably took my buddy like 10 minutes or so to get Jupiter dialed in. I'm assuming the more you do it, the easier it gets.
Yep. I would bet too, that going to a couple of the group meets, you could talk with some owners & get an easy hands on guidance how to get started. Here, twice in the summer they have some kind of telescope nights & the hobbyists set up all over the Riverwalk & some of them have massive, computer controlled set ups. Like bizarrely detailed views of the moon, various planets, etc. Crazy stuff.
 
Not sure, maybe a 6"? A friend brought it camping with us. You could clearly see a bunch of the moons. It was awe inspiring. Show your crotch fruit!
Yeah, we've got a 1000mm Matsukov Cassegrain telescope by Celestron. The cuntmuppets look through it from time to time :)

It's ok for astronomy (I mean, you can see the banding in Jupiter and the Galilean moons), but it was really designed to be a spotting scope, so no big 2" eyepieces, which kinda bites.
 
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