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Apologies for not being about much over the last couple of weeks. Have my hands full at work ATM and free time is limited.
For the foreseeable future debates about the flatness of the earth (I can't believe I'm typing this) should take place in another thread.
I don't like banning people but the behavior of certain individuals really is cutting down my options. It might be best if one of the regular contributors puts his hand up to run it as a moderator. Although I'm always open to fresh ideas.
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Nicely done chief, it's a thread I like, to learn from people who know about these things, despite the bloody clouds every time something happens.
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I would be happy to mod it
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| Quote ="Ferocious Aardvark"I would be happy to mod it'"
Probably the best option. Barring any catastrophes I'll sort it out this evening and PM you.
If not it'll be done in the next day or two.
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| Quote ="Mugwump"Probably the best option. Barring any catastrophes I'll sort it out this evening and PM you.
If not it'll be done in the next day or two.
Ta muchly.'"
How about giving 'Wanderer' a nudge to start doing some moderating? They're active enough in that weird game thread. |
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A great resource for anyone interested in the night sky is a free download fully-working planetarium program, Stellarium, which you can download here:
www.stellarium.org/en_GB/
(the download links for various different OS are the icons along the top)
You can set it up whichever way you want, but I would recommend downloading all the star databases -the more you download, the more there is to see when you zoom in.
Here's a screen grab of the view south tonight
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A great resource for anyone interested in the night sky is a free download fully-working planetarium program, Stellarium, which you can download here:
www.stellarium.org/en_GB/
(the download links for various different OS are the icons along the top)
You can set it up whichever way you want, but I would recommend downloading all the star databases -the more you download, the more there is to see when you zoom in.
Here's a screen grab of the view south tonight
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I've been using Stellarium for years. Great resource.
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Puts hand up and admits to being a computer thicky.
Which should I download for use on an Android tablet?
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| Quote ="Doom&Gloom Merchant"How about giving 'Wanderer' a nudge to start doing some moderating? They're active enough in that weird game thread.'"
Since you want to criticise publicly, I will respond publicly.
Moderating - Not all moderating is obvious to all posters but you would only need to have read the Terrorism or Night Sky threads to see evidence of moderating.
Game threads - There were game threads in the Sin Bin long before you surfaced and there may well be after you have disappeared. If they don't appeal to you that's fine but equally not all threads need to be about debate.
This is your third dig, the previous two were simply removed. Not sure why you feel the need to have a pop but I suggest that if you don't like or approve of the game thread then you simply ignore it.
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| Quote ="Sandro II Terrorista"Puts hand up and admits to being a computer thicky.
Which should I download for use on an Android tablet?'"
[url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noctuasoftware.stellarium&hl=en_GBClicky[/url
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Not a new video, but a well-put together animation by the American museum of Natural History that gives a short but fantastic insight into the immenseness of the known universe, it is based on the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas.
As for aliens knowing of our presence, if we assume that the speed of light is a speed limit then the bubble shown at 2:38 is the furthest that the very earliest radio transmissions from Earth have got into space. You will see, nowhere at all, really. Not even to 99.99% of our own galaxy.
In this still, I have highlighted this bubble with an arrow. that's it, that's as far as any of our signals have ever got.
Watching it is quite a humbling experience if you think about it, but amazing too.
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Not a new video, but a well-put together animation by the American museum of Natural History that gives a short but fantastic insight into the immenseness of the known universe, it is based on the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas.
As for aliens knowing of our presence, if we assume that the speed of light is a speed limit then the bubble shown at 2:38 is the furthest that the very earliest radio transmissions from Earth have got into space. You will see, nowhere at all, really. Not even to 99.99% of our own galaxy.
In this still, I have highlighted this bubble with an arrow. that's it, that's as far as any of our signals have ever got.
Watching it is quite a humbling experience if you think about it, but amazing too.
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Try this link for the Android version.'"
Thanks squire, I'll give it a pop.
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| Quote ="Mugwump"Probably the best option. Barring any catastrophes I'll sort it out this evening and PM you.
If not it'll be done in the next day or two.
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| Food for thought - NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this beautiful view of Earth from the spacecraft's vantage point in orbit around the moon. Doesn't look that troubled a place from 250,000 miles, does it?
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I've been following the progress of a bunch of amateur enthusiasts who have taken some of the millions of images from the Cassini mission and animated them in full 4k resolution. The images are stunning, and the film they are making is called 'In Saturn's Rings'.
Here's a quick vid of the things we can expect from the full imax release. If you can, stick it on 4k and fullscreen to be blown away by the scenes...
