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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    Jason P wrote:
    mikalina wrote:
    This is incredibly beautiful - I find this stunning.

    http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/short ... h-res.html
    That is cool.
    PurpleA.jpg

    Side Note. M31 (Andromeda) is on a path to collide with the Milky Way, destroying both galaxies in the process. Don't worry, it won't happen until 4 billion years from now ... almost 2 billion years after Earth is inhabitable.
    stfu! i'm scared & pissed now. for the rest of my life i'll be worried now.

    i believe in reincarnation. this has my grand plans shot to shit

    thanks for ruining my morning...my life :cry:
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • stuckinline
    stuckinline Posts: 3,406
    I have limited access to a telescope. This past week I saw Saturn, Mars, Spica, M13, Vega, Deneb, and Altair (the Summer Triangle). Also saw Cygnus and Albireo. Several people I was with saw shooting stars.
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Not only did nothing show here, but for some reason we both had a shit-night of sleep. Saturday night should, ideally, provide THE best sleep of the week.

    hrrmph.

    Although, around 3:30am, I STILL couldn't get into the sleep-zone so got up and sat by the window, hit the bowl a couple of times. Moon was aligned between two bright stars, on the diagonal. So unexpected and pretty, kind of made up for not being able to see the showers from here.

    (chadwick - sorry, but your post brought me a smile)
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    hedonist wrote:
    Not only did nothing show here, but for some reason we both had a shit-night of sleep. Saturday night should, ideally, provide THE best sleep of the week.

    hrrmph.

    Although, around 3:30am, I STILL couldn't get into the sleep-zone so got up and sat by the window, hit the bowl a couple of times. Moon was aligned between two bright stars, on the diagonal. So unexpected and pretty, kind of made up for not being able to see the showers from here.

    (chadwick - sorry, but your post brought me a smile)

    Hedonist- it's always a bummer when sleep eludes. Not many of us are Keith Richards. :lol:

    Chadwick- regarding your reincarnation- look at it this way: All your thoughts are electrical impulses in you brain that emanate out into space. Tiny traces of these electrical impulses travel through space which, according to Einstein is curved. By the time those thoughts come back around, maybe the two galaxies will have gotten over their little feud, another one will have taken their place and you'll have a safe place to land.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    hedonist wrote:
    Not only did nothing show here, but for some reason we both had a shit-night of sleep. Saturday night should, ideally, provide THE best sleep of the week.

    hrrmph.

    Although, around 3:30am, I STILL couldn't get into the sleep-zone so got up and sat by the window, hit the bowl a couple of times. Moon was aligned between two bright stars, on the diagonal. So unexpected and pretty, kind of made up for not being able to see the showers from here.

    (chadwick - sorry, but your post brought me a smile)
    perhaps the two bright stars you were seeing beside the moon weren't stars after all but were planets, yes/no?
    i forget their names but there were two planets dancing around the sky this past winter and spring. i'd watch them every night whilst walking the park. one being brighter than the other.... trying to remember which planets they are.......hhhmmmm

    my posted usually bring tears and someone wanting to punch me in the fudd. i am pleased you smiled
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    brianlux - you're the chit, sir!

    yes every sound, every single breath and whatever other energies we got goin on does travel up into the universe. this is why karma and the like are so very important.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    chadwick wrote:
    brianlux - you're the chit, sir!

    yes every sound, every single breath and whatever other energies we got goin on does travel up into the universe. this is why karma and the like are so very important.

    Yes! So true!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    chadwick wrote:
    hedonist wrote:
    Not only did nothing show here, but for some reason we both had a shit-night of sleep. Saturday night should, ideally, provide THE best sleep of the week.

    hrrmph.

    Although, around 3:30am, I STILL couldn't get into the sleep-zone so got up and sat by the window, hit the bowl a couple of times. Moon was aligned between two bright stars, on the diagonal. So unexpected and pretty, kind of made up for not being able to see the showers from here.

    (chadwick - sorry, but your post brought me a smile)
    perhaps the two bright stars you were seeing beside the moon weren't stars after all but were planets, yes/no?
    i forget their names but there were two planets dancing around the sky this past winter and spring. i'd watch them every night whilst walking the park. one being brighter than the other.... trying to remember which planets they are.......hhhmmmm

    my posted usually bring tears and someone wanting to punch me in the fudd. i am pleased you smiled
    You are not fudd-punchworthy - this is meant in the best of ways.

