--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > Salyavin, these photos are wonderful, thank you for posting. My favorite is > Star Icefall in the Earth & Space category. I really like that they have > categories. Thanks too for your more recent post about change in Sun's > magnetic field.
It's a universe of wonders out there, and all of it was just waiting for discovery. Weird to think that it was only a few hundred years ago that we didn't even know what stars were or how far away they are, let alone galaxies. All of a sudden our horizons stretched from a cosy dome with a couple of other planets inside to infinity and all the billions of other worlds out there. Greenwich is a good museum for the history of astronomy and has a fine selection of those old brass telescopes used by the pioneers. London is obviously hopeless as an observation poin t now because of the light pollution but it must have cool up on the hill at Greenwich in the olden days. I haven't seen a proper starry sky for years. Sigh... > > Hey, diverging onto another topic, I noticed that the photos are in a royal > museum. I wonder what would happen to such places if the monarachy were to be > abolished. Maybe we could use the empty rooms for storing their heads? > ________________________________ > From: salyavin808 <fintlewoodlewix@...> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, August 7, 2013 5:58 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brian May excited by these pics!? > > > >  > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card" <cardemaister@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card" wrote: > > > > > > > > > Doctor of astrophysics, guitarist of Queen, Brian May > > > is said to be interested in these pics by Mr. Metsävainio > > > (metsä-vainio - forest-field): > > > > > > http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/ > > > > > > > astro <http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/> > > Great stuff, it's amazing the sort of picture quality you > can get with modest equipment from your back yard these > days. > > I always make a pilgrimage to the Astrophotographer of the > year at Greenwich, the pics there are within a gnats teat of > what you used to only get from a 200" mirror on top of a > volcano in Hawaii. Hard to believe sometimes. > > http://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year/2012-winners/ > > A telescope, a digital camera and a lot of patience is all you > need. And a fair bit of knowledge about the heavens but that goes > without saying I'm sure. >
