Starship Asterisk*

this is great (watch 1st 1.5 - 2 minutes) Truly humbling....We are very very very very insignificant.....but I've always known that somewhere, somehow WE have our place in all of it! Each of us is so very important in the great scheme of things. I definitely get the feeling that all the lumps of ro...

Having spent some time thinking about the zip....flash....thing I've also come to the conclusion that it was one of the Orionids. I've watched a few meteor showers in my time though and this is the first time I've known one to leave a smoke trail!
facinating all the same!

We ALL know that the best option we've got as a fuel source is known as 'Bad news'.
You see 'Bad News' travels really really fast and there's plenty of it around so we don't have t.........................yes you're right....I'll get me coat!

As Douglas Adams said 'Space is big'. I for one am glad about that fact. :roll: .. but is it infinite ? :o Nope...I think somebody got there before us and they're decorating as they go. So as we move into the freshly decorated and sparkly parts we think it's all natural and new. I Wonder what size ...

As Douglas Adams said 'Space is big'. I for one am glad about that fact.

Do you have a link to the movie file (cam site)? If I had to hazard an unviewed guess, The Orinid meteor shower will be peaking soon, so it might have been a marble sized chunk of Halleys Cometary Debris. BMAONE23, Hello to you. If you go to the top of this page and select 'Night Sky live home' the...

Morning all, DTG here in the UK is 190644AOCT07. Why am I up sooooooo early.....a course I was due to conduct today has been cancelled and I'm at a loose end until 1000. Annnnyyyyway! The MMTO Sky camera all night recording on the 17th Oct this year (even though the date says 18th Oct on the vid) sh...

Thankyou for the welcome people! Overcast here in Hereford this morning and a tiny bt of rain. Doom and gloom......I am definitely not an autumn or Winter person. It seem we've had permanent Springggggggggg then Autumn this year....Summer never turned up! Question for you all. The space craft DAWN. ...

New to here but not to astronomy. I have been pursuing this interest since I was knee high to a grasshopper. My first dabbling was with a schoolfriend when we would plot satelites passing over the estate during the late sixties. No street lighting then....heaven! Not like now....everything washed ou...