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Markus · « **Reply #260 on:** April 24, 2010, 08:51:10 am »

Wow, everybody's making wonderful observations!

Thank you both for sharing!

Cheers!

Markus

Persephone · « **Reply #261 on:** April 24, 2010, 11:18:01 am »

One addition : it was flying with speed: 7706.6 m/s - 27743.8 km/h - 17239.2 mph

Markus · « **Reply #262 on:** April 24, 2010, 06:08:33 pm »

It's gotta be so fast lest it drop from the sky. But up there you wouldn't notice that speed - as little as you notice the 30 km/s with which we are all travelling around the Sun.

Cheers!

Markus

Markus · « **Reply #263 on:** June 28, 2010, 06:58:42 pm »

Hi folks,

the night from Saturday to Sunday might well have been the brightest night of this year here. The sky was very clear, it had been steel-blue all day long. At true midnight there was still a lot of dusk=dawn to the North - you can clearly see that we're close to the Northern summer solstice. On top of that was the bright light of the full moon. It was so bright I could not see more than three stars in the little dipper, but it was natural light so it was really beautiful.

Cheers!

Markus

Persephone · « **Reply #264 on:** June 28, 2010, 07:04:30 pm »

We had a very yellow moon yesterday

and today there was another flight of ISS. But I found out late

Markus · « **Reply #265 on:** June 28, 2010, 07:55:13 pm »

Yeah, the moon tends to hang very low these days in Europe. On Saturday it started out very low, too, and had a wonderful honey-colour, but later on it crept high enough to shine a silver light.

There are many visible passes of the ISS right now, up to five per night! So check your websites and you'll easily find more chances.

Cheers!

Markus

Persephone · « **Reply #266 on:** August 12, 2010, 07:41:08 pm »

I'm kinda upset, should be falling Perseides but it's cloudy and supposed to be cloudy for other days (nights more likely) too

Markus · « **Reply #267 on:** August 13, 2010, 07:21:44 pm »

Awww, don't be too sad, Miri! There will be other chances to get a lot of meteors. For instance there are the Geminids waiting in December, so you don't even have to wait until next August.

Cheers!

Markus

Persephone · « **Reply #268 on:** August 13, 2010, 07:33:49 pm »

It's always cloudy when the meteors are falling.

I never experienced clear sky with such chances

I wonder where the hell are the astronomes are making the observations when it's always cloudy

Markus · « **Reply #269 on:** August 13, 2010, 07:40:47 pm »

Nah, sometimes you'll be lucky, Miri.

Oh, and you don't need a meteor-stream in order to see shooting stars! You get a couple per hour on each clear, dark night. So next time the weather is fine and the moon does not disturb, go out to the darkest place you find, lie on a blanket and look up into the sky. You'll feel like getting lost between the stars, and you'll get to see meteors as well.

Don't forget some hot tea and perhaps some titbits to eat.

Cheers!

Markus

Markus · « **Reply #270 on:** September 06, 2010, 06:37:48 pm »

Hey folks,

this morning we had clear skies. I saw Orion, Taurus and Gemini... When you see the winter-stars just before dawn that's a clear sign of autumn approaching. And I saw a wonderful lunar crescent, unusually high in the skies, very thin, and the nightside strongly illuminated by earthshine. What a sight!

Look tomorrow morning as you might see an even thinner crescent. That's beautiful to behold - and for the Kuwaitis among us it signals the last days of Ramadan.

Cheers!

Markus

Persephone · « **Reply #271 on:** September 06, 2010, 06:47:24 pm »

Orion

my favourite. I like it because it's mainly to see from my window during wintertime and I always felt it as a great warrior watching behind my back!

Luth · « **Reply #272 on:** September 06, 2010, 06:49:48 pm »

Ey Markus!

This morning, Xiquet and I (not together) have seen the unusual clear descent too! I notized no Orion or anything else than the Moon, but it was really beautiful

Lucy · « **Reply #273 on:** September 06, 2010, 08:44:22 pm »

Markus, is it true that the emblem of Subaru shows the Pleiades?

Persephone · « **Reply #274 on:** September 06, 2010, 08:46:40 pm »

It is

I think that the name Subaru even is derived from the name of the Pleiades cluster

Persephone · « **Reply #275 on:** September 06, 2010, 08:49:02 pm »

Just checked that Subaru is supposed to be "Pleides" in Japanese.

Lucy · « **Reply #276 on:** September 06, 2010, 08:52:08 pm »

Fantastic!

Do you know how they are called in H? They are the "Hen with her little chicken".

Persephone · « **Reply #277 on:** September 06, 2010, 08:57:30 pm »

In Chech they are called Little Chicken! How amazing that it is so similar.

I miss the Hungarian lang a lot. Hopefully this year will be able to join Finnish and Hungarian courses on the phil. faculty. It should be for free.

Lucy · « **Reply #278 on:** September 06, 2010, 08:59:04 pm »

Oh, that's so nice! I love such similarities between our folks.

Persephone · « **Reply #279 on:** September 06, 2010, 08:59:56 pm »

Me too.

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