http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: The night sky... en Thu, 21 May 2026 07:51:55 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2377#post-25568 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:33:20 +0000 maninaskirt 25568@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just checked on the BBC site - we will get the programme. It is on just half an hour later at 23.55, same night.</p> <p>Here are the next sightings of the ISS over Edinburgh.</p> <p>SATELLITE LOCAL DURATION MAX ELEV APPROACH DEPARTURE<br /> DATE/TIME (MIN) (DEG) (DEG-DIR) (DEG-DIR) </p> <p>ISS Wed Mar 02/06:46 PM 3 34 22 above SW 15 above ESE<br /> ISS Wed Mar 02/08:21 PM &lt; 1 17 15 above WSW 17above SW<br /> ISS Thu Mar 03/07:12 PM 3 29 20 above SW 19 above SE<br /> ISS Fri Mar 04/07:38 PM 2 20 15 above WSW 17 above S<br /> ISS Sat Mar 05/06:29 PM 3 28 23 above SW 15 above SE<br /> ISS Sun Mar 06/06:55 PM 2 19 16 above SW 16 above S </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2377#post-25464 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:38:04 +0000 wee folding bike 25464@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>SUNDAY, 23:25 on BBC One (except Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales)<br /> 700 Not Out<br /> Patrick Moore celebrates the <strong>700th episode</strong> with Brian Cox, Jon Culshaw and Martin Rees.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mk7h" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mk7h</a></p> <p>I'm guessing it's just on in England but we get it sometime. I usually pick it up on iPlayer. Doesn't say if Brian May will be on it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2377#post-25447 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:17:18 +0000 kaputnik 25447@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Anyone see the northern lights? </em></p> <p>No, yet another example of south-side forum bias! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2377#post-25445 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:12:59 +0000 Arellcat 25445@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Some free software...</em></p> <p>I used to use Astrodata for the Mac, <em>"...designed to clutter the screen with information necessary for the novice or serious amateur astronomer."</em> It had a massive database of Messier objects, stars down to magnitude 8, and did all the phases and transitions of moons and planets and Saturn's rings and so on. Strangely enough, the database completely missed out any references to small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2377#post-25436 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:38:08 +0000 amir 25436@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wonderful pics Ant.</p> <p>Anyone see the northern lights? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2377#post-25432 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:25:56 +0000 SRD 25432@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>isn't the annoying brian cox due back on our screens sometime soon? (sans the others, or at least the adverts are free of them) can only hope he handles a script better than he did live tv......... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2377#post-25380 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:52:10 +0000 Cyclingmollie 25380@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>How on earth did you manage to get a photo of the ISS? It's a fairly fast moving object. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2377#post-25372 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:20:02 +0000 Its_Me_Knees 25372@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh for pity's sake. There's me just getting nicely embroiled in my latest obsession (cycling) and you lot come along and re-ignite an old one! Damn your superb images of celestial bodies, Anth At Work! Curse your free software, Wee Folding Bike...! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2377#post-25370 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:02:41 +0000 wee folding bike 25370@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some free software:</p> <p><a href="http://www.stellarium.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.stellarium.org/</a></p> <p>Remember to set you Earthly location.</p> <p><a href="http://www.shatters.net/celestia/" rel="nofollow">http://www.shatters.net/celestia/</a></p> <p>Set you home location anywhere you want, even a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2377#post-25279 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:22:40 +0000 Kirst 25279@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is Arcturus where the Arcturan mega-donkeys come from? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2377#post-25277 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:03:20 +0000 cb 25277@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice pics</p> <p>And of course Google Sky Map on Android is the bee's knees. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2377#post-25274 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:46:13 +0000 steveo 25274@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Theyre pretty cool, I did an astronomy course as a little un and we were taken up to the big telescope up blackford, very good fun for a 10 year old. I've fancied a proper telescope for years but I couldn't see any thing from my back garden. How well would one hold up to being on the back if a bike..... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2377#post-25233 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:46:49 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 25233@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Have to admit that my interest in the night sky was sparked by that recent show with Dara O'BigHeid and Prof Cox (just wish they could have done without the Woss).</p> <p>Initially got some quite nice constellation pics</p> <p>Orion<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5327976441/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5082/5327976441_d1bc859ee6.jpg"></a></p> <p>The Plough (coming out of my neighbour's chimney...)<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5331446446/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5167/5331446446_3e434f8381.jpg"></a></p> <p>Then got a telescope again (my one as a kid fell (or was it pushed?) off a bookcase - though I never saw much cos it was dead dead cheap and I was looking through the window of my bedroom.</p> <p>Started trying out the camera mount on the moon</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5434052105/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5217/5434052105_2ec3ff5f4c.jpg"></a></p> <p>Then last night thought I'd try it on some less obvious targets...</p> <p>The International Space Station<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5483772152/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5259/5483772152_3d01b4afa7.jpg"></a></p> <p>(this is passing over most nights at the moment - 19.28 tonight, from the west to the east, basically looks like a moving star)</p> <p>Saturn<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5483967478/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5218/5483967478_3f0b343931.jpg"></a></p> <p>Arcturus (brightest star in the northern hemisphere apparently)<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5483967530/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5251/5483967530_63c8ebdbf6.jpg"></a> </p>