Feeling Very Small

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

A very nice image Glen .....

Hey Abellhunter
Are you moving to Australia ?
You look like you have pretty nice skies where you are !

[abellhunter]

Originally Posted by gaa_ian

A very nice image Glen .....

Hey Abellhunter
Are you moving to Australia ?
You look like you have pretty nice skies where you are !

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G'day Astro-Head!

RE: Are you moving to OZ?

Yes, why would anyone want to only see 1/2 the Sky?
i ((((((((((( L O V E ! ))))))))))) -15 thru' -25 the best!

SEE: "Astronomers Worst Nightmare!" see post #17

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=28124
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RE: Why dose Abell say the South ((((((((((( R O C K S ! ))))))))))))

This is how i roll! http://www.anzaobservatory.com/gosouth.html
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As some of you know allready i am looking to build an observatory and move the ARSENAL down under!
See post #354

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=65
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Back in the states i was a member of the Orange County Astronomers, out of Southern California.....

http://www.ocastronomers.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_County_Astronomers
http://www.ocastronomers.org/astroim...Kuhn+Telescope
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By the way i lived near by the OCA's Anza dark site near Palomar Observatory for 17 years.

http://www.anzaobservatory.com

Which i wrote about in my astro-bio....see post #2 & #3 regarding OCA etc...
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=27760
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Large Group Scope &/or The new OZ Observatory plan [see post #35]

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=27969
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That's the ~ s k i n n y !
Aloha, Lance aka "abellhunter"

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Image #1. 47 Tuc (6" Refractor)
Image #2. Alajpacha Observatory on Lake Titicaca, Bolivia (12,500 feet Elev.)
Image #3. Space Cowboy after a 34 night run!
Image #4. LMC (180mm)
Image #5. Star Trails Lake Titicaca (3hrs by Simon Chung)
Image #6. All Sky Shot with Comet McNaught from OZ (by Tse)
Image #7. Aurora Australias & Comet McNaught from NZ (by Yoneto)
Image #8. Comet McNaught, composite shot from both the North & Southern Hemispheres (by Fuller & Deiries)

[xelasnave]

Originally Posted by middy

[Correction]:

We're just an insignificant speck on an insignificant speck on a insignificant speck.

That is an interesting speckulation.

Great links Glen .. do you have anything bigger

Is it not wonderful that we live in the first age of man where we can look so far and wrestle with our insignificance .... after looking at "photos of the Universe" I always feel so privileged to live in our current age...

alex

[glenc (Glen)]

Sorry Alex, nothing bigger.

[glenc (Glen)]

Another image full of galaxies is at: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images.../heic0813a.jpg
See also: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0813.html

[glenc (Glen)]

Our picture of where we're at in the cosmos is always getting refined as new information comes to light.
The latest part of the picture to be revised is our map of the Milky Way galaxy...
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/19599619.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sp...0603-10am.html
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/2...-annotated.jpg

[glenc (Glen)]

Some more about the Milky Way.
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06...ht/#more-15139

[renormalised (Carl)]

We're only as insignificant as we want to believe, or think we are. We may only be living on a tiny part of the greater whole, but we're far from being insignificant. No life is insignificant....sentience even less so. Be in awe of the fact that you're able to see and ask questions about what's there, not the fact of what there is. That the universe (any universe) exists is a given, that you do isn't.