Re: Night Sky : Thu May 02, 2013 2:05 pm  

Wheels wrote:

I can't even begin to get my head around those figures.

Best not to try, I just go 'wow' these days.

Re: Night Sky : Fri May 17, 2013 12:40 am  

Active sunspot region has produced a series of X-class (i.e. fookin BIG) flares in the past few days, luckily none in our direction. But the Sun is rotating the region towards us, so there's a good chance one may blow off with Earth's number on it. Tin hats on, please.

Re: Night Sky : Fri May 17, 2013 8:10 am  

The power of the Sun: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22556750

The power of the Sun: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22556750

[Durham Giant]

Re: Night Sky : Fri May 17, 2013 6:03 pm  

Dreamer wrote: The power of the Sun: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22556750 Time for everyone to make a Faraday box

Dreamer wrote: The power of the Sun: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22556750 Time for everyone to make a Faraday box

Re: Night Sky : Fri May 31, 2013 10:41 pm  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22736709 Kept that one quiet !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22736709 Kept that one quiet !

Re: Night Sky : Sat Jun 01, 2013 8:12 am  

B0NES wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22736709
Kept that one quiet !

Do you think a Faraday Cage might help?

Re: Night Sky : Mon Jun 03, 2013 2:04 am  

B0NES wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22736709 Kept that one quiet ! Not at all, the whole astro community were anticipating it (for example,JPL article 2 weeks earlier) and every available telescope and instrument that could, watched it and studied it. They even took a video The fact is, unless it's going to be a close thing, nobody outside the astronomy community is even slightly interested. And at 15 times further away than the moon, nobody else would have given, or did give,a shhit! If you really do want to have guaranteed advance warning (well, of those objects which are known to be coming by!) then all you have to do is follow @AsteroidWatch

B0NES wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22736709 Kept that one quiet ! Not at all, the whole astro community were anticipating it (for example,JPL article 2 weeks earlier) and every available telescope and instrument that could, watched it and studied it. They even took a video The fact is, unless it's going to be a close thing, nobody outside the astronomy community is even slightly interested. And at 15 times further away than the moon, nobody else would have given, or did give,a shhit! If you really do want to have guaranteed advance warning (well, of those objects which are known to be coming by!) then all you have to do is follow @AsteroidWatch

Re: Night Sky : Thu Jun 06, 2013 3:35 pm  

Just thought some of you might be entertained by a short video illustrating comparative sizes of stars, up to the biggest known. Just a couple of minutes, but I think fascinating as well as mind boggling.

You can find it on a popular video sharing site by searching for
Star Size Comparison HD AudioV2

Re: Night Sky : Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:00 pm  

Been really enjoying looking up at the ISS the last few nights. Sometimes followed by the ATV4. I'm 25 but as soon as I get the update on twitter that it is about to appear I'm 4 years old again!

Re: Night Sky : Fri Jun 14, 2013 2:22 pm  

Robbo wrote: Been really enjoying looking up at the ISS the last few nights. Sometimes followed by the ATV4. I'm 25 but as soon as I get the update on twitter that it is about to appear I'm 4 years old again! Aye, it's great to watch, tonight (but prolly cloudy ( ) the ATV is about 10 mins ahead of the ISS at roughly 23:19, in the South/ SW, rising from the west but fairly low down in the sky As ever, people can create themselves a login on the free http://www.heavens-above.com/ website and then get full details, individualized predictions and sky charts, at a click.

Robbo wrote: Been really enjoying looking up at the ISS the last few nights. Sometimes followed by the ATV4. I'm 25 but as soon as I get the update on twitter that it is about to appear I'm 4 years old again! Aye, it's great to watch, tonight (but prolly cloudy ( ) the ATV is about 10 mins ahead of the ISS at roughly 23:19, in the South/ SW, rising from the west but fairly low down in the sky As ever, people can create themselves a login on the free http://www.heavens-above.com/ website and then get full details, individualized predictions and sky charts, at a click.