Suffolk_fox Posted 14 December 2007 Posted 14 December 2007 Our neighbours (who have just moved) gave my son their 'old' telescope - a 'Meade' one, the size of a large waste paper basket. You can see some bloody amazing things through it! I have spent many an (early) morning with John looking through his 'new' telescope - It is fully automatic, and once its GPS works out where it is, it offers you a 'tour' of things to see that night, then it moves itself and tracks the stars, planets, galaxies and nebulae so you don't even have to adjust it. You can also just forward through the list of things to see and it will again find it by itself. Totally cool! For example, the whirlpool galaxy is a mere 23 MILLION light years away (think on that for a while) and estimated at around 38 000 light years across. And I have seen it. The light I was seeing left there 23m years ago, talk about looking into the past...
Suffolk_fox Posted 14 December 2007 Posted 14 December 2007 And to take everything into perspective - check out...
Raj Posted 15 December 2007 Author Posted 15 December 2007 Our neighbours (who have just moved) gave my son their 'old' telescope - a 'Meade' one, the size of a large waste paper basket.You can see some bloody amazing things through it! I have spent many an (early) morning with John looking through his 'new' telescope - It is fully automatic, and once its GPS works out where it is, it offers you a 'tour' of things to see that night, then it moves itself and tracks the stars, planets, galaxies and nebulae so you don't even have to adjust it. You can also just forward through the list of things to see and it will again find it by itself. Totally cool! For example, the whirlpool galaxy is a mere 23 MILLION light years away (think on that for a while) and estimated at around 38 000 light years across. And I have seen it. The light I was seeing left there 23m years ago, talk about looking into the past... Boring Bastard! Joking!!...Suffolk...THAT is a proper telescope!.It'd make mine look a toy. Im envious! Does make you realise about stuff....and....er......things....
Zingari Posted 15 December 2007 Posted 15 December 2007 can you see many heavenly bodies through your telescope raj ?
James. Posted 15 December 2007 Posted 15 December 2007 I find all of this absolutely fascinating. A friend of mine is a PhD student in physics at Imperial. He is the cleverest man I have ever met. I could quite happily listen to him talk about space all day. The vast scale of everything is beyond human comprehension. And anyone that thinks we are the only advanced life forms in the Universe is a bloody idiot.
Raj Posted 15 December 2007 Author Posted 15 December 2007 can you see many heavenly bodies through your telescope raj ? I live in a neighbour hood full of old bidies...so your answer is no...but i have had a good scout around!!! I find all of this absolutely fascinating.A friend of mine is a PhD student in physics at Imperial. He is the cleverest man I have ever met. I could quite happily listen to him talk about space all day. The vast scale of everything is beyond human comprehension. And anyone that thinks we are the only advanced life forms in the Universe is a bloody idiot. fcuk sake JTB...you call US advanced life forms???? Have you not read some of the shite posted on here...mostly by me granted!!! To be serious, i agree with you and believe that because of the vastness of the whole Universe,we must be very arrogant to suggest we can only be the only forms of "human" life when we are a mere speck in the whole Universe. The more i think about it all,the more my head aches....
Zingari Posted 15 December 2007 Posted 15 December 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcTHBOjnUss...feature=related the galaxy song, from meaning of life
MPH Posted 15 December 2007 Posted 15 December 2007 when i was a kid i would often think about how big space is... I would be laying in bed and thinking 'imagine our universe was the relative in size to a matchbox, and there were a 100 other universes the same size as that matchbox in a big box... and another huge box containing 100 of them, and they were just taking up a small corner in a really huge room' and that room was the smallest in a really huge house... ect , ect and so on and so on... i would think of stuff like that for hours.... I was often considered a strange kid...
MPH Posted 15 December 2007 Posted 15 December 2007 I live in a neighbour hood full of old bidies...so your answer is no...but i have had a good scout around!!! fcuk sake JTB...you call US advanced life forms???? Have you not read some of the shite posted on here...mostly by me granted!!! To be serious, i agree with you and believe that because of the vastness of the whole Universe,we must be very arrogant to suggest we can only be the only forms of "human" life when we are a mere speck in the whole Universe. The more i think about it all,the more my head aches.... intrestingly, when people think of Aliens, they only often think of the walking variety with legs.. Not many people consider the fact that their might be some water based 'fish' style aliens, or even flying ones with wings...... Another one of the things that would keep me awake for hours as a kid....
Master Fox Posted 17 December 2007 Posted 17 December 2007 Shuttle Photos here Meh..! Seen one hurricane seen them all ....
hairy Posted 17 December 2007 Posted 17 December 2007 Meh..!Seen one hurricane seen them all .... Thanks. It was a bugger taking that one. Had to wait for the earth to move round for that one.
Raj Posted 17 December 2007 Author Posted 17 December 2007 http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASA%20pix.htmHope somebody appreciates these awe inspiring images. Just makes you think how we are just a little dot in the whole universe. Yes....i am a boring tw@t! Shuttle Photos here Ahem....nice to see them again!!!
Smudge Posted 17 December 2007 Posted 17 December 2007 I watched a TV programme about the birth of the Universe last night. According to the Big Bang Theory the Universe was smaller than an atom and with enormous heat and density. After 10-6 seconds the universe was the size of our solar system. That supposedly happened 15 - 20 billion years ago. This is the Timeline The future don't look too rosy........In the last ice age, the ice over New York was twice the height of the Empire State Building the next ice age is expected within 10 million years. Sounds like The Donald is going to be in trouble.
Floating Fox Posted 17 December 2007 Posted 17 December 2007 Well Done Standup You planning to go into that sort of field of employment or was it just an interest??? Tis a good site. Ive been lucky enough to see the ISS and Shuttle as well as some of the main planets. I aint seen Uranus!!! Cheers Raj, Just more of an intrest really, looks good on the old CV as well. Seen two shuttles launched when I was in Florida over the summer, absolutely spectacular. I've seen URanus!
Raj Posted 5 April 2008 Author Posted 5 April 2008 International space Station is visible on Sunday Night. 8.10 pm from the West to 8.16 finishing East/SouthEast. Its like a big bright star/aeroplane moving across the sky.....unless its cloudy!!!!
blue blood Posted 5 April 2008 Posted 5 April 2008 Amazing recently taken photo of universeClick here Amazing the number of galaxys which 1 are we? there looks to be a few 'big bangs' happening
hairy Posted 13 May 2008 Posted 13 May 2008 The Worldwide Telescope will be good if it every works (or I learn how to use it
Daggers Posted 29 January 2010 Posted 29 January 2010 Tonight, get outside and look up - it's a Wolf Moon and that red thing next to it, on the left, that's Mars that is.
Guest Posted 29 January 2010 Posted 29 January 2010 Tonight, get outside and look up - it's a Wolf Moon and that red thing next to it, on the left, that's Mars that is. I texted one of my mates when I came home from Notts today; even though it was still light, the moon was impressive. Didn't see Mars though.
Daggers Posted 29 January 2010 Posted 29 January 2010 I texted one of my mates when I came home from Notts today; even though it was still light, the moon was impressive. Didn't see Mars though. Go now - look - red thing to the left. Mars.
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