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Post by spindrift on Aug 6, 2009 17:26:47 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2009 21:14:03 GMT
Now I want to see Jupiter too.
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Post by spindrift on Aug 6, 2009 21:21:06 GMT
It's large and bright! You can't miss it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2009 21:43:23 GMT
Well, it's a full moon tonight, I'm going to have a good look for it.
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Post by imec on Aug 6, 2009 22:13:05 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2009 0:14:15 GMT
I'll try and look out for that, imec.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 7, 2009 2:20:44 GMT
As the moon was rising last night it was accompanied by a large and bright planet (just below and [highlight=Yellow]to the left[/highlight]).....now how can we find out which planet it was/is? You meant to the moon's left, not your left?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2009 5:13:55 GMT
Last night was the full moon (still tonight for some of you).
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Post by hwinpp on Aug 7, 2009 6:18:32 GMT
Here too!
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Post by spindrift on Aug 7, 2009 8:45:57 GMT
Bixa - Jupiter appeared lower down and on the left of the moon when it was rising (Jupiter rose with it!) and it was also to my left as I was looking at it.
the moon, of itself, wouldn't have a left and right aspect, would it?
Imec - Last year I spent hours gazing upwards in the hope of seeing the Perseids... I did see a few flashes across the sky but I had expected to see hundreds.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 7, 2009 13:09:55 GMT
Not being stubborn, but this sure looks like the right to me: This picture is from midnight. Did it appear at the other side as the moon rose? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What year was it with the really fabulous meteor showers -- 2001, maybe?
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Post by spindrift on Aug 7, 2009 13:30:48 GMT
I took the pictures 2(3?depends on our time difference) nights ago and the moon rose around 10.30pm UK time. Jupiter was down below it and to the left. But I don't know the rotation patterns for the plants in relation to the moon and earth. I am sure you are right and I'm right about what I saw . We can both be right.
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Post by spindrift on Aug 7, 2009 13:42:54 GMT
This was another picture that I took. If you look carefully there is a tiny bright spot of light to the left...that is Jupiter!
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Post by imec on Aug 7, 2009 13:51:39 GMT
Imec - Last year I spent hours gazing upwards in the hope of seeing the Perseids... I did see a few flashes across the sky but I had expected to see hundreds. It varies greatly - sometimes disappointing sometimes stunning.
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Post by spindrift on Aug 7, 2009 17:56:41 GMT
Have you ever seen a stunning display? I never have. I'm always hopeful though.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 7, 2009 18:04:55 GMT
The meteor shower from the-year-I-can't-remember -- 2001? maybe -- was beyond stunning. Really, there are no words to describe how fabulous it was.
We went way out in the country to the mini-commune of some friends. We huddled for hours around the fire on the tiny porch, occasionally ducking around to the back of the building to see if the show had started. I think I saw the first one, and a loud, guttural OH! was fairly punched out of me. I will swear to this day you can hear as well as see them, although I guess that's impossible.
It was a continuous shooting of bright green or white streaks across the black sky, and went on for at least a couple of hours. We crawled home around four with the windows open in the cold, the better to crane our necks out and see more.
It was truly one of the stellar, no pun intended, events of my life.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2009 18:19:13 GMT
I haven't even looked to see if any of the photos I took last night are worth posting. Where is that damned camera?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2009 18:21:14 GMT
Find it Kerouac, we want to see them.
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Post by imec on Aug 7, 2009 18:44:02 GMT
Have you ever seen a stunning display? I never have. I'm always hopeful though. The one I recall most vividly was at my sister's place when she lived in the country (there was very little light pollution) about an hour outside of Ottawa. Can't remember what year it was - sometime in the 90's. For interesting events like these we sometimes take sleeping bags out on the deck or on the trampoline and just lie back (with a cocktail or glass of port of course) and enjoy the show. Aurora Borealis displays are fun too.
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Post by spindrift on Aug 7, 2009 18:52:35 GMT
Of course there's far too much light pollution in England.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2009 19:43:17 GMT
Here is last night's moon in Paris. I had to walk over to the Gare de l'Est train tracks a block away to get the buildings out of the way.
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Post by spindrift on Aug 7, 2009 19:48:24 GMT
Those are very atmospheric. Can you explain the orange effect? Did you use flash?
Orange street light perhaps?
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Post by spindrift on Aug 7, 2009 20:12:04 GMT
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It takes about 12 years to orbit the sun and rotates in about 10 hours. Unlike the rocky planets, Jupiter is a ball of dense hydrogen, helium, water, nitrogen and other gases over a tiny rocky core. Jupiter and its moons. The planet has 39 known moons and a ring of smoke-size particles and dust. The planet (is supposed) to contain 71% of the planetary matter in the solar system and so its huge gravity pulls every object towards it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2009 20:21:38 GMT
Those are very atmospheric. Can you explain the orange effect? Did you use flash? Orange street light perhaps? You don't use a flash to take a photo of the moon! Sodium based streetlight = always yellowish. When I was younger the lights were bluish (mercury vapor).
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Post by spindrift on Aug 7, 2009 20:35:34 GMT
I tried to use a flash to take my moon photos the other night.....I'm so stoopid
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2009 21:19:25 GMT
;D A flash is good for about 3 meters maximum. I think the moon is a bit farther out. ;D
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Post by spindrift on Aug 7, 2009 21:21:48 GMT
Ok. I took this photograph at 9:50pm from the top floor. Bixa! Jupiter, tonight, is on the right of the cathedral (and the moon). You can just see the tiny dot of light level with the moon. . I'm going to keep a watch and see whether the moon rises above Jupiter and goes to the right...... I think the trajectories are always different (is that the right word?)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2009 21:23:58 GMT
That's good. Having illuminated monuments always helps. I suppose I'll have to try a moon + Eiffel Tower before long.
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Post by spindrift on Aug 7, 2009 21:34:26 GMT
Please do. It's easy for me as I only have to open the window...but you'll have a long way to go to the Eiffel tower.?
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Post by traveler63 on Aug 7, 2009 21:40:57 GMT
This was taken near dawn at Saguaro Nat'l Park East here in Tucson, which is about a 10 minute trip from our house. I haven't had the courage to get up to do this but one of these days. !!!!!
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