Astronomy thread

NovaResource · Post by **NovaResource** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 12:18 am

I started this one since I got the User Name thread off topic:http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=6033Some Triton pics:Actual:Computer generated:

NovaResource · Post by **NovaResource** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 12:27 am

More of my favorite pics:My most favorite pic of Saturn taken by Voyager 1 in 1980. A view not possible from Earth because Saturn will never pass between the Earth and the Sun. This was taken as the craft passed Saturn and looked back.Saturn's moon Mimas. The "Death Star" moon.

Vibe · Post by **Vibe** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 3:15 am

Beautiful Pics-----This ought to turn out to be a real good thread. Thanks James

MonotoneSatellite · Post by **MonotoneSatellite** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:50 am

This is one of my favorite shots.

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MonotoneSatellite · Post by **MonotoneSatellite** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:52 am

And this one too.

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Triton · Post by **Triton** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:54 am

That picture of Neptune and Triton is awesome!

macrosonic · Post by **macrosonic** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 9:41 am

I used to have a hi-res closeup version of this pic as my wallpaper. There's a lot of good pics at the hubble site: http://hubblesite.org/

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Sat Sep 13, 2003 7:24 am

NASA has had to resort to some drastic measures to cope with budget cutbacks

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NovaResource · Post by **NovaResource** » Sat Sep 13, 2003 10:47 am

Moon Io over Jupiter:

ragingfish · Post by **ragingfish** » Sat Sep 13, 2003 12:00 pm

quote:NASA has had to resort to some drastic measures to cope with budget cutbacks Don't they know Duracell is a better battery!

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 4:55 pm

They are called booster rockets,(after-burners are the rear part of jet engines), but we all understand and that would be a good idea.I forgot that I had some space art of Triton.

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NovaResource · Post by **NovaResource** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 9:53 pm

That's a great pic Lancer, thanks.Here's Jupiter's moon Ganymede. The largest moon in the solar system. It's larger in diameter than both Mercury and Pluto (but not a dense).

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 7:36 am

looking at the sky a couple hours after sunset, really bright bluish white one heading down to the horizon, is that Venus? Also, the reddish one a little bit ahead of the moon, is that Mars?

Vibe Rater · Post by **Vibe Rater** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 9:50 am

Probably. As a rule, planets don't 'twinkle' the way stars do.

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 11:24 pm

Found a piece of windows freeware called "Home Planet", from http://www.fourmilab.to/homeplanet/homeplanet.html Was able to use that to confirm that the objects I saw were in fact Venus and Mars.

Vibe Rater · Post by **Vibe Rater** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 1:51 am

Wow, that's a big zipped program. Have you used the full program, and is it worth the bother to download and install it?

Vibe Rater · Post by **Vibe Rater** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 1:55 am

Quote, originally posted by silverawd26 Â»The technical term for twinkling is scintillation, the rapid variation in apparent position, colour or brightness of a luminous object when viewed through a turbulent media The next time you meet a girl, tell her that her eyes are scintillating and the rapid variation in apparent position, colour or brightness of a luminous object when viewed through a turbulent media drive you wild. She'll like that.

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 10:52 am

I'm not sure what the differences are between the full and the lite version are. All I wanted to do was find out the planet position, the lite version probably does that. I think the full version has data for more objects. Not sure if any of the extra objects are things that I could ever hope to see. I was able to download the full version somewhere with killer bandwidth and transfer it over via thumb drive. I used to have a program called SkyGlobe that was a lot more intuitive to use, but this one has the advantage of being free. There are probably a bunch of similar apps, home planet was the first one I found. It doesn't "install", it just runs from the filesystem without having to embed itself in the registry, but it doesn't seem to remember my settings, but I haven't played with it enough or read the help files to really see how to use it or what it's full capabilities are.

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:30 am

SPECIAL tonight onlyVenus is about three moon diameterrs away from the crescent moon. Kind of neat to see the two brightest objects in the night sky so close to each other. if it's before a bout 10 or 11 pm where you are, go out and try to see them.

cohocarl · Post by **cohocarl** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 10:52 am

Quote, originally posted by joatmon Â»SPECIAL tonight only Raining here.

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:47 pm

probably still be close tonight, but maybe not as close

Merzbow · Post by **Merzbow** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 12:39 am

It's kind of weird to see planets and moons that aren't big enough to have clouds or a sky and you just look up into space.

Mr. Poopypants · Post by **Mr. Poopypants** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 5:15 am

Perfect view of planets, check it out. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/n...x.htm

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:21 am

Lunar Eclipse tonighthttp://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/....html

rasermon · Post by **rasermon** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:57 am

Lol joatmon, I was just going to post this. I'm going to try and get some pic's tonight of this. The next one is in 2007.

rasermon · Post by **rasermon** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:45 am

Lunar Eclipse pic 1

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rasermon · Post by **rasermon** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:46 am

Lunar Eclipse pic 2

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rasermon · Post by **rasermon** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:47 am

Lunar Eclipse pic 3

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rasermon · Post by **rasermon** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:48 am

Lunar Eclipse pic 4

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rasermon · Post by **rasermon** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:52 am

Lunar Eclipse pic 5Without digital zoom and cloud cover.

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Raven · Post by **Raven** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:52 am

Hey, I just came in from seeing that live!

rasermon · Post by **rasermon** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:55 am

Quote, originally posted by Sunny Â»Hey, I just came in from seeing that live! Sure was. wish I had a better digital camera. Oh well x-mas is coming soon.

ragingfish · Post by **ragingfish** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 12:08 pm

Too cloudy here. Better luck in 07.

