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There's space stuff dotted around the board so this is to put it all in one place.

I'll start you on this:

This is PDS 70 - 370 Light years from:

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The light in the centre is a new star forming which is surrounded by Circumstellar Disk, the Raw material.

The light on the right is a new planet forming - the size of Jupiter. This fledgling planet has it's own circumplanetary disk of raw material and is forming in the same way...

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8-)
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https://gostargazing.co.uk/location-map/

We use this, I’m trying to get my youngest to u Der stand how bloody ruddy big the universe is so will try again tonight.

We went last Sunday when the moonlight was low but sadly it was cloudy over here.

As I work in a lot of remote places then just laying back and looking up is one of my favourite things. Will only take Binoculars but it all helps.

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You've been dying to show us your massive hot ring, haven't you, Dinny? :)

(it is neat, though)
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My mates Campsite is the best location for Star Gazing. The site itself has almost no light (It's very "Bring your own torch" European).

On one side, you've for a lake which is 3 or 4 miles across (and on the other side, it's just a hillside with the odd house dotted here or there) so completely dark

And on the other side, is a mile of forest, then a mile of empty land before you get to a road (which only has the very occasional car)

So there's almost no light at all so when the night is clear, you get to see the perfect view of the arc of the milky way.

he also has White Tailed Sea Eagles there - it's a pretty special place really
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Very clear night here and a planetary alignment

Get out there folks
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Very clear view of Venus, Mars, Mercury and Saturn tonight.

Very cool
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Venus was incredibly bright tonight with crystal clear skies and a very slim moon just after sunset
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Yeah I think the fact the moon was so small - just he sliver - meant the others were more visible
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I've got something which recently surprised me, you know when the sun/moon is close to the horizon it looks massive... I always thought it's due to more atmosphere being between the observer and the sun/moon which was somehow amplifying the size, perhaps diffraction at play similar to how objects in water appear closer than they really are. Well it's all an optical illusion which doesn't seem to be fully explained yet.
But I still can't wrap my tiny mind around it. When you see the moon close to the horizon, the craters and differently shaded regions on it look much more clear which makes the illusion make no sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion
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I've noticed that Venus was visible throughout daylight since December, although forgot to look out for it during the day with the bad weather recently.
Edit - actually it was visible during midday last weekend. I tried to take a picture of it between one of the goats horns but the camera wasn't quite good enough.
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I'm not sure if this should be here, the weather thread, or the telescope thread;

tonight/tomorrow's full moon - Strawberry Moon - is the lowest we'll have until 2043 https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news ... 025-lowest
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JLv3.0 wrote: Thu Jun 21, 2018 4:26 pm I say this rarely Dave, but listen to Dinny because he's right.
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Astrophotography Photographer of the year - Skyscapes, winner: The Ridge by Tom Rae

This is the largest panorama that Tom Rae, of New Zealand, has ever captured, with the full resolution image containing over a billion pixels from 62 images stitched together. The photograph captures the twin glacial rivers with the Milky Way core off to the left of the image, as well as the Southern Cross and other pointers high in the centre sky

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I think that's hereish if anyone wants a look around:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/23NTFWjPcxgJbSV86
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Thanks, I'll go for a wander.
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