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the sky at night is on just after midnight
Silverlight or not take a look at the content, it's a country mile beyond pretty much any other public resource. The narrated tours are particularly good for anyone picking up Astronomy from frsh.Urgh, Silverlight. I will however use this as an excuse to promote the other thread i made this morning[/url]
Is that how you can see Saturn? With its donut and everything?
I think this is going to inspire me to give this a crack, ive always fancied it.
Depends how much
Don't forget newbies, you will not see colour in galaxies, nedbula etc. The human eye is just not sensitive enough! I would recommend anyone wanting to try this, finds a local starparty and pops over on one of the open nights. Oh, and you will need deep pockets!
edit: Why on earth was my post deleted? Pretty sure it just had my equipment in there?
I can see a really bright planet just over the horizon at the moment, I think in a NW direction just as it starts getting dark. It's red so at first I thought it was mars but I had a look and I think it must be Saturn.
I like www.astroviewer.com to see what planets are about.
When I was camping last year I could actually see the moons around jupiter with just a pair of binoculars - I think we could see 3 of them. Also around 22:30 every night a really bright satellite would shoot overhead which I thought had to be ISS due to its brightness. Checked on one of the tracker websites and sure enough it was. Amazing to see, especially when you're expecting it and keeping an eye out. It's gone soon enough mind!