Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Uncle Mort on June 20, 2012, 03:24:36 PM
rubschin:
As far as I'm aware all Excalibur Almaz have are a couple of old rusty Russian military Sayluts and a few crew return capsules that the Russians designed and built in the early 70s but decided not to develop. They have no launch vehicle of their own but plan to ship their stuff back to Russia for them to launch.
I don't really rate their chances of ever getting off the ground.
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Nick on June 20, 2012, 03:29:51 PM
As far as I'm aware all Excalibur Almaz have are a couple of old rusty Russian military Sayluts and a few crew return capsules that the Russians designed and built in the early 70s but decided not to develop. They have no launch vehicle of their own but plan to ship their stuff back to Russia for them to launch.
I don't really rate their chances of ever getting off the ground.
or getting back scared2:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Uncle Mort on June 21, 2012, 11:08:13 PM
Camelopardalis, or U Cam for short, is a star nearing the end of its life. As stars run low on fuel, they become unstable. Every few thousand years, U Cam coughs out a nearly spherical shell of gas as a layer of helium around its core begins to fuse. The gas ejected in the stars latest eruption is clearly visible in this picture as a faint bubble of gas surrounding the star
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Uncle Mort on July 16, 2012, 08:51:49 PM
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on August 01, 2012, 08:30:02 AM
You've ruined Uncle Mort's thread..... noooo:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Nick on August 01, 2012, 08:30:51 AM
Shrugs:
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Post by: Uncle Mort on August 01, 2012, 11:00:30 AM
cussing:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on August 01, 2012, 11:51:53 AM
See...? ::)
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Just One More on August 05, 2012, 01:56:03 PM
Uncle, depending on which site I look at we could see meteor showers anytime from 10 to 13th August, do you know the best time and if we in the UK (or Cyprus) are likely to see them rubschin:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: apc2010 on August 05, 2012, 01:59:35 PM
Uncle, depending on which site I look at we could see meteor showers anytime from 10 to 13th August, do you know the best time and if we in the UK (or Cyprus) are likely to see them rubschin:
We get them really clear here ............. :thumbsup: would like to know the date also ...........
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on August 05, 2012, 02:27:06 PM
Is it Percy and Sid?
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on August 05, 2012, 02:28:16 PM
It is! Thumbs:
Quote
When the Perseids peak next Saturday night and Sunday morning, Aug. 11 and 12, the skies will definitely be dark as we'll only have a thin crescent moon rising in the eastern sky after 1 a.m.
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Misty on August 05, 2012, 02:58:36 PM
managed to watch a shower a few years ago whilst playing with the arial on the roof. was stunning! forgot about apc down in the living room shouting " nope, still no picture" for an hour. redface:
Am up in the hills on the 11th so fingers crossed for a clear sky.
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Nick on August 05, 2012, 03:00:43 PM
point:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on August 05, 2012, 03:13:32 PM
managed to watch a shower a few years ago whilst playing with the arial on the roof. was stunning! forgot about apc down in the living room shouting " nope, still no picture" for an hour. redface:
Am up in the hills on the 11th so fingers crossed for a clear sky.
We get an awesome display here too - no light pollution..... cloud9:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: apc2010 on August 05, 2012, 03:25:11 PM
managed to watch a shower a few years ago whilst playing with the arial on the roof. was stunning! forgot about apc down in the living room shouting " nope, still no picture" for an hour. redface:
Am up in the hills on the 11th so fingers crossed for a clear sky.
We get an awesome display here too - no light pollution..... cloud9:
We will be quite near you ............
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Uncle Mort on August 06, 2012, 05:32:34 AM
managed to watch a shower a few years ago whilst playing with the arial on the roof. was stunning! forgot about apc down in the living room shouting " nope, still no picture" for an hour. redface:
Am up in the hills on the 11th so fingers crossed for a clear sky.
We get an awesome display here too - no light pollution..... cloud9:
We will be quite near you ............
eeek:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Uncle Mort on August 06, 2012, 05:36:26 AM
First image received ~ "It's a wheel"
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Just One More on August 06, 2012, 05:52:06 AM
They have them everywhere since London got theirs redface:
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Post by: Barman on August 06, 2012, 06:54:14 AM
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Just One More on August 29, 2012, 05:21:39 PM
Many many years ago when I use to watch football and rugby on the telly there was always somebody in the crowd holding up a sign that said "John 3:16". I thought it was a message to somebody telling them it was what time he'd be getting off the train/plane redface:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on August 29, 2012, 05:23:26 PM
Many many years ago when I use to watch football and rugby on the telly there was always somebody in the crowd holding up a sign that said "John 3:16". I thought it was a message to somebody telling them it was what time he'd be getting off the train/plane redface:
happy001
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Uncle Mort on August 29, 2012, 07:13:11 PM
Oi! cussing:
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Post by: Barman on August 29, 2012, 07:19:17 PM
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Just One More on August 30, 2012, 05:38:27 AM
Yes, shame on you whistle:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Snoopy on August 31, 2012, 04:00:40 PM
I was once put on a charge by the Orderly Officer. He came round the mess hall and asked the usual "Any Complains?" ...... I replied "Hebrews 13.8" and he sent the Orderly Sergeant to find a Bible so he could look it up........ 3 days jankers for insubordination ::) TBF the CO had a broad smile on his face when the charge was read out and instead of the usual cookhouse pan scrubbing I was sent to the camp chapel to polish all the chalices, candlesticks etc.
Okay ~ off topic I know but in keeping with previous posts.
