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With 11x80 binoculars maybe at 11, and with naked eye shortly after that

Long before you moved in, lad...

2 years

On the Circle Line ride the other day, as we were turning onto the Marylebone Road, someone said: 'It's just like 2016 all over again!'

Nostalgia takes many forms. :)

I'm in Devon at the moment far from any light pollution, it was easily visible to the naked eye at 23.00 on Friday night

Before they did Windrush Square up...

Anyway, sky is clear again and there the comet is again! Will waste more of my time taking photos and will be hopelessly tired tomorrow. Did go for a bike ride today, so that kind of makes me feel I might still be in the right forum.

Yeah, I remember it being renovated.

Before, it had those mounds of Earth and you could buy basically anything.

It was redeveloped in 2010.

OK, one last photo.

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Wide-field view from Edinburgh with bonus noctilucent clouds

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Mars in 4K

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEyAs3NWH4A

If you're sick of all the coronavirus stuff, look no further than coronavenus:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jul/21/likely-active-volcanoes-found-on-venus-defying-theory-of-dormant-planet

I knew there needed to be an astronomy thread.

Mars in 4k

This I amazing. I am always blown away by photos from Mars. First photos not on earth. Just the first photos! We are looking at an alien world.

Anyway, sky is clear again and there the comet is again!

I was very sad I don't think I saw much of the comet. Stupid London light pollution

(thats the the bottom of the big dipper-also cool cause I never saw it in the southern hemisphere)

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first-ever direct images of planetary system outside of our own

While been stuck indoors for months on end, we've upgraded to fibre so got true 4k so have been enjoying things like this

https://youtu.be/x9vWyEPAboM

My PhD was on this subject, at least the engineering side.
These pictures are vital to our understanding of how our solar system formed with being able to sample more than one system.

there's a secrets of the universe on smithsonian channel showing currently, investigating how the planets formed in the solar system, they had one image of the various types of planetary system interactions that had been identified, it was incredible to see some planetary systems and how they worked

the moving version of this is quite something

ftrom systems where just two huge planets interact with their sun, all the way to systems with multiple small planets

smithsonian channel

Que?

Engineering side? Do explain. Sounds cool.

Wonder what that is being launched at 7:20? Thought it looked too fast - and wrong trajectory - for anything intended for orbit, which was kinda confirmed by it appearing to explode.

Presumably a SAM of some kind, but I'm pretty sure it's Baikonur or thereabouts.

Edit: Comments say "Progress MS-10 resupply ship bound for ISS launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, as seen from the International Space Station on November 16th, 2018". So I guess I mistook the explosion for staging. At least I'd sleuthed the location correctly :)

Can also see it continuing for another couple of mins, and around 9:10 presumably the first stage burning up on re-entry. Pretty incredible to see it captured like that.

I was designing a two telescope system to fly in space that could be harnessed to behave like one giant telescope. With an idea to image the surface of these planets...

It works in theory but lots of applied science these days is about payback for investment and so you need to justify the exact capabilities of any project. Mine was "blue sky" and was trying to reimagine an old idea with modern electronics.

New photo of saturn

Watching the Mars Rover take off was good.