Space and stuff

[rascal]

Any astronomy junkies?

[video=youtube;OKnpPCQyUec]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKnpPCQyUec[/video]

 

[Furey1878]

I'm currently studying Physics and Astronomy in Liverpool Uni, as it goes.

But yeeah... space 'n' stuff.

[video=youtube;HEheh1BH34Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q[/video]

 

[evilwebby]

Yeah, used to be when I was a kid. Had my own telescope, starcharts, and everything. Not so much when I grew up - the night sky in this country is generally crap, doubly so in a city, and my eyesight isn't the best anyway. Its incomparable when you get a chance to go up a mountain range in another country and can actually clearly see the milky way band and literally many times the number of stars that you normally are able to with the naked eye.

 

[rascal]

Yeah, light pollution is a nuisance. Thankfully I live in the countryside overlooking a huge field. So my only worry is worrying about the boogeyman.

Those size comparison videos always give me tingles. Love it I do.

 

[Azzurri]

Find it funny that Brian Cox tells us a star is 822726622x bigger than the Sun and we all just go 'yeah sound'. Could be the size of Huyton and a few thousand miles instead of a billion light years away for all we know. The uneducated, I mean. The experts could literally tell us anything and we'd believe it because there's no way of knowing they're talking bollocks.

 

[The Equaliser]

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Astronomy Dominé

That's about it

 

[Garrick]

[video=youtube;xeKMS62GrTI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeKMS62GrTI[/video]

 

[The-Golden-Vision]

I'm currently studying Physics and Astronomy in Liverpool Uni, as it goes.

But yeeah... space 'n' stuff.

[video=youtube;HEheh1BH34Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q[/video]

You want big? Google the Local galactic group and then superclusters, mind blowing.

 

[ijjysmith]

Oh god - more stuff to baffle mrs ijjy with later.

Thanks chaps.

 

[bluelife]

I'm currently studying Physics and Astronomy in Liverpool Uni, as it goes.

But yeeah... space 'n' stuff.

Class that mate, I desperately wanted to do Astrophysics at Liverpool actually but I've left it too late and I'm getting a bit tired of Physics because the course I'm doing is the worst side of physics imaginable. Looks like I'm going to Liverpool or Sheffield for Chemistry.

What's it like?

 

[Pat's Van]

there's a good space station thread on here from a while ago, think it might be a bit old for a bump now though

 

[markmarkmark]

I'm into me space 'n stuff

 

[evilwebby]

Yeah, light pollution is a nuisance. Thankfully I live in the countryside overlooking a huge field. So my only worry is worrying about the boogeyman.

Those size comparison videos always give me tingles. Love it I do.

Not just light pollution, but general atmospheric particle pollution is really bad and blocks a lot of light. Then there's also the problems with the good old British weather - warm, clear nights where sitting outside do not come around all that often!

 

[Furey1878]

Class that mate, I desperately wanted to do Astrophysics at Liverpool actually but I've left it too late and I'm getting a bit tired of Physics because the course I'm doing is the worst side of physics imaginable. Looks like I'm going to Liverpool or Sheffield for Chemistry.

What's it like?

It's been great so far, but you have to wait until like mid way through 2nd year to really get going on the actual Astro part of the course. It's basically a standard physics course till then, but if you're interested in Physics then it's all good.

 

[roydo]

I have followed the Voyager missions, not literally, and love it. How they made one take a photo of the Solar System, with a little blue spot being earth, and how in the mid 60s they worked out when it would pass over the North Pole of Uranus using graph paper and slide rules. Like decades later. They were 8 seconds out.

Amazing when you think about it. And they are still going, and one has left the Solar System, and they can still talk to it.