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Aussie Pinball Forums => General Chat - Non Pinball/coin-opp Discussion => Topic started by: pinnies4me on December 01, 2008, 10:40:20 PM
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For the next hour of so you can see three local bodies within a few degrees - look south-West to see the new moon, Venus and Jupiter in a rare close grouping.
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Yep just saw that! Absolutely amazing. So close but yet so far. Where's a telescope when you need it?
Do you know how often this formation happens?
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Try this neat little unit to see when something like this happens - http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=48857
You can set the location you are at, and tell it any date or just click the fast forward a few times and you get an effect like The Time Machine and watch the changes in the sky, a few thousand years in a few seconds!
As for how often, pretty rare to have three local bodies in such close formation, lots of years at a guess to have the three brightest objects in the sky do it again.
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That is bloody amazing. Thanks for the link mate.
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Fantastic pics, they are calling it the smiley face on the news this morning.
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That's what I called it last night when I asked Mrs Pinnies4me to "Come and have a look at the cosmic smiley face" !! :)
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Venus and Jupiter are in view. But where is Uranus ?
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yes we saw it
smiley face
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This is twice I've been sucked in by misreading this topic. Both times I saw:
Anyone who likes as...
I thought, "ummm, I like it..."
btw, the pics are very cool. A cosmic smiley face =)
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i have a mate with an awesome telescope and digital camera setup through it. this is a pic he took recently...
(http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp137/stubac/M78LRGB.jpg)
makes you realise our planet is very, very small........
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WOW.. That is incredible... I wonder how many pinballs there are in the universe ?
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Wow +1 ! :D
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ah NOW, you see the beauty of all that is it!
just wait till it all lines up in about 3 years! <.>..such a ride!
PS such an opportunity! *%*
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Nice shot Pinnies4me. I got a bit of movement in my shot because I couldn't stuffed using a tripod or do you have a steady hand?
But Stuba, I hate your mate....if there's one thing I can't get enough of is looking a t shots like that. Anything to do with space and I'm sucked in for hours. Would love to beable to see (and take pics) of stuff like that, but I live to close to the city to warrant buying such equipment. My sky is usually an ORANGE colour. When I lived in Mt Martha the skies were black.
Thanks both of you for the snaps
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ah NOW, you see the beauty of all that is it!
just wait till it all lines up in about 3 years! <.>..such a ride!
PS such an opportunity! *%*
ah ha. you surprise me. 21 dec 2012. the exact centre of the galaxy. the end of the mayan calendar....
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I was just talking to nug about that post. Fascinating stuff!
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I find it really interesting and according to some theories it will be a time of massive change. I should say I don't have any firm opinion, I prefer to believe in good things happening as opposed to the end of days theories. Lots of sites about it - google Ian lundgold or search youtube for him. There is one theory that we will reach a technological level where we will be welcomed into the galactic council..another that we will get wiped out by a comet, another that the LHC particle accelerator will finally discover the higgs particle and will simultaneoulsy open a black hole (in the UK) %.%
What trips me out is how the hell the mayans were able to figure out a galactic calendar thousands of years ago (supposedly long before telescopes). By way of quick explanation the mayans used the solar calendar as well (365.25 days) but they also figured out a galactic calendar which is based around 260 day cycles (20 x 13). This calendar looks like a pyramid that has been running since the big bang and the absolute peak occurs 21/12/2012. maybe rack your credit card that month just in case. %$%
Here are another couple of pictures from Darren:
(http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp137/stubac/NGC3628LRGB.jpg)
(http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp137/stubac/14mnf4.jpg)
For those interested they have meetings/weekends called starfest's where they go camping in a new moon and set up all their telescopes (many which run through laptops). everybody welcome regadless of whether or not you have a scope. I've never been but darren raves about it.
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Great shots Stuba! Amazing stuff! ^^^
It would be great to own a good telescope
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Another of my (lame) photos.... need a telescope like Stuba's mate, the bastard....! :)
This was a similar event, but just the moon and Venus, I took back on 7 September 2005
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Those shots are fantastic! Still cant get my head around 1 light year, let alone millions from one end of a nebular to another @.@ Another space sim is this one> http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/
You can go for a tour of the planets, watch eclipses, even go back and watch Haleys comet fly by.
Then if you feel adventureous, why not take the shuttle for a spin. Launch from Canaveral, through the atmosphere, jettison all SRB and main tank, do a repair on hubble, establish a geo-stationary orbit, prepare for re entry, re enter(manualy ()) and wait for the sonic booms, then land.
Cant be that hard , can it?
Bit of a long vid, but its pretty cool>>
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Just to get off the subject a tad, if the mayan's were pretty up on this stuff, anyone of you entertain the thought that maybe they had pinballs and arcades?? There maybe a Pin2000 buried deep in the jungle somewhere. Now that would be creepy!!!
Thanks for the link wingtipvortex, will give it a try
And thanks for more great shots and info on the mayans Also sorry for being stupid too as I just noticed this section isn't for pinball humour.
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LOL! That's funny.
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Just to get off the subject a tad, if the mayan's were pretty up on this stuff, anyone of you entertain the thought that maybe they had pinballs and arcades?? There maybe a Pin2000 buried deep in the jungle somewhere. Now that would be creepy!!!
Thanks for the link wingtipvortex, will give it a try
And thanks for more great shots and info on the mayans Also sorry for being stupid too as I just noticed this section isn't for pinball humour.
thats just silly, the transistor was 'discovered' right after roswell. therefore they couldn't have had P2K. they probably had EM's..
%$%
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hehehehe smalll world indeedy.
I took a few pics of "simley" too, i guess when u see 1, you've seen them all, so i wont post it ;-)
Stuba :
What setup is Darren using?, especially interested in what he used (scope/magnification) for that moon shot.
I'm yet to add a digicam onto my scope, but enjoying the moon and planets with the naked eye, good enough for now.
I have a 12" Dobsonian Telescope in the back of my car most of the time ready for a clear night's viewing. (unless it's full of pins in the back).
Anyone who's seen my car with a "hot water service" sitting in the back will know what i mean :lol
Marty.