Captain Colonial Posted March 20, 2011 Posted March 20, 2011 Have a few cracking astronomy apps on my iPad I use quite often, especially GoSkyWatch Planetarium, where you take the iPad (iPhone too?) outside at night and hold it up towards the night sky. As you move the screen and turn or move your body, it tracks your position using GPS so the screen matches your view and if you see an interesting star or object in the sky, you tap its equivalent on the screen and it gives tons of info. Brilliant. Quote
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted March 20, 2011 Posted March 20, 2011 Have a few cracking astronomy apps on my iPad I use quite often, especially GoSkyWatch Planetarium, where you take the iPad (iPhone too?) outside at night and hold it up towards the night sky. As you move the screen and turn or move your body, it tracks your position using GPS so the screen matches your view and if you see an interesting star or object in the sky, you tap its equivalent on the screen and it gives tons of info. Brilliant. Ta Cap'n, downloaded this one too, just need a clear night now. Love gazing upwards, just get a bit lost beyond the basics of finding the Plough and the Pole star. Quote
Cleggy the Spyder Man Posted March 20, 2011 Author Posted March 20, 2011 downloaded starwalk tonight - oh b****r it's cloudy Quote
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted March 20, 2011 Posted March 20, 2011 Yeah, nipped out again half an hour ago to check, but the same thing round here too. I may just have cursed us all to cloudy night skies for the forseeable future. Quote
Blatman Posted March 20, 2011 Posted March 20, 2011 Here you go Blatters one to get excited about mate. Not taken last night but thought you might like to see my moon That's a nice shot mate, although I don't think I want you to moon me again... I suspect you kept that one 'cos it looks like a pie Quote
echoz Posted March 20, 2011 Posted March 20, 2011 Have a few cracking astronomy apps on my iPad I use quite often, especially GoSkyWatch Planetarium, where you take the iPad (iPhone too?) outside at night and hold it up towards the night sky. As you move the screen and turn or move your body, it tracks your position using GPS so the screen matches your view and if you see an interesting star or object in the sky, you tap its equivalent on the screen and it gives tons of info. Brilliant. Ta Cap'n, downloaded this one too, just need a clear night now. Love gazing upwards, just get a bit lost beyond the basics of finding the Plough and the Pole star. I know orions belt buit that's it, just enjoy staring out of the earth and forgetting the hassles of life To the guys posting jaw dropping photos, what camera's do you use to get pictures like that? Simple awesome! Quote
Blatman Posted March 20, 2011 Posted March 20, 2011 Orions Belt... look up and *slightly* to the right of the right hand star of Orions Belt. You'll see a star that occaasionally twinkles red. That's Betelgeuse (pronounced Beetlejuice), a red giant. It's so massive if it was where our sun is, it would encompass all the planets up to Jupiter *inside* it's surface. Astronomers think that Betelgeuse is going to go supernova soon. Unfortunately *soon* in astranomical terms is the next million years or so. It's 427 light years away too, so if it went supernova today, we wouldn't see the explosion for 427 years... Quote
echoz Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 Remember the first time I saw this poster: Star Sizes kind of left me dazed, it's hard to grasp that a star explodes and we don't see it explode for 427 years, yet its so big that we can see it from here. Mind boggling Quote
Jumpjet Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 Blatman: Orions Belt... look up and *slightly* to the right of the right hand star of Orions Belt. You'll see a star that occaasionally twinkles red. That's Betelgeuse ...I always thought Betelguese was up and left of Orion's belt. Quote
Matt Seabrook Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 To the guys posting jaw dropping photos, what camera's do you use to get pictures like that? Simple awesome! If you are meaning my photo in your comment it was taken on a Nikon D60 with a 50-500mm lens. HTH Quote
Bob Green Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 My interest in Astronomy is not great but when I see images like these… well if I could take an image equating to 1% of these, I would be a very happy bunny. Fabulous. Quote
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 Here's a first attempt from a year or two back; kept meaning to try and borrow a tele converter and have another go. Quote
Matt Seabrook Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 Good effort Will have another good soon to see if I can get better results. Quote
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