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:21 pm

This web page has some Saturn (the planet) radio wave samples converted to audio, sounds like the creepiest 50's science fiction movie music. http://www.rednova.com/news/sp....html

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 8:33 am

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/...tarioQuote Â»Asteroid to be visible MondayKilometre-wide asteroid will come about as close to the earth as the moonJun. 30, 2006. 08:03 PMASSOCIATED PRESSLOS ANGELES Ã¢Â€Â” A huge asteroid will have a relatively close encounter with Earth this weekend but astronomers said there is no danger of an impact.The asteroid, known as 2004 XP14, will whiz by about 433,000 kilometres from the Earth, slightly farther away than the moon.The ringside seat to the cosmic spectacle will be in North America, where amateur sky watchers with good telescopes should be able see the asteroid as a small moving dot in the sky. Europe can also view the flyby but the asteroid will appear much fainter.The closest approach will occur on the U.S. West Coast at about 9:25 p.m. local time Sunday but the best viewing time on both coasts will most likely be early Monday, scientists said.Astronomers know little about the asteroid, which was discovered in 2004. But it is estimated to be as wide as one kilometre based on its brightness.More than three dozen asteroids have flown closer to Earth in the last few years but scientists said 2004 XP14 is one of the largest."For something of this size to come this close is unusual," said Don Yeomans, who heads the Near Earth Object Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.Yeomans said the asteroid will pose no threat to Earth during the impending encounter, nor in the next 100 years. Scientists estimate 2004 XP14 will have 10 more close encounters with Earth over this century."It's not Earth-threatening," Yeomans said.Scientists plan to use a giant radar beacon at the Goldstone Observatory in the Mojave Desert to bounce signals off the asteroid as it flies by. The return signal should help scientists determine the asteroid's shape and its future course through space.As viewed from Earth, 2004 XP14 is expected to cut through the constellations Andromeda, Perseus and Cassiopeia.The asteroid will look like a streaking dot against a background of stationary stars, said Roger Sinnott, a senior editor at Sky & Telescope magazine.

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:28 am

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/....htmlTotal lunar eclipse tonight/tomorrowif in the US, check out web site for link to see when in your time zone

ZubenElGenubi · Post by **ZubenElGenubi** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:41 pm

Here's a graphic with key times. This is for Pacific Daylight Time; add an hour for Mountain, two hours for Central; three for Eastern. The east coast will miss most of the eclipse, but everyone west of the Rockies will see the whole thing.

ZubenElGenubi · Post by **ZubenElGenubi** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:59 am

I got to see some of it this morning, but clouds came in and obscured most of totality. I didn't plan ahead, so no photos. Next eclipse: February 21, 2008http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/...T.GIFNot as long or dark, but all of North America should be able to see it.

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:19 am

was overcast to the west here this morning

ColonelPanic · Post by **ColonelPanic** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 3:31 am

It was nice and clear here this morning, went out to walk the dog at about 20 till 6... Saw the moon and had to go back inside to get the camera, of course all the pics I have of it are suck so nothing worth posting. It did look really cool though, I haven't seen one at that point in the sky. The moon was a heckuva lot lower and larger than it appeared the last eclipse I saw. Really neat viewing, wish I would have been up sooner to see more of it. The moon was barely visible by a little after 6 this morning as I headed to the office.

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:02 am

perseid meteor shower supposed to peak tonight. This article is in EDT http://hamptonroads.com/2008/0...esday

bull77 · Post by **bull77** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:57 pm

I was watching the Jays game last night and they showed Jupiter and its 4 moons --- freaking good zoom on those cameras....

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 3:17 am

Total lunar eclispse visible from the US tonight.http://science.nasa.gov/scienc...lipse/so if you're out there tonight doing the prescribed solstice rituals and the moon goes into full eclipse, don't freak out, just remember that it's not because of anything you are doing (or not doing)

808 Vibes · Post by **808 Vibes** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:16 am

I just hope the weather cooperates! It's pretty gloomy today.

06pvibe · Post by **06pvibe** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:59 am

Quote, originally posted by yahoo news, 12/20/2010 Â»Today's VideoFor the first time in 372 years, the winter equinox and a total lunar eclipse happen on the same day, and North America is one of the best spots to view the showhttp://whoknew.news.yahoo.com/?nc&vid=23549392

star_deceiver · Post by **star_deceiver** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 9:33 am

It's cloudy and attempting to snow.... I'll see nothing but what the internet provides!!!

Sputnik · Post by **Sputnik** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 9:39 am

I got my hubby a new refractor telescope for Xmas but the eclipse is a few days to early for it! This is the second scope I've bought him. The first one is a 10 inch Dob.

KITT222 · Post by **KITT222** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:58 am

The Minnesota weather is notoriously unreliable for astronomy. Stupid snow... It just HAD to come TODAY... Of ALL days...

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:23 am

Quote, originally posted by 06pvibe Â»http://whoknew.news.yahoo.com/?nc&vid=23549392A place supposedly offering news about an astronomical event shouldn't use the term "winter equinox". If we did have a winter equinox, now that would be quite newsworthyedit - here's what it looked like from my house this morning

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TONY TAT2 · Post by **TONY TAT2** » Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:08 am

My lunch starts at 2:30 am so I saw it,was a pretty clear night here in S-NJ