{"id":33030,"date":"2024-04-08T17:58:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T21:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=33030"},"modified":"2024-04-08T23:24:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T03:24:00","slug":"two-things-one-learns-as-an-astronomy-nerd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=33030","title":{"rendered":"Two things one learns as an astronomy nerd:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1) 50% of everything you want to see will be ruined by clouds (actual percentage varies by location);<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) 99% of things in the sky are underwhelming to the non-astronomy nerd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think this is due to a combination of at least these factors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a) astronomy magazines and media showing impossible to achieve images (long exposures, multiple nights even, with pro equipment, etc.) that look like a small grey smudge thru a hobby-level scope, even the biggest and best of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>b) many a non-<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?tag=nerds\" target=\"_blank\">nerd<\/a> will think what <strong><em>we nerds<\/em><\/strong> consider awesome is pointless and underwhelming.  And that&#8217;s OK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>c) in a world with unlimited TV streaming, tablets, mobile, Nintendo Switch, PS5s and the like, the sky is a very poor competitor. A century ago the sky was the Biggest Show on Earth; now many can&#8217;t even see it.  This is not some sort of old man yells at clouds rant, it&#8217;s just a truth.  I happen to like video games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>I think is this a category error, like the difference between The Woodwrigth&#8217;s Shop vs The New Yankee Workshop on PBS back in the day.  Or simpler, &#8220;one man&#8217;s garbage is another man&#8217;s treasure&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/reaction-revenge-of-the-nerds-ogre-nerds.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/reaction-revenge-of-the-nerds-ogre-nerds.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33031\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) 50% of everything you want to see will be ruined by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[34,1436],"class_list":["post-33030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-astronomy","tag-nerds","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33030"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33054,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33030\/revisions\/33054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}