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Re: birds and stars Mike Poxon wrote: > If any of you birders out there are ever in Britain, come and visit me! > I live in the Norfolk Broads, a National Park, with a famous RSPB site, > Strumpshaw Fen, only about 5km away. Might catch some variables too! Gary Poyner wrote: > I'm a keen birder, and butterflies. I understand you have the only > British Swallowtails over your way! How many combinations of birders and variable star observers out there (*_*)? Yes, both birding and variable star observing can share the same equipment, a spotting scope is also useful to wide-field variable star observing and I also enjoyed it. There are a number of avian constellations, although I can see only a part of them from this latitude. [I wonder why the constellation Apus and the ornithological Apus refer to different genera?] The only drawbacks I experienced from birding on variable star observation was the detriment to dark adaptation and frequent necessity of readjustment of binoculars, and a markedly reduced number of VS observations during some migration months... There also had been a discussion on some ornithology-related matters on VSNET in the past. See how a missing closure in a circle was found: http://vsnet.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/docs/ornithology.html [This illustrates how VSNET is not solely concentrated in CV campaigns ;-)] Regards, Taichi Kato
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