To save you all rushing for a Bible the quote is: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today and forever more,
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Uncle Mort on August 31, 2012, 07:20:34 PM
Not space really and I am not sure if it has been photoshopped but it reminded me of the fantastic full and waning moon that we have been seeing in the cloudless night skies over us for the last few nights. cloud9:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on September 05, 2012, 08:07:46 AM
Not space really and I am not sure if it has been photoshopped but it reminded me of the fantastic full and waning moon that we have been seeing in the cloudless night skies over us for the last few nights. cloud9:
Photoshopped I reckon - Beautiful picture tho.... Thumbs:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Darwins Selection on September 05, 2012, 11:28:22 AM
Not space really and I am not sure if it has been photoshopped but it reminded me of the fantastic full and waning moon that we have been seeing in the cloudless night skies over us for the last few nights. cloud9:
Photoshopped I reckon
Definitely, otherwise you would see the ripples where it touches the water.
Very pretty anyway.
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on September 06, 2012, 10:11:07 PM
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Pastis on November 13, 2012, 03:55:03 PM
Right. Apologies to Uncle but here's probably the best place to post :thumbsup:
Friends in Oz are in the direct path of the Solar Eclipse - they plan on getting up at early o'clock tomorrow to view it, notwithstanding cloud cover ::) Early o'clock tomorrow, Oz time is around 7:45 tonight in the UK ... soooooo...
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: apc2010 on December 11, 2012, 09:05:01 AM
Information from NASA as follows. Space station
"Tue Dec 11 5:55 PM [Cyprus time], Visible: 3 min, Max Height: 88 degrees, Appears: SW, Disappears: NE"
It appears as a fast moving bright orange(ish) coloured "star" that sweeps across the sky then fades away. If the skies are clear it is easily visible with the naked eye
rubschin:
Past BMs bed time..................... shame
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Darwins Selection on December 11, 2012, 02:07:25 PM
"Tue Dec 11 5:55 PM [Cyprus time], Visible: 3 min, Max Height: 88 degrees, Appears: SW, Disappears: NE"
It appears as a fast moving bright orange(ish) coloured "star" that sweeps across the sky then fades away. If the skies are clear it is easily visible with the naked eye
rubschin:
Past BMs bed time..................... shame
Shame indeed. He loves playing with his 4 inch Newtonian.
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on December 11, 2012, 02:45:46 PM
"Tue Dec 11 5:55 PM [Cyprus time], Visible: 3 min, Max Height: 88 degrees, Appears: SW, Disappears: NE"
It appears as a fast moving bright orange(ish) coloured "star" that sweeps across the sky then fades away. If the skies are clear it is easily visible with the naked eye
rubschin:
Past BMs bed time..................... shame
Shame indeed. He loves playing with his 4 inch Newtonian.
eeek:
How did you know I had a 4" Newtonian? rubschin:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Darwins Selection on December 11, 2012, 07:12:22 PM
"Tue Dec 11 5:55 PM [Cyprus time], Visible: 3 min, Max Height: 88 degrees, Appears: SW, Disappears: NE"
It appears as a fast moving bright orange(ish) coloured "star" that sweeps across the sky then fades away. If the skies are clear it is easily visible with the naked eye
rubschin:
Past BMs bed time..................... shame
Shame indeed. He loves playing with his 4 inch Newtonian.
eeek:
How did you know I had a 4" Newtonian? rubschin:
LL told me, while I was demonstrating my 10" Refractor.
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on December 11, 2012, 07:41:43 PM
"Tue Dec 11 5:55 PM [Cyprus time], Visible: 3 min, Max Height: 88 degrees, Appears: SW, Disappears: NE"
It appears as a fast moving bright orange(ish) coloured "star" that sweeps across the sky then fades away. If the skies are clear it is easily visible with the naked eye
rubschin:
Past BMs bed time..................... shame
Shame indeed. He loves playing with his 4 inch Newtonian.
eeek:
How did you know I had a 4" Newtonian? rubschin:
LL told me, while I was demonstrating my 10" Refractor.
Shocked:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Just One More on December 11, 2012, 07:46:10 PM
Poor Uncle's thread noooo:
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Post by: Darwins Selection on December 11, 2012, 09:22:30 PM
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Uncle Mort on April 24, 2013, 08:30:02 AM
Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory's launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990.
Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory's launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990.
Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory's launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990.
happ096 I agree totally Steve an amazing achievement by all who worked so hard Thumbs: and a very sad tale of a son who was obviously devoted to his father sad24:
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Post by: Barman on January 23, 2014, 06:21:40 AM
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Uncle Mort on February 07, 2014, 07:24:57 AM
Anyhoo, back to report. DM's usual hyperbole: vast 100ft wide crater. noooo:
By that definition the I don't go in to the garden, I tour my estate.
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Steve on February 07, 2014, 11:07:20 AM
lol: and Darwin his country
The BBC said "These studies indicate that impacts producing holes at least 3.9m (12.8ft) in diameter occur at a rate exceeding 200 per year across the planet."
So being no Astronomy expert I'm guessing that Mars is much nearer to belts of Asteroids than wot we are.
Bet the Meister is a bit less pissed off he wasn't picked for that mission now. There you'd be Meister lazing on your sun lounger gazing at the Earth and suddenly you're squashed to pulp at the bottom of a 3.9m hole. Still it'd be quick
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on February 23, 2014, 03:41:24 PM
Runaway Star Shocks the Galaxy! The bright blue star at the center of this image is a B-type supergiant named Kappa Cassiopeiae, 4,000 light-years away. As stars in our galaxy go its pretty big over 57 million kilometers wide, about 41 times the radius of the Sun. But its size isnt what makes K Cas stand out its the infrared-bright bow shock its creating as it speeds past its stellar neighbors at a breakneck 1,100 kilometers per second.
