#thyere just a blurry splotch near the hyades
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i went my whole four year undergraduate career in astronomy without learning a single constellation.
#brot posts#astro posting#but i know them now. i know many#still struggling with like actually identifying their shapes and their stars but i know the region of the night sky they're in now#like orion is still the only one i can identify 100% confidently#its also hard because like i can look at the pictures of the star outlines online but then irl its like#so fucking hard to see and its not even my fault bc the stars are just so dim and long island is so light polluted#so trying to find aries or whatever its like. where the fuck is it#i look at where it SHOULD be and its just blank space like man. ugh#i look where taurus should be and all i can see is aldebaran and like the vague blurriness of the hyades and nothing else#even the pleiades i can clearly find them but i cannot resolve a SINGLE star#thyere just a blurry splotch near the hyades#and the only way i can even see that is by indirectly looking at them#which in all my quest for knowledge with this stuff i have discovered is a real observing technique#the looking away technique or whatever#where if you look directly at something you actually cant see it that well but if you glance away and keep it off center of your vision#then you can see it more clearly#i was doing that all this time to see the pleiades but apparently its like. legit and real. so cool. thats more a human biology thing tho#so idk why exactly it is but still
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