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I think they could tell if there was any planets by their gravitational effects.
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Thanks, I can rest assured now there isnt another Earth tantilisingly out of reach behind the sun!
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We are taking it up VERY seriously as a hobby
![]() ![]() Thanks for the links www.astro.forum up.co.uk Remove the space between 'forum' and 'up' For some reason DS censors out my forum's host ![]() Lots of very knowledgeable people on there, and very good craic - as an admin, I'm more easy-going than most other astronomy forums - and most of my members (around 500 at the mo) seem to prefer it that way ![]() As well as my other telescopes, I'm currently in the process of building myself a very large 'Dobsonian' telescope, around an excellent mirror that I acquired last November - gonna house it in the observatory I purpose-built in tne garden last Autumn
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I've always been fascinated by space
![]() I got a telescope for my 7th birthday - I still have it but can't remember the last time I used it! I also made a scrapbook of pictures of planets, nebulae etc.
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Lots of very knowledgeable people on there, and very good craic - as an admin, I'm more easy-going than most other astronomy forums - and most of my members (around 500 at the mo) seem to prefer it that way
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Got to ask. Are most astronomy forums a bit rowdy, then? Lots of handbags at dawn arguments about which is the best Messier number and punch-ups over reflectors versus refractors?
You also get the 'equipment snobs' on some of them too. Mine's not like that - just normal bods who enjoy looking at the night sky and/or taking pictures of it. I don't mind if threads develop and wander way off the original topic, and the odd bit of friendly 'banter' is positively encouraged - makes for a more pleasant place to post IMHO. In the past though, on one US astro forum, I was once serverely jumped on by a 'howling mob', for having the audacity to mention that I didn't like a particular type of mount. Some people really need to lighten-up
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Have any of you guys watched Al Reinert's For All Mankind or Carl Sagan's Cosmos? Essential viewing.
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Did anyone see the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter the other day?
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Let's keep this thread alive.
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OK then......
We had that lunar eclipse the other night which I didn't see.........but someone posted that it was the first one for 10 years or similar. Well, I'm sure we had a thread on here about a couple of years ago when we were all watching a lunar eclipse ? The moon turned redder and redder until it was orange........ Does anyone else remember that ? |
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Yep
There was a cracking lunar eclipse last March |
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There was a cracking lunar eclipse last March That'll be it then.......... It only seems like a couple of years DS time..........
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What a job eh.
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Moonwalkers
Do you realise that of the 12 men to walk on the moon only 9 are still alive. The youngest of those is 72, and it's now been over 35 years since the end of that grand adventure. We should have a base on Mars by now. How did we get it all so wrong.
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Because of political posturing (ie, once we'd reached the moon, what else would they bother doing?), funds redirected to other things declared more "important", and an over-reliance on a flawed design for a spacecraft thanks to the Department of Defense and the US Air Force.
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Quite a good forum at www.stargazerslounge.co.uk - UK based, with many helpful and *active* amateur astronomers etc.
![]() "American version" too at: www.cloudynights.com. But IMO a bit (expensive!) gear orientated and "fundamentalist" in their moderation style... WASP, No - POOR folks, foreigners, dirty jokes etc.
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Great thread I love Astronomy
love reading about it
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What's the latest on the Chinese manned space program. It's been a while since they sent someone up there hasn't it.
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I am going to be a bit boring here but when I was a child.....
we had astronomy lessons at school and we learned about the constellations. If you were ever lost at sea you could find your compass points by studying the constellations. I still remember a lot of it today. We also learned how to remember the nine planets in order from the sun, Mercury,Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto (ok. I know, technically Pluto is not considered to be a planet anymore). It goes like this, Many Volcanoes Erupt Mulberry Jam Sandwiches Under Normal Pressure. |
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How far can you go up? Like say if you just kept going up in the sky would you go up forever or would it stop at some point?
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How far can you go up? Like say if you just kept going up in the sky would you go up forever or would it stop at some point?
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The universe is expanding and has been since creation. The bit that is hard to grasp is that it is expanding into nothing, not into empty space, but literally nothing.
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Oh I dunno, when the new particle accelerator at CERN goes live we may start to see leaps in our understanding of such matters.
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The universe is expanding and has been since creation. The bit that is hard to grasp is that it is expanding into nothing, not into empty space, but literally nothing.
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"American version" too at: www.cloudynights.com. But IMO a bit (expensive!) gear orientated and "fundamentalist" in their moderation style... WASP, No - POOR folks, foreigners, dirty jokes etc.
![]() ![]() Oh and BTW... Link to my forum is now different - I've moved off the forum-farm onto a better host, and also taken out a domain name. I've been checking the posting frequency on the UK astro sites - we are currently second most active UK astronomy forum ![]() www.astrochat.co.uk/forum |
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