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Stephen J. O’Meara on exploring the solar system with binoculars

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EarthSky often gets asked about what gear you need to see stars and planets in the night sky. Just a simple pair of binoculars will do it, said Stephen J. O’Meara, author of a new book called Exploring the Solar System with Binoculars.

EarthSky经常收到读者这样的提问：需要用什么样的装置观察夜空的恒星和行星。史提芬•欧米拉的答案是一对双筒望远镜即可。他最近出了本新书《双筒望远镜之探索太阳系》。

Stephen J. O’Meara: With your binoculars, you can monitor in a safe way sun spots. You can observe craters on the moon. You can see all the major planets, rings of Saturn, the moons of Jupiter. We have meteor showers. They can be the occasional comet that can grace the sky.

史提芬•欧米拉: 用双筒望远镜就能安全的观察到太阳黑子、月球表面的环形山、所有的大行星、土星光环、木星的卫星等。当彗星偶尔优雅划过天际的时，我们还能看到流星雨。

One thing to look for this summer of 2010, said O’Meara, is the planet Venus.

欧米拉说今年夏天值得关注的是金星。

Stephen J. O’Meara: You’ll be able to look to the western sky and the place in the region of where the sun sets, and once it gets dark, about a quarter of the way up the sky, you will see an immensely bright planet. And it’s only going to become more and more prominent as the months go on.

史提芬•欧米拉：你去观察西边的天空，也就是太阳落山的地方，暮色降临后，你就能在夜空四分之一的高度看到一颗非常亮的星星。在接下来几个月，这颗星会变得越来越亮。

O'Meara encourages anyone, even if you've never tried it, to go outside, look up, and explore the night sky.

欧米拉鼓励每个人都到室外去仰望夜空，探索夜空，哪怕你从来都没尝试过。

Stephen J. O’Meara: If you don’t know the sky, in a way it’s beneficial because I can’t tell you how beautiful it is just to look up in wonder, to see the chaos of the night sky, to know that it’s intangible. To know that something grander than ourselves is out there.

史提芬•欧米拉：如果你还不了解天空，在某种程度上是件好事，因为当你探索星空，惊奇地发现夜空存在着一种无形的混沌状态时，这种体验带来的美的享受是我无法用语言描述。你也会感知那儿存在着某种比我们自身更伟大事物。

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