New blog subject: Backyard astronomy

This blog has changed subjects a few times already and may do so again. This time it's because I've bought myself a brand new telescope and I wish to write about it. Perhaps not so much about the telescope but rather about how I learn to use it and what I can observe in it.

You put your weed in there.

What do I intend to do with it? Look at stars (white dots in the eyepiece), look at planets (large white dots in the eyepiece), look at deep sky objects (fuzzy white blobs in the eyepiece) and look at the moon (looks the same, but bigger). I also intend to take pictures of these objects. I have a normal Canon DSLR that's at least 5 years old. It's called Canon EOS 400D in most of the world but apparently Digital Rebel XTi in North America and EOS Kiss Digital X in Japan. More about Canons weird decisions in later posts. Will I buy a new camera just to take pictures of the night sky? Probably not.

Will I post all my results here? Yes. Good ones - and bad.