Re: That time of the year


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Unfortunately Im not one for the heat. Its the Goth thing, you
know.
byron bay, would be just about right then.
i'm not one for long periods of either really and usually start
whingeing late august and march. a year is too long, it should be
about nine months. winter's too long and so's summer. venus has the
right idea, a tad warm though.
too hot, too cold. No in between really.
perhaps we can rent you a place on Mars.

I meant to get back to this post but forgot. After reading up on Venus,
I found out that it's a constant 480 Degrees Celsius all year round. Oh
and one day on Venus is longer than its year. It also spins in the
other direction and has no seasons because its axis isn't tilted. It's
suggested that something smashed into it billions of years ago and
wrecked it. It also appears to be a dead planet and has a very thick
toxic cloud of sulphur and its atmosphere is so dense the effect of it
would be like being a kilometre under water.

Now, I didn't know that stuff when I was a kid. Perhaps it hadn't been
figured out back then.
I always thought that there was temp variation due to an elliptical
orbit? Will have to read some more about Venus. Bugger me your right!

"Venus orbits the Sun at an average distance of about 108 million km,
and completes an orbit every 224.65 days. Although all planetary orbits
are elliptical, Venus is the closest to circular, with an eccentricity
of less than 1%."

"Thermal inertia and the transfer of heat by winds in the lower
atmosphere mean that the temperature of Venus' surface does not vary
significantly between the night and day sides, despite the planet's
extremely slow rotation."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus

Venus has been a bit brighter than usual over the last month or two.
Well either that or I have just noticed it more. Beautiful to watch, in
good weather I oft sit outside on the kids trampoline looking up with my
Binocs.

Can you see whether it is crescent or not through them? I have a
telescope but haven't set it up for ages. Given it's current apparent
luminosity you should be able to spot it even at midday (a faint star but
you can see it sometimes). Mid summer is the best for that, when the
daytime sky is the darkest blue. HWhen it is rising before the sun
sometimes it casts shadows. I remember watching it through my bedroom
window, no moon and you could see it's light on the wall coming through
the window.

An amazing planet.

Very true. I'll have a look tonight, weather permitting, for the crescent.
My daughter got upset on Saturday night, she wanted to wish upon the first
star, it was Venus. She got the next one tho;-) I have 10x50's (Wife
bought me for stargazing) they are certainly better than a lot of cheap
nasty scopes I've seen.


Space is a wonderful thing, nothing like a good look up to make you
forget your worries.

Jupiters is interesting, you can see it's four brightest moons, they
change position daily. Saturn's rings are the best to see.

I don't get out nearly enough these days, all the close "Wandering
Stars;-)" are cool. Did you catch Mars when it got close? When was that
last year? It stuck out like digs balls.
e
Canine's tesicles described it perfectly - like a dog with red itch! you
could see the polar cap. I have a sywatcher small refractor telescope.
Setting it up is a pain, as it involves aligning it with the Earth with a
compass and getting the motor synchronsied to compensate for rotation. When
I bouhgt it I ha the intentionof taking photos with an SLR camera which you
can screw on to it, but been too slack.




I plan to go hunting with friends up at Omeo soon, some awesome stargazing
up there (god I miss the country). One of the guys has a huge computer
controlled scope, amazing stuff. All Saturn's rings are easily > visible.
To see *all* of saturn's rings would be awesome, I guess something that
could pick that up would also pick up Mars's moons and also one or two of
Saturn's. On mine the Andromeda galaxy is good to look at. To the naked eye
it appears a amessy star but through a telescope it shows it truly as having
an eliptical shape. They estimate in 3 billion years Andromeda and the milky
way will collide.

My ma's family come from near Parkes NSW. On the Dubbo road there's a new
optical observatory as well. next time I'm up that way I should check out
the observatory. It's a good part of the world to watch the sky from,
moonless nights are virtually ink black. The Southern sky is the best for
seeing the sky, we get a direct look onto the centre of the milky way, pity
about the drak matter between us and the centre.

Mark


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  • Sky & Telescopes News Bulletin -- Jun 11
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  • Sky & Telescopes News Bulletin -- Jun 11
    ... Welcome to S&T's Weekly News Bulletin. ... VENUS HAS ITS DAY IN THE SUN ... beginning of the transit with a SKY & TELESCOPE/TravelQuest International tour. ... But other astronomers say it's much ...
    (sci.astro)
  • Re: That time of the year
    ... After reading up on Venus, I found out that it's a constant 480 Degrees Celsius all year round. ... Given it's current apparent luminosity you should be able to spot it even at midday (a faint star but you can see it sometimes). ... They estimate in 3 billion years Andromeda and the milky way will collide. ... It's a good part of the world to watch the sky from, moonless nights are virtually ink black. ...
    (alt.guitar)
  • Re: That time of the year
    ... Venus, I found out that it's a constant 480 Degrees Celsius all year ... and completes an orbit every 224.65 days. ... On mine the Andromeda galaxy is good to look at. ... It's a good part of the world to watch the sky from, ...
    (alt.guitar)
  • Re: That time of the year
    ... After reading up on Venus, I found out that it's a constant 480 Degrees Celsius all year round. ... "Venus orbits the Sun at an average distance of about 108 million km, and completes an orbit every 224.65 days. ... They estimate in 3 billion years Andromeda and the milky way will collide. ... It's a good part of the world to watch the sky from, moonless nights are virtually ink black. ...
    (alt.guitar)
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