    And now that you mention it, I think one of those stars is actually Venus.
  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    hedonist wrote:
    Not only did nothing show here, but for some reason we both had a shit-night of sleep. Saturday night should, ideally, provide THE best sleep of the week.

    hrrmph.

    Although, around 3:30am, I STILL couldn't get into the sleep-zone so got up and sat by the window, hit the bowl a couple of times. Moon was aligned between two bright stars, on the diagonal. So unexpected and pretty, kind of made up for not being able to see the showers from here.

    (chadwick - sorry, but your post brought me a smile)

    how long did you look. You have to look for a very long time to see just one sometimes
  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    chadwick wrote:
    hedonist wrote:
    Not only did nothing show here, but for some reason we both had a shit-night of sleep. Saturday night should, ideally, provide THE best sleep of the week.

    hrrmph.

    Although, around 3:30am, I STILL couldn't get into the sleep-zone so got up and sat by the window, hit the bowl a couple of times. Moon was aligned between two bright stars, on the diagonal. So unexpected and pretty, kind of made up for not being able to see the showers from here.

    (chadwick - sorry, but your post brought me a smile)
    perhaps the two bright stars you were seeing beside the moon weren't stars after all but were planets, yes/no?
    i forget their names but there were two planets dancing around the sky this past winter and spring. i'd watch them every night whilst walking the park. one being brighter than the other.... trying to remember which planets they are.......hhhmmmm

    They were Jupiter & Venus.

    Jupiter & Venus are very probably what you seen hedonist. They're making their appearance pre-dawn rather than post-dusk...

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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    rollings wrote:
    They were Jupiter & Venus.

    Jupiter & Venus are very probably what you seen hedonist. They're making their appearance pre-dawn rather than post-dusk...

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    Ah, thank you, rollings. Except the moon was smack-dab in-between them! It was really quite gorgeous, unexpectedly so, at that sleepy hour.

    I've used the term "humbling" so much when I compare the tininess of myself to all of THAT out there...though we're both (all) nature, the proportions of it all and of me to it, well...I still sometimes need and welcome the reminder.
  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    I don't know if I posted this in this thread but......enjoy!


    Scale of the Universe.....after it loads, drag the marker to the left or right.... :mrgreen:

    P.S. for most people, it's worth the minute or so "load" time

    http://www.primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/
  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    pillars-of-creation.jpg
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,297
    chadwick wrote:
    stfu! i'm scared & pissed now. for the rest of my life i'll be worried now.

    i believe in reincarnation. this has my grand plans shot to shit

    thanks for ruining my morning...my life :cry:
    I think that in the next 500,000 years we will have found tears in the fabric of space that allow for fast travel to earth-like planets. No worries. :)
    Be Excellent To Each Other
    Party On, Dudes!
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,297
    Pretty good meteor showers this weekend. I counted around 70 in about an hour of viewing. Spotted a few satellites as well.
    Be Excellent To Each Other
    Party On, Dudes!
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    Cloudy again here for the meteor shower, it seems to be a pattern... sigh.
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,297
    What a shooting star looks like from space ...

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    Be Excellent To Each Other
    Party On, Dudes!
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    Astronomers have found evidence for a planet being devoured by its star, yielding insights into the fate that will befall Earth in billions of years.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19332091
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Yet again, my mind tries to get a grip on the ungrippable.

    (yet again, thanks, Jeanwah!)

    and a sidenote - good god it's been beautiful out there these early mornings!
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    hedonist wrote:
    Yet again, my mind tries to get a grip on the ungrippable.

    (yet again, thanks, Jeanwah!)

    and a sidenote - good god it's been beautiful out there these early mornings!

    :) I've been waking up early and see a bright star off to the East, it must be a planet. It's really beautiful.

    And last night I got a call from my dad to check the sky at 9:40; the international space station went through the sky from the Northwest. It looked like a traveling star, just this bright bean of light traveling through the sky until it dimmed out. Pretty cool!

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