TheTeapot Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 12 hours ago, ed fournier said: Saw the Starlink satellites going across yesterday morning and again today. Pretty incredible sight. So many of them! If you haven’t seen them yet, Sunday morning will hopefully be clear. Set your alarm... https://www.heavens-above.com/AllPassesFromLaunch.aspx?lat=54.2361&lng=-4.5481&loc=Isle+of+Man&alt=0&tz=GMT I failed to get up in time but I'd have thought it would have been perfect this morning. Seen some pretty cool pics of these, maybe tomorrow I'll see them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbie Bobster Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 Pic of Thursdays' annular eclipse, courtesy CNET Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 On 11/30/2019 at 9:25 PM, ed fournier said: Saw the Starlink satellites going across yesterday morning and again today. Pretty incredible sight. So many of them! If you haven’t seen them yet, Sunday morning will hopefully be clear. Set your alarm... https://www.heavens-above.com/AllPassesFromLaunch.aspx?lat=54.2361&lng=-4.5481&loc=Isle+of+Man&alt=0&tz=GMT These things are wiping out the capabilities of dozens of ground based telescopes. Should be banned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinahand Posted March 20, 2020 Author Share Posted March 20, 2020 Great documentary on LIGO: https://vimeo.com/397284387 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinahand Posted April 4, 2020 Author Share Posted April 4, 2020 (edited) So, what would happen if another star, wandering the Milky Way, drifted into our solar system? Andrew M. Webb has a great twitter feed. Including this animation which shows the destruction of Jupiter; and the Earth and Saturn ending up pulled from the solar system and kidnapped by the rouge wandering star. Edited April 4, 2020 by Chinahand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc.fixit Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 (edited) Hi there, CH what is the big bright star in the sort of SW ? Also the one to it's left approx. South...........ta Edited April 7, 2020 by doc.fixit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilligaf Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, doc.fixit said: Hi there, CH what is the big bright star in the sort of SW ? Also the one to it's left approx. South...........ta Maybe you are seeing Venus and Procyon I use Star View Lite Edited April 7, 2020 by dilligaf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uhtred Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 2 hours ago, doc.fixit said: Hi there, CH what is the big bright star in the sort of SW ? Also the one to it's left approx. South...........ta It’s some creepy bastard shining a torch through your bedroom window. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc.fixit Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 They'd be frightened, very frightened! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinahand Posted April 8, 2020 Author Share Posted April 8, 2020 Didn't see this last night, but the bright star you are seeing in the South West is almost certainly the planet Venus. Heaven's above chart for Castletown - put the time in for 21:30 or so and you'll clearly see Venus. I suspect the one you are seeing to the South is Sirius - it is the brightest star in the sky, but I'm not sure. Look for Orion's belt (3 stars in a line) to the east of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc.fixit Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 thank you all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twosheds Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Anyone on here have BOINC installed on their laptops etc..? You can get involved in a number of Astronomy based projects, as well as Physics, Astrophysics, Medical Research. I first got involved with it it the late 1990's with Seti@home, that was the forerunner of distributed computing. That project has just stopped sending out work. But from that the BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) platform was developed so that you could run multiple projects at once. BOINC Projects list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twosheds Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Last nights Moon... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilligaf Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 2 hours ago, Twosheds said: Anyone on here have BOINC installed on their laptops etc..? You can get involved in a number of Astronomy based projects, as well as Physics, Astrophysics, Medical Research. I first got involved with it it the late 1990's with Seti@home, that was the forerunner of distributed computing. That project has just stopped sending out work. But from that the BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) platform was developed so that you could run multiple projects at once. BOINC Projects list I used to go, Boinc, boinc, boinc when I had a Pogo Stick 50 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 24 minutes ago, dilligaf said: I used to go, Boinc, boinc, boinc when I had a Pogo Stick 50 years ago. Hoop and stick more like! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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