Daimo B
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S'cuse the sheeity title, couldnt think of anything witty.
Any spacey fans out there, thought this is a good site to share, have a nose though every few days. Some truely amazing images (most are real, the odd PC generated image).
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
Also, NASA celebrates 50 years this year.
http://www.nasa.gov/50th/home/index.html
nano nano
(1 gold star to the geek who gets that quote from an "old" scifi TV show).
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Brett
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Some ace pics on there. Love the earth at night ones 
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Conway563
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Love looking at stuff like this. Fancy getting a telescope at some point.
Quote wise all I can think is Mork & Mindy but wasn't that nanu nanu not nano nano?
[Edited on 10-10-2008 by Conway563]
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Daimo B
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quote:
Originally posted by Conway563
Love looking at stuff like this. Fancy getting a telescope at some point.
Quote wise all I can think is Mork & Mindy but wasn't that nanu nanu not nano nano?
Mork and Mindy it was  Nanu nano, whats a u and o between space geeks 
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C2RL R
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i have a telescope. its fucking !
stayed out all night with it once about 3 years back because it was one of the times that saturn was visible. was a really clear night so had a belting view.
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Daimo B
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I like watching the meteor storms.
We had one a month or so back. Saw quite a few space debies breaking up.
Thing is, night telescope, is it any good or are things just like a small star? REason i ask is when i was in the US, some guy had a huge one setup (about 5m long) on a massive stand. He was letting people come and have a look at Venus as it was close by.
Anyhoo, stepped up all looking foward to seeing a nice clear image, and it was this little bright dot in the viewing area.
I was all deflated and a little gutted
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C2RL R
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i'll draw a sketch for you of what i saw when looking at saturn.
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C2RL R
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mazing isn't it!
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dave17
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Daimo B
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quote:
Originally posted by C2RL R
mazing isn't it!
See this is my concern at buying a £200 telescope. Especially being down south where the sky is orange at night from the glare of city lights. We get to see stars, but no-where near as many as what you can when say your at another country/in the countryside.
Dave17 has the right idea. Screenshots ftw.
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C2RL R
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its still kind of impressive when you see it the first time. it just looks like any other star before you look through the telescope. i was never expecting to see a lot tbh!
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