any stargazers out there...? a co-worker of mine is heavy into astronomy. he has compiled a really cool video of stills and video shots he has taken. you can see the surface of the Sun, Moon and other planets. it's a really cool video (at least i thought so). i told my buddy his hit count would spike over the next few days, please share with your friends...
ENJOY...
http://vimeo.com/18373239

Yeah, I'm just geeky enough to like that. My favorite part was seeing the moons of Jupiter and the Saturn rings.

yeah, i particularly like the surface of the sun and the solar flares. those things are probably a mile high (i'm guessing)...:cool2:

No Marc, thousands of miles!

That was some pretty cool stuff! Amazing to see how many meteor strikes the moon has received.

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Originally posted by WELDNGOD No Marc, thousands of miles!

daaaaammmmnnnn.......

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Originally posted by Todd That was some pretty cool stuff! Amazing to see how many meteor strikes the moon has received.

The Earth would look similar,but we have an atmospere which causes weather and erosion.

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Originally posted by WELDNGOD Quote: Originally posted by Todd That was some pretty cool stuff! Amazing to see how many meteor strikes the moon has received. The Earth would look similar,but we have an atmospere which causes weather and erosion.

well go ahead Donnie, continue to enlighten us... well me anyway...:singing:

Waddaya wanna know. I was in the Astronomy club in school, we would go out in the desert at night and look into ...... the sky!... yeah that's it.. the sky ,and learn alot about uh... oh yeah ..the sky!

did you know a celestron telescope can watch someones TV from2-3 miles away?

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Originally posted by WELDNGOD No Marc, thousands of miles!

Yeah, its deceiving because the diameter of the sun is like 864000 miles, and the earth is less than 8000 miles.

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Originally posted by WELDNGOD Quote: Originally posted by Todd That was some pretty cool stuff! Amazing to see how many meteor strikes the moon has received. The Earth would look similar,but we have an atmospere which causes weather and erosion.

I thought about that and many of the items which go POOF on the moon, probably burn up in our atmosphere. Then most of the ones that make it through get covered up like Donnie said.

And look at all that Cheese, Grommet !

daily naked eye gazer, gotta keep up with the neighbors .

lets you know where you are!

i watch for meteors , EVERY night.

get the "Star Walk" i-phone or i-pad app.

This keeps a ton of information at your fingertips.

while were on the subject--a light year is defined as the distance that light travels in 1 year--at 186,200 miles per second, a light year is one LOOOOOONG distance--and even the closest stars like alpha centauri 4.3 light years away are in reality quite a distance....... contrast that to the andromeda galaxy, which , if i remember, is about 1 million light years away.......mind blowing.........then there are giant dwarfs and black holes, exploding stars and nebulae.........

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Originally posted by kiteetik-and even the closest stars like alpha centauri 4.3 light years away

Sorry Kiteetik, the closest star is 8.5 minutes away at the speed of light. We call it the SUN!;-)

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Originally posted by labrat get the "Star Walk" i-phone or i-pad app. This keeps a ton of information at your fingertips.

Brilliant! Downloaded and installed. Thanks for that tip! Just gotta remember to bring a towel.

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Originally posted by WELDNGOD Quote: Originally posted by kiteetik-and even the closest stars like alpha centauri 4.3 light years away Sorry Kiteetik, the closest star is 8.5 minutes away at the speed of light. We call it the SUN!;-)

yes, i forgot the sun ! 93 million miles away.......

Man that was a crazy video always wondered what the sun looked like up close. I got a tasco telescope like this one as a safety award at work. I brought it to my parents house cause it would creep the neighbour out with it hanging out my window. I never used it since. Funny thing though is that all that I could get for images were just blurry white dots and an even blurrier bright dot when I looked at the moon.

http://www.tasco.com/products/index.cfm?ClassID=17&Famil...

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Originally posted by WELDNGOD did you know a celestron telescope can watch someones TV from2-3 miles away?

2-3miles...were you guys really looking at the sky when you went out to the desert?????J.K.

I'm obsessed with this stuff. Always have been. Ever since I was but a wee lad. It's utterly fascinating. I go out of my way to learn about new discoveries, and understand the theories of everything that physicists are working day and night to figure out. You can lambaste mankind all you want, be we are an advanced and fascinating species, whose capabilities of thought and problem solving have barely even been tapped into in todays world. I know that there are people far more intelligent than I will ever be, and they are on the brink of discovering huge heaps of answers about our very existence and the universe we live in. I certainly hope I'm still alive to see it all unravel. Theoretical physics, Hawking radiation, dark matter, gravitons, multiverse theory, 11th dimension... bring it on. I eat it up.

Thanks for the video Marc

Anyone ever stare at the sky on a DARK clear night and see all the space junk (old satalites) floating around? Alot of bus size trash right over our heads.

So our solar system is 4.6 billion years old. In about another 5 billion, the fuel of the sun will be depleted and turn into a red dwarf and will expand to about where earth is now. Hope no one is around for that show.

The Earth would be much more vulnerable to meteor strikes without Jupiter. Jupiter’s gravity protects us. Jupiter’s gravity slings most meteors out of the solar system before they can get close to Earth. Comets are thought to strike Earth only about every 30 million years. Without Jupiter nearby, comets would collide with Earth up to 1000 times more frequently.

Anyone watch "Into the Universe with Steven Hawking" on Discovery TV? Amazing stuff!

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then there are giant dwarfs

Say What?? Giant Dwarfs???..........I guess, compared to Gimlee, son of Gloin......

Made a pair of binoculars once....

we are primitive and crafty.

that was the last "off world" report of good ole earth and surface activity.

supreme ? maybe , we did craft the illusion of time! quickly followed by religion and money though!

but wasteful OH yes. we got it mastered.

recycle that plastic bottle! hey but throw that guy in jail! that ain't so smart.

found another iphone app that is good. Simply called "planets".