Runaway Star Shocks the Galaxy! The bright blue star at the center of this image is a B-type supergiant named Kappa Cassiopeiae, 4,000 light-years away. As stars in our galaxy go its pretty big over 57 million kilometers wide, about 41 times the radius of the Sun. But its size isnt what makes K Cas stand out its the infrared-bright bow shock its creating as it speeds past its stellar neighbors at a breakneck 1,100 kilometers per second.
Runaway Star Shocks the Galaxy! The bright blue star at the center of this image is a B-type supergiant named Kappa Cassiopeiae, 4,000 light-years away. As stars in our galaxy go its pretty big over 57 million kilometers wide, about 41 times the radius of the Sun. But its size isnt what makes K Cas stand out its the infrared-bright bow shock its creating as it speeds past its stellar neighbors at a breakneck 1,100 kilometers per second.
Runaway Star Shocks the Galaxy! The bright blue star at the center of this image is a B-type supergiant named Kappa Cassiopeiae, 4,000 light-years away. As stars in our galaxy go its pretty big over 57 million kilometers wide, about 41 times the radius of the Sun. But its size isnt what makes K Cas stand out its the infrared-bright bow shock its creating as it speeds past its stellar neighbors at a breakneck 1,100 kilometers per second.
NASA scientists have produced the first global geological map of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede by combining images from over twenty years of observation by the Voyager spacecraft and the Galileo orbiter.
Ganymede, which as the largest moon in the Solar System is bigger than the planet Mercury, hosts a thick mantle of ice roughly 800km (497 mi) thick. The moon has two major terrain types, dark cratered areas and younger regions characterized by a plethora of grooves and ridges. The map, published by the US Geological Survey exhibits three distinct geological periods demarcated by cratering, tectonic disturbances and finally by a drop in geologic activity.
This map illustrates the incredible variety of geological features on Ganymede and helps to make order from the apparent chaos of its complex surface, says Robert Pappalardo of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.....
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Steve on February 27, 2014, 11:25:08 AM
NASA scientists have produced the first global geological map of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede by combining images from over twenty years of observation by the Voyager spacecraft and the Galileo orbiter.
Ganymede, which as the largest moon in the Solar System is bigger than the planet Mercury, hosts a thick mantle of ice roughly 800km (497 mi) thick. The moon has two major terrain types, dark cratered areas and younger regions characterized by a plethora of grooves and ridges. The map, published by the US Geological Survey exhibits three distinct geological periods demarcated by cratering, tectonic disturbances and finally by a drop in geologic activity.
This map illustrates the incredible variety of geological features on Ganymede and helps to make order from the apparent chaos of its complex surface, says Robert Pappalardo of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.....
Cor :thumbsup:
How long before some wit at Google starts including Ganymede locations on their road directions?
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on March 07, 2014, 01:30:21 PM
We could have the first VPub member in space! Just programme one of those microsatellites to randomly post eeek: surrender: "great foottie game"and some randomly chosen inuendos using crapatalk. Who'd ever know the difference?
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Nick on May 17, 2014, 09:29:18 AM
BMSat you say? rubschin:
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Post by: Steve on May 17, 2014, 09:49:37 AM
A selfie no less! But shouldn't a selfie have some celebrity in it, in this case a twisting in agony slowly vapourising in the vacuum of space celebrity?
Justin Bieber step forward please
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Darwins Selection on September 15, 2014, 05:03:21 PM
Splendid results and a a fine project, but has the press overdone it a bit?
"..built from parts made by a 3D printer."
"At the heart of the telescope is the camera module of a Raspberry Pi, the cheap, barebones, British built computer."
"Other parts such as the lens and the mirror can be bought from online suppliers."
So, it uses a Raspberry pi, a lens and a mirror, all bought online. That would make the "parts made by a 3D printer" a plastic tube and a bit to hold the mirror?
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Baldy on September 20, 2014, 05:43:50 PM
Splendid results and a a fine project, but has the press overdone it a bit?
"..built from parts made by a 3D printer."
"At the heart of the telescope is the camera module of a Raspberry Pi, the cheap, barebones, British built computer."
"Other parts such as the lens and the mirror can be bought from online suppliers."
So, it uses a Raspberry pi, a lens and a mirror, all bought online. That would make the "parts made by a 3D printer" a plastic tube and a bit to hold the mirror?
lol: lol: lol:
Did they get funding for that? noooo:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Uncle Mort on September 26, 2014, 01:44:15 PM
An answer to the those who say "we shouldn't spend money in space when there's so many woes on Earth:
They were sent by the rover in black and white, but Damia Bouic from the Planetary Society was able to recreate the colours to create these stunning views.
Pretty, but you'd think NASA could afford a colour camera. ::)
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on May 07, 2015, 07:51:49 AM
They were sent by the rover in black and white, but Damia Bouic from the Planetary Society was able to recreate the colours to create these stunning views.
Pretty, but you'd think NASA could afford a colour camera. ::)
Its not the camera, it is the extra for the colour (color) TV licence to watch them.... ::)
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Darwins Selection on May 07, 2015, 10:06:34 PM
They were sent by the rover in black and white, but Damia Bouic from the Planetary Society was able to recreate the colours to create these stunning views.
