Astronomy astronomy?
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Bournemouth ... Post Number: 3319 Registered: May-05 | Does anyone do amateur astronomy on this site? It's a nice chilly, well not that cold outside. There's clear sky in all directions, I currently have Saturn in the south sky with 6mm eye piece. Slight breeze of wind tends to wobble the scope from time to time making the image unstable for a brief moment. The moon will clear this tree that I have in the way outside, thou I have seen it earlier when it was in-between two trees, but she'll be a lot high up at around 22Hrs. Jupiter will be clear in the sky at around 01:00 hrs low in the south, southeast sky, no chance of seeing due to the obstacles in the way. I'd have to wait until 4 and 5 in the early hours of Monday morning to see anything and LOL, who knows it, might cloud up! |
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Gold Member Username: WingmanaliveA pic is worth 1000 words Post Number: 5165 Registered: Jun-06 | I love watching the stars. Where I live though prohibits it. D@mn urban areas. I used to go to Canada every year and the stars you see up there......Wow! |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Bournemouth ... Post Number: 3321 Registered: May-05 | Like really pitch, black no streetlights? Oh that sounds like a wonderful place to be. Around here I have a few streetlights down the alleyway and it can really cow the view up, especially when your eye happens to catch the light it takes a minute or two for the eye to adjust to the nightlight. |
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Gold Member Username: WingmanaliveA pic is worth 1000 words Post Number: 5166 Registered: Jun-06 | It's not just the city lights. The smog hazes everything. You see only the brightest. I remember being able to track and watch satellites as they make their way across the night sky. Good stuff. |
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Gold Member Username: James1115Use a simple... Post Number: 9855 Registered: Dec-04 | I have a place in New hampshire in the white mountains where on a clear night the whole sky looks white from all the stars. You can see the whole milky way. I love it |
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Gold Member Username: WingmanaliveA pic is worth 1000 words Post Number: 5169 Registered: Jun-06 | Cruise ships when they shut the lights off are supposed to be amazing. Just watch out for the icebergs! |
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Gold Member Username: James1115Use a simple... Post Number: 9865 Registered: Dec-04 | lol I can smell Icebergs lol |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Bournemouth ... Post Number: 3323 Registered: May-05 | "I can smell ice when it's there you know." "Bullocks." Yeah I can see the odd satellite passing overhead and the ISS from west to east. Last time I saw the ISS was last October 2006 I think? |
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Gold Member Username: WingmanaliveA pic is worth 1000 words Post Number: 5177 Registered: Jun-06 | How long is the space station going to remain in orbit? Didn't I read somewhere they're going to let it come down on its' own soon? Curious...... |