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ttystikk
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I went looking the last time it was predicted to be in Colorado but apparently I was an hour or two late. This was just a month or two ago.
ttystikk
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Last night at the local astronomy club,I listened to a presentation by a PhD scientist about her work with the JWST researching sequential shells around WR140, a binary star system 5600 light years away where one star is pulling gas and carbon dust from the other and making these amazing structures like 3D ripples in a pond.
Absolutely fascinating stuff; we live in an amazing age of high technology.
BudmanTX
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yes we do, i used to donate my time at the local Planetirum, some of us would also bring our telescopes out, so that on looker can look out of them. When i could i also used to give out moon diffusers, so that way even the cheapest telescope you could observe the moon at least....
ttystikk
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That's pretty cool!
There are lots of those kinds of meets every month around here. I'm digging it.
ttystikk
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LUNAR ECLIPSE ALERT!
raratt
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Same hereAnd......it's overcast
ttystikk
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Wow, this is quite a post!Saturn has 274 moons now......
that's a lot of traffic.....
and my personal fav
i've always loved Saturn through a telescope.....
ttystikk
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Seriously, the older you get, the harder it is to surprise you.Saturn has 274 moons now......
that's a lot of traffic.....
and my personal fav
i've always loved Saturn through a telescope.....
274 moons?
Some of them orbit in retrograde??
Ripples in the ring world continuum?!?
Fucking amazing!
Who else saw the eclipse last night? I got a few looks through the clouds here.
BudmanTX
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i was going to, but it started getting cloud so couldn't......but do know something that did.....and it's from the firefly mission that's on the moon now
it brought and interesting perspective
this was timelapse, they said if you real close you can see mercury and venus in the first shot, but i can't see it....
ttystikk
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Amazing!
raratt
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WATCH: Geomagnetic Storm Category G3 Predicted Highest Storm Level Predicted by Day: Mar 23: G3 (Strong) Mar 24: G1 (Minor) Mar 25: G2 (Moderate)THIS SUPERSEDES ANY/ALL PRIOR WATCHES IN EFFECTNOAA
Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found atwww.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation
Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 50 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude.Induced Currents - Power system voltage irregularities possible, false alarms may be triggered on some protection devices.
Spacecraft - Systems may experience surface charging; increased drag on low Earth-orbit satellites and orientation problems may occur.
Navigation - Intermittent satellite navigation (GPS) problems, including loss-of-lock and increased range error may occur.
Radio - HF (high frequency) radio may be intermittent.
Aurora - Aurora may be seen as low as Pennsylvania to Iowa to Oregon.
Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found atwww.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation
Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 50 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude.Induced Currents - Power system voltage irregularities possible, false alarms may be triggered on some protection devices.
Spacecraft - Systems may experience surface charging; increased drag on low Earth-orbit satellites and orientation problems may occur.
Navigation - Intermittent satellite navigation (GPS) problems, including loss-of-lock and increased range error may occur.
Radio - HF (high frequency) radio may be intermittent.
Aurora - Aurora may be seen as low as Pennsylvania to Iowa to Oregon.
