Sky @ Night - special ed. last night

Did Brian May hitch a lift on one of the "Deep Impact" craft
to take the pics accredited to him ?

"Paul Nutteing" wrote in message
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Did Brian May hitch a lift on one of the "Deep Impact" craft
to take the pics accredited to him ?


Best pic's I have seen so far.

They are on his website.....



http://www.brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/brianssb.html

"Paul Nutteing" wrote in message
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Did Brian May hitch a lift on one of the "Deep Impact" craft
to take the pics accredited to him ?

Glad I wasn't the only one a bit confused by that. They showed the
pic *twice*, didn't they? I mean he might be rich, but I doubt even
he can afford a ground-based telescope that could take a picture
like that!


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"Paul Nutteing" wrote:

Did Brian May hitch a lift on one of the "Deep Impact" craft
to take the pics accredited to him ?

The bit of the programme that worried me was the star party. All those
people getting orgasmic when a very faint fuzzy blob might or might
not have got brighter... looked like the definition of sad.

The mission and the science and the pics from space might be very
exciting. It might be amazing to be rich enough or clever enough to
actually get a scope pointing at the right place at the right time.

But what these guys actually saw was deadly dull - no wonder people
are turned off.

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I've just watched the repeat on BBC 4 because it's on to late on a
Sunday only to find I've already seen it. It was shown on BBC 2 at 10am
on Sunday morning as a repeat.

Were there 2 sky at night programs or did the beeb repeat it before
they had shown it ?

Well the one not marked as a repeat was described as "fallout from deep
impact". What was the one that you did see about?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tyla"
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Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 8:56 PM
Subject: Sky @ Night - special ed. last night


I've just watched the repeat on BBC 4 because it's on to late on a
Sunday only to find I've already seen it. It was shown on BBC 2 at 10am
on Sunday morning as a repeat.

Were there 2 sky at night programs or did the beeb repeat it before
they had shown it?

I think the Sky at Night program was very poor, as was the Starwatch
program I saw on BBC 2 as well.

Patrick's enthiusiasm is undimmed but he is clearly in difficulties and
is uncomfortable to watch. Chris Lintot is deadly dull.

Surely, whatever affection we feel for Patrick Moore, the time has come
for the BBC to 'retire' this program, or at least revamp it in a major
way.

wrote:

I think the Sky at Night program was very poor, as was the Starwatch
program I saw on BBC 2 as well.

Patrick's enthiusiasm is undimmed but he is clearly in difficulties and
is uncomfortable to watch. Chris Lintot is deadly dull.

Surely, whatever affection we feel for Patrick Moore, the time has come
for the BBC to 'retire' this program, or at least revamp it in a major
way.

_Please_ quote previous messages. I know you're using Google but it's
possible.

Jim
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