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| Hoof Hearted 20 Mar 15 10.05am | |
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Quote Moose at 20 Mar 2015 9.53am
Quote Ouzo Dan at 20 Mar 2015 6.24am
Been a good week for astronomy & the sun, hopefully we get clear skies.
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 Johnny Eagles  berlin 20 Mar 15 10.09am |
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I love the use of the word "only" for 16,000 years. Computer-based cyborgs will have taken over the planet by then. Can't see them standing around with pinhole cameras somehow.
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Ouzo Dan  Behind you 20 Mar 15 11.09am |
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Quote Moose at 20 Mar 2015 9.53am
Quote Ouzo Dan at 20 Mar 2015 6.24am
Been a good week for astronomy & the sun, hopefully we get clear skies.
Hoof has nailed it, The moon is moving away from the earth at 4cm a year, Although I'll hold my hands up & say I cocked up on the actual time this is going to take to happen but happen it will. We put a mirror on the surface of the moon & shoot a laser at it every day to measure the distance. Edited by Ouzo Dan (20 Mar 2015 11.20am)
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)| Hoof Hearted 20 Mar 15 11.24am | |
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Quote Ouzo Dan at 20 Mar 2015 11.09am
Quote Moose at 20 Mar 2015 9.53am
Quote Ouzo Dan at 20 Mar 2015 6.24am
Been a good week for astronomy & the sun, hopefully we get clear skies.
Hoof has nailed it, The moon is moving away from the earth at 4cm a year, Although I'll hold my hands up & say I cocked up on the actual time this is going to take to happen but happen it will. We put a mirror on the surface of the moon & shoot a laser off it every day to measure the distance.
Today is my 3rd experience of a Solar Eclipse, so I've had a "good innings". The first was in 1961 when I was 7 years old which I watched from Camden Rd school, Carshalton. The teacher gave us smoked glass to view it. The second was in 1999 in Portishead nr Bristol. Plus today in north Bristol. All three have been about 90% from where I have viewed the phenomenon. I doubt I'll see another as I'm 60 yrs old now.
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| Ouzo Dan Behind you 20 Mar 15 1.33pm |
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Quote Hoof Hearted at 20 Mar 2015 11.24am
Quote Ouzo Dan at 20 Mar 2015 11.09am
Quote Moose at 20 Mar 2015 9.53am
Quote Ouzo Dan at 20 Mar 2015 6.24am
Been a good week for astronomy & the sun, hopefully we get clear skies.
Hoof has nailed it, The moon is moving away from the earth at 4cm a year, Although I'll hold my hands up & say I cocked up on the actual time this is going to take to happen but happen it will. We put a mirror on the surface of the moon & shoot a laser off it every day to measure the distance.
Today is my 3rd experience of a Solar Eclipse, so I've had a "good innings". The first was in 1961 when I was 7 years old which I watched from Camden Rd school, Carshalton. The teacher gave us smoked glass to view it. The second was in 1999 in Portishead nr Bristol. Plus today in north Bristol. All three have been about 90% from where I have viewed the phenomenon. I doubt I'll see another as I'm 60 yrs old now.
there's plenty more things in the night sky to go hunting for hoof, I'm on two eclipses
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Ian-VI  Vicenza 20 Mar 15 1.37pm |
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Quote Hoof Hearted at 20 Mar 2015 11.24am
Quote Ouzo Dan at 20 Mar 2015 11.09am
Quote Moose at 20 Mar 2015 9.53am
Quote Ouzo Dan at 20 Mar 2015 6.24am
Been a good week for astronomy & the sun, hopefully we get clear skies.
Hoof has nailed it, The moon is moving away from the earth at 4cm a year, Although I'll hold my hands up & say I cocked up on the actual time this is going to take to happen but happen it will. We put a mirror on the surface of the moon & shoot a laser off it every day to measure the distance.
