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Mercury/Venus, a stuffed bird(?) and a new form of light pollution...
I'm sure that bird *is* stuffed - it never seems to move!
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/20050627/2005-06-27.html No sign of Saturn in the horizon hugging murk. -- Pete http://www.digitalsky.org.uk Recent images http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/recent/recent_images.html ** Last update June 24 2005 ** |
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"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message ... I'm sure that bird *is* stuffed - it never seems to move! http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/20050627/2005-06-27.html No sign of Saturn in the horizon hugging murk. -- Glad I am not the only one who can't pick up Saturn. Conditions were pretty good here yesterday and using 10x50s I managed to track Venus and Mercury setting over the Solway right the way down until they disappeared behind the distant mountains. (I will have to get one of these fancy DSLRs and show you what a real sunset looks like ;-) Not a sign of Saturn though. Robin |
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On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 01:00:35 +0100, "Robin Leadbeater"
wrote: "Pete Lawrence" wrote in message .. . I'm sure that bird *is* stuffed - it never seems to move! http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/20050627/2005-06-27.html No sign of Saturn in the horizon hugging murk. -- Glad I am not the only one who can't pick up Saturn. Conditions were pretty good here yesterday and using 10x50s I managed to track Venus and Mercury setting over the Solway right the way down until they disappeared behind the distant mountains. (I will have to get one of these fancy DSLRs and show you what a real sunset looks like ;-) Not a sign of Saturn though. At least you guys got *something*. :-) We've been in drought for months, and the rains came over the past week. Yesterday was bucketing down at sunset. I shouldn't complain. we really *do* need the rain. -- Find out about Australia's most dangerous Doomsday Cult: http://users.bigpond.net.au/wanglese/pebble.htm Astronomy pages: http://users.bigpond.net.au/wanglese...Astronomy.html "You can't fool me, it's turtles all the way down." |
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"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message ... I'm sure that bird *is* stuffed - it never seems to move! http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/20050627/2005-06-27.html No sign of Saturn in the horizon hugging murk. -- Pete http://www.digitalsky.org.uk Recent images http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/recent/recent_images.html ** Last update June 24 2005 ** Nice one Peter. I was watching it with Bins and thinking you'd have it snapped! I couldn't make Saturn out in the beautiful murk either! Laurence |
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On or about 2005-06-27,
Pete Lawrence illuminated us with: I'm sure that bird *is* stuffed - it never seems to move! http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/20050627/2005-06-27.html It's one of the RFC 1149[1] birds, having a rest after delivering your last pic. [1] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html -- Mark Real email address | "If there are two or more ways to do something, is mark at | and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, ayliffe dot org | then someone will do it." - Edward A. Murphy, Jr. |
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'tis interesting to note that at this time we are roughly equidistant from
Mercury, the sun and Mars - all around 1.01 a.u. away. |
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TeaTime wrote:
'tis interesting to note that at this time we are roughly equidistant from Mercury, the sun and Mars - all around 1.01 a.u. away. Dang. That must be one big stuffed bird. Brian Tung The Astronomy Corner at http://astro.isi.edu/ Unofficial C5+ Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/c5plus/ The PleiadAtlas Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/pleiadatlas/ My Own Personal FAQ (SAA) at http://astro.isi.edu/reference/faq.txt |
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Aren't we looking at a Cormorant Pete? Prone to sitting still for long
periods to dry its plumage. It is now a very common, large, all black, diving bird readily seen on most European coasts and waterways. Chris.B |
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