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I saw the moon in a half moon phase in the morning last week
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Amino Acid Found in Stardust Comet Sample
This is quite an interesting story.
Scientists studying matter from comet Wild 2 have found glycine, one of the fundamental building blocks of life (don't you just hate that expression!!). Does it add weight to the panspermia theory? |
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Anything interesting in the night sky tonight ?
My telly is bust.............
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This is quite an interesting story.
Scientists studying matter from comet Wild 2 have found glycine, one of the fundamental building blocks of life (don't you just hate that expression!!). Does it add weight to the panspermia theory? Yeah........it's a bit of a circular argument.........it's a building of life on earth because it's here If it wasn't here, something else would have been a building block........... |
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Anything interesting in the night sky tonight ?
My telly is bust............. ![]() |
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Jupiter is big bright shining jewell again.
*pops to window* yep, it's out from behind the next door skyscraper......... Tried my bins but it's only a dot of light..........but shiny ! |
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Jupiter was looking very beguiling tonight. Callisto out on her own, Ganymede & Europa in close proximity and Io just peeking around Jupiter's horizon - not sure if Io was heading in front or behind though. Also haven't seen the cloud bands quite so clearly for a while.
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Need some advice. I quite fancy doing some simple astrophotography. I've done a bit of research into it and it looks like I should be able to get some reasonable results with my telescope using a digital camera for Lunar and major planetary shots. I'm in the market for a new digital camera at the moment anyway so what sort of features do I need to look out for and can anyone recommend a camera? Also, what mounts do people use?
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Need some advice. I quite fancy doing some simple astrophotography. I've done a bit of research into it and it looks like I should be able to get some reasonable results with my telescope using a digital camera for Lunar and major planetary shots. I'm in the market for a new digital camera at the moment anyway so what sort of features do I need to look out for and can anyone recommend a camera? Also, what mounts do people use?
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The space shuttle Discovery is fully fueled for its planned launch tonight at 11:59 p.m. EDT (0359 Aug. 29 GMT). The 3-hour fueling process ended at 5:48 p.m. EDT (2149 GMT), filling Discovery’s 15-story external tank with the 526,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.
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Clear night and no haze, so I took the camera out and pointed it up for 30 seconds -
http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/o...IMG_0013__.jpg I seemed to catch something streaking across the bottom of the image too, no idea what it was unless its a satellite or something? |
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Clear night and no haze, so I took the camera out and pointed it up for 30 seconds -
http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/o...IMG_0013__.jpg I seemed to catch something streaking across the bottom of the image too, no idea what it was unless its a satellite or something? And did anyone catch the Shuttle launch this morning. Watched it on the news and went out about 20 minutes later to see it, got a fabulous view of the shuttle and the external tank flying in tandem. The orange colour of the tank was VERY vivid. A Spectacular sight. |
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That's almost certainly a meteor you caught there.
And did anyone catch the Shuttle launch this morning. Watched it on the news and went out about 20 minutes later to see it, got a fabulous view of the shuttle and the external tank flying in tandem. The orange colour of the tank was VERY vivid. A Spectacular sight. |
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Look up!
That is the Moon and Jupiter in celestial harmony. Don't they look beautiful. |
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Weird Stuff with the Sun
It seems something weird is happening with the Sun
Are Sunspots Disappearing? Related to these stories http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2...larminimum.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2..._blankyear.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2..._solarwind.htm |
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ESA to buy Soyuz...
It looks like the retirement of the Space Shuttle has prompted the European Space Agency to start negotiations with the Russians with a view to buying a Soyuz capsule which will be crewed by Europeans (and possibly Canadians).
If it does go ahead, the ESA Soyuz will be launched from Baikonur as normal. More on this story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8226309.stm It seems the ESA is not prepared to wait years for the USA to develop the new Orion (=Apollo 2). |
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I also heard the other day that European unmanned supply vessel (can't recall its name) is going to be converted to include a heatshield so it has re-entry capability. From there it wouldn't be too difficult to add life support functionality.
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Hungry Andromeda eats up other galaxies...
No, I'm pleased to say it isn't a Daily Star headline but a serious piece of research that was published in the scientific journal Nature and here're the links:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal...9/03andromeda/.
It looks like the large mass of the Andromeda galaxy [M31] has resulted in the absorption of smaller neighbouring galaxies. However, its other companions M32 and M110 appear to have remained separate. I used the word 'appeared' deliberately because what we're seeing is the situation that occurred 3 million years ago. On a separate note, it being the International Year of Astronomy, I thought we really ought to have an event locally to encourage adults and children to take an interest in the wider universe. It has taken months to organise but here it is http://www.filepanda.com/file/rqsqg2jbgmvn/. |
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The Space Shuttle undocks tonight.... and I think we may be able to see the two flying together a few hours later - but low in the sky unfortunately.
Appears at 21:44:49 from the SW, maximum height at 21:45:14, 13 degrees above horizon in the SW. |
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The Space Shuttle undocks tonight.... and I think we may be able to see the two flying together a few hours later - but low in the sky unfortunately.
Appears at 21:44:49 from the SW, maximum height at 21:45:14, 13 degrees above horizon in the SW. |
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There is a brighter passing about 90 mins earlier. It is not visible there?
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Also don't forget tomorrow we have a press conference to unveil the latest images etc from the newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope
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Did you see the latest Apollo 12 landing site image?
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There is a brighter passing about 90 mins earlier. It is not visible there?
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