Musk's "Starship" with all 33 Raptor engines firing...

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The "red shirts" always die when they go down to the planet.


Oh, and btw...

Blue moon? What is it and when is the next one? <----- "Hint" August 30th. :-)

5 Spectacular Impact Craters on Earth

The human eye sees just about 50mm naturally.
So... lens mm divided by 50 = magnification. I have a T41 with 18-135mm. 135mm divided by 50 = 2.7x

I have a tripod for the binocs. I don't have...

Nice pics. :-)
With my 10x42 binocs I can see at about that magnification, but I have no way to take pics. :(

I have a DSLR but it's only got an 18-135mm lens, which works out to about 2.7x

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Well, I have a cloud bank moving in, but I got to see the Red Moon for about 5 minutes. :-)

If you're out tomorrow night and have clear skies, you should be able to see Jupiter and Neptune due...

About 13 minutes to totality... REDness. :-)
It's gonna stay RED till about 6:40am EST

In one hour it should turn RED. :-)

Anak I figured I'd see you about this time. :-)

Here's an animation showing the Lunar eclipse and the Blood Moon (full), due to happen very soon (an hour or so).
You may have to toggle the "LIVE" word at the bottom left to get it to "play".
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Anak

I always had a warm spot for Newtonian Reflectors. Never actually bought one, or any telescope. All my money went to camera and darkroom equipment.:-)

And I already have a tripod and...

It's that time again....


Now I have to check the sky... to see if I can see Jupiter and it's moons, again.
I got clear skies... now I just need to wait for it to come over the hills.

Any1...

Ooh... six inch reflector. I'm jealous. It would have been fun to have one of those last night.

Would be really nice to have one of these... then I could see the Jupiterians (Jovians ?),...

Last time Jupiter was this close... I was 6 yrs. old (Oct. 1963).

I saw Jupiter !!


3:20am NY time... I just saw Jupiter and some of it's moons... with binoculars, no less.

Normally Jupiter is about 600 million miles from Earth. But for 2-3 days on either...

SpaceX moves a massive rocket with 33 engines to its launch pad for tests | Ars Technica

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Fill the bulkheads with water. Incredible protection. ^^

Elon Musk provides an update on Starship: “It’s been mindbogglingly difficult” | Ars Technica

The most important computer you’ve never heard of | Ars Technica



250 ton CPU, anyone... ?



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I'm all for science and discovery. I just think we should be doing things like going to the moon, or Mars. at this time.
We can play pool with asteroids at some other time.
Maybe it would be...

Water is 8.2 lbs/gallon. It makes a great impacter. It's the cheapest is $$/lb.
We already have rockets that will go that far.
This "DART" is just another example of a waste of tax payer money.

Sort of like deflecting a semi by throwing a Volkswagen at it. Aka, stupid and a waste of money. :-)


I think it would be far easier, less expensive and much more effective to just use an...

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For those true of heart, Pluto is still a planet. This solar system has... NINE planets.
Anything else you may have heard is hogwash. :-)

Sept. 20th 2021... full Harvest Moon.

Around 8pm to the southeast. Check the time for your city, here...
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