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Offline SteveH

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Re: Space and astronomy UFO'S
« Reply #45 on: October 08, 2014, 05:47:43 pm »
UFO sightings across North Wales revealed

A report of “bright lights dancing in the sky, on the way to Llandudno” was among 31 UFO sightings in North Wales in the last decade.
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/ufo-sightings-across-north-wales-7905348

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Re: Space and astronomy
« Reply #46 on: October 08, 2014, 05:50:09 pm »
All too often it's simply satellite flare.  Any civilisation sufficiently advanced to conduct routine interstellar travel wouldn't be daft enough to be seen, especially by UFO nuts...
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.  ― Michel de Montaigne

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Re: Space and astronomy
« Reply #47 on: October 08, 2014, 06:06:17 pm »
I don't know, I sometimes drive to Rhyl and I'm sure that some of the locals see me!  :laugh:
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Re: Space and astronomy
« Reply #48 on: October 08, 2014, 06:12:54 pm »
I don't know, I sometimes drive to Rhyl and I'm sure that some of the locals see me!  :laugh:

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Re: Space and astronomy
« Reply #49 on: July 06, 2015, 05:44:40 pm »
Powys is a county covering a quarter of Wales, but it is home to just 133,000 people, making it the least densely populated area of Britain south of the North Yorkshire moors.

Limited population means few buildings and roads and therefore lights – with their annoying visual pollution. It's therefore a perfect place from which to watch space from a telescope and look for potentially planet-killing asteroids.

Here there's a privately run observatory dedicated to tracking Near Earth Objects (NEOs): it is known on local signs as Canolfan Gwylio’r Gofod – The Spaceguard Centre.

Arguably the best, last hope of Britain and the world, Spaceguard is the inspiration of a single man: an ex-army officer specialising in surface-to-air missiles called Jonathan Tate.

Full story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/06/geeks_guide_spaceguard_center/
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Re: Space and astronomy
« Reply #50 on: July 08, 2015, 07:18:34 pm »
To add to the story above, it's worth noting that between 1994 and 2014 more than 550 smallish asteroids hit the Earth. They strike us roughly twice a month and fortunately mostly burn up because of the speed with which they hit the atmosphere - about 50,000 mph. NASA's helpfully provided a map of those it knows have hit during that period:

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Re: Space and astronomy
« Reply #51 on: July 15, 2015, 08:36:00 am »
High resolution picture of Pluto is causing some concern...
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Re: Space and astronomy
« Reply #52 on: July 29, 2015, 04:14:12 pm »
BLUE MOON: A certain catchy tune will be hard to avoid on Friday night as the full moon sets the nation humming. Not just any full moon, a "blue moon" - the first to occur since 2012 and the last until 2018.

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Re: Space and astronomy
« Reply #53 on: August 12, 2015, 06:09:07 pm »
Perseids: Meteor light show set to dazzle tonight........

Skywatchers around the world are in for a dazzling display as the annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak on Wednesday night.
Viewing is weather-dependent, however, and cloud cover may spoil the party in many parts of the UK.
Above the clouds, conditions are unusually favourable because the shower will coincide with a new moon.
The Perseids are pieces of Comet Swift-Tuttle; each August, the Earth passes through a cloud of the comet's debris.
Swift-Tuttle shed this material long ago, and it is now distributed as a tenuous "river of rubble" along the comet's orbit around the Sun.
These particles of ice and dust (which range from the size of a grain of sand to around as big as a pea) hit the Earth's atmosphere at about 60km/s (37 miles/s).
As they do so, they heat the air around them, causing the characteristic streak of light.
The meteor shower is visible across the Northern hemisphere and from as far as subtropical latitudes south of the Equator. Prime viewing hours, wherever you are, stretch from about 23:00 local time on 12 August until the morning of 13 August.

More...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33850710


AND MORE...http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/who-what-where-see-perseid-9843530

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Re: Space and astronomy
« Reply #54 on: September 27, 2015, 09:19:01 am »
Trust everyone will be out at 0300 tomorrow morning to see the Supermoon?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34352504
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Re: Space and astronomy
« Reply #55 on: September 27, 2015, 07:38:57 pm »
Don't think I will be up at 3am but it doesn't look too bad now.

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Re: Space and astronomy
« Reply #56 on: September 27, 2015, 07:49:28 pm »
Trust everyone will be out at 0300 tomorrow morning to see the Supermoon?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34352504

I will be setting the alarm to see it!
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Re: Space and astronomy
« Reply #57 on: September 27, 2015, 09:24:52 pm »
just been looking out of the window  and it,s gone out, hope someone turns it on again before three

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Re: Space and astronomy
« Reply #58 on: September 28, 2015, 11:04:15 am »
Trust everyone will be out at 0300 tomorrow morning to see the Supermoon?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34352504

I will be setting the alarm to see it!

I set the alarm.... it went off,   I ignored it..... and went back to sleep.
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Re: Space and astronomy
« Reply #59 on: September 28, 2015, 12:50:16 pm »
Trust everyone will be out at 0300 tomorrow morning to see the Supermoon?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34352504

I will be setting the alarm to see it!

I set the alarm.... it went off,   I ignored it..... and went back to sleep.


I got home from work just after three so I got to see it more by accident than design!
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