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgxWkOXcdZUYoutube vid[/url
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That is a good find Butcher!
The sheer volume of astonishing images from the Pluto mission is overwhelming, but I especially love this mosaic of images -
Quote Zigzagging across Pluto: This high-resolution swath of Pluto (right) sweeps over the cratered plains at the west of the New Horizons’ encounter hemisphere and across numerous prominent faults, skimming the eastern margin of the dark, forbidding region informally known as Cthulhu Regio, and finally passing over the mysterious, possibly cryovolcanic edifice Wright Mons, before reaching the terminator or day-night line. Among the many notable details shown are the overlapping and infilling relationships between units of the relatively smooth, bright volatile ices from Sputnik Planum (at the edge of the mosaic) and the dark edge or “shore” of Cthulhu. The pictures in this mosaic were taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) in “ride-along” mode with the LEISA spectrometer, which accounts for the "zigzag" or step pattern. Taken shortly before New Horizons’ July 14 closest approach to Pluto, details as small as 500 yards (500 meters) can be seen.
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute'"
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That is a good find Butcher!
The sheer volume of astonishing images from the Pluto mission is overwhelming, but I especially love this mosaic of images -
Quote Zigzagging across Pluto: This high-resolution swath of Pluto (right) sweeps over the cratered plains at the west of the New Horizons’ encounter hemisphere and across numerous prominent faults, skimming the eastern margin of the dark, forbidding region informally known as Cthulhu Regio, and finally passing over the mysterious, possibly cryovolcanic edifice Wright Mons, before reaching the terminator or day-night line. Among the many notable details shown are the overlapping and infilling relationships between units of the relatively smooth, bright volatile ices from Sputnik Planum (at the edge of the mosaic) and the dark edge or “shore” of Cthulhu. The pictures in this mosaic were taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) in “ride-along” mode with the LEISA spectrometer, which accounts for the "zigzag" or step pattern. Taken shortly before New Horizons’ July 14 closest approach to Pluto, details as small as 500 yards (500 meters) can be seen.
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute'"
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The pluto images are simply spectacular. The sheer quality and detail is amazing.
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| Continued study of a supernova first detected last June leads astronomers to believe it is the most powerful supernova ever detected, at its peak shining with 570 BILLION times the brightness of our Sun.
The [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35315509BBC article[/url is full of incredible info, such as the object may be powered by a "magnetar", approx. the size of London, spinning at the rate of 1000x per second
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Anyone interested, here's the live launch of SpaceX latest rocket. It goes in 15 mins!
[urlhttp://www.spacex.com/webcast/[/url
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If you're up and about tomorrow (Wed 19 Jan) before dawn, catch a look at the 5 bright planets in our solar system (Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn) as all will all be visible at once, and aligned very nicely.
If as ever the sky is cloudy, you'll still be able to see these planets, if not in such a nice alignment, until Feb 20th. There must be one clear morning between now and then, surely?
There will be a similar alignment again in in the evening sky between Aug 13-19
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Quote ="Ferocious Aardvark"If you're up and about tomorrow (Wed 19 Jan) before dawn, catch a look at the 5 bright planets in our solar system (Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn) as all will all be visible at once, and aligned very nicely.
If as ever the sky is cloudy, you'll still be able to see these planets, if not in such a nice alignment, until Feb 20th. There must be one clear morning between now and then, surely?
There will be a similar alignment again in in the evening sky between Aug 13-19'"
Oh the weather problem, one of the banes of my life, that & the rare early start.
Part of me is hoping for the usual cloud cover so I don't have to drag my sorry carcass out of bed.
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If as ever the sky is cloudy, you'll still be able to see these planets, if not in such a nice alignment, until Feb 20th. There must be one clear morning between now and then, surely?
There will be a similar alignment again in in the evening sky between Aug 13-19'"
Oh the weather problem, one of the banes of my life, that & the rare early start.
Part of me is hoping for the usual cloud cover so I don't have to drag my sorry carcass out of bed.
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Fingers crossed the 'My way or no way' brigade will leave this thread alone now they've hijacked a couple of decent threads to call home.
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| Gobsmacking latest released Mars images
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This perspective view in Noctis Labyrinthus was generated from the main camera’s stereo channels on ESA’s Mars Express.
It shows the beautiful details of landslides in the steep-sided walls of the flat-topped graben in the foreground, and in the valley walls in the background.
The scene is part of region imaged by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on Mars Express on 15 July 2015 during orbit 14632. The image is centred on 6°S / 265°E; the ground resolution is about 16 m per pixel.
Copyright ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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