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Post by spindrift on Aug 7, 2009 21:45:53 GMT
Oh, that's beautiful. Do you have those cacti everywhere? Please take photos for us.
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Post by traveler63 on Aug 7, 2009 21:50:38 GMT
Oh yes cactus everywhere!!!. I will start a new thread called Cactus Study.
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Post by imec on Aug 7, 2009 22:44:20 GMT
One man must have thought I was spying on him and immediately closed his curtains Are you sure he wasn't trying to see Uranus?
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Post by tillystar on Aug 7, 2009 23:10:06 GMT
Was it in late December? I remember going for a late night walk in late December in 2000 and seeing one completely unexpectedly. It was a wonderful moment. This was the moon over one of the islands of the Stockholm Archipelago on Saturday night.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 8, 2009 0:17:31 GMT
Maybe so, Tilly. It was sure cold! This doesn't really narrow it down, but reading it I remembered that the big one I saw was a Leonid shower: The most spectacular meteor shower is probably the Leonids, the King of Meteor Showers[11] which peaks on a day near 17 November. Approximately every 33 years the Leonid shower produces a "meteor storm", peaking at rates of thousands of meteors per hour. These Leonid storms gave birth to the term "meteor shower", when it was first realised during the November 1833 storm that the meteors radiated from near the star gamma Leonis. The last Leonid storms were in 1999, 2001 (two), and 2002 (two). Before that, there were storms in 1767, 1799, 1833, 1866, 1867, and 1966. When the Leonid shower is not storming it is less active than the Perseids. ~~ from this Wikipedia article-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Love the deliciously spooky view of the cathedral, Spindrift, and Jupiter is so clear! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- T63, I am waiting to see YOUR pics posted here!
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Post by spindrift on Aug 8, 2009 9:14:04 GMT
T63 - we are waiting to see lots of your pics! Tilly - I love the blue tinge in your photo....I can only achieve inky darkness... Bixa - Knowing so much now about Winchester (since the photo essay) I'm sure this is a very spooky town.
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Post by imec on Aug 9, 2009 17:12:31 GMT
Forgot about these... the early evening moon through the lavender at Pechingorp:
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2009 18:52:14 GMT
Nice pics. Where is Pechingorp?
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Post by imec on Aug 9, 2009 22:13:20 GMT
It's the name of the house we rented in France (near Gaillac).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2009 22:49:05 GMT
Arr..Okay, very nice.
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Post by imec on Aug 10, 2009 13:33:49 GMT
Not particularly a photo-op, but the International Space Station is interesting to observe on a pass. Pick your location from this site and it will tell you when in the next 10 days is a good opportunity to see it: www.heavens-above.com/countries.aspx
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 10, 2009 14:19:42 GMT
That is the niftiest thing! It's really great because of the neighbors feature -- allows you to pinpoint the closest location. Thanks.
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Post by spindrift on Aug 10, 2009 16:34:22 GMT
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Post by spindrift on Aug 31, 2009 18:36:32 GMT
I took this picture of the Moon twenty minutes ago. 31st August 2009 at 19:15. It would be interesting if those of us who are widely dispersed around the globe, could take pictures when the moon is in its different phases (shapes)...then we could see if the moon lies at different angles when we see it.... Deyana? Imec? Bixa?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2009 20:51:57 GMT
Good idea, Spinny. I'm going out there right now to take one.
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Post by spindrift on Aug 31, 2009 22:15:05 GMT
It'll be very exciting when we have the crescent moons...what did Kerouac say..? (I can't look it up or I'll lose this post...it's back on page one!).
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 31, 2009 23:17:02 GMT
Spindrift, the next time that happens -- when you want to stay on one page, but need to look at another one -- do this:
Go to the bottom of the thread and set "Jump to page _" to the page you need. Now right-click on the word "Go" and select "Open link in new window" from the menu. You will have your cake and eat it, too!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2009 23:36:08 GMT
Bixa, I'll have to try that too. Okay, I got my moon pictures, it is cloudy today, I took these a few mins. ago. Spindrift, it was too light to see the moon earlier, at the time you took your pic. I think we are around 4 hours behind you, so your evening comes before ours!
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 1, 2009 0:12:34 GMT
You took those over 30 minutes ago, Deyana? It's still broad daylight here. I guess I'm pretty far west of you.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2009 0:16:04 GMT
Bixa, it was light, but started getting darker really fast after that, it's pitch dark outside now.
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Post by spindrift on Sept 1, 2009 8:41:45 GMT
Deyana - your moon is presenting as the same as my moon.... so far.... thanks for doing that. We'll do it again soon.
Bixa - I found the Forum Jump at the end of the page but there is no 'Go' or option to 'Open New Window'.....
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 1, 2009 15:59:01 GMT
Not the Forum Jump. I'm talking about the part on the left, where it says:
« Page 3 of 3 Jump to page |_| Go
I can't recreate the little white box, but that's indicated by |_|. Put the page number you want in the white box, then right click on Go, choosing "Open link in new window".
You can also hover over the "Page 3 of 3" part and a little window opens beneath it that says [go to: 1 2 3]. Right click on any of those page numbers and choose "Open link in new window".
You can do this anywhere on a page where there is linked text. For instance, if you are writing a reply here and want to check something in another thread somewhere, simply go to the horizontal menu at the top of the page, right-click on the board you want and choose "Open link in new window".
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Post by spindrift on Sept 1, 2009 18:11:17 GMT
Bixa - you're a treasure. I'll try that. Trust me to try the wrong 'Jump' !
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2009 11:22:04 GMT
As Casimira pointed out elsewhere:
FULL MOON TONIGHT
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Post by spindrift on Sept 4, 2009 21:10:34 GMT
Full Moon - 4th September at 22:00hrs
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2009 23:04:47 GMT
Stunning photograph SD. Weird,it's still light,light here,sun over an hour from going down.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2009 2:01:01 GMT
Fantastic photo Spindrift. I was out for most of the day and evening, so didn't get a chance to take the full moon photo. Besides my camera just doesn't capture it that well, I might try again tomorrow.
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Post by spindrift on Sept 5, 2009 8:05:46 GMT
Last night the sky was inky black. I actually need to use a tripod to take slow pictures of the moon. Whilst I was using my camera out in the back yard I noticed a procession of aircraft coming over the cathedral prior to landing at Southampton airport. I tried to catch a landing plane with its lights on flying below the moon....but it didn't work. At the same time I could see several other high-flying aircraft on different flight paths....so the sky is a very busy place
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2009 9:41:30 GMT
It's the limit. Or is it? I often wonder.
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Post by spindrift on Sept 5, 2009 12:15:21 GMT
I wonder too. Just think about all the metal that has been dumped in the sky that is orbiting By an amazing coincidence I was reading Science Daily website and found this information "Space junk is not uncommon -- about 19,000 objects larger than 10 centimeters are known to exist, according to NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office." The article was entitled 'Nasa tracks space junk headed towards space station'.
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