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[Darkwood]

Right ... Just been nudged to set this up by Paul.M and sounds a good idea following recent threads I've done in the Arms..

Rules....No Offensive material... edit if required before posting as this is the public arena.
Anything to do with the trade or in and around it ...H&S pic's welcome.



I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago. mg_smile:

 

[Julie.]

bloody expensive hobby. to do all that I'd be getting through at least 6 cases of beer.

Yup, that's the problem!

Last year I decided to buy time again, this time I did m27 (dumbbell nebula)

(Not my image)
But made a complete b***s of it and used time with the wrong telescope - ended up with a field of view too large, and such a tiny image that it was all completely worthless!

Around 8 hours ($140) thrown away.

Took my ball in and sulking since then!

 

[Mike Johnson]

Brilliant images Julie the M51 is one of the best I'v seen, I have no doubt you know but for others the Space station goes across tonight: Time: Tue Mar 30 10:14 PM, Visible: 4 min, Max Height: 79°, Appears: 10° above WNW, Disappears: 79° above ENE

 

[telectrix]

surely if we were meant to see all these nebulae and stars and things, god would have stuck them a lot closer. bad enough paying £170 for a pair of specs that allow me to read number plates at more than the prescribed distance.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Tel that's the thing we where never meant to see them, they are moving further away as we speak, so to get there by the time we develop warp drive we will need Warp 20.

 

[telectrix]

maybe they were put so far away so that the Catholic Church could believe that the earth was the centre of the universe, then along came copper knickers with his telescope and almost got himself burnt at the stake for heresy.

 

[Julie.]

Tel that's the thing we where never meant to see them, they are moving further away as we speak, so to get there by the time we develop warp drive we will need Warp 20.

Ah...

But moving away at what rate??

Latest hubble "constant" anyone...

 

[telectrix]

Ah...

But moving away at what rate??

Latest hubble "constant" anyone...

a bit faster than my van at present. clutch being replaced as we speak.

 

[Julie.]

surely if we were meant to see all these nebulae and stars and things, god would have ....

Do you mean Musk and his cluster f*** of satellites that are being to block the sky preventing astronomy from the earth's surface, both amateur and professional

 

[Julie.]

a bit faster than my van at present. clutch being replaced as we speak.

The latest "crisis in van" vs "crisis in cosmology"?

 

[brianmoooore]

........... from my upbringing on a farm, especially in the winter nights in the days of the heavy snow searching for missing livestock.

Been there, done that, although probably not quite so often in my neck of the woods.

 

[Mike Johnson]

The latest "crisis in van" vs "crisis in cosmology"?

One far more important that the other.?

 

[Julie.]

One far more important that the other.?

Obviously...

The question is which one....

 

[telectrix]

my van must be...... a crisis many light years away , I'll be long dead before it gets here.

 

[DPG]

My cheap Aldi telescope can just about make a half decent quality image when I point it at the bedroom window across the road.

 

[Baddegg]

Oh dear
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That is f@&king awful! ?