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I saw nothing.
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My lord it worked! Let's hope we get results.
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My God. It's full of stars.
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Bit rubbish from a spectators point of view.
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Bit rubbish from a spectators point of view.
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Unless you had a grandstand seat.
"Oh, so there is wat..."
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The headline on Space.com just made me chuckle.
Space Clown Returns Home. |
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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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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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And more info on a spectacular fireball over the Netherlands a few days ago
http://planetary.org/blog/article/00002166/ |
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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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I've got quite a few sky-map generating programs - but this is the coolest ever
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Images of asteroid Pallas
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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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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The Review of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee’s Final Report...
...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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Ares 1 due to be launched in about 5 minutes. See http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
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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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Thanks for the heads up henry
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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. They now have to wait for him to move it. :yawn: |
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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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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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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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looks like it might not even go ahead today now due to weather
new time 3.19pm launch |
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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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Danyl to win!
