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What is the first step to pursue astronomy?
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[QUOTE="|Glitch|, post: 5473614, member: 494152"] Get yourself a good star chart, learn how to read it, memorize the constellations, and be able to identify them in the night sky. Astronomy deals primarily with the location and composition of celestial objects. Astrophysics is the study of the physical mechanism of those celestial objects, such as nucleosynthesis. You really can't study astrophysics without knowing something about astronomy first. Learn about parallax, Cepheid variables, the various supernovae types, and red shift to get an understanding about how cosmological distances are determined. An introduction to astronomy college course will typically include familiarization of the solar system before moving into the stars and galaxies. Be prepared to take some nighttime lab courses where you will be using telescopes. The mathematics skills you learn as a mechanical engineer will help. Astronomy, and especially astrophysics, are very math dependent. [/QUOTE]
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