Walter Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 ^ saw that today. Fascinating! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepscoda Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 1 hour ago, luvlz2 said: NASA Announces Discovery of Planets That Could Sustain Life: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-telescope-reveals-largest-batch-of-earth-size-habitable-zone-planets-around http://www.nbcnews.com/mach/space/watch-live-nasa-announces-major-exoplanet-discovery-n724111 I watched the first few minutes of this on Facebook...it's pretty cool...but so far away. 39 light years is inconceivable to imagine without being able to travel light speed....that is, we haven't achieved this yet...not to say another intelligence hasn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LedZeppfan1977 Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Well did anyone see the news last night and the new planets that were discovered 40 light years away? Its fascinating. And they are going to study these because their distance to the Orange star that is their solar system is about right to support life and hold water. An Orange dwarf is an old star. Red or Orange stars are very old, unlike small blues. Blues are newer. Orion the Hunter, a constellation in the northern hemisphere holds a star known as Beatlejuice. A giant orange that is famous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cecil. Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 On 23/02/2017 at 1:03 PM, zepscoda said: I watched the first few minutes of this on Facebook...it's pretty cool...but so far away. 39 light years is inconceivable to imagine without being able to travel light speed....that is, we haven't achieved this yet...not to say another intelligence hasn't. I took press conference to mean they have found a star with nine planets......which is quite something. Getting there will take some time, until a Mr Weyland meets a Mr Yutani , we will be exploring locally I hope....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rm2551 Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Here is an interesting POV I heard in an interview last night.... If there is no other life in the cosmos, that pretty much means there is alien life. Huh? I hear you say.. - well, mathematically, there IS life out there. The more Earth like planets in the goldilocks zone (far enough from star, but not too far - like our own dust ball is) are being discovered more and more - and that's just in our galaxy. In fact, it's just in the near field of our galaxy - the area where we can detect them with current technology. This means there should be many thousands of planets similar to Earth (rocky, water probable, in the goldilocks zone). in our rather humungous galaxy (estimate is the Milky Way is home to 200 billion stars, 100 billion "solar systems" with planets) And how many galaxies are there? THIS - is an interesting number. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 SO - if in all that potential, somehow WE are the only life, it suggests (due to the ridiculous odds of this reality occuring naturally - "by chance" only the ONE TIME) that this reality is in fact a simulation or manufactured. The simulation would have been built by aliens. Therefore, if we are indeed alone, there must be aliens. *The idea of a Personal God type creator - one that is not of this reality but created it, is purely a human construct so I rule that out as having nothing to do with reality. If you do not discount this, good luck to you, this post is irrelevant for you. Anyway, I thought the comment If there is no other life in the cosmos, that pretty much means there is alien life. was very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinton P. Desveaux Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Fantastic news but it really means nothing at the moment because we have no way to travel there (currently humans are not meant to be in space from a health and biological point of view) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinton P. Desveaux Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 That Space X launch and landing was fun to watch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepscoda Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bong-Man Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Just started looking in to making some plans for August's total solar eclipse across America. I've got a favorite motel at the end of Iowa. That would leave a 2-3 hour drive to reach the totality zone in Eastern Nebraska the next day. 2 and a half minutes is the length in most areas. Motels and campgrounds in the zone are booking up fast. Always wanted to see a total solar eclipse. Don't pass up the only chance in your lifetime. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/preparing-for-the-august-2017-total-solar-eclipse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rover Posted April 3, 2017 Author Share Posted April 3, 2017 Besides NASA not yet having identified a planet in our Galaxy with Earth like properties, which is difficult with the technology we now have, I just realized that with all of the study of stars and their life cycles, we have yet to witness the birth of a star. Perhaps someday, the instruments may be available to see empirically, a star turning on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bong-Man Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Reservations have been made. I'll be in Lincoln, Nebraska for the solar eclipse on August 21st. Centrally located on I-80 so I can roll East or West thru a storm or cloudy skies if necessary. Just picked up some properly rated welding glasses for the trip. If things don't work out, I roll with it and head into Colorado for some R & R of a different sort. In fact, I'm going to do that either way.....cuz that's the kind of guy I am. Anybody live in the totality zone ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slave to zep Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 On 2/24/2017 at 9:49 PM, rm2551 said: Here is an interesting POV I heard in an interview last night.... If there is no other life in the cosmos, that pretty much means there is alien life. Huh? I hear you say.. - well, mathematically, there IS life out there. The more Earth like planets in the goldilocks zone (far enough from star, but not too far - like our own dust ball is) are being discovered more and more - and that's just in our galaxy. In fact, it's just in the near field of our galaxy - the area where we can detect them with current technology. This means there should be many thousands of planets similar to Earth (rocky, water probable, in the goldilocks zone). in our rather humungous galaxy (estimate is the Milky Way is home to 200 billion stars, 100 billion "solar systems" with planets) And how many galaxies are there? THIS - is an interesting number. