Star Gazing
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A handy Facebook page; https://www.facebook.com/tauranga.astronomy/ - while Tauranga based it's a good group for prompts on when there will be good sightings of the ISS or starlink clusters visible across the upper North Island.
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So out a bit earlier this morning, 4:30.
Mrs Boo wanted to go for a walk too. Probably s bit early for her liking, but, well.
Few showers about so not unimpeded views.
Did make out Mars (again), but also Jupiter & Saturn (between clouds) this time.
One decent meteor left to right/North to South across our path, and a couple of glimpses of flashing stars out of the corner of my eye.
Beach here where are living is much better viewing than the beach in town. Houses and street lighting much less dense so the sky is much clearer.
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Anyone looking out for the Great Conjunction?
Just whipped out onto the roof top balcony where we are staying and it's a bit too cloudy.
And getting a little low on the horizon to see over the roofs (according to Google Sky Map).
Goodish vision of Mars though.
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@booboo said in Star Gazing:
Anyone looking out for the Great Conjunction?
Just whipped out onto the roof top balcony where we are staying and it's a bit too cloudy.
And getting a little low on the horizon to see over the roofs (according to Google Sky Map).
Goodish vision of Mars though.
Saw it pretty clearly here (Brisbane). Bit meh to be honest.
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@booboo said in Star Gazing:
Anyone looking out for the Great Conjunction?
Just whipped out onto the roof top balcony where we are staying and it's a bit too cloudy.
And getting a little low on the horizon to see over the roofs (according to Google Sky Map).
Goodish vision of Mars though.
Best view was on the TV at the T20 cricket last night. They zoomed right in and you could see the rings of Saturn, was pretty cool
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@canefan said in Star Gazing:
@booboo said in Star Gazing:
Anyone looking out for the Great Conjunction?
Just whipped out onto the roof top balcony where we are staying and it's a bit too cloudy.
And getting a little low on the horizon to see over the roofs (according to Google Sky Map).
Goodish vision of Mars though.
Best view was on the TV at the T20 cricket last night. They zoomed right in and you could see the rings of Saturn, was pretty cool
You can even see some of Jupiter's moons
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Posted by Lawrence Yang at the Aotearoa Astrophotography page, complete with Galilean moons:
Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AotearoaAstro/permalink/3524312557646916/
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@nta kids are overrated.
Just took Ms Boo Jr out to look at the start of the eclipse.
Suitably impressed: Making alarm to to come out and look at the total thingame.
Said to her (based on being the first one for 40 years) that their won't be another for 40 years.
"So you won't get to see it ..."
Bitch. Don't care how right she is ... I'd only be 92 ...
Told her that it's lucky I have a sense of humor.
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@booboo shake the phone a bit and apply a filter, could end up with a fair rendition of the Scream
I had similar luck with my attempts. Seeing some cool shots pop up online though. Man, some folks have got some lethal camera gear. Awesome stuff. Do we have any photo-ferners?
