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Particularly love #2, why unused? Get amongst it!

Set my Pixel 5 up on a tripod tonight, it seems to work... I'll get out and take some shots from the beach on a dark night, should be stars everywhere!! Happy new year, sky dorks!! 🔭🌌🌠

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Unused since the internal structure collapsed many years ago. The local astro club now uses a less glamorous shed along the hedge from there.

London star gazing tips from the Londonist

I do always enjoy this exoplanet stuff, even if it's very tentative in this case:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/feb/10/astronomers-hopes-raised-by-glimpse-of-possible-new-planet-alpha-centauri

At about 5pm today the moon was looking good - shot with a Canon 7d2 from a field outside the village

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Your results never disappoint.

You’re too kind - but I am hoping for some decent shots with this camera in due course (second hand from a YACFer, as is the lens)

about 5pm today the moon was looking good - shot with a Canon 7d2 from a field outside the village

That is wonderful!

footage of the landing!

Awesome footage @ChainBreaker. Also this rotatable panoramic view for hand held device

https://youtu.be/wE-aQO9XD1g

The very first video of another planet. Absolutely stunning. NASA have gone big on the pr for this rover.

NASA have gone big on the pr for this rover.

Not sure its any different from normal. Technology has move on since the last rover. Plus the more PR that goes into the more funding they get. And with SpaceX reinvigorating space exploration and Mars, theres a chance to get some seriously big bucks now.

Actual video footage on another planet rocks me. I keep thinking to myself, this is a new planet. Not Earth. Never been seen before like this. We might even get to see the first man on Mars... So cool

Is Matt Damon's potato-dome just over the horizon?

Spacex are going for the third attempt to land a super rocket: https://youtu.be/VxQ1CmSbRTY

Attempt should take 5 minutes and could launch in the next hour or so.

3 minutes to launch!

Howd it go?!

Damp squib.

Abort at T0 due to overactive thrust from one of the engines.

Trying again possibly at around 10:30 tonight.

Booooooo

New attempt in 30 mins ish

T minus 3 mins

Nailed it!!!

I wouldn't go near it for a while, mind.

Stuck the landing! Bit of a tilt and something was on fire, but they're quibbles!

The future of humanity right there.

Yup! It’s decided to have a lie down.