A sight to see in the night skies (early morning)

[wide eyed and legless]

Saw something similar to this a few years ago, meteorites every couple of minutes, worthwhile the early rise to see though.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-02/may-sky-guide/7356040

 

[Bribie G]

Thanks for that. Also Jupiter, Saturn and Mars are having a great viewing at the moment in the Eastern sky from the early evening onwards. Jupiter pops up first. As an old bugger it raises most of the hairs on my body (well mainly most) to realise that these three planets are currently being orbited by human built machines. Pure science fiction when I was a kid.

Sometimes I despair that people don't fully appreciate what a wonderful era of human achievement they have been chosen to be born into.

Anyway back to Masterchef replays....................................

 

[Danscraftbeer]

Thanks for the heads up. I haven't kept in touch with Astronomy lately. Just the scrambled rush for the camera now and then when I see the planets grouped for a photo opportunity.

The user name Wide eyed and legless makes sense here. Best to observe this with wide eyes lying on your back.

 

[Bribie G]

As the Mrs said last night.

 

[Dave70]

Timely. Just finished listening to Lawrence Krauss's 'A Universe From Nothing' audio book for the third time hoping a fragment may stick to my tiny brain. As noted by a previous contributor, we do indeed live in a wonderful era, if only for the fact that with the universe expanding faster than the speed of light, in the not to distant future, all visible evidence of the origins of the universe, or 'big bang' will have vanished for all time. Its literally a race against time to learn all we can.
Then you move onto trying to comprehend what something like the Hubble deep field images represent in time, distance and scale, humbling, awe inspiring stuff.

 

[pcmfisher]

Timely. Just finished listening to Lawrence Krauss's 'A Universe From Nothing' audio book for the third time hoping a fragment may stick to my tiny brain. As noted by a previous contributor, we do indeed live in a wonderful era, if only for the fact that with the universe expanding faster than the speed of light, in the not to distant future, all visible evidence of the origins of the universe, or 'big bang' will have vanished for all time. Its literally a race against time to learn all we can.
Then you move onto trying to comprehend what something like the Hubble deep field images represent in time, distance and scale, humbling, awe inspiring stuff.

Not all of it really. Only galaxies with a red shift currently of 1.4 or more are moving away from us faster than the speed of light.

Actually, a galaxy with a red shift if 1.4 is still emitting light that will get to us, its 1.69 that is getting to the critical point if you take into account the decreasing Hubble constant, but that is splitting hairs.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Its Brian Cox incognito. h34r:

 

[Dave70]

Timely. Just finished listening to Lawrence Krauss's 'A Universe From Nothing' audio book for the third time hoping a fragment may stick to my tiny brain. As noted by a previous contributor, we do indeed live in a wonderful era, if only for the fact that galaxies with a red shift currently of 1.4 or more are moving away from us faster than the speed of light, in the not to distant future, all visible evidence of the origins of the universe, or 'big bang' will have vanished for all time. Its literally a race against time to learn all we can.
Then you move onto trying to comprehend what something like the Hubble deep field images represent in time, distance and scale, humbling, awe inspiring stuff.

Reference: (2016)

Not all of it really. Only galaxies with a red shift currently of 1.4 or more are moving away from us faster than the speed of light.

Actually, a galaxy with a red shift if 1.4 is still emitting light that will get to us, its 1.69 that is getting to the critical point if you take into account the decreasing Hubble constant, but that is splitting hairs.

 

[pcmfisher]

Classic

 

[Blind Dog]

The only time I understand this stuff is when I'm in Amsterdam

 

[A.B.]

reminds me of the Monty Python galaxy song.

anyhow, I'll set the alarm for 5am tomorrow and then wonder what the hell the alarm is going off for...

 

[Mardoo]

Awesome. Thanks for posting this. I used to see all the major meteor showers when I was living in the northern hemisphere, but have been missing most of them here.

 

[justatad]

Got up this morning at 5 am to have a look and bugger me dead it was overcast. Might as well get a brew going.

 

[Kingy]

I done the same thing haha

 

[Weizguy]

Not quite so overcast here, but still some cover. All lights in the sky were fuzzy/obscured.
But, the north-east horizon is obscured by trees, so could see nothing after about half an hour, I gave up.
Was good to see my daughter drag herself out of bed to join me and the flying foxes.
Too much light pollution in the southern sky here too - may be the Airport/RAAF base.