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What does it look like? I saw something pass over Norwich at one point (can't remember what time). Was it like a plane with headlights?
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What does it look like? I saw something pass over Norwich at one point (can't remember what time). Was it like a plane with headlights?
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Ohh I think I may have seen it, did it go past (or quite close to) that really bright star (the North star or whatever, the one you follow to get home in stories)?
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Ohh I think I may have seen it, did it go past (or quite close to) that really bright star (the North star or whatever, the one you follow to get home in stories)?
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Where I was standing, there was a moon in the 10 o clock position, and a bright star in the 2 o clock position, with little stars everywhere. I don't know what that bright star is meant to be? It's bigger than all the others
Where abouts is jupiter from the moon? Is it just to the left of it? |
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Where I was standing, there was a moon in the 10 o clock position, and a bright star in the 2 o clock position, with little stars everywhere. I don't know what that bright star is meant to be? It's bigger than all the others
Where abouts is jupiter from the moon? Is it just to the left of it? |
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Is it bigger and brighter than other stars?
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Is it bigger and brighter than other stars?
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Ok
I may have seen it then, I remember seeing something go past what I thought was a bright star (which must have been jupiter).
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What does it look like? I saw something pass over Norwich at one point (can't remember what time). Was it like a plane with headlights?
The ISS came from the right of Jupiter seconds later. Just looks like a moving star. I couldn't see anything at 9:45. |
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Bad news from the Augustine Panel who have released their summary findings on NASA's future - $3 Billion annual budget shorfall if NASA are to continue with meaningful manned exploration. Reading between the lines it's the end of Constellation as we know it - Ares is as good as dead but Orion might live on. Shuttle program will be extended and they'll try to bodge something out of the 30 year old shuttle technology. Shocking! Forget about moon landings any time soon and Mars looks further away than ever.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8245409.stm Only good thing is that the ISS might live for a bit longer allowing further expansion. |
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Bad news from the Augustine Panel who have released their summary findings on NASA's future - $3 Billion annual budget shorfall if NASA are to continue with meaningful manned exploration. Reading between the lines it's the end of Constellation as we know it - Ares is as good as dead but Orion might live on. Shuttle program will be extended and they'll try to bodge something out of the 30 year old shuttle technology. Shocking! Forget about moon landings any time soon and Mars looks further away than ever.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8245409.stm Only good thing is that the ISS might live for a bit longer allowing further expansion. It's quite staggering that the USA have been so inept and shuttle succession planning isn't it. The future reliance on Russian Soyuz craft just shows you how badly they have planned it all. |
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It's quite staggering that the USA have been so inept and shuttle succession planning isn't it. The future reliance on Russian Soyuz craft just shows you how badly they have planned it all.
Soyuz is what, 42 years old now?! The shuttle is 30 years old! If these were cars they'd be in museums. It seriously beggers belief. The sooner Mr Rutan gets SS2 working and can move onto SS3 and prove that private enterprise can do this better and cheaper than national governement agencies, the better. |
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Wow! Look at the new Hubble pics.
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This one is beautiful http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/3..._full_full.jpg
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Another new beauty http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/3...label_full.jpg
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They are incredible !!!
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Nice one Ric. Very beautiful. It's just a shame how 'artificial' these public shots are in reality. It takes a huge amount of work by 'hand' (OK - computer manipulation but it's a person operating the computer) to change the raw data into these amazing shots and they're more akin to art works than scientific shots. They're no less amazing for that but I think it can be a bit misleading as the general public get's the impression that if they went into space they'd see things like this.
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But if you could see in the infra red or ultraviolet you would see things like this.
Specific wavelengths of light reveal different things about an object - so it's bot misleading at all in my opinion. |
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But if you could see in the infra red or ultraviolet you would see things like this.
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No I don't think you would. All these pictures have gone through the same sort of 'touching up' that you get in glossy magazines. In reality you'd see a sort of 'warty, spotty Kate Winslett' version.
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No I don't think you would. All these pictures have gone through the same sort of 'touching up' that you get in glossy magazines. In reality you'd see a sort of 'warty, spotty Kate Winslett' version.
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That's true isn't it. Big problem with binoculars in the cold weather.
I used to have an awesome pair of binoculars that were really strong. I used to be able to look at the moon for hours and pick out the craters. ![]()
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Sorry but that's BS - and what your implying is that scientists are faking scientific data.
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I think that rather misrepresents the process and the purpose of colour in Hubble images. More about this here.
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I may have seen it then, I remember seeing something go past what I thought was a bright star (which must have been jupiter).