Pretty, but you'd think NASA could afford a colour camera. ::)
Its not the camera, it is the extra for the colour (color) TV licence to watch them.... ::)
Obvious when you think about it. Thumbs:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Uncle Mort on May 11, 2015, 03:22:14 PM
Better resolution but still no definite idea as to what the bright spots on Ceres are:
But the 24-600mm lens on its own is amazing! (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs21.postimg.org%2F938580irn%2FP1000171.jpg&hash=bf39e93243b83490c62fd0f3a99542b3a2e9d23e) (http://postimg.org/image/938580irn/) (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs21.postimg.org%2Fm63rra8zn%2FP1000172.jpg&hash=d4ec7313d6eeea746ef4e22dbced0ce4c639784a) (http://postimg.org/image/m63rra8zn/)
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Post by: Nick on July 27, 2015, 08:17:47 PM
Does it do pictures of cats? rubschin:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on July 27, 2015, 08:21:24 PM
But the 24-600mm lens on its own is amazing! (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs21.postimg.org%2F938580irn%2FP1000171.jpg&hash=bf39e93243b83490c62fd0f3a99542b3a2e9d23e) (http://postimg.org/image/938580irn/) (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs21.postimg.org%2Fm63rra8zn%2FP1000172.jpg&hash=d4ec7313d6eeea746ef4e22dbced0ce4c639784a) (http://postimg.org/image/m63rra8zn/)
:thumbsup:
A Leica lens is always a good sign
I went for the Canon SX50 and I can't do that justice, it spend a lot of time in Auto mode redface: but I love that mahoosive optical zoom. But now there's an SX60. that's got WiFi and stuff
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Steve on July 27, 2015, 08:32:53 PM
But the 24-600mm lens on its own is amazing! (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs21.postimg.org%2F938580irn%2FP1000171.jpg&hash=bf39e93243b83490c62fd0f3a99542b3a2e9d23e) (http://postimg.org/image/938580irn/) (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs21.postimg.org%2Fm63rra8zn%2FP1000172.jpg&hash=d4ec7313d6eeea746ef4e22dbced0ce4c639784a) (http://postimg.org/image/m63rra8zn/)
:thumbsup:
A Leica lens is always a good sign
I went for the Canon SX50 and I can't do that justice, it spend a lot of time in Auto mode redface: but I love that mahoosive optical zoom. But now there's an SX60. that's got WiFi and stuff
I use a few different cameras and am more comfortable with the bridge cameras. Steve, the SX50 is a great camera, I know a few people with them :thumbsup:
Barman, you asked on faceache recently which camera I'd been using for some shots and your post here reminded me I never got back to you. It was the Nikon P900, gives an awesome 83x optical zoom. This one was taken hand-held on 02.07.15 :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
But the 24-600mm lens on its own is amazing! (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs21.postimg.org%2F938580irn%2FP1000171.jpg&hash=bf39e93243b83490c62fd0f3a99542b3a2e9d23e) (http://postimg.org/image/938580irn/) (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs21.postimg.org%2Fm63rra8zn%2FP1000172.jpg&hash=d4ec7313d6eeea746ef4e22dbced0ce4c639784a) (http://postimg.org/image/m63rra8zn/)
:thumbsup:
A Leica lens is always a good sign
I went for the Canon SX50 and I can't do that justice, it spend a lot of time in Auto mode redface: but I love that mahoosive optical zoom. But now there's an SX60. that's got WiFi and stuff
I use a few different cameras and am more comfortable with the bridge cameras. Steve, the SX50 is a great camera, I know a few people with them :thumbsup:
Barman, you asked on faceache recently which camera I'd been using for some shots and your post here reminded me I never got back to you. It was the Nikon P900, gives an awesome 83x optical zoom. This one was taken hand-held on 02.07.15 :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
That extra zoom gives you a bigger view of the moon than I gets! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on August 07, 2015, 04:34:10 AM
For Uncle (http://jeroengommers.nl/work/Solar/ss.html)... :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on August 07, 2015, 04:37:15 AM
Compare The Planets Dot Com (http://callumprentice.github.io/apps/planet_compare/index.html)! ;D
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on August 07, 2015, 04:40:05 AM
Space Probes! (http://spaceprob.es/) razz:
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Post by: Uncle Mort on August 07, 2015, 07:48:41 AM
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Steve on August 10, 2015, 08:02:31 PM
Well if Uncle isn't going to post this other side of the moon image from NASA then I will
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic1.techinsider.io%2Fimage%2F55c22c572acae72d5f8bcbb8-2048-2048%2Fepicearthmoonstill.png&hash=3a0d5b02f6f2ebc2a0723519a4a972dd50bcc57b) link (http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth)
worthy:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Nick on August 10, 2015, 08:08:34 PM
I've been looking for that 2p piece evil:
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Post by: Darwins Selection on August 10, 2015, 10:53:03 PM
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Post by: apc2010 on December 13, 2015, 05:11:54 PM
"December 13-14, 2015, mid-evening until dawn, Geminids Radiating from near the bright stars Castor and Pollux in the constellation Gemini the Twins, the Geminid meteor shower is one of the finest meteors showers visible in either the Northern or the Southern Hemisphere. Best yet, in 2015, there is no moon to obscure this shower. The meteors are plentiful, rivaling the August Perseids. They are often bold, white and bright. The zenithal hourly rate for the Geminids is up to 120 meteors per hour, after some good displays in recent years. That is the predicted best rate of the shower, which you might see if youre watching in a dark country sky on the night of the peak, around 2 a.m. local time (the time on your clock no matter where you are on Earth), when the radiant point is highest in the sky. In 2015, the slender waxing crescent moon will set soon after the sun, providing a wonderful cover of darkness for the Geminid meteor shower. Your best bet is to watch on the night of December 13 (morning of December 14) from mid-evening (9 to 10 p.m.) until dawn."
also see: http://www.spacedex.com/geminids/ (http://www.spacedex.com/geminids/) .."Unlike many of the other major meteor showers, the Geminids can be viewed early in the evening. This is due to the radiant (the constellation Gemini) being about 30 degrees above the eastern horizon by 9:00pm.
