Author Topic: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.  (Read 37767 times)

fuzzy

Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #150 on: 28 February, 2020, 10:49:34 pm »
I like that!
I'm struggling to get a good image of Earthglow at the moment. I shall persevere.

hellymedic

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Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #151 on: 29 February, 2020, 01:41:34 am »
Looks as if tomorrow's public observing in Ruislip is on (given weather forecast at 02.00 - situation might change.)

Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #152 on: 28 March, 2020, 09:23:33 pm »
Not sure if this really counts as astronomical, but I enjoyed capturing this the other evening
https://photos.app.goo.gl/hJJEWJqwpcxXkuwj9

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Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #153 on: 28 March, 2020, 09:35:41 pm »
Gosh. Well done.
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fuzzy

Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #154 on: 28 March, 2020, 10:48:04 pm »
Nice one!

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Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #155 on: 29 March, 2020, 07:43:41 pm »
That's great!
It is simpler than it looks.

Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #156 on: 31 March, 2020, 09:28:37 pm »
Because of warnings from here we went out and watched the ISS pass overhead tonight. It couldn't have been a clearer night for it, a shame about the street lights but otherwise very clear.

Well very clear for my partner. I, on the otherhand, found out that it's not just my new cycling glasses that give a bit of double vision at distance. My new normal glasses do too. I hadn't realised due to only really being at home, at work, or on the train since I got them  :facepalm: Not that I can exactly go back to Specsavers at the moment.

Still I got to see two ISSs pass overhead at least.

And in reality it was just a bright dot moving fast but it was really really cool when you think about the fact there are three (currently) people up there gadding along at over seven and a half kilometres a second.
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fuzzy

Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #157 on: 31 March, 2020, 11:02:21 pm »
Managed to follow it in my binoculars tonight as it passed below the moon. I'm not sure but I think I can resolve a bit of shape.

T42

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Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #158 on: 22 May, 2020, 04:47:49 pm »
Anyone managed to get a shot of or even see the Mercury/Venus conjunction? Not a chance here.
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hellymedic

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Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #159 on: 22 May, 2020, 05:28:00 pm »
Partner saw them naked eye and photographed with a telephoto lens from our bedroom.

hellymedic

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Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #160 on: 22 May, 2020, 06:21:52 pm »
One from Facebook today.

Basil

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Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #161 on: 11 August, 2020, 08:25:05 pm »
Doesn't look like good viewing conditions here for the Perseids tonight or tomorrow.   :(
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T42

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Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #162 on: 12 August, 2020, 07:59:21 am »
One from Facebook today.


"URL signature expired". :(
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Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #163 on: 12 August, 2020, 10:55:25 am »
Doesn't look like good viewing conditions here for the Perseids tonight or tomorrow.   :(

It was a day like any other in Ireland, only it wasn't raining

Basil

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Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #164 on: 13 August, 2020, 06:32:38 pm »
 ;D
That's very good.
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fuzzy

Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #165 on: 04 September, 2020, 09:11:17 pm »
Jupiter from my back garden with my new camera, Tuesday evening. Best 50% of 2000 frames stacked in AutoStakkert! and tweked a bit with GIMP


Kim

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Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #166 on: 21 October, 2020, 09:31:29 pm »
NASA are about to make an important scientific announcement about the moon.

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-announce-new-science-results-about-moon

I'm betting they've put Cheesoid in charge of infrared spectrosocopy, and will be stepping up the Artemis programme inna drill-baby-drill stylee on the basis of the results.

(Either that or volcanoes.)

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Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #167 on: 21 October, 2020, 09:47:19 pm »
It is made of cheese after all?
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Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #168 on: 21 October, 2020, 10:11:53 pm »
NASA are about to make an important scientific announcement about the moon.

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-announce-new-science-results-about-moon

I'm betting they've put Cheesoid in charge of infrared spectrosocopy, and will be stepping up the Artemis programme inna drill-baby-drill stylee on the basis of the results.

(Either that or volcanoes.)

Or a mysterious black monolith...
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." ~ Freidrich Neitzsche

Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #169 on: 21 October, 2020, 10:18:45 pm »
There's a slight problem with the nuclear waste dumps.....   Nothing to be alarmed about. 
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Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #170 on: 21 October, 2020, 10:21:03 pm »
Orionids meteor shower is spectacular tonight. Lighting up the clods here in North Yorkshire.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #171 on: 21 October, 2020, 10:46:45 pm »
Orionids meteor shower is spectacular tonight. Lighting up the clods here in North Yorkshire.


Now I know Yorkshiremen have a certain reputation , but there's no need to insult them on the forum  :P
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Re: A Random Thread For Astronomical Stuff.
« Reply #172 on: 22 October, 2020, 01:58:12 am »
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Jupiter and Saturn
« Reply #174 on: 25 November, 2020, 04:08:44 am »
JUPITER AND SATURN TO LINE UP TO AS ‘DOUBLE PLANET’ FOR THE FIRST SINCE MIDDLE AGES


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When the sun sets on 21 December – the winter solstice – people looking up to the sky will see Jupiter and Saturn closer than anyone alive has ever seen them before.

In a Restaurant at the End of The Universe kind of way:
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For anyone who misses the astronomical pairing, there will be another chance to see the sight in 2080. 
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