I meant in terms of commerce. You IT people are on your own.

Very much so. They were never going to get the Pope on board, and without the Pope, they wouldn’t have had much of Europe on their side.

It would have worked if the rest of the world (or at least the major European powers) were on board. But since most of them were still ruled by kings, that wasn’t going to happen.

Wikipedia tells me it was come up with in 1923, long after both global trade and the industrial revolution. You need all the countries to agree on the same calendar system or commerce is really hindered. It was way too late to change in 1923.

The French tried to change the calendar to something more sensible and closer to metric after the French Revolution. It did not last long.

Things seem to work just fine with the calendar we have anyway.

Also, it could be worse. The Mayans had three different calendar systems- a solar calendar, a lunar calendar, and a 260-day calendar which we don’t know the origin of, but I like Dr. Ed Barnhart’s theory that it’s very close to a human gestational period.

I honestly don’t remember, it’s been so long since I’ve been into telescopes. But you obviously know your stuff, so you’re right.

Oh man, I always wanted a dobs. They were significantly more expensive than Newtonians when I was shopping around (not sure if that’s still true, this was the 90s), so I ended up with a Newtonian.

I’ve heard stupider believe it or not. Once some co-workers and I went outside to see the ISS pass overhead and one of them said “can they see the Earth from up there?”

I forgot to mention- this woman was the chief news anchor for the local evening TV news.

I saw Saturn at an observatory long before I had my own telescope, but that heart-skip-a-beat moment the first time you see Saturn with your own telescope is like nothing else.

And the hemisphere.

You can probably get a pretty decent Canon or Nikon SLR for cheap on eBay, especially now that everyone is going mirrorless.

Looks great! Do you do image stacking? You might look into that. I did microscope photography and used it, but it’s also used for astrophotography.

We Capricorns are naturally skeptical of horoscopes.

Mostly that it’s still nonsense.

Will do, thanks!

100%. That’s why it took me until the end of June to join Lemmy even though the blackout was on June 12th.

And I was already hating Reddit before the blackout. But FOMO made me stay and I feel bad about it.

I will look it over. Thank you.

Yeah, we are lucky in that respect.

Because I’m not an Irish citizen.

Thanks. We have a full report from a place that does evaluations with lots of test result information, so hopefully that will work.

I really appreciate all of these websites people are sharing!

Thanks!