WATCHING THE SKY IS INTERESTING? OR NOT?

Do you like to watch the sky? It's a very interesting hobby. How strange and beautiful is this universe. It is full of wonders that we even couldn't imagin. If you watch a star for a few minutes you can see it glowing, vanishing, changing colours, etc. Do you ever asked to yourself that why? I bet if you start watching the sky, you will get all these answers. If you wish to start it. This will help you a bit. You can use star charts at the begining,but after one year you can do it without a chart as you will become aware of star positions in each month( Not all, at least a few of them) You should start on the day which is mentioned in the star chart. You can get this chart from internet or from news papers.

POINTS TO BE NOTED FOR A BEGINER

1. Don't use telescopes at the first time
2. When you are watching there must not be any lights around you( if there it will disturb your eyes, consequently you cannot see all the stars).
3. Allways watch through open spaces, so that you can see a large portion of the sky.
4. Sit with the star chart according to the directions given in chart
5. The directions must be right(ie North, South, West & East)
6. While watching star groups there may be a chance that you won't see all memebers at all times. It depends on the position of the star and the position chages from month to month.
7. You can use telescopes after two or three weeks
8. While using telescopes you can go for watching galaxies and those stars which couldn't be watched through naked eye.


It is not necesary that you must have a telescope. You can watch the sky and know the wonders even without a telescope. In some months you can even see the moons of jupitor( europa, Ganimeda) by naked eye. And also if you want a telescope you can make a simple one. For that, You need two concave lenses (focal lenghts 5cm and 100cm), PVC pipes fitting the lenses and connecters for conneting the two pipes.
The problem is that by using this telescope you could see only the inverted image not straight one. For viewing straight one, you should use telescopes available in shopes but that is costly. so I prefer using this simple one.