I will certainly give it a try!

You don’t need a whole observatory, just someone with a good telescope already- when they say contact local school that’s what they mean. I second what others have said also about looking up local “star parties” on google or Facebook.

Wish I could! We are way down south, bordering Arkansas and Texas. Not much of anything here, which I've read is good because of light pollution. Unfortunately I saw that humidity will mess things up. It's humid here even in winter so.....

Man, I am strapped right now. But if I had the cash I would just buy you a decent telescope for you and the kids or even send the money for you to get it. Its nice having one around to look at any time, and it's nice seeing the kids exploring and learning.

Shooting a gun with a typical hold would send you into a constant multi axis spin as well. Seeing as the forces are being applied off your center of mass. It's not like you would just fly backwards.

I'm not sure I follow you here at all. There doesn't have to be any problem with infinite. It's just something that goes on forever.

Things can also be infinite in one direction and finite in another. Our universe might have a finite start at its beginning leading into endless expansion into time and space.

Some infinities come to a virtual end without ever quite reaching it. Much of calculus depends on plugging in infinity to figure out the value an equation will eventually close in on.

Things that are infinite are not identical to each other. You can have a densely populated infinity or a sparsely populated infinity or an empty infinity. You can have a diverse infinity or a homogeneous one. You can have an infinity that is always larger or smaller than another infinity wherever you measure it.

The observable universe stretches equally in every direction without any sign it is approaching a boundary. It doesn't have universe-scale landmarks to set its regions apart from each other. On the largest scale, it meets all the requirements to be an infinitely large, infinitely growing environment with only superficial differences at smaller scales. So that's already one set of infinities in play before we introduce additional universes.

We don't know what rules apply outside our universe, so talking about what infinities are or are not possible with those rules doesn't mean anything either.

Neat site. I was reading that because it's just about a swamp here that the humidity is going to mess up the visibility. Shame, because I have family in a dark blue area, and I can go like 10 miles north and be in a gray to dark gray place.

I think you’ll be good! Definitely for satellites.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/satellite-tracker-by-star-walk/id1248172706

This is the app I was talking about. I think it was a couple bucks….it’s cool and the same company makes a night sky one but it’s a little more money.

Also I don’t think they want to drive far away to look at something they can’t even see we’ll.

Pro tip, use a credit card and buy one from Amazon. Use the scope and then return it after using it because it wasn’t what you expected.

Thanks, that would be interesting to try. I hadn't really considered satellites. We are in town, but it's a small town and we have family further out of town we see every week. I figured we would try there. I don't know how to describe the amount of light pollution, but we can see the milkyway on clear nights. Heck, some nights even in town, since it's a small town.

check at your local library, ours has a telescope you can checkout for free

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https://librarytelescope.org/

See if your library or one near you participates in this program that lends telescopes.

Thanks. I see several people saying binoculars, not telescope. They say it will be more blurry or something with a telescope. What exactly makes that occur. I wouldn't have thought there would be any difference.

From what I can find out. There are 4 observatories in the state. All are around 4 hours away sadly. Idk if any are open to the public but the distance removes any need to research further in that area. Thank you for the advice though.

Thank for the info, though I don't suspect there are that many in the area. Very sporadically populated, high poverty rural area. Would be great for star viewing though. Not a lot of light pollution.

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My father worked for a while at a planetarium and later led star walks. I used to go with him. They're some of the most enduring memories of my childhood. So I second this idea.

If you shoot a gun in space would it ever slow down

I didn't even know about this, so I will have to make a similar effort. Thanks for bring this to my attention!

Certainly, but isn't it always? You go outside with your telescope to watch something awesome that has a narrow window, and all you get is wet.

It’s pretty borderline especially for a diffuse object.

A telescope can help if it has very low power.

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