Astronomy and Space
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I just wish there was a chance of actually seeing stars, never mind a comet. Had such cloudy skies recently.
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It seems like almost everyone* else in our astro club have seen it, but we've not managed it yet.
But we're hopeful about setting it tonight. Will take the camera and tripod so fingers crossed.
Not seen a comet since McNaught in '06
But we're hopeful about setting it tonight. Will take the camera and tripod so fingers crossed.
Not seen a comet since McNaught in '06
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OK - seen now

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Congratulations! I’m not staying up all hours for it, which is probably why I’m not in your astronomy club. Although I think you are in Cheshire?
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We are - there's no obligation to stay up all night though - I generally am done by midnight, if not earlier.
If you're interested, we're having a Virtual Club meeting on Zoom this Friday at 7:30. We have a guest speaker and I'll be doing the Round up of Members' Images and "What's up in August".
Feel free to DM me with your email address and I'll send a Zoom invite.
My avatar was a scientific result that was later found to be 'mistaken' - I rarely claim to be 100% correct
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
Meta? I'd say so!
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
Meta? I'd say so!
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It’s a kind offer, but 3 small children who need supervising to bed stops me doing that kind of thing. Unless it’s suitable for my older kids? (9 and 11)Gfamily wrote: ↑Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:30 pmWe are - there's no obligation to stay up all night though - I generally am done by midnight, if not earlier.
If you're interested, we're having a Virtual Club meeting on Zoom this Friday at 7:30. We have a guest speaker and I'll be doing the Round up of Members' Images and "What's up in August".
Feel free to DM me with your email address and I'll send a Zoom invite.
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Hard to tell - it's not unsuitable, but we're only just working how to make the virtual meetings work, and it might not inspire them.Grumble wrote: ↑Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:35 pmIt’s a kind offer, but 3 small children who need supervising to bed stops me doing that kind of thing. Unless it’s suitable for my older kids? (9 and 11)Gfamily wrote: ↑Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:30 pmIf you're interested, we're having a Virtual Club meeting on Zoom this Friday at 7:30. We have a guest speaker and I'll be doing the Round up of Members' Images and "What's up in August".
Feel free to DM me with your email address and I'll send a Zoom invite.
My avatar was a scientific result that was later found to be 'mistaken' - I rarely claim to be 100% correct
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
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ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
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Saw it. Quite good. Would see again next time round.
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Here's some DSLR pics from last night, cropped but otherwise unfiddled. I overcooked the exposure a bit, especially on the first one (20s) but you can see the nice green colour. (Well, poisonous cyanidey green colour).
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I resemble that remark.
My eldest is going to Iceland for 5-weeks voluntary work and coming back in late September. She'll be camping.
She's hoping to see the Northern Lights.
Have you considered stupidity as an explanation
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I was at a barbecue last night with work colleagues, I did manage to amuse everyone by pointing out the ISS as it went over.
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Forwarded by an FB friend, Comet Neowise over Salagou seen from Liausson, not far from my old stamping ground in the Languedoc.
Picture taken by Jeremy Glasson
Picture taken by Jeremy Glasson
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That’s stunning. I hope I’ll be able to get a glimpse still, the clouds may shift soon, at last.
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That photo looks like it was taken about 12 days ago though. At about half-past midnight.
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I'm not sure if I've posted a link to our Astro Club members' photos of the comet from our meeting last week.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/ ... layms=3000
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/ ... layms=3000
My avatar was a scientific result that was later found to be 'mistaken' - I rarely claim to be 100% correct
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
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ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
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Next weekend would have been the Solarsphere Festival, but due to Covid, rather than being in a couple of fields in mid Wales it'll be online.
The schedule is linked below, and includes some top speakers.
Talks are partially on AstroRadio and partially on Zoom/YouTube
Schedule
https://www.solarsphere.events/
The schedule is linked below, and includes some top speakers.
Talks are partially on AstroRadio and partially on Zoom/YouTube
Schedule
https://www.solarsphere.events/
My avatar was a scientific result that was later found to be 'mistaken' - I rarely claim to be 100% correct
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
Meta? I'd say so!
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
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Going to be a nice night for lying out, watching those August shooting star things.
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Dependable old Perseids. Over here when we have our once-a-year shower in summer, it's the Geminids.
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Speaking of cloudy, when astronomy gives you cloudy - make cloudy lemonade a gif
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ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
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Wow I didn't know there were clouds on the moon.
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Got a western facing window? Have need to be 'just getting up' in the night? Combine the two, have a peep out to the west around 3 or 4am if you're up and about.
Venus as a morning star* just now is absolutely stunning; shining bright like a miniature moon; no wonder, as Lucifer the light-bringer, it played such a part in the communual psychey in days gone by. It is a major object in the sky and much over-looked: it is nothing short of awesome! Pre-light-polution or out on the moors it must have been utterly magnificent.
I would imagine also - in fact I'm certain, that if you marked its position above the horizon just at sun rise - by so many fingers' width at arms-length - that you would be able to spot it during the day the same distance ahead of the sun.
Lots of cool points on offer there!
Venus as a morning star* just now is absolutely stunning; shining bright like a miniature moon; no wonder, as Lucifer the light-bringer, it played such a part in the communual psychey in days gone by. It is a major object in the sky and much over-looked: it is nothing short of awesome! Pre-light-polution or out on the moors it must have been utterly magnificent.
I would imagine also - in fact I'm certain, that if you marked its position above the horizon just at sun rise - by so many fingers' width at arms-length - that you would be able to spot it during the day the same distance ahead of the sun.
Lots of cool points on offer there!
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Ahem, - east facing window for morning planetstenchboy wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 9:31 pmGot a western facing window? Have need to be 'just getting up' in the night? Combine the two, have a peep out to the west around 3 or 4am if you're up and about.
Venus as a morning star* just now is absolutely stunning; shining bright like a miniature moon; no wonder, as Lucifer the light-bringer, it played such a part in the communual psychey in days gone by. It is a major object in the sky and much over-looked: it is nothing short of awesome! Pre-light-polution or out on the moors it must have been utterly magnificent.
I would imagine also - in fact I'm certain, that if you marked its position above the horizon just at sun rise - by so many fingers' width at arms-length - that you would be able to spot it during the day the same distance ahead of the sun.
Lots of cool points on offer there!
Jupiter and Saturn are good in the west in the evening though.
My avatar was a scientific result that was later found to be 'mistaken' - I rarely claim to be 100% correct
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
Meta? I'd say so!
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
Meta? I'd say so!