Stars tonight
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Topic: Stars tonight
Posted By: oldsoldier
Subject: Stars tonight
Date Posted: 12 April 2010 at 1:04am
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Just a great view, with no big city lights to mask the night sky, the view tonight is just magnificient. Time to get a good telescope.
Multi layered sky and the 'Milky' appearance. ------------- 
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Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 12 April 2010 at 1:07am
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I live in Detroit, theres a car dealership with huge merc-vapor lights every half mile. I can see the moon on good nights though. ------------- http://www.anomationanodizing.com - My Site 
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Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 12 April 2010 at 2:40am
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Yeah, I notice the difference between here and living in suburbia enough, but when I used to go out to camp as a kid I remember the sky looks like it's just full of stars.
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Posted By: FROG MAN
Date Posted: 12 April 2010 at 3:33am
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when I go to visit my parents house its amazing. The town is so small, only about 1.5k people, no traffic lights and only street lights on main street which is down the valley. It is so dark you can see everything i love it.
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Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 12 April 2010 at 11:33am
| I curse the turnpike and its local zoning exemption for the 100' tall neon McDonalds signs. The view is still pretty good on the other end of town. Northern ME is something else, you can see satellites and space junk with the naked eye. |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 12 April 2010 at 12:04pm
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I live in the sticks... you can see a ton up there with the naked eye. And if you want, binoculars.
I had a telescope for a while, but sold it about a year ago. It wasn't powerful enough.
I saw the space station a few months back during one of our bonfires. It was cruising past...
Venus is very bright right now, low on the horizon in the evening. Brightest thing in the sky (besides the sun/moon) right now.
One of my good friends (sitting next to me right now) is on the board at the cincinnati observatory. Did you know that they rotated their original dome on 6 inch cannonballs? (they were always building on a budget). We printed their calendar this year, and it has some amazing shots. Many were done here in town and rival some of the best space photography out there.
http://www.cincinnatiobservatory.org/ - http://www.cincinnatiobservatory.org/
Pics can be seen on the link to deep sky treasures calendar. ------------- They tremble at my name... 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 12 April 2010 at 12:17pm
| Truly one of the best parts of being back in Whitehorse, living in the boons. Can see the stars and sometimes northern lights with no effort because we're away from street lights and such. |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 12 April 2010 at 12:20pm
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Northern lights = cool. I'd seen them a few times from the Northern U.S. but had never truly understood how majestic they are until seeing them from Alaska. (Colors and swirls . . . wow!) ------------- 
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Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 12 April 2010 at 12:34pm
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Yeah, I didn't realize how far down into the states you could see them. When I was teaching at woodward (1991) a bunch of us instructors went out one night to this old fire tower, that was super tall, and climbed to the top. It was the first time I had seen them, and they were so bizarre. I tried to take a picture... but it didn't work.
That was in PA near state college. I always thought you had to be in Alaska to see them... ------------- They tremble at my name...
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Posted By: FROG MAN
Date Posted: 12 April 2010 at 1:05pm
You just see them way more often if you live up north. ------------- <1 meg sig = bad> |
FreeEnterprise wrote:Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 12 April 2010 at 3:30pm
| A strong solar flare will make them more visible farther south. |
Posted By: ThatGuitarGuy
Date Posted: 12 April 2010 at 7:22pm
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OS, see if you can get some pictures for us? I live "out in the country" but it's apparently not far enough out, as I still get glow from the city on my east-northeast horizon, and a little bit on my south.
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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 12 April 2010 at 8:46pm
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Here's a list of the major meteor showers this year. http://www.physorg.com/news189970926.html - http://www.physorg.com/news189970926.html ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: oldsoldier
Date Posted: 12 April 2010 at 8:58pm
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Just sitting here thinking. Like the scene in Platoon, I remmember nights in VN, we would be out on top of some no-name hill-top and I would just lay there looking up and 'pondering' the universe. I could see so deep into the night, stars and the milky layers beyond. The occasional meteor crossing the sky, a little bit of peace and reality in a really screwed up time. -------------
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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 12 April 2010 at 9:20pm
Dude, I know exactly what you mean. Overnighting on convoy runs in a blacked our forward operating base. Some of the nights were just too damned nice, so we slept outside of the tents on cots right by our vehicles. I could look up and have literally nothing in my peripheral vision but a perfectly clear, dark night's sky. Pretty humbling. ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 12 April 2010 at 9:22pm
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Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 12 April 2010 at 10:41pm
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http://gizmodo.com/5513783/the-world-would-be-better-if-everyone-watched-this-video - Watch this video. Especially you Benji, I know you're a fan.
The perspective it lays on you is pretty intense. ------------- 
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