This is a single frame Screen Grab (Print Screen) from my 'Live' broadcast on NSN of Comet Elenin as it zooms through Virgo a few nights ago
(complete with satellite moving down through frame on the far right side)
I used a modified Samsung SCC-A2333 CCTV/Video Camera in a 6" f5 Achromat with a 0.6x Focal Reducer making the final focal ratio f3 at 5 seconds integration.
There's definitely some dark stars there. Reckon the mothership has split into it's individual components. It's going to be on for young and old soon. Careful now Ken.
Great capture matey.
There's definitely some dark stars there. Reckon the mothership has split into it's individual components. It's going to be on for young and old soon. Careful now Ken.
Great capture matey.
Thanks JJ, I'll be careful
I might stick my arm out as it passes by me in our atmosphere. See if I can catch some of that Comet Dust
Just how many crackpot theories are out there about Elenin? First someone told me it's about its influence on the tsunami in japan, now a cabbie told me that 27 September is the end of the world as we know it. Australia is supposed to be overwhelmed by a massive flood. Can someone enlighten me? (perhaps I am on the wrong website )
so sorry, Bo, but a mate of mine has it on good authority that the transit of venus is the end of the world.... i couldn't *quite* follow his argument, but it's something to do with the number 5200 and the venusian year being 260 days, and you divide something, by something, and then the mayans said something else, in a book, and it's all the same. my brain hurts
I believe he was advised by Ford Prefect that he could if he wanted to, but it wouldn't help .
What I want to know is when the end of the world doesn't come as and when predicted, do all the gullible fools grin sheepishly, and realise that they have been taken for a ride. Perhaps they might wake up to the fact that that nice African lawyer/bank official/government official/*** (insert favourite variation of the Nigerian scam) may not be totally honest.
It is sad to say that I followed a link to a youtube site and read a couple of comments... on that sticks in my mind denounces the fact that the comet is breaking up a suspicious because it (apparently) been around before and that it was breaking up near the anniversary of 9/11 it must be the onset of a full-scale alien invasion. A couple of problems I had with that was 1. I didn't know aliens were fundamentalists, and 2. The poster in question just can't get a grip on the fact that the US in not the centre of the universe and things can happen unrelated to it.
Sorry if this is viewed as a rant, of it is off-topic, its just that reading how the nutters and downright malicious dis-informationist can have such a disproportionate voice over facts and sensible debate. I shouldn't look at such nonsense, and shall refrain forthwith.
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