False Excitement!

[ballaratdragons]

I just walked outside my front door to cool down (it's stinking hot here), looked at the rotten streetlight, then looked for Orion.

The first place I looked was directly at Orion nebula . . AND I COULD SEE IT NAKED EYE!!!!!!!! :eyepop:


Then I looked at Rigel and still saw the Orion Neb! :shrug:

I then realised I was seeing the after-image of the streetlight :doh:

How dumb can a person be :P

[erick]

OMG! The sky's full of nebula! :eyepop:

[ballaratdragons]

:lol: Yep, everywhere I looked I saw a nebula!!!!!!!

I'll have to look at the streetlight more often :rofl:

:ashamed: :nerd:

[GTB_an_Owl]

now what did you say they were burning down there Ken ?

geoff

[ballaratdragons]

:lol: Must be all the Eucalyptus smoke from the bushfires at Little Desert, Geoff :lol:

We are getting all the smoke . . . man. :P

[GTB_an_Owl]

yeh - EUCALYPTUS - right :whistle:



geoff

[Omaroo]

The phenomenon is called "nebu-lots-city" Ken. We get it all the time here in the big smoke.

:D