The Astronomy Thread
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Jalynfane
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I found a Orion SkyQuest XT8 Classic Dobsonian Telescopeon craigslist with a ton of extra optics, 7mm, 25mm etc and light filters too. Try that first, the craigslist.
I was looking for about 4 months and was reluctant to pull the trigger on any scope, but took the plunge on the Dobsonian type, it was a great choice.
Gets great views and was able to aim an old digital camera down the optics and zoom further, allowing for nice pics of moon craters, Saturn, and Jupiter.
I found a Orion SkyQuest XT8 Classic Dobsonian Telescopeon craigslist with a ton of extra optics, 7mm, 25mm etc and light filters too. Try that first, the craigslist.
I was looking for about 4 months and was reluctant to pull the trigger on any scope, but took the plunge on the Dobsonian type, it was a great choice.
Gets great views and was able to aim an old digital camera down the optics and zoom further, allowing for nice pics of moon craters, Saturn, and Jupiter.
Dandain
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"Alien Nightmare Raining Liquid Iron and Glass" --Hubble Space Telescope's 1st Direct Image of an Exoplanet - The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel
TLDR; We managed to directly image a 4x jupiter giant with Hubble and determine some of its characteristics from the light collected over time.
TLDR; We managed to directly image a 4x jupiter giant with Hubble and determine some of its characteristics from the light collected over time.
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Thats pretty cool, it is of course slow motion compared to the speed meteors enter! That was what 6-7 km/s... meteors can be 50-70km/s?
Dandain
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Around 1:35 a killdeer seems pissed this rocket is encroaching on its nest you can hear its calls. Lasts about 5 seconds.
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Big Phoenix
Pronouns: zie/zhem/zer
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khorum
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So Moon Express finally got FAA and NASA approval for their private moon mission and their shot at the Google Lunar Xprize. They're gonna be the first private company to leave earth orbit. Which kinda explains why they'd pick someone other than spaceX to make their first two stages:
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meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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So Io's moon collapses and then reforms when it enters/leaves Jupiter's shadow. Neat.
Jupiter's Volcanic Moon Io Has a Collapsible Atmosphere
Jupiter's Volcanic Moon Io Has a Collapsible Atmosphere
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spronk
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that weird star system ~1500 light years away that possibly has a dyson sphere under construction is back in the news
[1608.01316] KIC 8462852 Faded Throughout the Kepler Mission
No known or proposed stellar phenomena can fully explain all aspects of the observed light curve
The light dropoffs, from our POV, are like this
[1608.01316] KIC 8462852 Faded Throughout the Kepler Mission
No known or proposed stellar phenomena can fully explain all aspects of the observed light curve
The light dropoffs, from our POV, are like this
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Blazin
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has anyone heard a meteor (meteorite) sonic boom /impact in RL? I heard a boom and impact last night that was extremely odd, my wife heard it too and we both recognized immediately that is what something uncommon. I'm not sure how to describe it the sound was so low on the tonal range. Loud like a gun shot but yet a much lower sound. Sometimes a large tree falling in the woods behind my house can make quite a ruckus but I have heard that before several times and this was quite different. Today I can't find any evidence of what made the sound.
Just started wondering if maybe it was a meteorite which I would love to find but the undergrowth this time of year is really heavy.
Just started wondering if maybe it was a meteorite which I would love to find but the undergrowth this time of year is really heavy.
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