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this is one of my faves when a mouse got a free ride into space courtesy of those honest as the day is long guys at NASA :)
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MunkyHeed said:
Watched this today. Cracking insight and beautifully directed documentary on the Apollo 17 mission. Whilst the Apollo 11 lads get many of the headlines, 17 was the most fascinating for me due to the camaraderie between the astronauts, the distance travelled in the Rover and the superior quality of the footage returned.

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Can't thank you enough for posting this, watched the whole series of them now...absolutely brilliant.
I would highly recommend the Apollo 13 episode.
 
parm said:
this is one of my faves when a mouse got a free ride into space courtesy of those honest as the day is long guys at NASA :)
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Why don't you read the reminisces of some of the 400,000 engineers and scientists who worked on the lunar module programme rather than spout such nonsense. Unless you claim that they were all part of this conspiracy, even after they were all laid off when the Apollo programme ended?

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And a child could see that the mouse footage is a fake section inserted into the original video.
 
Ember said:
Why don't you read the reminisces of some of the 400,000 engineers and scientists who worked on the lunar module programme rather than spout such nonsense. Unless you claim that they were all part of this conspiracy, even after they were all laid off when the Apollo programme ended?

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And a child could see that the mouse footage is a fake section inserted into the original video.
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what about the footage of musks tesla car in space where the greenscreen fails and you see the studio behind the car - is that fake to

why have the likes of branson promised space travel for civilians for decades now....and it never happens
 
Would it not be best to keep this as an actual space and science thread, as there are a few conspiracy theorist lunatic threads? We could start another one, but this one was intended as one for people who live in the real world/universe and want to talk about the space and science aspects of it rather than get derailed giving conspiracy theorists the attention they crave.

On that note, I had clear skies last night and there is a lovely sight to be seen over the next 6 weeks or more. If you follow the belt of Orion in a line to the right, after a bit you get to a fantastic little cluster of blue white stars called the Pleiades (nick name The Seven Sisters). It looks great even just through low power binoculars or a DSLR camera lens.

However half way between the Pleiades and Orion is a V of 5 stars. This V forms the face of Taurus the bull. The top left of the V has a lovely orange star called Aldebaran, the 14th brightest in the sky and it's orange colour is really noticeable against the blue white stars around it. It is often likened to being a mini-Mars (it is much much larger than Mars but very far away). However up to the right of it is the actual Mars. Worth a look just to see the comparison between the two and the contrast to the other objects around them.

Over the next month, Mars moves a little further away from Aldebaran but does move to be directly above the V.

It should make a good photo. For anyone interested and without specialist astronomy kit, with it being a wide area, you should be able to get a decent picture with a camera on a tripod. I'm not sure what a modern phone can do, but a DSLR with a 75-300mm zoom lens will do a decent job. Set your camera to live view, manual focus and manual control. Set on a tripod, and do your best to frame your shot. Set the aperture as open as it will go (probably f4.6 depending on your lens), a mid to low ISO, 800 or 1600 and try an exposure of 15 seconds. Set your camera into live view and digital zoom on the brightest star. Focus will probably be to turn all one way and then back very slightly. Once you are happy with the zoomed image, drop the zoom back to normal. When you take the picture you will get a bit of camera shake. Set it to have a 10 second delay, if possible tap the screen rather than the shutter button. That should leave it to settle before taking the snap. Try a few different exposure lengths. Too long and you will get star trailing due to the rotation of the earth, and stars will become little commas. If it is too washed out, try dropping the ISO but play with exposure times too.

The moon will make the sky pretty bright over the next few nights, especially if there is high humidity, but we will have a new moon in a week or two, and it will start rising later over the next 2 weeks.
 
DaveH said:
Would it not be best to keep this as an actual space and science thread, as there are a few conspiracy theorist lunatic threads? We could start another one, but this one was intended as one for people who live in the real world/universe and want to talk about the space and science aspects of it rather than get derailed giving conspiracy theorists the attention they crave.

On that note, I had clear skies last night and there is a lovely sight to be seen over the next 6 weeks or more. If you follow the belt of Orion in a line to the right, after a bit you get to a fantastic little cluster of blue white stars called the Pleiades (nick name The Seven Sisters). It looks great even just through low power binoculars or a DSLR camera lens.