If BM gets his camera out........ Thumbs:
if he is awake at 9 pm......... rubschin:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on December 15, 2015, 07:10:32 PM
Well, we've finally managed to fire ONE ginger bloke into space. It's a start, I suppose... :thumbsup:
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Post by: The Moan Ranger on December 15, 2015, 07:44:19 PM
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Uncle Mort on February 15, 2017, 11:58:49 AM
let's get back to stunning pictures:
The moon Daphnis in one of the rig gaps around Saturn (https://s16.postimg.org/spjptjj75/Daphnis_in_the_Keeler_Gap.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/spjptjj75/)
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Steve on February 15, 2017, 12:38:52 PM
The moon Daphnis in one of the rig gaps around Saturn (https://s16.postimg.org/spjptjj75/Daphnis_in_the_Keeler_Gap.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/spjptjj75/)
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Steve on February 15, 2017, 12:42:13 PM
The moon Daphnis in one of the rig gaps around Saturn (https://s16.postimg.org/spjptjj75/Daphnis_in_the_Keeler_Gap.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/spjptjj75/)
Great picture. Thumbs:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Uncle Mort on March 10, 2017, 10:28:00 AM
The International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, is seen in silhouette as it transits the moon at roughly five miles per second Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, Alexandria, Virginia. Onboard are; NASA astronauts Joe Acaba, Mark Vande Hei, and Scott Tingle: Russian Cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Anton Shkaplerov, and Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai.
eeek:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Steve on February 02, 2018, 11:02:17 AM
The International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, is seen in silhouette as it transits the moon at roughly five miles per second Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, Alexandria, Virginia. Onboard are; NASA astronauts Joe Acaba, Mark Vande Hei, and Scott Tingle: Russian Cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Anton Shkaplerov, and Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai.
eeek:
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Nick on February 05, 2018, 10:37:29 AM
Are they wrong to say it came from outside the solar system?
No they were wrong to say it changed velocity:
"The theory is based on the object's "excess acceleration," or its unexpected boost in speed as it traveled through and ultimately out of our solar system in January."
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Steve on November 09, 2018, 01:54:28 PM
Are they wrong to say it came from outside the solar system?
No they were wrong to say it changed velocity:
"The theory is based on the object's "excess acceleration," or its unexpected boost in speed as it traveled through and ultimately out of our solar system in January."
Aha
Ta
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on November 09, 2018, 02:30:32 PM
Are they wrong to say it came from outside the solar system?
No they were wrong to say it changed velocity:
"The theory is based on the object's "excess acceleration," or its unexpected boost in speed as it traveled through and ultimately out of our solar system in January."
They obviously switched to warp speed... ::)
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Nick on November 09, 2018, 02:54:03 PM
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Steve on November 09, 2018, 03:21:14 PM
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Uncle Mort on January 03, 2019, 06:14:29 PM
Amazing week for space exploration :thumbsup:
First this fly-by of Ultima Thule. A mind boggling distance of 4.1 billion miles. This equates to about 6 light hours whereas the nearest star is is about 4.2 light years away. Makes you realise the Universe is a big place eeek:
Next OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was placed into orbit around the asteroid Bennu. (https://astronomynow.com/2019/01/02/osiris-rex-slips-into-record-close-orbit-around-asteroid/)
And finally China lands a probe on the farside of the moon
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Steve on January 03, 2019, 06:36:27 PM
First this fly-by of Ultima Thule. A mind boggling distance of 4.1 billion miles. This equates to about 6 light hours whereas the nearest star is is about 4.2 light years away. Makes you realise the Universe is a big place eeek:
Next OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was placed into orbit around the asteroid Bennu. (https://astronomynow.com/2019/01/02/osiris-rex-slips-into-record-close-orbit-around-asteroid/)
And finally China lands a probe on the farside of the moon
:thumbsup:
Interesting timing by the Chinese though.
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Nick on January 03, 2019, 06:38:31 PM
Explanation: On January 6 the New Moon rose in silhouette with the Sun seen from northeastern Asia. Near maximum, the dramatic partial solar eclipse is captured in this telephoto view through hazy skies. In the foreground, the hill top Wanchun pavilion overlooking central Beijing's popular Forbidden City hosts eclipse-watching early morning risers. This was the first of five, three solar and two lunar, eclipses for 2019. Next up is a total lunar eclipse during this month's Full Perigee Moon. At night on January 21, that celestial shadow play will be visible from the hemisphere of planet Earth that includes the Americas, Europe, and western Africa.
