The Night Sky

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GTPlanet, this topic is about the stars and the moon.

As you may know, I love nighttime. The darkness, the stars, and the lonely little moon. Had we all lived on Jupiter, we would probably see 15 or 16 moons, saying that it has the most moons within known space. When I was in the 5th Grade, I went to a camp called Camp Olympia. The most memorable thing I can recall from there was looking at the MANY stars in the sky. It was so beautiful. The sky was like, dark blue. I could see several stars in the sky apart from being within metropolitan Houston. Later that night, the star show ended because clouds were in the sky, then the rains came down as we headed back to our camping lodge.

As far as the moon goes, the moon is a spectacular sight at night. I've seen waxing and waning moons, even big, gold-like moons. I think I've seen the sun at night at times as well. But these are pretty much rare occassions.

Do you enjoy the night sky? Reply now.
 
Oh yeah, I live in London but my family owns a little cottage out in the country. The stars out there are amazing, in one night we saw fifteen shooting stars and five sattelites. It was awesomw.
 
You can get a fair view of the night sky where we live, but very often it is cloudy and you see little.....or nothing. :irked:
I prefer looking up in the day and watching the RAF Tornados and Jaguars flying to the Brecon firing ranges :D

Sun at night? Isn't the whole point of it being night time that there is no sun? I have seen the moon at midday-ish.
 
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I love the night sky. I live in Stockholm right now and i hate the light pollution. Grew up in northern Sweden and I love when it's dark enough to see the milky way. And the aurora borealis at winter. So beautiful.

Favourite constellation is the pleiads.
 
I love seeing stars - who doesn't? Can't see them in New York City, though, but we go to rural Tennessee every weekend and it's so cool to see them then.
 
I like to see the stars...but mostly meteor showers are what I like...Me and my dad go out on the lake anytime one comes.
 
You can nearly see the entire damned universe when laying on your back in the whole you dug to "protect your self from incoming rounds" in the middle of the Kuwaiti/Iraqi desert. Never saw so many stars in my life!:eek: it was great!
 
The night sky is one of my favorite things that can be witnessed. It's just so incredible to lie with your back on the grass and gaze into the endless sky; tracing the stars and focusing in on them, searching for constellations, and contemplating the meaning of it all. The stars and the night sky are very inspiring.
 
Its mind boggleing to think that each star is a sun/dying sun (or possibly a nebula or a white dwarf something along those lines )with planets circleing them or maybe not but still....makes you feel really little....and thats just the milky way. Imagine if you could see the star outside of the milkyway. And half the stars you see may not even exist because the star could have died a billion years ago but the light travels so far so long the light is still visible on earth. Amazing! I may not project it but I love learning about the universe I'd write more but i dont wunna bore ( i dindt mean to rhym) THats the real surface of venus down there....
 
I loved learning all about this stuff in school, ^ Killer picture
 
Ah, the missus and I stil enjoy a trip to the middle of nowhere to see the stars at night. You really have to go 2 hours out of town, find a quiet spot, and hope the sky's not going to fill with clouds. Usually winter's great for stargazing; no bugs and no clouds at night. Summer is completely the opposite, unless you go to the beach, you're bound to give blood to the misquito population.

But when you go to the darkest spots, and look up to see the stars, after a while, it's brighter than you imagine. We're both speechless for quite some time, too.
 
Originally posted by JohnBM01
I think I've seen the sun at night at times as well. But these are pretty much rare occassions.
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At night, that pesky Earth gets in the way of the sun - what an inconsiderate swine, eh?

Rare? Bloody unique, John...
 
Okay, one time, I seen something in the sky that was like the sun. I didn't know if it was Mars, the sun, or what. And once again, someone elects to make an ass out of me...

Usually at night in the city, there are a bunch of stars that I normall connect together, and it looks like a kite. You know, like one of those old, diamond-shape kites? I think you get about 20 or 30 in the city, but maybe 6, 8, 10 times that in the country. I think if you want to see the stars, get away from the city. Maybe even FAR away.
 
I love looking at the sky. Living in toronto, we almost never get to see the stars though :(.

Did any of you go stargazing on the night of the huge blackout? That was soooooo farkin beautiful. I should have pulled the camera out for that night
 
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Did any of you go stargazing on the night of the huge blackout? That was soooooo farkin beautiful. I should have pulled the camera out for that night
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That was the only reason I stayed awake that night, otherwise I would have gone to sleep at 8pm.

When I go to my cottage about an hour north of Toronto, I can see quite a few stars there, but not the full sky as Toronto's lights do still effect the sky.

About the only other time I can recall seeing the stars was waking up at about 5am in Fernie, British Columbia to go to the airport in Calgary. You could see everything there!
 
I like the night sky, it looks nice. I love going camping, because you can see so much more stars in the sky.
 
Originally posted by JohnBM01
Okay, one time, I seen something in the sky that was like the sun. I didn't know if it was Mars, the sun, or what. And once again, someone elects to make an ass out of me...
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Fabrication wasn't necessary, John. Don't be so precious - I was merely having a giggle.

