What is the astronomical event, which touched you the most?
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Unfortunately, I haven't seen this phenomenon, but I put the 2024 eclipse on my agenda.
I am thinking of going to Mazatlán Mexico.
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I remember 1989 in March in the middle of the month.
a magnetic storm hits Quebec in its entirety, its happening overnight so no one knows yet. in the morning no one has electricity.
electricity comes back little by little in the evening.
suddenly I look at the sky and the show begins, shapes of all colors appear, green, blue, mauve, red.
it was by far the most beautiful spectacle of the northern lights that I have seen for life.
I remembered this while re-reading passages from this thread.
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Second would be seeing Hale-Bopp as a brilliant naked eye object in the 90's.
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The second early 1970, my dad managed to find Saturn with our newly purchased Prinz refractor (Xmas present for me)
Much more recently, my next second light of Saturn this time I was older than my Dad was at the first viewing. Dad passed in 1991, and for some odd reason Saturn became blurry for a while.
Nostalgia can hit you between the eyes sometimes.
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The splashdown of Apollo 13.
Seeing the Milky Way at the Humphreys basin (It cast a shadow!).
The 2017 solar eclipse (Mostly the event of getting there, otherwise, meh).
Every stargazing/astrophotography/hiking/camping trip to the Sierras.
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First view of Saturn through my Tasco at age 12.
The total solar eclipse of 1972 (Tuktoyaktuk) that my parents wouldn't let me go to.
The total solar eclipse of 1979 (Moose Jaw) that was right in my back yard, except that the air force sent me on a course, so I missed it.
A random backpacking trip in the Rocky Mountains: getting up in the middle of the night to answer the call of nature and seeing a
Comet Hyakutake in 1996. Wow, that thing was BIG!!!
Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997. My first astrophotography.
If I had to narrow it down, it would be Hale-Bopp.
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A few odds and ends I remember with pleasure: the first time I saw a lunar eclipse as a kid, using my Dad’s old 7 x 35 binoculars. Comet Hale-Bopp. The partial solar eclipse in 1996, when I discovered that the gaps in the leaves of a tree acted as lenses to create hundreds of little eclipse images on the ground. The transit of Mercury last year (2019). The one time a few years ago here on my patio in Mexico that I saw color in M42. Subtle pink, maroon, and teal green. I spent a couple hours that night with different eyepieces observing the nebula, making the most of something I knew I would probably never see again.
The Northern lights on a late summer evening in 2016. I had a pact with my sister that we would call one another if we saw the aurora. I was out with my telescope that night, and called her, and she came down. She died the following summer; I’m glad we got to watch the lights in the sky together that night.
Finally, showing my Mom Saturn through my 8” Meade
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1) Stepping out of my back door in March 1976 and seeing Comet West in the pre-dawn sky. No need for optical aid, as it was extremely large and bright, with a huge fanned tail arcing upward from just above the horizon. That was truly an emotional moment for me.
2) The first time I ever saw
3) Like several others, the 2017 total solar eclipse. It was our first total and we drove to Kentucky from Virginia to witness it. I set up my AR127 and ED80 on the Twilight-II mount in a Walmart packing lot in Russellville, Ky and we shared the experience with about eight other folks who had collected around us. There were several such clusters of folks strewn around. I finally understood those that say "go total or go home." The visual treat of the solar eclipse was a truly visceral experience for us. From the anticipation and lead up, to the point where I could pull the filters off the refractors to view the totality, witnessing Bailey's Beads, the corona, Helmet Streamers and a fine prominence. Another aspect was the eerie light around us during totality - unlike anything we'd experienced before. We are looking forward to 2024, though April can be problematic due to spring weather. The path of totality goes through our home county in southern Indiana and we plan to be there.
4) The memories of the summer Milky Way when we lived in the countryside of southern Indiana in the late 70s and early 80s. Fortunately we can relive this feeling at our second house in the mountains of western Virginia at an elevation of nearly 2,800 ft ASL. It is typically a
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2017 total solar eclipse from Wyoming
Numerous all-sky auroras
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(That is my "event" because it was transient: it occurred and I witnessed it. Reading through the other responses, I have to add my first view of Saturn through a telescope the summer that I was nine. Others added astronautic events and under that rubric, I put my first Shuttle launch: STS-95. I was working as a clerk for NASA Exchange at KSC.)
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1969 Man's first landing on the Moon, we were sent home from school and I watched it on TV from home that afternoon.
1974 My first solar eclipse, partial from home.
1978 First total lunar eclipse, really got committed to astronomy
1980 First light through my hand made 6" f7 reflector
1981 Working on a project on a smaller 16" telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, the late Tom Cragg, Chief Night Assistant,
gave us a walk around of the outside catwalk at the base of the dome of the 4m AAT telescope with the central Milky
Way overhead and extending to north and south horizons. These space walks are now banned due to WHS risk management.
1984 Two nights in April and May when seeing was perfect, magnification was only limited by the optics not the atmosphere.
Mars, Saturn and Jupiter at opposition.
1986 Halley's Comet
1994 First total solar eclipse from Bolivia
2001 Total eclipse in Kapini village, Zambia. 1000 villagers singing, dancing, celebrating around us.
2001 Leonid Meteor shower from western Queensland - great fireball display.
2007 Comet McNaught - the only "great" comet since the early 70's. (50 degree naked eye tail)
2011 Death of my teenage astronomy mentor, Arthur Page.
2015 Bright auroral display (Kp5) from Norway then total solar eclipse from the high Arctic (80N)
2018 Watching the Jan 31 lunar eclipse with my terminally ill friend and long-time solar eclipse observing partner - our last
eclipse together. The finality of our adventures together and the impending loss really hit me and the waterworks
started flowing while I was packing up that night.
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What was significant about this is that it started me on the road to my astronomy hobby. A couple of years later we bought a house and soon after getting settled I bought my first scope. And as they say, the rest is history
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These days - anytime I see Saturn and/or Jupiter - they are still stunning no matter how many times I observe them.
Any Galaxy is up there too.
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Next, might not qualify. However, as former pilot, the greatest job of flying I've ever seen was when Neil Armstrong touched the Lunar Module down on the moon.
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Will she transform into a supernova, several questions are raised with this episode.
it was very pleasant to see it change magnitudes and return to normal.
I remember there was an excitement in the scientific world.
many people don't want her to become a supernova, they say orion will never be the same again.
no Orion is going to be different and that's fine.
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