[diamondgeezer]

Sweetness - I just dug out my old Edu-Science telescope and picked up Mars, the Seven Sisters, Aldeberann and Capella. And the Moon, ye gods is it bright. The marea were in beautiful relief, with one right on the terminator with all the surrounding higlands perfectly picked out. And damn, Tycho, is that one big old crater. It's only a crappy little scope, but still it's just amazingly beautiful. I'm waiting for Saturn to rise at 2...

Hopefully, my space-science housemate is going to get trained on the university telescope (16 inches of power, ph34r it) and I'll be able to leach some time off of him

[kasperl]

yeah, i never really picked up stargazing, and i can't really go further then recognising things like Orions Belt, but i saw Mars last night, really bright and pretty.

[Nuclear1]

Another stargazer. Cool.

I luv the stars. Lots.

[Turnsky]

on a clear night here, you can see orion, without telescopes, also the southern cross..

[Rictor]

Capella is still there? Thats odd.

[Galemp]

Idiot! Capella doesn't blow for another 364 years! And even then it will take hundreds of years for the light ot reach Earth.

Actually, that's a good point: the folks left in Sol wouldn't know Capella had gone nova until the GTVA restored contact and told them...

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
Idiot! Capella doesn't blow for another 364 years! And even then it will take hundreds of years for the light ot reach Earth.

Actually, that's a good point: the folks left in Sol wouldn't know Capella had gone nova until the GTVA restored contact and told them...

http://solstation.com/stars2/capella4.htm

They'd know within 42.2 years of the end of FS2.

...if they're still alive, that is.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

I'd quite like to get into stargazing, but the light pollution round here is something shokcing.

[diamondgeezer]

It's beyond bad down in here in Leicester. I mean, my family home is basically right next to Heathrow airport, and yet even there I can ge ta better starfield. It makes me laugh that Leicester is the UK's space research hotbed, yet I can barely see two stars on an average night. I can only imagine that the university telescope must be out of town somewhere...

Incidentally, for anyone who's interested, they built that Beagle 2 critter in a building on the other side of the park from me. Real-time space science in my own back garden

[pyro-manic]

DG: you at leicester uni, then? I was gonna go there - until I didn't do any work on my A-levels and got crappy grades...  

Petrarch: Ditto here. I go up into the Beacons to get away from the glare, and it's getting too bloody cold now to do it very often.

[01010]

Where I live is pretty good for stargazing. I live on the middle ridge of a W shaped valley (two rivers either side) and behind my estate is a pretty large nature reserve, then a dual carriageway, then Wyre forest. So it's pretty dark out here of a night and if you go near the forest it's very dark. I like stargazing.

[Dark_4ce]

I also love stargazing! Everynight I see capella go by my window too! When I was in Norway, I stayed at my friends uncle's house, and it was the best stargazing place I've ever seen!!! The mountians totally obstructed the city lights so I got a crisp clear view of the heavens. You could see with your plain eye the whole milkyway galaxy, and with a good pair of binocular even Andromeda! Absolutely sweet! It was so clear, it even took me 30mins to convince my friend that the big bright spot in the sky wasn't an airplane but Mars! So now back here, I've been going nuts over the moonscape and checking out other celestial wonders!

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by pyro-manic
DG: you at leicester uni, then?

I was. I came to the conclusion that universities are run by idiots, for idiots. I quit, and I'm applying for the navy instead.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer

I was. I came to the conclusion that universities are run by idiots, for idiots. I quit, and I'm applying for the navy instead.

Frying pan -> fire situation there, bud.

[Flipside]

I live in London.

You mean Stars are real??

Flipside

[elorran]

Fortunately Stoke on Trent isn't too bad for light pollution compared to some places in britain.  It also helps that I live on the side of a hill a good way up and away from the main central light pollution focus areas.  It also gives great views... especially in the morning when the sun is coming up.  Makes for some create back-drops, again, especially when the fog comes in an runs across the lower portions of the valley bed and you get the eerie effect of morning light passing through it.

Great stuff, almost makes you want to stay up and watch it... but the lure to go back to bed it to strong most of the time.

[Fineus]

Originally posted by Flipside
I live in London.

You mean Stars are real??

Flipside

Get yourself up on top of Canary Wharf - you must be able to see something

Failing that, come down to Worthing - we've got stars to spare!

[Flipside]

LOL I live near the M25, I thought the sky was supposed to be orange

Best holiday I ever had was in the mountains of Wales, the sky was crystal clear most nights

Flipside