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ah right, so it wasn't just me they were avoiding

I saw a two nice bright ones, a few dim and some corner of the eye, was it or wan't it, ones. That was earlier on (10-11ish), didn't see any past midnight.

I was on the wrong end of the planet to see any perseids this year but I did see a pretty hefty chunk of rock breaking up and burning up as it entered the atmosphere above Northern Territories. I didn't get a photo of it (I was on my way to the bogs on a campsite at the time) but here are some of the celestial delights I did meet while away.





oh and saw this in Sydney as well

Brilliant stuff PaulR, what are you shooting this on ?

All shot with a Canon 1000D with kit 18-55mm lens for the first three and the Cinelli, a nifty fifty for number 5 and a dinky little 70mm travel scope for the earthshiny moon (shot on my way to the only bottle shop in town - got some funny looks walking it with a telescope and manfrotto tripod over my shoulder)

All shot with a Canon 1000D with kit 18-55mm lens for the first three and the Cinelli, a nifty fifty for number 5 and a dinky little 70mm travel scope for the earthshiny moon (shot on my way to the only bottle shop in town - got some funny looks walking it with a telescope and manfrotto tripod over my shoulder)

Good stuff, I'd love to learn how to take these kinds of shots, but I suspect central London is not ideal.

"I suspect central London is not ideal", said tynan

trudat

but number 6 ought to be achievable

for the rest, it's not really a question of learning to be honest - just point the camera at the sky, focus carefully and open the shutter for about 10 seconds or, in the case of the moon, more like half a second

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A very big thing.

Cool stuff, I love trying to get my tiny almost hairless head around the scale of the place we live in. Funnily enough, I was wondering just yesterday whether it was time to bump this thread. I've been getting tantalising glimpses of venus in the mornings...

Very nice. I assume the radial 'shadows' are the bits we can't see because our own galaxy gets in the way?

sky at night looking at the big dipper last night
looking individually at the stars that make up the cluster
and some of the closer galaxys to ours around the edge of the cluster
there are sooooooo many stars out there and sooooo many more planets
mind boggling

Haven't had my telescope out in a while, got a good view of Jupiter a coupla months ago which was a pretty awesome moment... Will have to check the morning sky for Venus...

Peak of the Geminids tonight.

^ Anyone see any last night/this morning?

Haven't had my telescope out in a while,

Euph?

Dis anyone see these?
It won't let link the pics for some reason, but there are a few amazing ones. The sun especially.

This was last week... A loop of plasma 435,000 miles long erupts from the sun's surface... UV image...

Yes thats the one! Looks amazing!

That's mental!
Would it have an effect here on Earth, something like the event that knocked out half of Canada? (or something like that)

Probably would've done if it had been facing us... I think it spewed it's electromagnetic load safely into deep space...

And saved us from a cosmic bukkake.

Amazing clip.

Probably would've done if it had been facing us... I think it spewed it's electromagnetic load safely into deep space...

Can you also link the one showing the x rays extending above and below the galaxy?

And then make me a coffee and do my ironing?

Thanks!

Sugar?