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 SO - if in all that potential, somehow WE are the only life, it suggests (due to the ridiculous odds of this reality occuring naturally - "by chance" only the ONE TIME) that this reality is in fact a simulation or manufactured. The simulation would have been built by aliens. Therefore, if we are indeed alone, there must be aliens. *The idea of a Personal God type creator - one that is not of this reality but created it, is purely a human construct so I rule that out as having nothing to do with reality. If you do not discount this, good luck to you, this post is irrelevant for you. Anyway, I thought the comment If there is no other life in the cosmos, that pretty much means there is alien life. was very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rover Posted September 17, 2017 Author Share Posted September 17, 2017 Spectacular Image of the Milky Way taken from the ISS "Feels pretty good up here . . ." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bozoso73 Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 ^^^^ Killer shot Rover. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LedZeppfan1977 Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 On 6/19/2017 at 2:08 AM, slave to zep said: We cannot see alien life and we cannot see God. But I believe strongly that both exist for sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IpMan Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 Hey, I have heard Planet X or as some call it, Niberu is scheduled to slam into our lovely sphere on Saturday, September 23rd and destroy our planet. This Planet X supposedly is on one hell of an elliptical orbit which has it swing way out into the Ort Cloud and then back where its orbit takes it between Mars & Earth every 24,000 years. Question: If this were true would we have not experienced serious gravitational forces months ago? Second, being a week away would we not see this planet with the naked eye 24/7? Third: Why do I read this shit??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrum Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 I've got to get a telescope. (Reflector). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rover Posted April 23, 2018 Author Share Posted April 23, 2018 The timeanddate web page has a beta section that displays data and graphs for each planet for your area based on the time. It gives the compass direction and the altitude for each planet. https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/ http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/112-observational-astronomy/stargazing/technical-questions/698-what-are-altitude-and-azimuth-intermediate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rover Posted May 6, 2018 Author Share Posted May 6, 2018 (edited) The Milky Way from the Big Island of Hawaii Edited May 6, 2018 by The Rover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef free Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 I got a new telescope! It's an Orion Starseeker IV, with an 150mm primary mirror and a focal length of 750mm. It gives a very clear image at high or low powers, I'm impressed! With a 32mm lens, It makes 23.5 x which gives a huge field of view, all of Pleiades fits at once! With my 9mm lens and a 2x barlow, it makes 160x which is about the highest power that the sky can stand up to around here. It has "Go To" controls which means that it is computer controlled and can be made to point at thousands of pre programed objects. This is very useful in the light polluted SF Bay Area. And it weighs less than 20lbs. so I actually use it! Jupiter rises at sunset and show four fast moving moons. Venus has been visible until about two hours after sunset and shows a cresent rightnow, Saturn, with its spectacular rings, rises at about midnight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef free Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 Earth and Jupiter will be very close together tonight. It's a great time to observe the giant planet, a pair of binoculars will reveal the four huge moons. The inner most makes an orbit around the 88,000 mile wide planet every 12 hours! By contrast, the Earth's moon takes over 28 days to orbit out 8,000 mile wide planet. A small telescope allows you to see the shadow cast on the gas giant's surface by the moons as they traverse the visible side of Jupiter. https://www.yahoo.com/news/jupiter-opposition-planet-brightest-tuesday-134000107.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slave to zep Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 We have a telescope, but it's not very good.... not much detail can be seen. I love looking at the moon, even without it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bong-Man Posted May 18, 2018 Share Posted May 18, 2018 I find discussions about "Dark Matter" to be quite interesting. If you're telling me that 85% of the Universe is made up of something you have no clue about, that pretty much means you don't have a clue about anything. That includes any current laws of Physics that can't account for it....which is all of them ! Once had a Physics teacher claim that the greatest human discovery of all-time was the electromagnetic spectrum and it's subsequent effect on our daily lives. If Dark Matter is for real, that means there's probably at least a couple similar spectrums we have yet to discover. Until someone can actually identify and quantify Dark Matter, claims that we're currently living in a computer simulation or other such theories/models that seem like total nonsense, are as valid as any other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef free Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 Moon tour, take the trip! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LedZed66 Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 ^ Great video, thanks for posting. Yesterday's lunar eclipse. Pictures taken by Mr. LedZed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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