A most spectacular event

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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It looked a lot prettier than it probably sounds.

Well, it sounded beautiful

There's a lot of really cool **** in this world......better than T.V. for
the most part.

Most is better than TV ...... for that part.

/Roger

beauty snipped
I was lucky enough to be in a window seat flying across the Atlantic during
the height of Halley's comet. Not to many folks watched the movie.
Speilberg and crew ain't got nothing on mother nature.
--
Frank Reid
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get a digital camera... please.

Wolfgang wrote:

Standing out on the front stoop just now, I looked up at the full moon. I
was facing nearly due east. High thin clouds looked very much like the
ripples in the sand in the shallows of a lake. Something, presumably ice
crystals, between the observer on the ground and the clouds was refracting
the sunlight reflected off the moon. There was a bright white nimbus
surrounding the moon and extending about two apparent diameters of the moon
all around it. Outside this glowing patch was a ring of barely perceptible
red.....as near infrared as my eyes could detect. Outside that followed all
the colors of the spectrum; sort of a rainbow in the round. Outside that
was another complete rainbow and, outside that, a third. Barely visible in
the white patch were much smaller ripples than those formed by the high
clouds, traveling west to east.

It looked a lot prettier than it probably sounds.

There's a lot of really cool **** in this world......better than T.V. for
the most part.

Wolfgang

"Greg Pavlov" wrote in message
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On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:24:28 -0600, "Wolfgang"
wrote:

Standing out on the front stoop just now, I looked up at the full moon.
....

It looked a lot prettier than it probably sounds.

There's a lot of really cool **** in this world......better than T.V. for
the most part.


Sounds neat. Most of us would have missed it because
we don't smoke (any longer):-)

You will if enough heat is applied.

And who said I was smoking? Um......well, o.k., lucky guess.

Wolfgang

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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Standing out on the front stoop just now, I looked up at the full moon. I
was facing nearly due east. High thin clouds looked very much like the
ripples in the sand in the shallows of a lake.

There's few things like a full moon & clouds of any sort to paint some
stunning images. Yours sounds exceptional. We have the same full moon, but
maybe we'll get those high cirrus tonight.

That's one drawback I've found with the flood of point & shoot digital
cameras. No shutter adjustment for time exposures.

Reminds me of one of the coolest astronomical things I've seen. What must
have been a large meteorite made a huge, bright, trailing but brief streak
as I was looking up. My mind barely had time to form the impression, "wow",
when I heard a "pop" sound behind the meteorite. For a long time, I'd
assumed I'd actually heard the meteorite hit the atmosphere; but in
retrospect, the sound came way too soon after the streak to have traveled at
the speed of sound from that altitude. Is it actually possible the pop
sound was from the meteorite, or is it more likely the sound coincidently
came from somewhere else?

Joe F.

Marshall Krasser wrote in message ...

Yep saw it a couple of nights ago - I have been trying to get
a "good" digital picture of it for reference [for a "monster" movie
that's coming out this Spring]. If anyone gets a good snapshot
please send it my way.

SWMBO and I were in the Big Bend area over the holidays and had a
couple of nice "ice-rings" around the moon. We're still trying to get
a decent shot of one. Also, the stars there are just about as bright
as we've ever seen. The only place where they seemed closer and
brighter was probably in Jasper, Canuckistan.

We also ran across a very interesting couple of clouds one late
afternoon as the sun was just getting low in the sky. They looked
distinctly like holograms. Even more so when viewed through polarized
lenses.

No, really.


Chuck Vance (not paisley again?!)

rb608 wrote:



That's one drawback I've found with the flood of point & shoot digital
cameras. No shutter adjustment for time exposures.

olympus stylus 300 or 400 - try one.

mine has a "night" photo feature....

rb608 wrote:

"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
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olympus stylus 300 or 400 - try one.


Hey, wait a minute; I *have* the Stylus 300. Maybe I oughta read the manual
more closely.

Tx,
Joe F.

"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
news:68dLb.70332$hf1.57099@lakeread06...
olympus stylus 300 or 400 - try one.

Hey, wait a minute; I *have* the Stylus 300. Maybe I oughta read the manual
more closely.

Tx,
Joe F.

On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 08:37:07 -0500, Jeff Miller
wrote:



rb608 wrote:



That's one drawback I've found with the flood of point & shoot digital
cameras. No shutter adjustment for time exposures.

olympus stylus 300 or 400 - try one.

Good time exposures of the moon are difficult - usually if they are
long enough to get good detail you will see the movement of the moon.
FWIW
--
Charlie...