Cupid Stunt

Front wheel stepped out on me, going wide around the traffic exiting a roundabout, got onto the gravel in the centre, front wheel went and sent me into the path of the oncoming cars, it was a fun moment that nearly kills you but makes you smile

2 hours ago, Saul said:

Probably and would have been twice as good and lasted twice as long.   

And can only do half as much LOL

1 hour ago, Saul said:

I was out working all through it Friday Night and never saw a bloody thing.  

You have to look up LOL
To the eye you could see the colour in the sky, not as detailed or saturated as a long exposure (2.5 seconds) but still very noticeable

3 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

Where did you go Terry ?  my mate got some great photos from the Cat & Fiddle in the Peak district 

I headed up Betws then past Ammanford towards Carreg Cennen Castle, couldn't get where I wanted to for the castle so set up by that old fallen tree Bob

Aurora Boreyerarseoff

On 28/01/2024 at 03:47, YamaHead said:

Wizard Island.... in the middle of 1,965 ft. deep Crater Lake

Awesome

So, a fairly clear night was forecast for Saturday when I checked on the Friday, got my plans sorted, was going to do a Milky Way time lapse at Three Cliffs Bay, spent lots of time planning the right times and spot, tides etc, then the b'stards changed the forecast, to clouding over by 11pm, dark night wasn't starting until 11:33, damn, So I decided to set up my scope in the garden instead, just in case there was some clearings between the clouds, set up all my gear and stayed up til 4:20am, it never did cloud over, not even when I got up again at 6:30am, anyway, I managed to capture this:

North American Nebula - NGC 7000 only about 2,000 light years away, too dim to see with the naked eye but visually about 6 x the size of the Moon

Fujifilm X-H2, Tamron 70-300mm f/5.6 at 300mm, dew heater on, 105 frames no guiding so only 72 x 2 min frames usable, 20 darks, 20 flats and 20 bias frames to calibrate, post processed in Siril and Affinity Photo.

Hope you like it, I'm knackered but ain't going to bed and wasting any of the Bank Holiday, bugger that.

On 22/04/2024 at 08:26, Buckster said:

That’s the rest of the day sorted for @Six30.

Oh go on Buck, you know you want to

3 hours ago, Buckster said:

I think it is fabulous.

You forgot to add "darlings" on the end of that you raving queen

24 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Changed a lot in the 30+ years since I've been there........but what's this Terry?

And where's this?

 

That's the Arena Swansea and the new footbridge that replaced the old one, looks fekin shite, people call it the "Toblerone Bridge"
https://maps.app.goo.gl/BYJWisgasKgpqyUQ7

I'd guess you'd be surprised, it's still mostly a shite hole though

 

Sunset over La Palma from half way up Mount Teide, Tenerife and above the clouds 

The tasteful artwork on the fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square of Baptist preacher John Chilembwe and European missionary John Chorley

is being replaced with this progressive piece of shitecrapgarbage

Easy it's the dick who posted it

1 hour ago, zzzak said:

So you call me an idiot for asking a question and then answer the question, that says a lot about you.

Yes and I bet you've also asked why the cows in the field are so small

1 hour ago, Six30 said:

like this ?
Lol great minds think alike, I posted that in the other thread this morning

 

Yes, I discovered that trains are actually fake.
I know this as I was out walking and came across some old disused train track, when I looked down the tracks they clearly were much smaller further way and far too close together for a train to run on, clearly proving that trains cannot really exists and run on tracks.

Having said all that, the only think you can know for sure is that you exist "I think therefore I am" as any and all sensory perceptions are just thoughts

5 hours ago, zzzak said:

There's this as well, if the Sun is 93 million miles away how come the rays spread out like this ?

You know, it looks like Bucky could be right.

 

 

 

 

Fuck me, how dumb can people be?
This in fact proves that either the Sun is tiny and close to us or massive and a long way away, if the Sun is massive and close to us the Sun rays would be closer to being parallel, if it was smaller and close to use the rays would fan out (but then you'd struggle to feel any warmth from a small Sun and it would not illuminate virtually 50% of the Earth at any one point in time), so that leaves huge and far from us give a similar appearance of size but much more powerful, illuminating nearly half the planet and having rays that spread out due to the angle of penetration of the rays of light

Oh and forget his claptrap about the Sun moving through the Universe, it's literally not relevant. the stars you see in the sky are in our own Galaxy, the Galaxy moves relative to the Earth or rather the Earth moves with the Galaxy and all it's stars, the Earth does not move through the Galaxy at any astronomica significant spped, it orbits the centre of the galaxy at 230km per second but then the entire galaxy is rotating with it DUH!. so yes everything appears static although over decades slight movements can be detected.
Things far away appear to be motionless but the fact is they are moving at incredible speeds, it's another failing of flat Earthers (Flerfs) to underestimate the size of our Solar system let alone the Milky Way Galaxy and beyond, just a tiny snippet to give some kind of persepctive...
If you jumped on your bike and rode to Jupiter non stop at 60mph, how long would it take you to get there, no break/stop/sleeping?
700 years is the answer and our system isn't even a spec of dust compared to the Galaxy we're in, if our Sun was the size of a ping pong ball the next nearest star to it (Proxima Centuri) would be 680 miles away

Fucking idiot, Polaris isn't fixed, even polar scopes of fairly recent manufacture have to be taken with a pinch of salt when using the built in marks for where to place Polaris to gain accurate polar alignment with the Earth's axis of rotation
Here's an example of  Losmandy brand polarscope reticule, you can see the markings (near where it say's UMi (Polaris), that is where Polaris has to be placed and it changes, it is now out of the markins so alignment can be too far off for accurate tracking of more than 30 sec with a 1000mm telescope, it why we use plate solving to give absolute accuracy for better tracking (plate solving is uploading and image to servers that identify precisely where your telescope is pointed by analysing the stars in the image) it takes two separate images to be plate solved  by rotating the mount on it's RA (right ascension) axis the program then gives a visual as to which way to move the elevation and azimuth controls to get it spot on, taking more images each time and plate solving after each move.
These fuckwits really ought to do their homework properly as the people who listen to them should.

27 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Henllan Bridge POW Camp

Ah, must have ridden right by it, looks like it's still there on Google Street View

2 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Superb Terry!

Is the old POW camp still there?

No idea mate, didn't know it was