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Old 09-10-2009, 12:37
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I saw nothing.
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Old 09-10-2009, 12:38
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My lord it worked! Let's hope we get results.
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Old 09-10-2009, 12:39
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My God. It's full of stars.
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Old 09-10-2009, 12:43
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Bit rubbish from a spectators point of view.
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Old 09-10-2009, 12:44
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Bit rubbish from a spectators point of view.
Unless you had a grandstand seat.
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Old 09-10-2009, 14:33
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Unless you had a grandstand seat.
That'd be great, but not for long.

"Oh, so there is wat..."
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Old 11-10-2009, 12:33
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The headline on Space.com just made me chuckle.


Space Clown Returns Home.
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Old 11-10-2009, 13:06
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So the moon thing was a cop-out!

I sat and stared at a picture of the lunar surface for half an hour on the bleedin' telly just to see - nothing at all. Could have been worse, I could have been watching X Factor Danyl to win!
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Old 12-10-2009, 05:00
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Been out in the garden with telescope tonight....
Have had great fun hunting down some satr clusters and nebulae around the Gemini/Taurs/Auriga area

Here's a few pics I squeezed in over the course of the session.
No fancy gear for the pics, just a mid-range digital cam, on a tripod.

Moon (illuminated part deliberately overexposed to show Earthshine on the dark half) and Mars conjunction.
http://i34.tinypic.com/2q8smis.jpg

Wider shot of Moon and Mars - With the Gemini twins, Castor and Pollux above.
http://i34.tinypic.com/r29fzr.jpg

Hyades star cluster in Taurus - including the enormous Red Giant star Aldebaran, and double-star Theta Tauri
http://i37.tinypic.com/11bl10l.jpg

Pleiades star cluster (the Seven Sisters) in Taurus
http://i36.tinypic.com/311uptc.jpg

Widefield of the constellation 'Orion'
http://i38.tinypic.com/ndsnrm.jpg

The stargazing season (Autumn through winter, into spring) has finally begun 'in-proper' when the whole of the mighty hunter is up in the sky before 4am
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Old 13-10-2009, 20:01
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Some spectacular time lapse images of the Sun

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8305836.stm
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Old 15-10-2009, 08:36
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And more info on a spectacular fireball over the Netherlands a few days ago

http://planetary.org/blog/article/00002166/
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Old 15-10-2009, 11:01
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I've got quite a few sky-map generating programs - but this is the coolest ever
http://blip.tv/file/2646934

I want it
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Old 15-10-2009, 11:46
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I've got quite a few sky-map generating programs - but this is the coolest ever
http://blip.tv/file/2646934

I want it
Wow. I want one too!
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Old 17-10-2009, 16:15
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The respected journal Science has published a paper on the shape and surface features of the large asteroid Pallas which includes some Hubble pictures of this little world [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/conten...rcetype=HWCIT].

This is not the only asteroid to have been imaged by Hubble as both Ceres [http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/...m/pr2005027a/] and Vesta [http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/pr1997027f/]. The asteroid Juno has been imaged from a ground-based telescope here [http://www.spacedaily.com/news/asteroid-03i.html] but so far there have been no detailed images of the Solar System's fourth largest asteroid Hygiea [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...giea_2MASS.jpg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Hygiea].

For anyone who's interested, there's a comparative size chart of these bits of celestial building rubble here [http://www.daviddarling.info/images/asteroids.jpg].
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Old 23-10-2009, 08:18
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Augustine panel at it again - suggesting that the delays to the Ares development means it's next to useless as a low orbit launcher because by the time it's in service for manned missions the ISS will have been retired (I thought they were talking about extending it's life?)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8321697.stm

At least they're advocating a more ambitious program than just returning to the moon - which I thought was the point of Constellation anyway? So what are they supposed to do instead? Just sounds like political preperations to cut the program. Sad.
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Old 23-10-2009, 17:06
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...can be downloaded here http://www.filepanda.com/file/e4huseywpkjq/ [quicker than downloading from the NASA site!] for all to read at leisure.

There are several recommendations including to continue with the Orion Apollo+ project, to continue with the Ares 5 heavy lift vehicle and perhaps to consider alternatives to the Ares 1 launch vehicle which is now on the launchpad.

The alternatives could be a commercial launcher that’s then approved to launch crews. Perhaps the powerful Titan 4 launcher could be approved [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_IV] given its general reliability.
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Old 27-10-2009, 13:38
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Ares 1 due to be launched in about 5 minutes. See http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
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Old 27-10-2009, 13:45
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Been delayed again now by about 90 mins

edit: looks like they were about to launch actually dont really know what is going on now.
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Old 27-10-2009, 13:48
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Thanks for the heads up henry
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Old 27-10-2009, 13:54
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Been delayed again now by about 90 mins

edit: looks like they were about to launch actually dont really know what is going on now.
Some moron ship captain has sailed his ship in to Aries1x's crash zone assuming the rocket fails.

They now have to wait for him to move it. :yawn:
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Old 27-10-2009, 14:04
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They say within the next hour now. I think they have untill 4pm our time to launch before its too late.
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Old 27-10-2009, 14:07
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The Ares V rocket will be the one to see. It will be the most powerful and largest rocket ever made. Over 200 tons into an earth orbit!
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Old 27-10-2009, 14:11
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The Ares V rocket will be the one to see. It will be the most powerful and largest rocket ever made. Over 200 tons into an earth orbit!
Yes but will it ever be built?
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Old 27-10-2009, 14:47
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looks like it might not even go ahead today now due to weather

new time 3.19pm launch
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Old 27-10-2009, 15:07
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Ready to resume count, but no go for weather.

Love it if they launched and it veered off course crashing in to the white house lawn. The would do their chances good for Obamas decision.
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