Talk about anything but keep it polite and reasonably clean.
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by Glenn E. » 18:31 Wed 05 Feb 2014
Glenn E. wrote: Perhaps you just needed more Port before your performance?
DRT wrote: I didn't have any Port
Q.E.D.
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by jdaw1 » 18:42 Wed 05 Feb 2014
Charles Dodgson wrote: ‘Take some more tea,’ the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
‘I’ve had nothing yet,’ Alice replied in an offended tone, ‘so I can't take more.’
‘You mean you can’t take LESS,’ said the Hatter: ‘it’s very easy to take MORE than nothing.’
‘Nobody asked YOUR opinion,’ said Alice.
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by PhilW » 08:30 Thu 06 Feb 2014
DRT wrote: I didn't have any Port
Not the most believable tale.
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by DRT » 23:46 Fri 07 Feb 2014
Taken this evening at 311x magnification in fading daylight!
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The left side of the picture is in shadow (Moon night). The two bright white features about half way up in the shadow are sunlight striking the tops of hills/mountains high enough to clear the horizon.
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by DRT » 23:11 Sun 09 Feb 2014
I finally figured out how to use my astro-webcam
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by PhilW » 00:38 Mon 10 Feb 2014
DRT wrote: Jupiter - 9 Feb 2014.jpg
deja vu
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by djewesbury » 12:00 Tue 29 Apr 2014
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by mpij » 06:07 Fri 23 May 2014
New meteor shower the Camelopardalids predicted for tonight.
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by Alex Bridgeman » 20:37 Fri 23 May 2014
mpij wrote: New meteor shower the Camelopardalids predicted for tonight.
What time and whereabout in the sky?
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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by DRT » 20:50 Fri 23 May 2014
Camelopardalids is a constellation close to Polaris (the north star) so if you face north and look high in the sky you will be in the right area.
The problem is that you need to be standing in the USA when you look up. It will be daylight here in the UK before the earth passes through the debris that will cause the meteor shower. If there are some rocks the size of the one that crossed the sky and exploded over Russia a couple of years ago you might see it in Wokingham
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by jdaw1 » 20:57 Fri 23 May 2014
Yikes! Is it really true that a sufficiently large asteroid strike can shake the cellar so vigorously that the sediment might be disturbed? Is it really? How horrific. Is that why the dinosaurs all died of heart attacks? Nurse — the smelling salts!
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by DRT » 21:39 Fri 23 May 2014
jdaw1 wrote: Yikes! Is it really true that a sufficiently large asteroid strike can shake the cellar so vigorously that the sediment might be disturbed? Is it really? How horrific. Is that why the dinosaurs all died of heart attacks? Nurse — the smelling salts!
Yes it's true. The dinosaurs died of TCA (Tyrannosaurus Cardiac Arrest) brought on by rapid consumption of their Port cellars.
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by DRT » 23:04 Sun 13 Jul 2014
An unusually large near-full Moon a few minutes after Germany won the 2014 World Cup...
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by DRT » 03:38 Sat 26 Jul 2014
Gentlemen, I introduce you to Uranus…
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No sniggering, Jewesbury.
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by LGTrotter » 16:23 Sat 26 Jul 2014
I wish I could think of an amusing double-entendre about this.
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by DRT » 17:08 Sat 26 Jul 2014
LGTrotter wrote: I wish I could think of an amusing double-entendre about this.
If there isn't enough material in Uranus you could try to weave in something about my 12-incher that's coming tomorrow...
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by PopulusTremula » 19:18 Sat 26 Jul 2014
DRT wrote: LGTrotter wrote: I wish I could think of an amusing double-entendre about this.
If there isn't enough material in Uranus you could try to weave in something about my 12-incher that's coming tomorrow...
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With that behemoth; to Uranus and beyond!
(Paraphrasing Buzz Lightyear)
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by PopulusTremula » 20:40 Sat 26 Jul 2014
DRT wrote: LGTrotter wrote: I wish I could think of an amusing double-entendre about this.
If there isn't enough material in Uranus you could try to weave in something about my 12-incher that's coming tomorrow...
Skywatcher Skyliner 300p Flextube Dobsonian.png
With that behemoth; to Uranus and beyond!
(Paraphrasing Buzz Lightyear)
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by djewesbury » 22:42 Sat 26 Jul 2014
Right. I have just seen the namecheck a few posts above. Me?? You think I'M the immature one???
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by DRT » 22:48 Sat 26 Jul 2014
djewesbury wrote: Right. I have just seen the namecheck a few posts above. Me?? You think I'M the immature one???
In a word, yes.
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by djewesbury » 22:48 Sat 26 Jul 2014
Daniel J.
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by djewesbury » 22:49 Sat 26 Jul 2014
I.. But..
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by DRT » 22:53 Sat 26 Jul 2014
Stop stuttering boy. And sit up straight in class!
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by PhilW » 23:23 Sat 26 Jul 2014
DRT wrote: LGTrotter wrote: I wish I could think of an amusing double-entendre about this.
If there isn't enough material in Uranus you could try to weave in something about my 12-incher that's coming tomorrow...
Did you decide to go for a 12-incher because Uranus wasn't big enough?
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by DRT » 23:36 Sat 26 Jul 2014
PhilW wrote: DRT wrote: LGTrotter wrote: I wish I could think of an amusing double-entendre about this.
If there isn't enough material in Uranus you could try to weave in something about my 12-incher that's coming tomorrow...
Did you decide to go for a 12-incher because Uranus wasn't big enough?
That's right, Phil. Uranus is definitely better with a big aperture.
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