Author Topic: The "guess the place" thread (Read 912824 times)

Deano · « **Reply #2050 on:** 22 August, 2009, 02:23:46 pm »

Not Ingleborough. It's probably Warcop Fell.

The photo was taken here, at Grains o' th' Beck.

Jaded · « **Reply #2051 on:** 22 August, 2009, 03:14:11 pm »

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #2052 on:** 22 August, 2009, 08:10:17 pm »

Quote from: Deano on 22 August, 2009, 02:23:46 pm

Not Ingleborough. It's probably Warcop Fell.

The photo was taken here, at Grains o' th' Beck.

Damn. Was my next suggestion.

innesh · « **Reply #2053 on:** 22 August, 2009, 08:14:37 pm »

Quote from: Jaded on 22 August, 2009, 03:14:11 pm

That must be Princes St. in Edinburgh

Cyclops · « **Reply #2054 on:** 22 August, 2009, 08:17:38 pm »

Quote from: applebag on 22 August, 2009, 08:14:37 pm

That must be Princes St. in Edinburgh

Damn, just about to say that. I'd no idea that's how it looks but I recognize the skip in the background because it's from Dalkeith

Jaded · « **Reply #2055 on:** 23 August, 2009, 12:30:13 am »

Correct.

Here is the uncropped version of the delights of the main shopping street in Edinburgh. Taken Friday.

Deano · « **Reply #2056 on:** 23 August, 2009, 11:30:49 am »

Quote from: Tourist Tony on 22 August, 2009, 08:10:17 pm

Quote from: Deano on 22 August, 2009, 02:23:46 pm
Not Ingleborough. It's probably Warcop Fell.

The photo was taken here, at Grains o' th' Beck.
Damn. Was my next suggestion.

Sorry, Tony. I was starting to think it was too obscure/northern for people to guess.

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #2057 on:** 23 August, 2009, 09:20:02 pm »

The whole stretch of moors from Alston through Wearheads to Bowes moor and Mickle Fell is pretty much the same. Just a matter of guessing whicj bleak treeless bit of grass it was!
I thought...na, too obscure

PaulR · « **Reply #2058 on:** 24 August, 2009, 03:28:11 pm »

A bit further afield this time

David Martin · « **Reply #2059 on:** 24 August, 2009, 04:18:12 pm »

beehive nebula?

PaulR · « **Reply #2060 on:** 24 August, 2009, 04:45:32 pm »

I thought for a moment there was a tenuous link between bees and this place but then I remembered the chap on the golden syrup tin was one of those biblical types, and not the chap I had in mind...

Hot Flatus · « **Reply #2061 on:** 24 August, 2009, 04:50:23 pm »

A little hollow planet. Far, far away....

PaulR · « **Reply #2062 on:** 24 August, 2009, 04:53:31 pm »

Quote from: Monsieur Pumpé on 24 August, 2009, 04:50:23 pm

A distant galaxy. Far, far away....

Damn, it was too easy...

I knew I should have used one of my holiday snaps from Magrathea.

andrew_s · « **Reply #2063 on:** 24 August, 2009, 08:59:26 pm »

Quote from: PaulR on 24 August, 2009, 03:28:11 pm

A bit further afield this time

M4 ?

Deano · « **Reply #2064 on:** 24 August, 2009, 09:09:16 pm »

Quote from: Tourist Tony on 23 August, 2009, 09:20:02 pm

The whole stretch of moors from Alston through Wearheads to Bowes moor and Mickle Fell is pretty much the same. Just a matter of guessing whicj bleak treeless bit of grass it was!
I thought...na, too obscure

I quite like the blasted heath aspect of the moors around there. It does make close identification a bit tricky, though - a few years ago, we were tramping across Bowes Moor in fog, and although our navigator was putting up a brave front, it was only when we stumbled across the A66 that we really knew where we were...

PaulR · « **Reply #2065 on:** 25 August, 2009, 12:07:26 pm »

Quote from: andrew_s on 24 August, 2009, 08:59:26 pm

Quote from: PaulR on 24 August, 2009, 03:28:11 pm
A bit further afield this time
M4 ?

no, this one is about three times further away, a lot higher in our skies and discovered about 30 years earlier than M4

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #2066 on:** 25 August, 2009, 07:04:45 pm »

Not crabby, is it?

Nope. M13?

hellymedic · « **Reply #2067 on:** 25 August, 2009, 07:18:47 pm »

David Martin · « **Reply #2068 on:** 25 August, 2009, 10:31:02 pm »

Well that would make it M5, M13 or M30 if it was discovered before M4 (and hence in the initial list of things not to look at).

List of Messier objects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Take your pick..

noisycrank · « **Reply #2069 on:** 25 August, 2009, 10:46:12 pm »

Quote from: PaulR on 24 August, 2009, 04:45:32 pm

I thought for a moment there was a tenuous link between bees and this place but then I remembered the chap on the golden syrup tin was one of those biblical types, and not the chap I had in mind...

(Judges 14:14)

andrew_s · « **Reply #2070 on:** 26 August, 2009, 12:22:07 am »

Quote from: PaulR on 25 August, 2009, 12:07:26 pm

no, this one is about three times further away, a lot higher in our skies and discovered about 30 years earlier than M4

That seems to make it M13

mike · « **Reply #2071 on:** 26 August, 2009, 08:52:40 am »

a hint - it's on this planet:

PaulR · « **Reply #2072 on:** 26 August, 2009, 09:45:27 am »

Quote from: Tourist Tony on 25 August, 2009, 07:04:45 pm

Not crabby, is it?

Nope. M13?

Yep, M13. My first attempt at photographing it through my cheapo little scope, hence the crazy purple fringing round the foreground stars.

chris · « **Reply #2073 on:** 27 August, 2009, 12:17:28 pm »

Whilst we wait for someone to get Mikes picture here's an easy one of Mrs Chris, Zoe and Lewis from last weekend -

RJ · « **Reply #2074 on:** 27 August, 2009, 01:09:05 pm »

Mull?