However half way between the Pleiades and Orion is a V of 5 stars. This V forms the face of Taurus the bull. The top left of the V has a lovely orange star called Aldebaran, the 14th brightest in the sky and it's orange colour is really noticeable against the blue white stars around it. It is often likened to being a mini-Mars (it is much much larger than Mars but very far away). However up to the right of it is the actual Mars. Worth a look just to see the comparison between the two and the contrast to the other objects around them.

Over the next month, Mars moves a little further away from Aldebaran but does move to be directly above the V.

It should make a good photo. For anyone interested and without specialist astronomy kit, with it being a wide area, you should be able to get a decent picture with a camera on a tripod. I'm not sure what a modern phone can do, but a DSLR with a 75-300mm zoom lens will do a decent job. Set your camera to live view, manual focus and manual control. Set on a tripod, and do your best to frame your shot. Set the aperture as open as it will go (probably f4.6 depending on your lens), a mid to low ISO, 800 or 1600 and try an exposure of 15 seconds. Set your camera into live view and digital zoom on the brightest star. Focus will probably be to turn all one way and then back very slightly. Once you are happy with the zoomed image, drop the zoom back to normal. When you take the picture you will get a bit of camera shake. Set it to have a 10 second delay, if possible tap the screen rather than the shutter button. That should leave it to settle before taking the snap. Try a few different exposure lengths. Too long and you will get star trailing due to the rotation of the earth, and stars will become little commas. If it is too washed out, try dropping the ISO but play with exposure times too.

The moon will make the sky pretty bright over the next few nights, especially if there is high humidity, but we will have a new moon in a week or two, and it will start rising later over the next 2 weeks.
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Get the pictures up if you take any mate

I was out in garden for a bit last night since sky was clear. Was freezing though!
 
parm said:
what about the footage of musks tesla car in space where the greenscreen fails and you see the studio behind the car - is that fake to

why have the likes of branson promised space travel for civilians for decades now....and it never happens
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What about these covilian flights to space, was this fake as well?

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Welcome to ignore. I'm not going to waste my time in a dialogue with a village idiot.
 
DaveH said:
Would it not be best to keep this as an actual space and science thread, as there are a few conspiracy theorist lunatic threads? We could start another one, but this one was intended as one for people who live in the real world/universe and want to talk about the space and science aspects of it rather than get derailed giving conspiracy theorists the attention they crave.

On that note, I had clear skies last night and there is a lovely sight to be seen over the next 6 weeks or more. If you follow the belt of Orion in a line to the right, after a bit you get to a fantastic little cluster of blue white stars called the Pleiades (nick name The Seven Sisters). It looks great even just through low power binoculars or a DSLR camera lens.

However half way between the Pleiades and Orion is a V of 5 stars. This V forms the face of Taurus the bull. The top left of the V has a lovely orange star called Aldebaran, the 14th brightest in the sky and it's orange colour is really noticeable against the blue white stars around it. It is often likened to being a mini-Mars (it is much much larger than Mars but very far away). However up to the right of it is the actual Mars. Worth a look just to see the comparison between the two and the contrast to the other objects around them.

Over the next month, Mars moves a little further away from Aldebaran but does move to be directly above the V.

It should make a good photo. For anyone interested and without specialist astronomy kit, with it being a wide area, you should be able to get a decent picture with a camera on a tripod. I'm not sure what a modern phone can do, but a DSLR with a 75-300mm zoom lens will do a decent job. Set your camera to live view, manual focus and manual control. Set on a tripod, and do your best to frame your shot. Set the aperture as open as it will go (probably f4.6 depending on your lens), a mid to low ISO, 800 or 1600 and try an exposure of 15 seconds. Set your camera into live view and digital zoom on the brightest star. Focus will probably be to turn all one way and then back very slightly. Once you are happy with the zoomed image, drop the zoom back to normal. When you take the picture you will get a bit of camera shake. Set it to have a 10 second delay, if possible tap the screen rather than the shutter button. That should leave it to settle before taking the snap. Try a few different exposure lengths. Too long and you will get star trailing due to the rotation of the earth, and stars will become little commas. If it is too washed out, try dropping the ISO but play with exposure times too.

The moon will make the sky pretty bright over the next few nights, especially if there is high humidity, but we will have a new moon in a week or two, and it will start rising later over the next 2 weeks.
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That's a nice way to say f**k off nutters. well done you
 
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In the UK, people in the north Midlands, the east, and north east England will have the clearest conditions overnight, with people east of the Pennines having some of the best odds of seeing the shower.
 
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