The Astronomy Thread

Was pretty much the best lunar eclipse of my personal life. Sky was clear, Moon rose up about 1/4th eclipsed from behind the mountains it looked like the Deathstar. Great clear night where I was at, decent red color once the light from the setting sun faded.

Szlia_sl said:

I had a very good look on the full moon three hours ago before the eclipse started and now I have like a 80% cloud cover with the holes not being cooperative... not cool.

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I live somewhere where there are clear skies probably 98% of the time. Of course tonight, it was the cloudiest damn night I remember (the last few nights have been clear as shit too, as I kept thinking our neighbor left a light on because the moon was so bright). I feel like the clouds were fucking with me too, because by about 9pm it was clear as shit again. Asshole clouds.

All I saw were idiots trying to take a picture of an eclipse with a cell phone camera and complaining it wasn't working right, threatening to sue Apple, etc.. No surprise selfie-stick-artists don't have a clue what exposure means.

We went to Chicago's lakeshore Montrose Park to get away from the light pollution and there were a lot ppl there. But the clouds cleared up for the 9:47pm peak eclipse and we weren't disappointed.

I actually saw Halley's comet in 86 and my teacher told me I would probably never live to see it again... which was exactly the sort of douchey bleak shit to say that would guarantee I never miss shit like this.

I took this...I forgot my tripod so it was hard not to get a shitty shot with long exposure

If you move to see one, it comes sooner:Total Lunar Eclipses Worldwide - Next 10 years

Picasso_sl said:

I bet they found 200 million year old salt in a rock and that is important because it shows aliens may have had a salt factory there.

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I was close.

Pretty cool Cybsled.

Abefroman_sl said:

NASA to Announce Mars Mystery Solved | NASA

Damn nice timing with The Martian opening next week.

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Liquid water confirmed

Signs of Liquid Water Found on Surface of Mars, Study Says

Time for the Nestle corporation to invest in space travel.

Kuro_sl said:

Time for the Nestle corporation to invest in space travel.

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Better idea

Lenas_sl said:

He's saying how similar or dissimilar they may look is irrelevant.

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Ding. I'm amazed that flew over his head. At least I know what I'm dealing with, now.

Neph_sl said:

Liquid water confirmed

Signs of Liquid Water Found on Surface of Mars, Study Says

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And for those that don't know, don't care to find out, the hover text for the image at xkcd says, "Why are we spending billions to ruin Mars with swarms of robots when Elon Musk has promised to ruin Mars for a FRACTION of the cost?". I don't think alt text functions in our bbcode.

I liked this one from the Onion better.

Nation Demands NASA Stop Holding Press Conferences Until They Discover Some Little Alien Guys - The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Neph_sl said:

The Onion - America's Finest News Source

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Bah, water on Mars? Probably some plot by the lefties at NASA to push some piece of the liberal agenda.

Water on Mars: Rush Limbaugh pans evidence of water on Mars as part of - POLITICO