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That wally pacholka guy is a member of the astronomy group i'm in, has alot of cool desert photos. They've got a great monthly newsletter for $12 (8 euro) year. Full of current happenings in astronomy.

This guy at work that lives in the desert area was out on a walk at 4 am (crazy) that day and saw 3 meteors in about 1 minute. He wasn't even looking.
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awesome picture of the perseid from Vancouver
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all those meteors were seen in the space of just 1hour and 33minutes
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THAT is a cool picture. :D
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ever wondered what the greatest horizon on earth is? here it is, from atop mt everest

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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That would be a surreal view, especially if you really climbed that yourself! Here's an updated picture of it (yours was the daily link):
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080830.html
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I've just found a gem on the interweb, for anyone who is interested in astronomy. Its a beta application made by microsoft that turns your pc into a telescope that can show images that have been taken from all of the space telescopes including hubble.
http://worldwidetelescope.org/

here are a few screenshots from it
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That's really cool! Google earth has an option to flip the view to the sky too.
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last time i checked google earths sky feature doesnt contain the high-res images (on various wavelengths) taken by hubble, spitzer and chandra space telescopes, guided tours of the features in the night sky, the ability to observe all 9 planets, the sun and 4 moons of jupiter in 3D.

i rest my case :D
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data_ghost wrote:last time i checked google earths sky feature doesnt contain the high-res images (on various wavelengths) taken by hubble, spitzer and chandra space telescopes, guided tours of the features in the night sky, the ability to observe all 9 planets, the sun and 4 moons of jupiter in 3D.

i rest my case :D
The idea behind Google Earth's sky feature is for viewing constellations. Also, it's called Google Earth, not Google Telescope, lol.

I remember seeing something on the news about that telescope app once. Sounded very interesting. I hear you can make "tours" with it, am I right?
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That microsoft program is pretty nice, I like how you can click on the different image sources to see different wavelengths & resolutions for an object.
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TRON.dll wrote:
The idea behind Google Earth's sky feature is for viewing constellations. Also, it's called Google Earth, not Google Telescope, lol.
yes i know its called google earth. i didnt say google telescope :S

yeah plenty of tours available, and remember this is only a beta so new developments are still in the pipeline
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Thought this deorbited spacecraft looked pretty cool
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All the images in this topic look really cool with the new sites black background
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Daddyo wrote: All the images in this topic look really cool with the new sites black background
yeah i know!

the centre of the lagoon nebula
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To think that nebula and everything we see up there are unique to our location. Someone in a different galaxy will see something probably totally different from a different vantage point.
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I ran across this article and thought was interesting http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan ... imine.html

Says they've found for the first time huge amounts of ingredients found in life's simplest amino acid, in another galaxy. They used the huge Aricebo radio telescope.
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