Talk:Astronomer/Archive 1

Sun
Do we know who first suggested that the sun is just another star? That's always seemed to me to be a rather massive development in our understanding of our place in the universe... Evercat 00:22, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Hmm, found an answer at . Evercat 00:43, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I thank whoever did the report on astronomy as a job. It was very informative and helped me to understand what my brother was actually doing - :) i still need to know where exactly do they work? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.119.69.114 (talk) 00:35, 28 September 2011 (UTC) '''--99.9.214.8 (talk) 00:39, 19 October 2011 (UTC) Insert non-formatted text here

Proposed rewrite
With due respect to all who have edited this article previously, I think it could be improved enormously. It containts some very unencyclopaedic writing (e.g. in section 1.1 Introduction), is entirely US-centric, and contains some very broad and sometimes bizarre sweeping statements about what astronomers do. It seems to me actually most of the article could be deleted, and replaced with a much more concise summary of what astronomers do. Would anyone else support a substantial re-write and compression of this article? Worldtraveller 14:54, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * Most of the middle section was added December 26 and reads like a school essay about careers rather than an encyclopedia article. I trimmed a fair bit of it, but it could probably still be tightened up. -- Curps 23:06, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Despite the above comment, I came this way to find out what astronomers do all day, and left unenlighted (leaving only this comment). What do they do with their time? Who pays their way? What equipment do the work with? Anon 23:06, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

yip, i deleted some general sweeping statements and unencyclopaedic language trueblood 22:14, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Hipparchus
Why was Hipparchus removed? He is one of the really famous astronomers, the most famous of the old ones, see the article about him.

Giovanni DonCara
Giovanni DonCara clearly has discovered a lot of asteroids and comets, but can we really put him on a page with all these world famouses? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Seventeen12 (talk • contribs).
 * Note: the above article appears likely to be a hoax, since there are zero Google hits for "Giovanni DonCara", and the article about his alleged birthplace also seems likely to have been a hoax. -- The Anome 19:54, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

HELP....SOS
This page has been deleted ...is there any help? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.27.121.89 (talk • contribs).

Astronomy as a career?
I’m just wondering, how does one study for astronomy as a career? Do you study Physics and then branch off into something like Astrophysics, or what? This is partly out of personal interest, and of course because it should be explained in the article. &mdash; NRen2k5 19:35, 6 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Depends on th euniversity and country. But I would guess that one of the most common paths are some version of physics/astronomy/astrophysics studies as an undergrad, then PhD-studies in astronomy, then postdoc (if you are lucky) for a couple of years in order to get a tenure at a university. Not an easy path, and a lot of people who tries it does not succeed all the way (as is the cas for all academic careers.) Mossig (talk) 21:16, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

astronomy major schools
name a few schools that offer astronomy as a major. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.77.35.10 (talk) 20:08, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Emily Lakdawalla
This person is a science writer and science populariser. Surely there are better examples of an astronomer? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.90.242.55 (talk) 14:44, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

English
Astronomer 42.111.20.222 (talk) 13:22, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Needs more
This article needs more information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Austenhaynes (talk • contribs) 20:01, 11 October 2009 (UTC) here https://lausd.follettdestiny.com/cataloging/servlet/presentwebpathsearchresultsform.do — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.119.69.114 (talk) 00:38, 28 September 2011 (UTC) oops wrong 1 here http://www.iau.org/public/careers/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.119.69.114 (talk) 00:42, 28 September 2011 (UTC)