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Steve on January 18, 2019, 10:48:59 AM
Explanation: On January 6 the New Moon rose in silhouette with the Sun seen from northeastern Asia. Near maximum, the dramatic partial solar eclipse is captured in this telephoto view through hazy skies. In the foreground, the hill top Wanchun pavilion overlooking central Beijing's popular Forbidden City hosts eclipse-watching early morning risers. This was the first of five, three solar and two lunar, eclipses for 2019. Next up is a total lunar eclipse during this month's Full Perigee Moon. At night on January 21, that celestial shadow play will be visible from the hemisphere of planet Earth that includes the Americas, Europe, and western Africa.
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Darwins Selection on January 18, 2019, 06:28:28 PM
Explanation: On January 6 the New Moon rose in silhouette with the Sun seen from northeastern Asia. Near maximum, the dramatic partial solar eclipse is captured in this telephoto view through hazy skies. In the foreground, the hill top Wanchun pavilion overlooking central Beijing's popular Forbidden City hosts eclipse-watching early morning risers. This was the first of five, three solar and two lunar, eclipses for 2019. Next up is a total lunar eclipse during this month's Full Perigee Moon. At night on January 21, that celestial shadow play will be visible from the hemisphere of planet Earth that includes the Americas, Europe, and western Africa.
:thumbsup:
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Nick on January 18, 2019, 07:32:08 PM
I like those little cheese things in the red wax stuff. cloud9:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on January 18, 2019, 07:52:34 PM
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Nick on June 25, 2019, 12:54:30 PM
This will make it clear
The same desire for clearness, which has led me thus to extend a little my first analysis of the three great classes of English society, prompts me also to make my nomenclature for them a little fuller, with a view to making it thereby more clear and manageable. It is awkward and tiresome to be always saying the aristocratic class, the middle-class, the working-class. For the middle-class, for that great body which, as we know, "has done all the great things that have been done in all departments," and which is to be conceived as chiefly moving between its two cardinal points of Mr. Bazley and the Rev. W. Cattle, but inclining, in the mass, rather towards the latter than the former for this class we have a designation which now has become pretty well known, and which we may as well still keep for them, the designation of Philistines. What this term means I have so often explained that I need not repeat it here. For the aristocratic class, conceived mainly as a body moving between the two cardinal points of Lord Elcho and Sir Thomas Bateson, but as a whole nearer to the latter than the former, we have as yet got no special designation. Almost [97/98] all my attention has naturally been concentrated on my own class, the middle-class, with which I am in closest sympathy, and which has been, besides, the great power of our day, and has had its praises sung by all speakers and newspapers. Still the aristocratic class is so important in itself, and the weighty functions which Mr. Carlyle proposes at the present critical time to commit to it must add so much to its importance, that it seems neglectful, and a strong instance of that want of coherent philosophic method for which Mr. Frederic Harrison blames me, to leave the aristocratic class so much without notice and denomination. It may be thought that the characteristic which I have occasionally mentioned as proper to aristocracies, their natural inaccessibility, as children of the established fact, to ideas, points to our extending to this class also the designation of Philistines; the Philistine being, as is well known, the enemy of the children of light, or servants of the idea. Nevertheless, there seems to be an inconvenience in thus giving one and the same designation to two very different classes; and besides, if we look into the thing closely, we shall find that the term Philistine conveys a sense which [98/99] makes it more peculiarly appropriate to our middle class than to our aristocratic. For Philistine gives the notion of something particularly stiff-necked and perverse in the resistance to light and its children, and therein it specially suits our middle-class, who not only do not pursue sweetness and light, but who prefer to them that sort of machinery of business, chapels, tea meetings, and addresses from Mr. Murphy and the Rev. W. Cattle, which makes up the dismal and illiberal life on which I have so often touched. But the aristocratic class has actually, as we have seen, in its well-known politeness, a kind of image or shadow of sweetness; and as for light, if it does not pursue light, it is not that it perversely cherishes some dismal and illiberal existence in preference to light, but it is seduced from following light by those mighty and eternal seducers of our race which weave for this class their most irresistible charms, by worldly splendour, security, power and pleasure. These seducers are exterior goods, but they are goods; and he who is hindered by them from caring for light and ideas, is not so much doing what is perverse as what is natural.
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on June 25, 2019, 12:59:32 PM
The same desire for clearness, which has led me thus to extend a little my first analysis of the three great classes of English society, prompts me also to make my nomenclature for them a little fuller, with a view to making it thereby more clear and manageable. It is awkward and tiresome to be always saying the aristocratic class, the middle-class, the working-class. For the middle-class, for that great body which, as we know, "has done all the great things that have been done in all departments," and which is to be conceived as chiefly moving between its two cardinal points of Mr. Bazley and the Rev. W. Cattle, but inclining, in the mass, rather towards the latter than the former for this class we have a designation which now has become pretty well known, and which we may as well still keep for them, the designation of Philistines. What this term means I have so often explained that I need not repeat it here. For the aristocratic class, conceived mainly as a body moving between the two cardinal points of Lord Elcho and Sir Thomas Bateson, but as a whole nearer to the latter than the former, we have as yet got no special designation. Almost [97/98] all my attention has naturally been concentrated on my own class, the middle-class, with which I am in closest sympathy, and which has been, besides, the great power of our day, and has had its praises sung by all speakers and newspapers. Still the aristocratic class is so important in itself, and the weighty functions which Mr. Carlyle proposes at the present critical time to commit to it must add so much to its importance, that it seems neglectful, and a strong instance of that want of coherent philosophic method for which Mr. Frederic Harrison blames me, to leave the aristocratic class so much without notice and denomination. It may be thought that the characteristic which I have occasionally mentioned as proper to aristocracies, their natural inaccessibility, as children of the established fact, to ideas, points to our extending to this class also the designation of Philistines; the Philistine being, as is well known, the enemy of the children of light, or servants of the idea. Nevertheless, there seems to be an inconvenience in thus giving one and the same designation to two very different classes; and besides, if we look into the thing closely, we shall find that the term Philistine conveys a sense which [98/99] makes it more peculiarly appropriate to our middle class than to our aristocratic. For Philistine gives the notion of something particularly stiff-necked and perverse in the resistance to light and its children, and therein it specially suits our middle-class, who not only do not pursue sweetness and light, but who prefer to them that sort of machinery of business, chapels, tea meetings, and addresses from Mr. Murphy and the Rev. W. Cattle, which makes up the dismal and illiberal life on which I have so often touched. But the aristocratic class has actually, as we have seen, in its well-known politeness, a kind of image or shadow of sweetness; and as for light, if it does not pursue light, it is not that it perversely cherishes some dismal and illiberal existence in preference to light, but it is seduced from following light by those mighty and eternal seducers of our race which weave for this class their most irresistible charms, by worldly splendour, security, power and pleasure. These seducers are exterior goods, but they are goods; and he who is hindered by them from caring for light and ideas, is not so much doing what is perverse as what is natural.
