Field lens - Cheap eyepiece used as mulch. Herschel Wedge - Agressively pulling up the wasteband of an observer's shorts while he is bent-over, observing the sun. Wedge overlook - A crowd gathered to watch you give someone a Hershel Wedge. Secondary mirror - Telescope mirror purchased on eBay from Taiwanese seller. Baffle - Peppering one's Stary Party talk at the elementary school with esoteric technical jargon. Spider - Cobwebs found inside telescope tubes after winter storage. Flocking - What your wife wishes you would do instead of going to the star party. GoTo - The first half of an expression used when someone laughs at your telescope. Tracking error - Arriving at the Pit-n-pole only to get a phone call telling you the star party is at Lakeside. Parallax - Two laxes. Declination - Turning-down an offer to look through someone else's telescope. Nagler - A wife who regularly complains about your involvement in astronomy. Diffraction limit - When you just can't take even one more astronomy-related algorithm. Tube currents - Wild berries growing on your observatory-mounted telescope. Newtonian Reflector - Mirror used to examine the backside of fig newtons. Enhanced Coating - When it's so cold you need both parka and insulated coveralls. Mirror Stripping - Taking off one's clothes in front of the mirror, often to music. Tripod - When you repeatedly submit photos to APOD without success. Planisphere - Irrational fear of flat surfaces. Field Of View - Rural observing site. Prism - Where astronomical criminals are incarcerated. 4 Place Log Table - Picnic furniture at SPOC Globular Cluster - What a Snickers becomes when left on the dash of the car in summer. Galaxy - Laxative for women. Cone error - Forgetting to put the covers on the lawn sprinklers. Counterweight - Complaining about the weight one's wife has gained in recent years. (not recommended) Observing run - Not wanting to leave the eyepiece and dashing to the restroom at the last possible moment. (also not recommended) Pyrex - A fire that has been extinguished. Asteroids - Rectal inflammation due to too many hours in the observing chair. Finder Scope - Helping a female club member remember where she left her telescope.
A few more: Meteor - When Ziggy gets extra sausage at Advanced Training. Elliptical Galaxy - When women combine exercise on a stationary machine with a laxative. Radio noise - When the observer next to you plays loud country-and-western music all night. Supernova - The annual full-color, fold-out edition of the club newsletter. Dwarf star - A midget entertainer. Dark companion - A GF who accompanies you to a star party, but just scowls the entire time. Rack-and-pinion - Encountering a female nudist in your observing site in a pine clearing. Dew heater - Accidentally leaving your Mt. Dew in the trunk during the afternoon drive to the Wedge. Bluetooth app - Discovering that the pen you had in your mouth between jotting-down notes has leaked. Registax - A pile of monarchs. Polishing pitch - Practicing one's proposal to the club board of direrctors.
Ok, these are the last ones...for a while... Inverter - What you do when you find a female observer upside-down. Gregorian reflector - A mirror used by monks. Accretion disk - A frisbee for idiots. Dark energy - What you get when you turn on a black light. Dark matter - The outside of an Oreo. Black hole - Where the money you spend on astronomy goes. Trojan points - The corners of a condom wrapper. Transit of Venus - A beautiful young woman on a TRAX train. Opposition - When your wife says "you're not going" to the star party.
I wanna play: Lagrange Point: Standing outside that nice place in Texas. Mercury Seven: The group of kids in the back of Mom's station wagon. Hubble: That feeling you get when a pretty lady walks by. Equatorial: The opinion page in a Quito newspaper. Right Ascension: John Boehner waking up. Black Hole: My room when I was 15. Julian date: 4-8-1963. Dan On Aug 16, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Chuck Hards wrote:
Ok, these are the last ones...for a while...
Inverter - What you do when you find a female observer upside-down.
Gregorian reflector - A mirror used by monks.
Accretion disk - A frisbee for idiots.
Dark energy - What you get when you turn on a black light.
Dark matter - The outside of an Oreo.
Black hole - Where the money you spend on astronomy goes.
Trojan points - The corners of a condom wrapper.
Transit of Venus - A beautiful young woman on a TRAX train.
Opposition - When your wife says "you're not going" to the star party.
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On 8/16/11, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com> wrote:
Black Hole: My room when I was 15.
LOL! Martian polar cap - Headgear worn during winter oppositions of Mars. Galilean moons - Purportedly, something seen on Galileo's terrace during his many parties. Uranus - See above. Meteor storm - When Ziggy wanted links but got patties.
lunar specimens The first Italian Astronauts on the moon?
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:04:16 -0600 From: chuck.hards@gmail.com To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Astronomy Definitions
On 8/16/11, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com> wrote:
Black Hole: My room when I was 15.
LOL!
Martian polar cap - Headgear worn during winter oppositions of Mars.
Galilean moons - Purportedly, something seen on Galileo's terrace during his many parties.
Uranus - See above.
Meteor storm - When Ziggy wanted links but got patties.
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Field stop - Potty break in the middle of nowhere. Lens tissue - What a good samaritan does when someone forgot to bring toilet paper to the dark-sky site. Binocular - Eyepiece for someone who swings both ways. Tube - What comes before threbe. Achromat - Coin-operated laundry that won't fade colored clothing. Aluminized - Honorable inclusion in a class at a school you didn't attend. Fork mount - Similar to a spoon rest.
Misalignment - Annual beauty contest winner sponsored by Losmandy. Serial Interface - A bowl of milk and a spoon. Corrector plate - Orthopedic dentures
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