Astronomy stuff - Life, the Universe & Everything

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  1. 4jonboy

    4jonboy Daughter of a 56 Recce Patron

    My dad used to love the Cadbury's
    smash advert with the Martians. Sorry couldn't resist :D.
     
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  2. Uncle Target

    Uncle Target Mist over Dartmoor

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    Hunters moon
    19:30 17.10. 24
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  3. Tony56

    Tony56 Member Patron

    19:38 Horsham, Sussex. The comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (also called C/2023 A3 and Comet A3) is also visible in the west, best seen with binoculars. Also seen by chance a train of 20+ Starlink satellites.
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  4. Tony56

    Tony56 Member Patron

    Starlink - NOT those that I saw but this is what a satellite chain looks like, can be 50 or 60 !
     
  5. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

  6. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Mentally bright over Twickenham Stadium (no....they have not got the floodlights on). :)

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  7. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    "PUT THAT LIGHT OUT!" :)

    Kind regards, and observing the blackout, always,

    Jim.
     
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  8. dryan67

    dryan67 Senior Member

    My shot of the Harvest moon on Wednesday, October 16th from Connecticut, USA. I used a Sony RX10 III camera.

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  9. Wobbler

    Wobbler Patron Patron

    18th October, 6.15am in East Sussex:

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    An hour later:

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  10. Wobbler

    Wobbler Patron Patron

    Damn, that’s amazing - knocks my iPhone photos into a cocked hat.
     
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  11. dryan67

    dryan67 Senior Member

    iPhone cameras are great and improving all the time, but nothing can beat a decent Digital SLR with a telephoto for certain shots. I use it at my granddaughter's recital each year while 98% of the rest of the photographers are pinching to zoom with their smartphones. Nature photography is best with the Digital SLR particularly distance bird/animal shots in motion. On the other hand, they are large and clunky to carry around.
     
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  12. Wobbler

    Wobbler Patron Patron

    Stars in the Sussex sky early hours today.

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  13. SteveDee

    SteveDee Well-Known Member

    Did you manage to catch any shots of the Taurid meteors?

    I need to check all my images, but I don't think there was much activity in my bit of the sky last night...

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    The brightest object near the top is Jupiter.
     
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  14. Wobbler

    Wobbler Patron Patron

    Can’t say I did Steve, sorry, and I admit to not knowing about that. I just happened to be up early doors letting the dog out, looked up and saw what an incredibly clear sky it was, stars better than I’d ever seen. All I had to hand was my trusty iPhone again (which also makes it look lighter than it actually was).

    This is the only one I took that stayed as dark as the sky at the time, the trade off being most of the stars have now vanished, at least from the image.

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  15. Wobbler

    Wobbler Patron Patron

    Another clearstarry Sussex sky last night.

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  16. SteveDee

    SteveDee Well-Known Member

    Another one of my star-trail composite photos.

    The thick bright line entering top right, exiting the picture at top, and then re-entering, is Jupiter.
    The second thick line 'chasing' Jupiter is Mars...
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    There was a program on the BBC this week which suggested that the Star of Bethlehem was possibly the combined light (alignment) of Jupiter & Mars. This image gives an idea how large and bright it would have looked (...even better in the nice dark desert sky).

    The blue & red dotted lines are mostly airplanes coming in over the south coast (top of image) and heading 'home' to Heathrow for the night.

    The tree on the left is a blue/green colour thanks to the coloured LED sky-light from my neighbours TV room.
     
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  17. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

  18. SteveDee

    SteveDee Well-Known Member

    Michael Woodman is on stand-by, waiting to see an event he first witnessed 80 years ago.
    If successful, he could hold a 'twice in a lifetime' record for long after his death!

    No one really knows if T Cor Bor will flare again, but I think cloudy local skies over the next few nights may be a problem.

    T Cor Bor: Astronomers await dazzling celestial show
     
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  19. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

  20. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

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