Paid Members Murtz Posted December 27, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted December 27, 2012 This is probably the best thread to put this in. Check the moon out tonight, it's got a perfectly round halo around it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Sebby Posted December 27, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted December 27, 2012 Just had a look, pretty cool man. No stars in the sky (in Leicester at least) just mist, all clouded over and a face looking down on you. Very erie. But very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Murtz Posted December 27, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted December 27, 2012 I'm in Leicester too, but a friend in Holland can also see it. Beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted December 28, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted December 28, 2012 One of my Christmas presents was this book from Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Arent-They-Her...7174&sr=1-1 Â It's pretty good. To be honest, it's covering stuff I was already pretty well aware of. Â Can anybody recommend any good books on SETI? Specifically stuff about trying to find signals with radio telescopes and things? I know all about the WOW! signal, so more stuff like that would be cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted December 28, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted December 28, 2012 A great book to read is The Universe Next Door by Marcus Chown. Essential stuff. So much so I had to buy a second copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted December 28, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted December 28, 2012 I'll look into it. I enjoyed "Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You" and "Never Ending Days of Being Dead" by Chown when I read them in '06 or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted January 4, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted January 4, 2013 One of my Christmas presents was this book from Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Arent-They-Her...7174&sr=1-1Â It's pretty good. To be honest, it's covering stuff I was already pretty well aware of. Â Can anybody recommend any good books on SETI? Specifically stuff about trying to find signals with radio telescopes and things? I know all about the WOW! signal, so more stuff like that would be cool. If I'm remembering rightly, Maj had his computer doing something involving SETI some years back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Did anyone go outside at 7:05 and see the ISS float across the sky tonight? I got a lovely view here, despite heavy cloud cover. What a beautiful feeling it gave me, just seeing that single lone light sailing across the sky. Amazing stuff. Â It will have considerable visibility again at 18:14 tomorrow night, and again for a few more nights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted February 15, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 15, 2013 If you're on Twitter, you can sign up to a free service at http://www.twisst.nl/ where you put in your location and it tweets you when the ISS is going to have a clear pass over you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 If you're on Twitter, you can sign up to a free service at http://www.twisst.nl/ where you put in your location and it tweets you when the ISS is going to have a clear pass over you. I'm not a user, but thanks anyway sir. It so happens that there is a real science enthusiast at my work (not surprising, given the scientific nature of my job) who was kind enough to print me out a fairly extensive table of times, directions etc, which is now proudly fridge magnet'ed up in my kitchen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted February 15, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 15, 2013 Was rather annoyed I didn't have the money to get tickets to go to AstroFest last weekend. Would've been a shitload of fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Kookoocachu Posted February 15, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 15, 2013 If you're on Twitter, you can sign up to a free service at http://www.twisst.nl/ where you put in your location and it tweets you when the ISS is going to have a clear pass over you. I'm not a user, but thanks anyway sir. It so happens that there is a real science enthusiast at my work (not surprising, given the scientific nature of my job) who was kind enough to print me out a fairly extensive table of times, directions etc, which is now proudly fridge magnet'ed up in my kitchen. If you have an iPhone the fly by app is great, tells you all the satellites that are passing over you including the iss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 If you have an iPhone the fly by app is great, tells you all the satellites that are passing over you including the iss. Once again I have failed. I'm still rocking the mighty NEC e616V Â Â Â It will be having its testimonial soon. Â I think my friend has an app like that though. Last summer on a couple of occasions we sat out in his garden until really late, and he was pointing his phone at the stars, and it was naming them all for him and saying when to expect the Space Station to come sailing by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiffingtonClyro Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 There's been a shit load of shooting stars round my area recently. I was in my bed a few weeks ago and watched one fly by my window. It was a beautiful site. A lot of UFO sitngs as well, which turned out to be Chinese Lanterns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted February 15, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 15, 2013 Yeah, that's what they want you to believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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