Venus and Jupiter Nov 5th

A couple of pics from this morning of the conjunction. Weather was
worse this morning than it was yesterday. Thank goodness my
camera/telescope arrangement can see through clouds ;-)

That's if Selsey had clouds of course

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/conjs/V...1105_scale.jpg
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/conjs/VJ_20041105.jpg

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"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message
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A couple of pics from this morning of the conjunction. Weather was
worse this morning than it was yesterday. Thank goodness my
camera/telescope arrangement can see through clouds ;-)

That's if Selsey had clouds of course

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/conjs/V...1105_scale.jpg
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/conjs/VJ_20041105.jpg

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Excellent.

Martin.

Nice pics Pete

Letchworth was, of course, cloudy.
Blame either me having put the 14" mirror back in the scope or the Iceland
Eruption - anyone know if the dust is coming over our way?

Kev

In article , Kev
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Blame either me having put the 14" mirror back in the scope or the Iceland
Eruption - anyone know if the dust is coming over our way?


The plume appears to be heading east.

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Kev wrote:
Nice pics Pete

Letchworth was, of course, cloudy.
Blame either me having put the 14" mirror back in the scope or the
Iceland Eruption - anyone know if the dust is coming over our way?

Yes it is, Kev.

See http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/satloopu.mpg

HTH
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"Graham W" wrote:
Kev wrote:

Letchworth was, of course, cloudy.
Blame either me having put the 14" mirror back in the scope or the
Iceland Eruption - anyone know if the dust is coming over our way?

Yes it is, Kev.

See http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/satloopu.mpg

That shows the wind is coming from Iceland so obviously the dust will
be too, but I couldn't see the dust plume itself in that animation. I
don't think you meant that it shows the plume, but I'd be very
interested to see some images of just the dust plume if anyone knows
of one.


Tim
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Tim Auton wrote:
"Graham W" wrote:
Kev wrote:

Letchworth was, of course, cloudy.
Blame either me having put the 14" mirror back in the scope or the
Iceland Eruption - anyone know if the dust is coming over our way?

Yes it is, Kev.

See http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/satloopu.mpg

That shows the wind is coming from Iceland so obviously the dust will
be too, but I couldn't see the dust plume itself in that animation. I
don't think you meant that it shows the plume, but I'd be very
interested to see some images of just the dust plume if anyone knows
of one.

It seems surprisingly difficult to see things like the dust plume in
weather pics partly because of the resolution of pictures being
somewhat over 1 km per pixel and also that the wavelength of
the sensors' response is optimised for atmospheric events.

There's bound to be some somewhere. Did you see the bit of
'film' on the news (probably News24) where a lightning bolt
cracked over between the upper and lower areas at the side
of the ejection? Spectacular!


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Tim Auton wrote:
"Graham W" wrote:
Kev wrote:

Letchworth was, of course, cloudy.
Blame either me having put the 14" mirror back in the scope or the
Iceland Eruption - anyone know if the dust is coming over our way?

Yes it is, Kev.

See http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/satloopu.mpg

That shows the wind is coming from Iceland so obviously the dust will
be too, but I couldn't see the dust plume itself in that animation. I
don't think you meant that it shows the plume,

Tim, I found this on Bernard Burton's website which shows the LEO
satellite images. This one in particular may show some evidence of
a plume:
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/etc06/mk06-1615-d-ic.html

The 'front door' to this section is at:
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/wwp.html and then
click '2'.

HTH
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