Interests and hobbies! What are yours?

[Mano]

Hope to upgrade my telescope soon. Hopefully a Schmidt–Cassegrain in the 9 to 11 inch range if budget allows. Might go second hand from EBay.  GPS is a must.
Calibration takes a long time with my current telescope and that is time you are missing out observing the sky.

Quantum Mechanics is another hobby as well. No way to have a clue how Black Holes even exist with out some knowledge of what is happening at the event horizon.
Acceleration dilates time, not gravity. Gravity is the result of acceleration. Understanding what warps space makes one scratch their head.

Albert Einstein did not like quantum entanglement. He called it spooky action
at a distance. General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics cannot be linked together as there is still a big piece missing. Einstein believed Black Holes exist.

Understanding what space (space-time) is will be the next big step for scientists in this discipline. Does space actually flow into the even horizon of a black hole? Is it traveling faster than the speed of light? Does space stretch, is it malleable like soft metal, and warped by acceleration? How can quantum entanglement react faster than the speed of light? So many questions
that will not be answered until we can send a probe close to a feeding black hole and observe if information is lost. More experiments with entanglement will be designed to develop
communication in the near future. Computers are already using quantum mechanics. Their speeds of computing are the next step forward.

 

[CptTrips]

Hope to upgrade my telescope soon. Hopefully a Schmidt–Cassegrain in the 9 to 11 inch range if budget allows.

Hard to go wrong with a quality 8" SCT. 

Depends a lot  on where you do most of your observing.  If your hauling it out and setting up at a dark sky site, 11" is a lot of heavy glass.
I hauled my 12" Meade around for about a year and realized that wasn't enjoyable.  Next thing you know you will be build an permanent observatory so you don't have to. 

If you're going out to your back yard, not so much a problem.  An 11" is still pretty heavy to have to take up and down.

Of course more glass means it's hard to come to thermal equilibrium.  Until then you will have tube currents that make high res work impossible.  In my close to desert region with a big temp swing between night and day it is very hard to get and keep my scope equalized.  I often have to resort to active cooling but in mid-summer that night air continues to drop all night just a bit faster than my scope can equalize.  If I am doing hi res planetary photography I have to stop every hour and do some more cooling and then quickly grab my images.  It only takes 0.5f to create tube currents.

Still, we always want bigger.    I know.  I know. 

[knorB]

Trips what caliber are you shooting?

[CptTrips]

Trips what caliber are you shooting?

6.5 Creedmoor.

I have a Ruger Precision 6.5 Creedmoor.


Very fun gun to shoot.  Even I can do good with it.  I generally can shoot 1 MOA except when I spazz.
100yd (Yeah, I spazzed and pulled one):




And lots of .22. 
I also have a Ruger Precision .22.  It is designed to be a close approximation to it's bigger brother so it is good to practice with and build muscle memory. 
You probably get 80% of the needed training before switching to the 6.5.  That's a lot cheaper as the Creedmoors are over $2 a round for precision ammo.



So I'll shoot up about 200 rnd of .22 and then switch and do 10-20 rnd of creedmoor.  That a practice session.
 

[knorB]

Nice. Are you hand loading or just factory?



 Glass?

[CptTrips]

Nice. Are you hand loading or just factory?

I found Prime ammo does really good in that creedmoor. I always have some of that.

I have all the loading stuff.  I was getting very good results but right now my life is in chaos so it's all packed away in storage.  After I get settled back and get my move over with I will set it back up again.  That helps with the cost, but more importantly allows me to tune the powder and bullet grain size  to my barrel's particular harmonics.

A couple of years ago I was on a quest to work my way up to shooting 1000 yd and hitting man-chest sized metal targets.  There is a range not too far from my land where they have a 1000 yd range.  You have to pass a qual course first to shoot it.  I was working my way up to that but life has interfered the last two years. 


Another thing I want to restart after I'm done crawling through my Shawshank 1/4 mile tunnel of sht. 

[knorB]

I'm shooting a savage 110 tactical topped off with a Primary Arms ACSS Apollo.  Just scored a bunch of large rifle primers and looking forward to load development.

[CptTrips]

I'm shooting a savage 110 tactical topped off with a Primary Arms ACSS Apollo.  Just scored a bunch of large rifle primers and looking forward to load development.

Nice. Savage are fantastic values.  Solid rifles at a good price.

308 huh.  Old school.    Less expensive rnds though.

I'd like to get a 308 at some point. 

Both my rigs are topped with SWFA scopes.  Great value for the money.  They sell to military mainly.  They added a civilian version.

[knorB]

Nice. Savage are fantastic values.  Solid rifles at a good price.

308 huh.  Old school.    Less expensive rnds though.

I'd like to get a 308 at some point. 

Both my rigs are topped with SWFA scopes.  Great value for the money.  They sell to military mainly.  They added a civilian version.

My bad, i should have added it is in 6.5 creemoor.  SWFA make a nice piece.  My old school rifle is in 30-06. Sporterized 03 Springfield.

[CptTrips]

My bad, i should have added it is in 6.5 creemoor.  SWFA make a nice piece.  My old school rifle is in 30-06. Sporterized 03 Springfield.

Oh good.  308 guys will laugh at you and call you names, but it's worth flat trajectory.

I need a 30-06 for my collection too.    That's a good apocalypse gun.  You can find ammo any where.

[knorB]

Oh good.  308 guys will laugh at you and call you names, but it's worth flat trajectory.

I need a 30-06 for my collection too.    That's a good apocalypse gun.  You can find ammo any where.

Have you a 17 HMR?   Great little pest control round, as the ballistic tip 17gr explode on impact and minimize over pen and ricochet.

[CptTrips]

Have you a 17 HMR?   Great little pest control round, as the ballistic tip 17gr explode on impact and minimize over pen and ricochet.

NO, just .22LR.  I was tempted to go that route and I heard a lot of good reviews.

However I wanted to shoot .22 precision at ranges that the 17HMR would drop out of trans-sonic. 

For precision  you either want to stay above speed of sound within the range to target or start sub-sonic.  You'll introduce a lot of random deviation crossing trans-sonic.

I don't know how far you are along in your journey, but this is the video series that got me hooked  :



The whole playlist:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwG-D0HjCBQ&list=PLJUaiRIEduNXoal2_PkBZi0vDCIcEPxUn

[knorB]

Yup I've gone through that series.  Check out this review when you get the time.

[CptTrips]

Yup I've gone through that series.  Check out this review when you get the time.

Will do.   

[turt21]

My Hobby.

https://millersbirdcarving.webs.com/

click the GAllery at above left for pics