19-02-2012, 19:44
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Beautiful view of Jupiter and Venus tonight.. Just look for the brightest points of light off to the west.. Venus is the lowest one and Jupiter above and to the left.
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19-02-2012, 20:23
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l will look for that later on Kymmy and l remember seeing some great pictures of the Moon between Venus and Jupiter on January 27.
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19-02-2012, 20:30
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Venus is just about to set so not much good looking for it later
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Just sneeked away from my partner for 5 minutes to have a look and you are right it is a beautiful sight.
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19-02-2012, 20:54
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ISS is very bright (mag -3.5) for the next few days with passes happening daily..
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20 Feb -3.0 17:48:51 10° WSW 17:51:53 52° SSE 17:54:55 10° E
20 Feb -3.4 19:24:50 10° W 19:27:47 78° WSW 19:27:47 78° WSW
21 Feb -3.5 18:27:59 10° W 18:31:06 83° S 18:33:14 19° E
21 Feb -1.2 20:04:07 10° W 20:05:36 25° W 20:05:36 25° W
22 Feb -3.5 19:07:14 10° W 19:10:21 82° S 19:11:01 52° ESE
23 Feb -3.5 18:10:18 10° W 18:13:25 87° S 18:16:24 11° E
23 Feb -2.2 19:46:27 10° W 19:48:46 40° WSW 19:48:46 40° WSW
24 Feb -3.3 18:49:28 10° W 18:52:34 69° SSW 18:54:09 26° ESE
24 Feb -0.3 20:25:51 10° W 20:26:31 14° WSW 20:26:31 14° WSW
25 Feb -3.4 17:52:28 10° W 17:55:34 83° S 17:58:41 10° E
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20-02-2012, 05:22
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ISS is very bright (mag -3.5) for the next few days with passes happening daily..
(Date:Mag:times:declination:bearing are Start:Highest:End)
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Thanks Kymmy.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17087434
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Herschel, Europe's billion-euro space observatory, has entered what is likely to be its last year of operation.
The telescope studies the formation of stars, and has taken some remarkable pictures since its launch in May 2009.
But its detectors require a constant supply of superfluid helium to keep working, and the store of this coolant has now dropped to less than 100kg.
This past week saw Herschel begin what engineers believe will be the final 365 days of its mission life.
"There's quite a bit of uncertainty in all this, of course," said Dr Paul Goldsmith from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, US.
"It could be 11 months, it could be 14 months, and we're naturally hoping for the latter. It's certainly true that we have enough observations proposed to go well past the year if the helium lasts that long," he told BBC News
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25-02-2012, 19:31
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Beautiful view of Jupiter and Venus tonight.. Just look for the brightest points of light off to the west.. Venus is the lowest one and Jupiter above and to the left.
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Another great night to see them both with Venus very close to the waxing moon.. Just look west..
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Another great night to see them both with Venus very close to the waxing moon.. Just look west..
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There is only one problem and that is its pretty cloudy where we live so at the moment we cannot see anything.
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25-02-2012, 19:57
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no cloud here atm, wish there was though as my little seedlings need a warmish night
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25-02-2012, 20:45
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There is no cloud here whatsoever, beautiful clear night. Stars and Venus look great to the naked eye!
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There is no cloud here whatsoever, beautiful clear night. Stars and Venus look great to the naked eye!
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Not so lucky down her Saaf but you never know it might clear later on with a bit of luck.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-17248959
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Police forces say they have received a number of calls reporting what is believed to have been a meteor.
Reports of a "bright light" and an "orange glow" came in across the north of England and Scotland at about 21:40 GMT amid fears a plane had crashed.
The Met Office tweeted: "Hi All, for anyone seeing something in the night sky, we believe it was a meteorite."
Durham Police said air traffic control had confirmed there had not been any incidents of aircraft in difficulties.
A force spokeswoman said: "The sightings are believed to be either an asteroid burning out or similar which has been restricted to the upper atmosphere only."
Meteors are particles from space that burn up as they plummet through Earth's atmosphere, sometimes emitting light, creating a "fireball" effect
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Would have nice to see this.
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We saw it. It was huge. Oddly enough I had just been showing off the Google skymap software on my phone to my family minutes before we saw it.
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04-03-2012, 19:11
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Another great night to see them both with Venus very close to the waxing moon.. Just look west..
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Both blazing in the sky tonight from South Wales (Venus and Jupiter)
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04-03-2012, 19:15
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Both blazing in the sky tonight from South Wales (Venus and Jupiter)
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l shall take a good look later on Taf.
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