Watcher of the Skies

I’d have bet a fiver you were going to finish with “Still, I’ve shagged worse”.

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I was about to cue @Penance

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Obligatory

https://stellarium.org/

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A nice bit of software for the lap top… It’s free

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Helped me learn the proper names for “The Big Saucepan” (Ursa Major) and “The Little Saucepan” (Pleiades)… Mine still make more sense…

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If you have an unobstructed view to the South, take a look outside (upstairs window) and admire a decent chunk of our solar system:

[Saturn’s relatively dim, but easy to find almost exactly halfway between Venus and Jupiter]

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Too many clouds at the moment.

Just taken with phone, you can just make them out.

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Can’t see a fucking thing for smears. Clean yer windows you mucky git.

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The window was open you yellow fool.

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Can you see Uranus?

Cue photo

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The view from Didcot, now it’s dark

We are slightly closer to them, of course.

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Darkness here now.

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You guys have WAY steadier hands than me…

Perhaps not a huge surprise…

I don’t even have a sash window, so mine was the best of a few reach out, point and shoots (neighbours’ trees stopped me from seeing Venus from ground floor level). I did have some much shakier ones though.

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some amazing engineering, we have a couple of astronomers involved. A 30 year project in the making…if it fails, it is a careers worth of work down the toilet for some scientists

Yup. You spend, literally, your life building something. And then you put it on top of, literally, a firework.

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