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Seems to be working. Looks like thin cloud presently.
There are a couple of small dust patches – as you said – but nothing thats going to detract from a good chunk of the Sun being obscured…
It was fun to watch and some of those observing from the ground did quite well too…
https://twitter.com/fallingstarIfA/status/1574583529731670021?s=20&t=bSNlZJgGJmZCFPEEcFqEvA
3 tonnes of TNT appears to have made a pretty impressive cloud of debris.
Yep. Dangerous talk as it disagreed with Aristotle AND Scripture!
Galileo got house arrest for more than a decade and banned from publishing…
At -27 theres not much hope from home for me then as my dome blocks everything below -10 and a nearby hill blocks everything below -15.
Damn.
After seeing the pictures from Giovanni, I dug out an old picture….
https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20220818_202738_4a8c0021466584a7
Ah, excellent. I looked and they appear to have a place holder object name in place, so it looks hopeful.
It could be a lot of fun. It looks like it will be taking a while to get there.
Lovely images. The Belt of Venus is rather beautiful.
I only see it occasionally in the UK. Does it require particularly transparent skies to appear?
On 25minutes worth of frames I am seeing something very dim and (on my frame) at the 7 o’clock position from the 15.7 mag star, but that seems slightly out of position compared to the AAVSO chart. Is that it?
Gary,
I’m on target now and not seeing it – unless its very, very close to the 15.7 star and the two appear merged.
Could it have faded already?
Grant
EDIT: Image attached. Pixel=1.54″ so field ~25arc min wide.
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Hi Andy,
Yes, I can imagine everyone would think “Wow! Thats a great opportunity.”, but surely before engaging programmers there must have been some vague plan for how that time would be used?
Not meaning to be awkward, but I’m curious as to what the Council thinking was. 🙂 There is obviously quite a range of possibilities.
Grant
Hi Callum,
Oh yes, now you mention it I think I recall seeing that once before. So, that would be used in some way for scheduling one imagines, but scheduling what?
Is the BAA thinking of buying telescope time from a commercial site, buying footprint at a managed facility and setting up their own scope or buying a BAA defined system to be run at the site in question. What sort of operating model are they thinking of?
Similarly, is this intended purely as a recruitment carrot to dangle or would it (if a BAA system) also be available for the sections so its output every year did not consist of entirely of another 2000 narrowband images of M42, M31 and M45.
Grant
Thanks to all for their hard work.
I imagine someone else has said it, but I would prefer the Forum and Tutorial sections swapped places on the front page.
The Forum I look at everyday, the Tutorials once in a blue moon.
Is Tutorials at the top to help attract new members?
A hugely skilled astronomer, a discoverer of supernovae, a telescope maker and an innovator.
A nice man who was generous with his time, fun to be with and happy to help others out.
More importantly than all that, Pat’s husband.
I’m glad I was lucky enough to know him.
Silly and unimportant comments….
Is it possible to force carriage returns in the Observer Profile? Do I need to put in the appropriate html?
Also, on the discussions, is it possible to have a link to the last post or most recent unread post or is that not possible within the new framework?
Like the dark mode….
