Sky scenes

Stump Jumper · August 19, 2007, 08:36:07 PM

pigman
it must be bad luck. i see i'm still his boss :

:-\ :-[

Furby · August 19, 2007, 08:58:37 PM

Naw, YOU'RE FIRED!
Happy now ???

Mooseherder · August 26, 2007, 05:06:47 PM

I don't know if this is true. Received it in an e-mail.
If anyone is up past midnight tonight.
Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August.
It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. This will cultivate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles of earth.
Be sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am. It will look like the earth has 2 moons. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.

beenthere · August 26, 2007, 05:30:46 PM

Mooseherder
Not very true. It's been coming around for several years now....google it and you will see the significance that it is not.

SwampDonkey · August 26, 2007, 05:44:39 PM

That was back in 2003, and only when looking through a 75x telescope. It has become an urban legend since. :D Mars gets close every 15-17 years actually, but hasn't been that close in a long time.

Look up perihelic opposition in google with reference to NASA. ;)

Mooseherder · August 27, 2007, 08:32:29 PM

:D ;D

Furby · August 27, 2007, 08:38:28 PM

Waiting for the eclipse ???

Mooseherder · August 27, 2007, 08:53:22 PM

Unfortunately I'll be up for it. :D
Gotta be at work at 5am. ;)

Furby · August 27, 2007, 09:15:20 PM

Unfortunately I won't be up for it.... no work. :

Onthesauk · August 28, 2007, 12:08:39 AM

We were just coming up the valley this evening as that came over the mountains and looked twice as big as normal.

Suppose to happen about 2:30AM our time. Think I'll miss it.

SwampDonkey · August 28, 2007, 03:11:27 AM

The moon is suppose to set here before the eclipse so we don't see it. The moon is nice and bright for the time it is up. Thought it was getting daylight. Oh well, I'm up now. ;)

Ianab · August 28, 2007, 03:55:20 AM

Supposed to start at 8:30pm here, and the clouds seem to have broken up enough to see something. 8:00 pm now.. waiting

Ian

Ianab · August 28, 2007, 04:08:46 AM

First pic at 8:00pm.. nothing unusual here.

Did I mention I LOVE my new camera ;D
Shot is hand held, leaning on the back door frame.

Ian

SwampDonkey · August 28, 2007, 04:33:20 AM

That's quite a zoom on your new toy. ;D

SwampDonkey · August 28, 2007, 04:58:59 AM

Well I can just see the eclipse beginning on the top portion of the moon. The sun will be up here in 45 minutes.

Ianab · August 28, 2007, 05:03:04 AM

8:50 here.. starting to see some action. 8)

SwampDonkey · August 28, 2007, 05:45:04 AM

Well the sun is almost up and there is just a sliver left on the bottom edge of the moon as it sets in the western horizon. ;D

Ianab · August 28, 2007, 06:12:25 AM

Full eclipse here, about 9:30

Really cool show

Patty · August 28, 2007, 07:49:08 AM

Ianab, You had the same view that we had. Awesome show! It started about 4:30 and was in total eclipse at 5:00AM then by 6:00 it was all gone and the sun was starting to come up. Cool way to start my day!

Furby · November 06, 2007, 06:26:39 PM

Took this up at the lake the other day.

Don P · November 07, 2007, 09:04:25 PM

I'm always waiting to see a big hand reach out of one of those holes in the clouds :D.

This was from a couple of weeks ago one evening on the front porch. It was more intense a few minutes earlier but took a minute to find the camera.

Bibbyman · December 19, 2007, 06:33:51 PM

One thing Mary and I can take credit for is instilling in Alex and Brooke some appreciation for the beauty of nature. I figured they'd get bored of me dragging them out to see a sunset or rainbow or sunlight making the ice on a tree look like crystal. But they've picked up the idea.

This evening they came running in and wanted Grandma to come out and see the sunset. Then they found I was near so they insisted that I come too and I had to bring my camera.

Well, the best of the brilliant sky was about gone by the time I got out there with my camera but I snapped a couple of pictures and let each girl take a picture. Then they wanted their picture taken with the sky scene. I did but this time the flash went off. I figured it'd just wash out their images and took another with the flash turned off.

Turned out, the one with the flash came out ok. I did a little work with the photo editor to get bring their images.

TexasTimbers · December 19, 2007, 06:37:36 PM

TexasTimbers · December 19, 2007, 06:41:50 PM

I don't know why mine came out so small.

Bibbyman it looks like we had the same idea about the same time. You were seeing the same thing as me just a few lines of longitude sooner. I caught that real pretty color you said you were late getting but my pixels shrank at some point. It was so striking I thought I would share it. Course mine didn't have the cute grands in it.

I tried to enlarge it but they keep shrinking.