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Space, Stargazing and the Night Sky

Discussion in 'TalkCeltic Pub' started by Marty McFly, May 27, 2020.

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  1. Marty McFly Whoa, this is heavy

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    Tonight is the "Christmas Star", Jupiter and Saturn pretty much aligning. It will be in the Southwest sky close to the horizon after sunset. So probably best seen 4:30pm-6.00pm before they disappear.

    Also a decent meteor shower tonight too if the skies are clear enough.
     
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    Never see anything here with all this * cloud
     
  3. Marty McFly Whoa, this is heavy

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    Aye its * here too
     
  4. bhoy_wonder Gold Member Gold Member

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  5. FATLAZYBHOY Born in the steamie Gold Member

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    ach, I just canny be arsed looking up, will catch it on the telly later.
     
  6. carraigbhoy Gold Member Gold Member

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    Grey skies in Belfast! only drizzle to be seen
     
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    It's always the way when there is something special to see in the sky. I love this country but the weather is a *.
     
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    Moon landing deleted scenes
     
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    Mighty Mouse in space, that's either one right hardcore mouse or Space X are faker than Nasa?
     
  11. Marty McFly Whoa, this is heavy

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    One of the clearest nights ever out there tonight. Awesome.

    Just saw two meteors/shooting stars, and what I assume was a satellite of some sort. Fast moving light heading due North, wasn't flashing like an aeroplane and there was nothing showing on flight radar.
     
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    Android app "skyview" seems half decent for pointing your phone at these things to find out if it's a satellite, planet, big star etc


    Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk
     
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  13. Marty McFly Whoa, this is heavy

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    Cheers mate I will take a look

    I have SkySafari and Star Walk 2 but they are a bit *
     
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  14. Marty McFly Whoa, this is heavy

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    Mars is orange as *
     
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    I knew there had to be a reason it was my least favourite planet!
     
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  16. Tim-Time 1888 Always look on the bright side of Life Gold Member

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    Get in wee space rover!
     
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  18. Tim-Time 1888 Always look on the bright side of Life Gold Member

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    What's really exciting is the realistic, albeit small, possibility of finding signs of historic life in the carbonates around there. Although they could be abiotic.
     
  20. Lupis Gold Member Gold Member

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    I'm pretty sceptical about Mars having supported life in the past. I just don't think it would have had liquid water, and the atmosphere to support it for long enough before those were stripped away, for life to have evolved there.

    If Venus had a magnetic field I'd have expected it to have been more likely to have had microbial life on it before it started its runaway greenhouse effect and became uninhabitable. But it's hard to say if it ever had a magnetic field in the past or not, so who knows.