Star Gazing

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Just been outside for a fag and the sky is amazingly clear. Still find it amazing to stair at the stars and appreciate how insignificant we are. There's a really bright star just down and left of orions belt i've just noticed flashing red, blue and green, think it's sirius. Anyone into looking at the stars though telescopes or anything? My daughter got a fairly good one somewhere, might have to dig it out to have a look. thumbsup

4 months ago

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Just been outside for a fag and the sky is amazingly clear. Still find it amazing to stair at the stars and appreciate how insignificant we are. There's a really bright star just down and left of orions belt i've just noticed flashing red, blue and green, think it's sirius. Anyone into looking at the stars though telescopes or anything? My daughter got a fairly good one somewhere, might have to dig it out to have a look. thumbsup

Will check that out when i go for my next one thumbsup

Yea i always look at the stars when im out. Often finish my fag n stay out there just to look at the stars. Never owned a telescope though. Wouldnt mind one tho smile

4 months ago

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Must be a bit shit living in a big city and not being able to see them from the light pollution. Always blows my mind when i get out in the country miles away from lights sources on a clear night camping or something. So many more stars that you never really can see normally.

http://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/b05.jpg

4 months ago

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i remember i was driving accross texas last year, u wanna check out the stars at nite, ive never seen anything like it, we were in the arsehole of no where, not a light or house around for 100s of miles, was amazing to look up at, was like been in space or something, i love that,
i use to go for a spin in my car with my ex years ago when we were younger and drive up the mountains or something, put seat back in car and open the sun roof, the longer u look, the more u see...

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4 months ago

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Holy crap that picture is awesome! NEVER seen anything like that in real life. See orions belt n the plough n that but nothing as crazy as that!

4 months ago

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Get down to cornwall on a clear night mate. Supposed to be a really good area to see stars. But yeah Adam i normally can just see the usual constalltions where we are but have been a few places where literally the whole sky is covered in a blanket of stars. Mind Blowing thumbsup

4 months ago

juiceh

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i use to always call it the shopping trolley

4 months ago

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Best place was Kiruna, Sweden in February. Got married then saw the Northern Lights and a sky full of stars eeek

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i use to always call it the shopping trolley

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i use to always call it the shopping trolley

The Plough? Yeah i alway thought it looked like a saucepan more.

4 months ago

juiceh

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yes, saucepan would work too laughing

4 months ago

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Photo i took below, doesn't do it any justice really to how it really was when seeing it but pleased to get a pic of what we saw:

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/183355_10150151385956011_754366010_8487778_6380533_n.jpg

Can't see the stars but the sky was full of them and the green lights swirling around. thumbsup

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Felt close to death then, was just wearing my normal wedding suit and had been in a bar at -7 c for a couple of hours drinking then cam out to see this and stood there in awe for about 10 mins but was about -43 c and suddenly started shaking a feeling dizzy so quiickly legged it back to the cabin for whisky. thumbsup

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Aurora Lights love

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hmm actually comes in the worlds top 10 places for star gazing.

http://www.travelandleisure.com/slideshows/the-worlds-top-10-stargazing-spots/6

4 months ago

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I suggest you guys find HD video of Imex's Hubble. thumbsup

Pay attention around 6-7 min in. thumbsup

4 months ago

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Photo i took below, doesn't do it any justice really to how it really was when seeing it but pleased to get a pic of what we saw:

Can't see the stars but the sky was full of them and the green lights swirling around. thumbsup

I always wondered about the northern lights - do the swirl & move quick, or is it quite slow? Can you even see it moving?

Would love to see these myself one day - must be amazing!

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Photo i took below, doesn't do it any justice really to how it really was when seeing it but pleased to get a pic of what we saw:

Can't see the stars but the sky was full of them and the green lights swirling around. thumbsup

Is this the time you found out your mrs smoked weed? Did you follow the green smoke trail to find her hiding behind the tree?

4 months ago

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Coming from her arse more like.

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Photo i took below, doesn't do it any justice really to how it really was when seeing it but pleased to get a pic of what we saw:

Can't see the stars but the sky was full of them and the green lights swirling around. thumbsup

I always wondered about the northern lights - do the swirl & move quick, or is it quite slow? Can you even see it moving?

Would love to see these myself one day - must be amazing!

Kind of slow and fast, hard to describe. They kind of come and go and move around fairly slowly but can suddenly fade away then re-apear forming loads of different shapes. thumbsup

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This is a good video in HD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZFmROaqeV0

Some bits are sped up but you can see how the move in the normal speed bits. thumbsup

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4 months ago

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A while ago some one gave us a telescope for free, a pretty good one too considering it was free. It regularly gets used.

The one that changes colour is defo Sirious thumbsup Did you know that what we actually see as one star is actually 2 different suns close together, thats why it twinkles like that.

If you look out when its just starting to get dark, At the moment you'll be able to see 2 really bright stars, the one high up is Jupiter, and the one lower down nearer the Horizon is Venus. Venus is the brightest star in the sky by far, it doesnt stay around for long, its there from about 4-5pm till about 7-8pm. I was looking at it through my telescope the other night, and you can actually see what look like solar flair style things coming of it! love

Jupiter is usually out all night, and if Venus isnt out then Jupiter is the brightest star in the sky, you should see that through a telescope, you can even see its 4 moons.

Stargazing live tonight on bbc 2 at 8:30 thumbsup

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If you have an android phone download google sky map, its awesome identifying all the different constallations and stuff.

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