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Ferocious Aardvark wrote:That scope looks an utter waste of time.
… followed by details explaining why.
Many thanks for your answer.
I'll study the link to "my first telescope" you gave on Cornish's thread and delay any purchase until I have some idea what I'm doing.
In the meantime I'll content myself with battling light pollution, cloudy skies and the cold night air in an attempt to capture some star trails (using a camera that I DO understand how to use!).
Joined: Feb 17 2002 Posts: 28357 Location: MACS0647-JD
LeedsBornWelshRoots wrote:… followed by details explaining why.
Many thanks for your answer.
I'll study the link to "my first telescope" you gave on Cornish's thread and delay any purchase until I have some idea what I'm doing.
In the meantime I'll content myself with battling light pollution, cloudy skies and the cold night air in an attempt to capture some star trails (using a camera that I DO understand how to use!).
Good luck, and I'd only repeat what I reckon is my single most useful piece of advice, that is to drop in on your local amateur astronomy society meet. Seeing for yourself, and having people that do these things show you, is worth a thousand words.
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Joined: Oct 26 2005 Posts: 3829 Location: In the seaside town ...that they forgot to bomb
Ferocious Aardvark wrote:Sorry folks, looks like Comet Ison bought it as it whizzed around the Sun. Show's off.
Or, is it?
I’ve no idea who referred to it as the “Comet of the Century” maybe somebody off The X Factor?
I’m still clinging to the faint hope Ison has survived & I will be up tomorrow looking eagerly to the southeast, then dragging my sad carcase back home to listen to faux disappointment from my wife.
Oh well, at least there’s the Geminids to look forwards to, that’s if I get a rare clear night & Mr Moon isn’t too bright.
In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in. They're eating the cats! They're eating the pets!
Joined: Feb 17 2002 Posts: 28357 Location: MACS0647-JD
The Devil's Advocate wrote:... I will be up tomorrow looking eagerly to the southeast, then dragging my sad carcase back home to listen to faux disappointment from my wife.
too close to the mark
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Superb animated gif of Comet Ison's first and last solar fly-by here, from the NASA STEREO spacecraft, takes some moments to load, but truly spectacular stuff.
We won't actually know, though, whether an part of the comet has survived, until the Hubble space telescope has the chance to zoom in and study the remains. This will take 2 to 3 weeks. It or its remains may yet become naked-eye visible, IF that happens, then Friday/Saturday would be the peak.
Superb animated gif of Comet Ison's first and last solar fly-by here, from the NASA STEREO spacecraft, takes some moments to load, but truly spectacular stuff.
We won't actually know, though, whether an part of the comet has survived, until the Hubble space telescope has the chance to zoom in and study the remains. This will take 2 to 3 weeks. It or its remains may yet become naked-eye visible, IF that happens, then Friday/Saturday would be the peak.
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Joined: Mar 05 2007 Posts: 13190 Location: Hedon (sometimes), sometimes Premier Inn's
Wildmoose wrote:3 million years to get here & it dies just as we're about to see it
There will be another one along shortly (well, a few thousand years !!!)
'when my life is over, the thing which will have given me greatest pride is that I was first to plunge into the sea, swimming freely underwater without any connection to the terrestrial world'
Joined: Oct 26 2005 Posts: 3829 Location: In the seaside town ...that they forgot to bomb
Ferocious Aardvark wrote:Superb animated gif of Comet Ison's first and last solar fly-by here, from the NASA STEREO spacecraft, takes some moments to load, but truly spectacular stuff.
We won't actually know, though, whether an part of the comet has survived, until the Hubble space telescope has the chance to zoom in and study the remains. This will take 2 to 3 weeks. It or its remains may yet become naked-eye visible, IF that happens, then Friday/Saturday would be the peak.
Jeez, I thought I was an optimist but you’re on a par Gottfried Leibniz .
You’re just trying to entice me to go out for one last attempt to see the “Comet of the Century” just as the temperature plummets.
Ferocious Aardvark wrote:Superb animated gif of Comet Ison's first and last solar fly-by here, from the NASA STEREO spacecraft, takes some moments to load, but truly spectacular stuff.
We won't actually know, though, whether an part of the comet has survived, until the Hubble space telescope has the chance to zoom in and study the remains. This will take 2 to 3 weeks. It or its remains may yet become naked-eye visible, IF that happens, then Friday/Saturday would be the peak.
Jeez, I thought I was an optimist but you’re on a par Gottfried Leibniz .
You’re just trying to entice me to go out for one last attempt to see the “Comet of the Century” just as the temperature plummets.
In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in. They're eating the cats! They're eating the pets!
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too close to the mark
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