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hydrojack
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In case you're wondering what's going on here..... One of our members pressed the wrong button and created a topic instead of doing what he really wanted to do. I don't like deleting topics, last time I did it I blew away a lot of posts! So, seeing as how we have a new member who is both a gas engineer and an amateur astronomer I just edited the title...... You never know, it could grow......
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prestonken
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Posted - 03/07/2007 : 09:58
I'm not sure if it was me who pressed the wrong button , but I apologise if it was , and if so , please let me know what I did wrong !
Just to clarify , although I've been a regular contributor to an astronomy related forum for several years now , I am not actually particularly interested in astronomy .
My special interest is in the instruments used in daytime observation -- i.e binoculars and spotting scopes .
It's just that some of my earlier reviews and reports found more appreciative readerships at a couple of astro - related web sites than anywhere else , and I sort of became a founding member of a couple of forums as an indirect result .
The site I am an active member of is a bit like this one -- a mansion with many rooms .
It started out as an out and out astronomy forum , but the OFF - TOPIC forum has become as interesting in itself as the ON topic stuff !
Sorry for any misunderstanding .
Regards , Ken
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marilyn
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Posted - 03/07/2007 : 10:19
You get to delete topics Hydrojack?
How come? (I am confused....)
get your people to phone my people and we will do lunch...MAZ |
melteaser
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Posted - 03/07/2007 : 10:33
I like that description Ken 'a mansion with many rooms'.
Mel
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Callunna
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Posted - 03/07/2007 : 11:46
This year's Perseid meteor shower will be the most spectacular for years, evidently. Between August 9 and 15 hundreds of shooting stars will streak across the sky each night. The natural firework display results from dust and ice particles of the Swift-Tuttle comet. The grains of debris hit the atmosphere at 30 miles a second and become incandescent as they burn up. If the sky is clear, the meteors will be visible throughout the UK. You don'?t need any equipment to see the display but you should be as far as possible from light pollution. The display will be best between midnight and dawn and it will get better as the night wears on because as the earth turns it will face towards the oncoming meteors. The shower will appear to radiate from the constellation of Perseus which is above the horizon looking northeast. I bet it will look fantastic from the top of Weets. Anyone up for it? |
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Posted - 03/07/2007 : 13:20
Congratulations! you win the prize for the most confusing topic to date, i have read it through twice and still don't understnad it!
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hydrojack
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Posted - 03/07/2007 : 13:44
It was my fault.
During a period of regular sleeplessness I logged on to the site and was thinking of writing someting about us creatures of the night. My brain was not working to anywhere near capacity and I had a block on what to write so I tried to delete and ended up causing all the confusion before you.
Apologies to you all especially Ken as he seems to have got the blame.
Edited by - hydrojack on 03 July 2007 13:50:00
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Posted - 03/07/2007 : 13:49
You bet Cally, one of the greatest free shows on earth! I used to take my kids out meteor watching when they were younger. Letcliffe is'nt too bad for observing as you do'nt get too much light from Barlick. Elslack moor also good. Quantratids is productive also, (can be up to 60 per minute) when passing through the shower.
Edited by - panbiker on 03 July 2007 14:21:24
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Stanley
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Posted - 03/07/2007 : 18:40
Jack, no blame attached to anyone. The last post I put on SC was a biy confusing as out of the corner of my eye I could see a blue light flashing on the screen. When I finished and posted I found I had been posting all the time I was typing! I didn't count but I should think I had about 30 resposes to delete.... Boring! It wasn't Hydrojack that edited the topic, it was me after he shouted for help. Once again, no blame attached, we all hit the wrong button from time to time.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Slyworme
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Posted - 30/11/2007 : 11:36
For those lucky enough to have clear skies - Comet Holmes is putting on a spectacular show at the moment. It was predict to be something that would be difficult to see in most telescopes and then, in October, it appears to have blown a gasket and, depending on light pollution, can now be seen with the naked eye and certainly through binoculars.
It is currently in the constellation of Perseus (about the width of your fist (at arms length) down and left from the 'W' of Cassiopeia)
Edited by - Slyworme on 30/11/2007 11:37:55
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Stanley
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Posted - 30/11/2007 : 17:25
Now then, about this gas engineering...... I can see we shall have to kick this topic off. Watch this space.....
Stanley Challenger Graham
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