salyavin, since we're in the middle of the corn and soybean fields here, it's quite easy to see the night sky clearly whether one is out in the fields or even under the trees lining a neighborhood in town. I bet those telescopes are beautiful instruments...
________________________________ From: salyavin808 <fintlewoodle...@mail.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 6:31 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brian May excited by these pics!? --- 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. >
