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01-08-2011, 11:14 AM
|  | Wild Member | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: North Wiltshire
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| | | Thank you Nyticam.
I was just going to ask if anything 'spectaclier' [sic] was to be seen in the night sky as my Grandsprog is coming for a sleepover. Any planets nice and clear, with a compass heading and angle up please.  Cheers, Tony |
01-08-2011, 02:03 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: n.e.somerset
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| | | Re: Thank you Nyticam.
Try skymaps download of the evening sky map. It has a sky calendar for August.
Very informational.One page has the map.The other page tells you what is visible with the naked eye,easily seen with binoculars and telescopic objects. Not that I am Nytecam but it is worth the mention..aDm..
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01-08-2011, 02:26 PM
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| | | Re: Thank you Nyticam.
All suggestions gratefully received.  Cheers, Tony. |
01-08-2011, 05:49 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: north Surrey/SW London
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| | | Re: Thank you Nyticam.
This week the moon is currently out-of-the-way so won't spoil the view  Planets Uranus and Neptune rise in east late evening but are faint and need charts to find. Brilliant Jupiter [+ 4 moon seen in bins] rises about midnight.
Above Jupiter in the east is the Andromeda Galaxy M31 - a faint fuzzy patch of light in bins and with luck the furthest objects visible to unaided eye under dark skies - its light take two million years to reach us 
If really dark skies then Milky Way [the galaxy we live in] can be seen as cloud-of-light arching overhead across the sky from NE to SW horizons.
- the starclouds in Sagittarius in south is the centre of our Milky Way galaxy.
Enjoy the view and good luck - a planetarium program will display many things to view. |
02-08-2011, 01:43 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: n.e.somerset
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| | | Re: Thank you Nyticam.
BBC 1 at 00.10 August 7 The Sky At Night will be about Dawn At Vesta the unusual asteroid Vesta.Also tells us what you can see in August.Though only on for 20mins.....
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