If a person wants to go in space, and he don't know that what would be the "mind setup in the space", so what we can suggest them including do and don't in space, in the space station. Or what would be the better thoughts "what they can do even better than they are doing today!!

Secondly, are there any guides already published or are there any special links made in this regard.

Motivation in regard of : to work on simulator, exercises, different experiments in the space, mind situations in the space, stress, tensions, emotions and its control during space journey, extra curricular activities in space station like, reading novel, painting, playing games on computer.

Would you like to suggest few things of which the new astronomer will prefer to do so or to act upon, or look into.



Sunil

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I usually recommend they buy a really, really big telescope; explaining that they will want a bigger one soon enough and that it is best to skip all the upgrade steps and just go for the gusto. Get one of those $25K limit VISA cards so they can just start right in on the hobby with a 16" SCT. And of course I'll come by to help set it up and get them started. Regular visits for maintenance are of course a necessity. In fact, since I live well out in the boonies, it would be best if they just left it out here on the farm where we have darker skies and could permanently pier mount it and build a dome to enhance year round viewing.

That is my advice.

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"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Good binoculars, a view of the moon and the words "See those mountains? It's a place you can go!"

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

Learn the winter sky with one's naked eye. Most of the bright stars come out in the wintertime, cold air doesn't make stars shine brighter. Find Orion then find Taurus. Find Lepus and the Caniseses and go from there.
Don't chase me down with pitchforks and torches but a little astrology can be useful. If one is observing the sky in December during a full moon then you can be fairly certain the moon is in Gemini or near Gemini and the sun is in Sagittarius and there are smelly hippies smoking pot singing THIS IS THE DAWNING OF THE AGE OF AQUARIUS
Learn the asterisms. Constellations are too abstract nowadays whether it's due to the increasing light pollution hiding the dimmer stars which were once part of the constellations. Don't think of Sagittarius as the archer, think of it as the teapot.
Learn silly but helpful things like arc to Arcturus and spike down to Spica.
Once an astronomer can find stuff in the night sky with their naked eye, move up to binoculars and eventually a HUEG telescope to view deep sky objects. Those deep sky objects will be found faster, unless you cheat using one of those newfangled motorized difference engine things, and be accompanied by a fulfilling feeling of accomplishment.

Go to the Library and look for the Astronomy books.
Those books that has full color pictures inside.
Learn the stars, constellations, galaxies etc , and all about astronomy.

Buy your equipment , for a start , a good set of binoculars, if you have enough money , buy a good set of telescopes, lenses and digital camera if you like to take pictures.

And then , go to a certain viewspot, like a hill, a high place where you can have a good look at the clear skies at night.
Well if you have rooftop, that's a nice place too, you don't have to go far cus you're at home.


This is just my personal view.

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Jean
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einsteiin

If you need help finding them, they are usually all black with the title in white.

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song