The sun is roughly 2 inches across, most of the time - not to mention a little on the bright side and a feature of the sky at day. To see an object 2 inches across at night means you're looking at the moon - there is nothing else that can appear that large. Occasionally, during lunar eclipses, the moon will become blood red, but very dim.
 
Originally posted by HIGH ON LIFE
Its mind boggleing to think that each star is a sun/dying sun
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It kinda scares me when you think about that 1 sun thats near our planet could die and Supernova us all. The planets that revolve around that 1 sun would get destoried by that 1 Supernova. Space is definatly interesting and somewhat horrorful at the same time. You know, you don't know whats gonna happen. Earth could get hit by a comet and we wouldn't even know it. Even if we did. We couldn't do anything to stop it.
 
I know what you mean. If it was something serious, most likely we would know about it.

I love the stars. Having a house in Sweden, I see the stars every single night of the summer. Not only are the stars beautiful, but the sky itself is so colorful at sundown.
 
Originally posted by M5Power
I love seeing stars - who doesn't? Can't see them in New York City, though, but we go to rural Tennessee every weekend and it's so cool to see them then.
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You come complaining to me about **** being gay, then you say "I love seeing stars"? That barely cuts it in my book!

But then again, what does?

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

I mean... have you ever SEEN my book? I think not.

My point is moot. I wish more things in my life were moot. It'd rock my (moot) world. And you know how I feel about rocking moot worlds.

It's an awefully good and annoyingly strange feeling.

This post disturbs you? What'd you except at 4.13AM? Me to be sober?

Go die and rot in hell.

Then again... no, I stick by what I said. 👍

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Oh, God.
 
So. About stars. In total ignorance of post #21, I must admit, I don't hate looking at stars. I was looking at stars with someone once, I was in the comfortable bed-chair-thingy wondering why the someone (Yes.) wasn't in the comfortable bed-chair-thingy too... the someone (Yes!) was in a normal chair without bed-thingy function. But the someone (Ye-hes!) was leaning backwards and fell.

This all happened whilst I was looking at stars, or the stars (stars don't change very often, right? -- don't expect me to know this).

So.

Obviously you can't expect me to pay attention to stars and pay attention to people falling backwards of chairs without the bed-thingy function (hey, not my problem).

So there I was. Facing a metaphysical dilemma: do I grant my precious thinking time to people falling, or figuring out what the world is all about, why we're here (not you specifically, or, if that's how you like it, you specifically *wink* *smile* *gesture*)?

Strange thing is, silly actions (people falling, people dropping, people tripping, people hurting, people landing harshly on rock-bottoms) prove to be more fascinating.

Once I had figured this out, I thought to myself: you're such an idiot. No guns in sight, and here I still am. To your agony.

I apologise.

Stars? Stars are ****ing great.
 
So it looks like from a lot of these posts, Sweden seems to be a wonderful place to see the stars. If I don't know Sweden for their snow rally, I may as well know them for the night sky.

Has anyone ever seen an aurora? An Aurora is like a colorful display in the night sky, and you can only see one if you are in a far north or far south place. For example, you can probably see one in Iceland, if you lived there. That would be the Aurora Borealis. If you lived someplace far south, it would probably be the Aurora Australis. So, anyone seen any of these colorful displays?
 
Originally posted by sn00pie
You come complaining to me about **** being gay, then you say "I love seeing stars"? That barely cuts it in my book!
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But I don't have those qualities.

This post disturbs you? What'd you except at 4.13AM? Me to be sober?
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No, but perhaps (hopefully) you to be asleep.
 
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Yep, when I was fishing in Sweden. We were as far north as you can get. Had to ditch the car, the walked as far as possible. It was amazing. I don't care if that sounds "gay." It really was an amazing sight.
 
I love sitting out in my back yard when the moon is high and bright. It's almost like a dim, pale-white sun. I imagine the past. before electricity, and how the bright moon must've made people feel safe at night compared to the inky black dark.

Arizona is a pretty good place to see stars. In the mountians, where it is dark and high, the stars are amazing and you can even see the Milky Way. Nothing like seeing the Milky way through a frame of Ponderosa trees. But I guess that's why they put the Lowel Observatory up there.
 
Interesting you mention Arizona, Milefile. Sometimes when I've seen pictures of sunny skies in Arizona, the higher up you look into the sky, it seems the blue is pretty deep. Sometimes, I almost imagine if you can see stars in the sky. But me, I'm a sucker for stars in the sky or in some of my private computer artwork. I think a thing about deserts is that it's very hot in the day, pretty cold at night, if I am not mistaken. So I can imagine why the desert would be a nice place to see stars at night. And unless it's pretty cold, bundle up! I think that Big Bear constellation was pretty nice to observe, saying that I've seen pictures of it online and on TV. Constellations are impressive, as are galaxies.
 
Well for all you dozy star gazers, tomorrow Venus transits the Sun. The next time it will occur is 2012 and then 2117. It will be available for viewing to Europe, the Eastern half of the States and up to India I think. Obviously dont look at the sun, rather make a pin hole in a piece of paper and shine the resulting image onto another sheet on paper.
 
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