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Title: What's your favourite constellation ?
Post by: neilep on 27/03/2006 02:41:39
Dearest TNS Colleagues,



Stars are great aren't they ?...balls of sparkly joy and diamond shimmering goodness !!

What's your favourite constellation ?

Mine is the Big Dipper or as we call it over here in the UK The Plough. I love it because it's big and looks like one, and it's easy to find !

...and yours ?

Men are the same as women, just inside out !
Title: Re: What's your favourite constellation ?
Post by: ariel on 27/03/2006 02:53:34
Mine would have to be the fictitious "Galileo's Sword"
haha

(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi11.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fa196%2Fbariel%2Ffsm.jpg&hash=27b1c6663feeeee1f95650d42cca0927) ariel
Title: Re: What's your favourite constellation ?
Post by: ukmicky on 27/03/2006 03:41:14
orion ,southern cross

Michael
Title: Re: What's your favourite constellation ?
Post by: JimBob on 27/03/2006 15:11:11
Oirion it's got to be. Besides, his sword has two M objects - M42 & M43.

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
      --Ted Turner
Title: Re: What's your favourite constellation ?
Post by: ROBERT on 27/03/2006 15:39:56
Here is a "star trail" image of Orion I took last year:-

(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi24.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fc23%2FSUEDONIM%2FORIONTRAILS.gif&hash=8ebc5cb20456bd52c83e424b7abefa41)

The phrase "star trail" is not completely correct: the red trail is the M42 nebula.

AstroPhoto Tip: you can increase the thickness of your "star trails" be de-focussing your lens,
 i.e. focussing short of the infinity mark.
 This will turn pinpoint stars into defocussed discs which are larger and produce thicker trails.
Title: Re: What's your favourite constellation ?
Post by: ROBERT on 27/03/2006 18:08:53
Here is a more complex method of defocussing Orion:-
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/AAO/images/captions/misc011.html
Title: Re: What's your favourite constellation ?
Post by: sharkeyandgeorge on 27/03/2006 19:39:26
draco i love the name


J.B.S Haldane on the perforated eardrums which were a consequence of his pressure experiments "the drum generally heals up; and if a hole remains in it, although one is somewhat deaf, one can blow tobacco smoke out of  the ear in question, which is a social accomplishment".
Title: Re: What's your favourite constellation ?
Post by: neilep on 27/03/2006 20:18:25
Not to be outdone by that amateur Robert...here's a piccy of The Plough that I took.........

.................................from another website and blatantly copied it here.

(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv280%2Fwithdrawnmist%2Fplough.jpg&hash=79620f536580fcfc339de1dc905288cf)

Men are the same as women, just inside out !
Title: Re: What's your favourite constellation ?
Post by: ukmicky on 28/03/2006 00:23:42
Neil i love the picture ,these new mobile phone cameras are definitely improving.[:)]

Michael
Title: Re: What's your favourite constellation ?
Post by: neilep on 28/03/2006 01:55:49
quote:
Originally posted by ukmicky

Neil i love the picture ,these new mobile phone cameras are definitely improving.[:)]

Michael


LOL [:D]


...and it took me ages to hook those stars up so that they'd shine brighter too...almost a whole evening ! [;)]

Men are the same as women, just inside out !
Title: Re: What's your favourite constellation ?
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 30/03/2006 01:30:40
I'll add my vote to the Orion camp (not that I'm inferring that Orion acts effeminate).

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