Today is my 3rd experience of a Solar Eclipse, so I've had a "good innings". The first was in 1961 when I was 7 years old which I watched from Camden Rd school, Carshalton. The teacher gave us smoked glass to view it. The second was in 1999 in Portishead nr Bristol. Plus today in north Bristol. All three have been about 90% from where I have viewed the phenomenon. I doubt I'll see another as I'm 60 yrs old now.
You will, when you will be 71, and it will be from 83 to 95% coverage in the UK. Unless you book a holiday to Spain mainland or Balearics where you will get the 100%. Edited by Ian-VI (20 Mar 2015 1.38pm)
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Kermit8  Hevon 20 Mar 15 1.42pm |
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Was all set up to see it at 9.28 and the best bit when bloody Bonnie Tyler and her hair turned up and got in the way. Edited by Kermit8 (20 Mar 2015 1.42pm)
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Stuk  Top half 20 Mar 15 3.20pm |
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Quote Ouzo Dan at 20 Mar 2015 11.09am
Quote Moose at 20 Mar 2015 9.53am
Quote Ouzo Dan at 20 Mar 2015 6.24am
Been a good week for astronomy & the sun, hopefully we get clear skies.
Hoof has nailed it, The moon is moving away from the earth at 4cm a year, Although I'll hold my hands up & say I cocked up on the actual time this is going to take to happen but happen it will. We put a mirror on the surface of the moon & shoot a laser at it every day to measure the distance. Edited by Ouzo Dan (20 Mar 2015 11.20am)
Scientists.... Nothing but space litterers.
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The Sash  Now residing in Epsom - How Posh 20 Mar 15 3.27pm |
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Quote topcat at 20 Mar 2015 9.55am
In the good old days, we used to get proper solar eclipses, not like these namby pamby modern ones. Kids today, don't know they are born. Funny enough TC although I am sure there must have been eclipses since, I had a bit of a flashback to when I was about 8 in primary school (nigh on 40 years ago now) - none of this 'look at a piece of card' or special celebratory goggles - they marched the entire school into the playground and made us look up under pain of death to witness the wonder of the cosmos...
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| Superfly The sun always shines in Catford 20 Mar 15 3.40pm |
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Quote The Sash at 20 Mar 2015 3.27pm
Quote topcat at 20 Mar 2015 9.55am
In the good old days, we used to get proper solar eclipses, not like these namby pamby modern ones. Kids today, don't know they are born. Funny enough TC although I am sure there must have been eclipses since, I had a bit of a flashback to when I was about 8 in primary school (nigh on 40 years ago now) - none of this 'look at a piece of card' or special celebratory goggles - they marched the entire school into the playground and made us look up under pain of death to witness the wonder of the cosmos...
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| The Sash Now residing in Epsom - How Posh 20 Mar 15 3.49pm |
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Quote Superfly at 20 Mar 2015 3.40pm
Quote The Sash at 20 Mar 2015 3.27pm
Quote topcat at 20 Mar 2015 9.55am
In the good old days, we used to get proper solar eclipses, not like these namby pamby modern ones. Kids today, don't know they are born. Funny enough TC although I am sure there must have been eclipses since, I had a bit of a flashback to when I was about 8 in primary school (nigh on 40 years ago now) - none of this 'look at a piece of card' or special celebratory goggles - they marched the entire school into the playground and made us look up under pain of death to witness the wonder of the cosmos...
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| Stuk Top half 20 Mar 15 4.10pm |
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Quote The Sash at 20 Mar 2015 3.27pm
Quote topcat at 20 Mar 2015 9.55am
In the good old days, we used to get proper solar eclipses, not like these namby pamby modern ones. Kids today, don't know they are born. Funny enough TC although I am sure there must have been eclipses since, I had a bit of a flashback to when I was about 8 in primary school (nigh on 40 years ago now) - none of this 'look at a piece of card' or special celebratory goggles - they marched the entire school into the playground and made us look up under pain of death to witness the wonder of the cosmos... Didn't need goggles back then, we had an Ozone still. Not that any of us knew f*** all about it until they started banning aerosol cans and polystyrene cups!
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