Tl:dr noooo:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Nick on June 25, 2019, 01:02:28 PM
::)
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Steve on June 25, 2019, 06:33:05 PM
50 years ago. I thought it was the start of manned space exploration but it turned out to be the end. noooo:
Indeed... cry:
Twas an amazing thing to live through though! cloud9:
Dead right both :thumbsup: (and a great pic)
Am getting annoyed with the assorted pseuds getting dragged out for the TV this week saying shite like "we're going back" and "we're going to Mars"
No we're not. Celebrate the 50 years absolutely it was an amazing inspiring and brave achievement but what the anniversary really tells you is that in 50 years no one has ever come up with a good reason to go back
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on August 06, 2019, 10:37:47 AM
Stuff in Space (http://stuffin.space/)
eeek:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Darwins Selection on August 06, 2019, 11:27:49 AM
NASA have set up a website you can experience the Apollo 13 mission in real time. :thumbsup:
Seeing as I've just finished listening to Gene Krantz's NASA memoirs again I can see me spending some time going through this.
https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/
Nah, did that years ago. 50 if memory serves me right. ;)
lol: lol: lol:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Just One More on April 20, 2020, 05:56:53 PM
Starlink Satellites If the skies are clear, theres a train of satellites that will be visible to the human eye over the next few nights. Tonights are supposed to be visible for six minutes 2158hrs (+/- 10 mins). A few around here seen them last night, I'll be giving it a try later. For the insomniacs, they come round again 0330 and 0502hrs too 😉 Link is here (http://findstarlink.com/#1530;3)
Sorry Smuggers, for Cyprus it says, "the latest Starlink isn't very visible at your location during the next 5 days. This might change in the coming weeks, due to changing orbits."
Starlink Satellites If the skies are clear, theres a train of satellites that will be visible to the human eye over the next few nights. Tonights are supposed to be visible for six minutes 2158hrs (+/- 10 mins). A few around here seen them last night, I'll be giving it a try later. For the insomniacs, they come round again 0330 and 0502hrs too 😉 Link is here (http://findstarlink.com/#1530;3)
Sorry Smuggers, for Cyprus it says, "the latest Starlink isn't very visible at your location during the next 5 days. This might change in the coming weeks, due to changing orbits."
Not to mention these. https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-lyrid-meteor-shower (https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-lyrid-meteor-shower) :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Steve on April 20, 2020, 07:05:39 PM
Starlink Satellites If the skies are clear, theres a train of satellites that will be visible to the human eye over the next few nights. Tonights are supposed to be visible for six minutes 2158hrs (+/- 10 mins). A few around here seen them last night, I'll be giving it a try later. For the insomniacs, they come round again 0330 and 0502hrs too 😉 Link is here (http://findstarlink.com/#1530;3)
Sorry Smuggers, for Cyprus it says, "the latest Starlink isn't very visible at your location during the next 5 days. This might change in the coming weeks, due to changing orbits."
Not to mention these. https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-lyrid-meteor-shower (https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-lyrid-meteor-shower) :thumbsup:
:thumbsup: and :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Just One More on April 20, 2020, 07:28:53 PM
Starlink Satellites If the skies are clear, theres a train of satellites that will be visible to the human eye over the next few nights. Tonights are supposed to be visible for six minutes 2158hrs (+/- 10 mins). A few around here seen them last night, I'll be giving it a try later. For the insomniacs, they come round again 0330 and 0502hrs too 😉 Link is here (http://findstarlink.com/#1530;3)
Sorry Smuggers, for Cyprus it says, "the latest Starlink isn't very visible at your location during the next 5 days. This might change in the coming weeks, due to changing orbits."
