A month flies by!

[iceman (Mike)]

Wow, time flies sometimes..

Around this time a month ago, we were all getting excited about the Total Lunar Eclipse!

And now it's gone! *sniff*

But a distant memory now.. like Comet McNaught..

at least we have the images to remind us.

[h0ughy (David)]

mind you we quickly threw everything together after we gathered gigabytes of data - I am yet to really reprocess those images properly

[OneOfOne (Trevor)]

Funny, I remember seeing a show (Qantum?) a few years ago about this subject. Basically as a set period of time becomes a smaller percentage of your lifetime, it appears to go faster. It sort of like 1% of you life always appears to take a percieved amount of time to pass.

I remember when I was at primary school, the holidays seemed to go on forever, 6 weeks is a big part of your life when you are 10 years old. Now I am a little older 6 months appears to go about as quickly and represents a similar percentage of my life.

And yes, it doesn't seem that long ago we were all going out nightly to catch the comet! I think it is about time we had another one! I am not aware of any "big things" happening for the rest of the year. Can't wait for the next issue of Astronomy 2008 to see what is on the "event horizon".

[davidpretorius]

true mike.......... cant wait for you guys north to tackle mars.

asimov in the states has got some nice ones already.

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

mind you we quickly threw everything together after we gathered gigabytes of data - I am yet to really reprocess those images properly

I agree Dave, I still haven't gone through all my eclipse images and I still want to do an animation.

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by Rocket Boy

I agree Dave, I still haven't gone through all my eclipse images and I still want to do an animation.

he is back - Hi RB!! be good to see your results

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Yes, time does fly by much quicker these days........but just think how soon the next Qld Astrofest is going to be

[oggie doggie]

On the upside, I am 1 month closer to getting an EQ mount.

[Bill Bates]

Originally Posted by davidpretorius

true mike.......... cant wait for you guys north to tackle mars.

asimov in the states has got some nice ones already.

Hello David. I saw some asimov mars pictures somewhere not bad for a toucam. love to see him with a mono camera

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

The next big event? I'm looking forward to Comet C/2007 F1 LONEOS. Currently mag 10.6 and getting brighter every day. Come on November.

[Greg Bryant]

What's coming up?

2007

November: Comet C/2007 F1 (LONEOS) - 5th magnitude or better?

December: Mars at opposition on Christmas Day

2008

February: Annular solar eclipse that is partially observable from southern Australia

August: Partial lunar eclipse

December: Very nice Venus - Jupiter conjunction

[netwolf]

The observer affects the observed. While sleeping time appears to go by very quickly because we are unconscious of time.

My Lunar images are yet to be processed, have to find the time to learn how to do layers.

Regards
Fahim