The Hawk
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That looks like Venus (in blue jeans).
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That looks like Venus (in blue jeans).
Well, the chances of anything coming from Mars may be a million to one against, but I've got a piece of Mars (NWA6963).Mars is easy to see in the evening. Reddish colour in the south/southeast. However if you see a large tripod type thing in the distance ... f**king run for it is my advice.
I have the cd in the car. Brilliant if you're driving home in the dark, in the middle of a thunder storm............Mars is easy to see in the evening. Reddish colour in the south/southeast. However if you see a large tripod type thing in the distance ... f**king run for it is my advice.
The International Space Station almost collided with the Moon last night, it was a close run thing. Of course, they may have missed each other by a quarter of a million miles, but it sure looked close.Saturn, Jupiter and the Moon putting on a show this evening if you get a clear sky .....
https://www.spaceweather.com/images2020/01aug20/skymap_01aug20.png
We are now into Solar Cycle 25 and it's interesting how Solar Activity has been reducing in magnitude over the last few cycles. Solar cycles peak (maximum sunspot numbers) roughly every eleven years although the actual cycle is 22 years as the magnetic polarity of the spots reverses .. (think of it a bit like a Sine wave.)
There's been much speculation about possible causes and effects and references to an event a few centuries ago called the Maunder Minimum wherein the cycle seemed to collapse for about 75 years. I've been watching this graph for some years now.
We're all pretty much at the mercy of our parent star. If you must have a God, I'd say old Sol is a number one contender for the job. (Not that praying to it is likely to do much good.)
http://www.solen.info/solar/images/comparison_similar_cycles.png
https://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=20&month=08&year=2020
We are now into Solar Cycle 25 and it's interesting how Solar Activity has been reducing in magnitude over the last few cycles. Solar cycles peak (maximum sunspot numbers) roughly every eleven years although the actual cycle is 22 years as the magnetic polarity of the spots reverses .. (think of it a bit like a Sine wave.)
There's been much speculation about possible causes and effects and references to an event a few centuries ago called the Maunder Minimum wherein the cycle seemed to collapse for about 75 years. I've been watching this graph for some years now.
We're all pretty much at the mercy of our parent star. If you must have a God, I'd say old Sol is a number one contender for the job. (Not that praying to it is likely to do much good.)
http://www.solen.info/solar/images/comparison_similar_cycles.png
https://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=20&month=08&year=2020
And Frank Drake was one of her students.Reminds me of Cecilia Payne in more recent times. She was a remarkable astronomer and astrophysicist who because of her gender had some considerable difficulty in getting her education both here and in the states.
She figured out pretty much what the Sun was mostly made of (hydrogen, her ideas then suggested most of the Universe was this at the time) but her conclusions were again suppressed to the point where she was more or less strong-armed into suggesting in her Doctorate that her results were 'spurious.' She was of course right.
Not only unsung, but her work was subsequently plagiarised.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin
Major Astronomical announcement, due at 16:00 today, and I mean ASTRONOMICAL!!!That looks like Venus (in blue jeans).