Not to mention these. https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-lyrid-meteor-shower (https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-lyrid-meteor-shower) :thumbsup:
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Steve on April 21, 2020, 03:40:46 PM
Well can I be arsed to go out again tonight to strain my neck 8.58 pm? They're not exactly bright, we managed to see one last night even with the Night Sky App to help us
So that'll be a no for tonight then
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Just One More on April 21, 2020, 07:46:02 PM
Well can I be arsed to go out again tonight to strain my neck 8.58 pm? They're not exactly bright, we managed to see one last night even with the Night Sky App to help us
So that'll be a no for tonight then
I seen six last night, not exactly a trail, more like one every 90 seconds or so. I'll give me neck another strain 2234hrs ish tonight
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Steve on April 21, 2020, 08:16:56 PM
Well can I be arsed to go out again tonight to strain my neck 8.58 pm? They're not exactly bright, we managed to see one last night even with the Night Sky App to help us
So that'll be a no for tonight then
I seen six last night, not exactly a trail, more like one every 90 seconds or so. I'll give me neck another strain 2234hrs ish tonight
:thumbsup:
You wait an age for a satellite and then 6 come along together
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Just One More on April 21, 2020, 08:20:14 PM
Well can I be arsed to go out again tonight to strain my neck 8.58 pm? They're not exactly bright, we managed to see one last night even with the Night Sky App to help us
So that'll be a no for tonight then
I seen six last night, not exactly a trail, more like one every 90 seconds or so. I'll give me neck another strain 2234hrs ish tonight
:thumbsup:
You wait an age for a satellite and then 6 come along together
lol:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on April 22, 2020, 04:55:37 AM
Well can I be arsed to go out again tonight to strain my neck 8.58 pm? They're not exactly bright, we managed to see one last night even with the Night Sky App to help us
So that'll be a no for tonight then
I seen six last night, not exactly a trail, more like one every 90 seconds or so. I'll give me neck another strain 2234hrs ish tonight
:thumbsup:
You wait an age for a satellite and then 6 come along together
lol:
lol: lol:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Steve on July 16, 2020, 02:15:17 PM
Comet Neowise, currently visible in the Northern night sky but I doubt as clear as this
Also that Mars is currently 185 million miles or 16.55 light minutes away.
Indeed, in some ways strange that the landing and these flights are when it's nearly at its farthest (not that it ever gets close) but I guess they had to work with the planetary physics
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Uncle Mort on May 20, 2021, 08:39:21 AM
China on Mars:
(https://i.imgur.com/js6DJ5S.jpg)
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Steve on May 20, 2021, 09:32:18 AM
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on May 20, 2021, 10:03:55 AM
Thumbs:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Darwins Selection on May 20, 2021, 02:53:05 PM
:thumbsup: Seems a lot of money if it justs sends back Selfies. rubschin:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on May 20, 2021, 02:54:08 PM
Eyes on Exoplanets (https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/eyes-on-exoplanets/?fbclid=IwAR0HfCi43DNHqbKIkcKYaS2QiQsLpR5GWKxQZOFd0dK0zs6VuBhyyZ29wnA#/)
:thumbsup: amazing
happ096 happ096
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Uncle Mort on March 17, 2022, 11:31:17 AM
The Webb Space Telescope has finished phase one of it's alignment process:
(https://i.imgur.com/AxZDVkw.jpg)
That star is over a hundred time dimmer than naked eye objects. Even some galaxies appear in the background. Should get some great pictures come summer. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on March 17, 2022, 11:37:44 AM
The Webb Space Telescope has finished phase one of it's alignment process:
(https://i.imgur.com/AxZDVkw.jpg)
That star is over a hundred time dimmer than naked eye objects. Even some galaxies appear in the background. Should get some great pictures come summer. :thumbsup:
Cor! Thumbs:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Steve on March 17, 2022, 07:43:29 PM
The Webb Space Telescope has finished phase one of it's alignment process:
(https://i.imgur.com/AxZDVkw.jpg)
That star is over a hundred time dimmer than naked eye objects. Even some galaxies appear in the background. Should get some great pictures come summer. :thumbsup:
Cor! Thumbs:
Thumbs: Thumbs:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Darwins Selection on March 18, 2022, 03:55:07 PM
The Webb Space Telescope has finished phase one of it's alignment process:
(https://i.imgur.com/AxZDVkw.jpg)
That star is over a hundred time dimmer than naked eye objects. Even some galaxies appear in the background. Should get some great pictures come summer. :thumbsup:
Cor! Thumbs:
Thumbs: Thumbs:
Thumbs: Thumbs: Thumbs:
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Nick on March 18, 2022, 04:58:17 PM
James Webb: Nasa space telescope delivers spectacular pictures (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62140044)
:thumbsup:
Not sure what amazes me more, that sheer vastness of the universe that we can now see or that they could get that massive precision instrument up there and working so well.
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Just One More on July 12, 2022, 06:34:08 PM
But if the universe is constantly expanding how come two galaxies can collide?
Gravitation attraction within 'local' groups of galaxies can overcome the general expansion. Our galaxy has had a number of collisions already; the Andromeda galaxy will collide with us in about 4.5 billion years.
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Steve on August 03, 2022, 10:13:19 PM
But if the universe is constantly expanding how come two galaxies can collide?
Gravitation attraction within 'local' groups of galaxies can overcome the general expansion. Our galaxy has had a number of collisions already; the Andromeda galaxy will collide with us in about 4.5 billion years.
That'll be nasty for whoever is left
I still believe a single 'big bang' wouldn't lead to such collisions as everything would just keep expanding outward.
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Nick on August 05, 2022, 05:28:18 AM
They interviewed the guy on BBC Breakfast https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001bg13/breakfast-26082022 about 8.48
Instead of using the original still photos he went to the 16 mil cine footage they shot and used 'super resolution' on it where you build up a high resolution still from a succession of video frames. I can remember when it was a classified technique now anyone can use it and it's amazing what detail can be recovered. Don't throw away those old grainy cine films, you might be amazed.
Title: Re: Uncle Mort's Space Pictures
Post by: Barman on August 26, 2022, 12:23:39 PM