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You'd be running too if there was a huge lunging dog at your back
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Bison are cool as hell. I also love they'll stall traffic for hours at Yellowstone (especially the Western entrance since it cuts close to a riverside meadow they like to frequent). It's a nice reminder that at Yellowstone, we're the guests and they're the primary residents.
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Hm, this seems familiar. Wait a moment... 
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Don't kill it you'll break the ritual secret.
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Grendels Dad posted:Hm, this seems familiar. Wait a moment... Am I witnessing a Rymyrgand reference or am I going crazy
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Night-time on Mars https://i.imgur.com/h8FZYh7.mp4
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Night-time on Mars I can see 3 stars on a good night thanks to regular and light pollution. Really feeling like I'm missing out.
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Inceltown posted:I can see 3 stars on a good night thanks to regular and light pollution. Really feeling like I'm missing out. I assume that the camera on that little robot there has had its light sensitivity cranked up quite a bit. The area around the rover looks like it's in full daylight.
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Inceltown posted:I can see 3 stars on a good night thanks to regular and light pollution. Really feeling like I'm missing out. 
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Inceltown posted:I can see 3 stars on a good night thanks to regular and light pollution. Really feeling like I'm missing out. yeah it's easy to understand how much the ancients and even early modern people loved astrology when they looked up and saw poo poo like that every night maybe one day we'll have directed LED lighting and be able to see the stars like most humans in history have
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Musk is doing his very best to ruin the night sky for the entire world, until we figure out how to shoot satellites out of orbit.
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hawowanlawow posted:yeah it's easy to understand how much the ancients and even early modern people loved astrology when they looked up and saw poo poo like that every night I was driving through the middle of nowhere in Wyoming several years ago at 3 in the morning and for the first time in my life I saw what ancients must have seen when they looked at the sky. Truly had no idea up til that point how many stars you could see with the naked eye because I had only lived in places with lots of light and or other pollution. It was amazing.
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hazardousmouse posted:Musk is doing his very best to ruin the night sky for the entire world, until we figure out how to shoot satellites out of orbit. I mean, that technology exists and the great thing is you only have to shoot some of them before the bits smash all the others.
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hazardousmouse posted:Musk is doing his very best to ruin the night sky for the entire world, until we figure out how to shoot satellites out of orbit. Because they'll be able to watch internet pornography instead of look at the sky or because you think a significant portion of humanity are astronomers taking long exposure photographs?
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hazardousmouse posted:Musk is doing his very best to ruin the night sky for the entire world, until we figure out how to shoot satellites out of orbit. From what I understand the light pollution caused by starlink is from the initial deployment of the satellites and not them floating around up there.
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JEEVES420 posted:From what I understand the light pollution caused by starlink is from the initial deployment of the satellites and not them floating around up there. Yeah, it's not the light pollution as much as it is the occlusions they cause. The "clouds" have already wrecked some long exposure terrestrial astronomic photographs by smearing their way across a picture being taken at observatories.
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OwlFancier posted:I mean, that technology exists and the great thing is you only have to shoot some of them before the bits smash all the others. Thread-relevant:  (F-15 launching an antisatellite missile)
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Inceltown posted:I can see 3 stars on a good night thanks to regular and light pollution. Really feeling like I'm missing out. When I was a kid my mom and I lived in a log cabin in Woody Creek, Colorado. The night skys often looked very similar to that. I still miss it.
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A few years back I spent 2 weeks in the Atacama Desert. The view of the night sky there is absolutely incredible.
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Minnesota Mixup posted:A few years back I spent 2 weeks in the Atacama Desert. The view of the night sky there is absolutely incredible. https://www.360cities.net/image/mars-panorama-curiosity-night
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Minnesota Mixup posted:A few years back I spent 2 weeks in the Atacama Desert. The view of the night sky there is absolutely incredible. We went to Death Valley looking for that kind of experience. Guess we should have gone farther. I hear the Sahara sky is so big and beautiful that it basically levers your head open to reprogram you.
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Was at a cabin on a lake in northern Ontario and the skies were gorgeous. Then the power went out in the middle of the night and I don't think I'll ever see stars like that again. Milky way looked like a portal torn across the sky.
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Sky crane robo doggo is in the possible life crater with its helicopter drone, ready for some science 
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Beachcomber posted:We went to Death Valley looking for that kind of experience. Guess we should have gone farther. I couldn't sleep on a flight and saw the sunrise over the Sahara from my window and it was absolutely incredible.
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Beachcomber posted:We went to Death Valley looking for that kind of experience. Guess we should have gone farther. A clear night sky is a beautiful thing. If you can make your way to the southern hemisphere, the sights are even better. We get the entire smear of the Milky Way across the sky. If you're out bush, it's just breathtaking. Sadly it's also almost impossible to find images online which show what it actually looks like. All are either massively long exposures or digitally "enhanced". This is about as close as I could find to what you'd see with the naked eye:  This one's massively enhanced, but it shows how big the Milky Way is in the sky. 
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Cocaine Bear posted:Was at a cabin on a lake in northern Ontario and the skies were gorgeous. Then the power went out in the middle of the night and I don't think I'll ever see stars like that again. Milky way looked like a portal torn across the sky. Was it in Bobcaygeon?
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That's pretty close to what it looked like. The Atacama also has terrain that is extremely similar to mars. If you took a picture there in some places and added a red sky you would hardly be able to tell the difference. It's also the closest to mars when it comes to soil composition, which is why we were there in the first place. I was testing the elemental make up of the soil, while another person with us was testing different geological layers for organics.
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Stex T posted:Was it in Bobcaygeon? Thank you for this 
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I remember seeing a great night skt out at Mt. Hood back around 2017. I only had my iPhone, but I did have my PVS-14 which gave a little inkling to how full the night sky was with stars: Alas, even this pic is flattening the image. The depth of the starfield was immense.
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Don't look at that picture if it not an american otherwise ur going to gitmo
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Android Apocalypse posted:I remember seeing a great night skt out at Mt. Hood back around 2017. I only had my iPhone, but I did have my PVS-14 which gave a little inkling to how full the night sky was with stars: Whenever I get the chance to wear nods I am always distracted and blown away by the night sky. Also there’s a shitload more planes up there than you’d think.
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The best sky I've seen was crossing the pacific at 3am. I couldn't tell you how far we were from the nearest land - days - all the lights were out, and it was incredible. I highly recommend it.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:The best sky I've seen was crossing the pacific at 3am. I couldn't tell you how far we were from the nearest land - days - all the lights were out, and it was incredible. I highly recommend it. Jared is that you
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JEEVES420 posted:From what I understand the light pollution caused by starlink is from the initial deployment of the satellites and not them floating around up there. It’s them floating around, it’s just that they’re significantly closer to the surface of the Earth at deployment than at operational orbit. They’re problematic throughout their lives but especially bad in their first weeks. Unfortunately, with such a large constellation and low service life, we can expect that at any given time, there will always be newly launched, extra-bright satellites up there to replace one set or another. Beachcomber posted:We went to Death Valley looking for that kind of experience. Guess we should have gone farther. Altitude is good. The less air and dust between you and the stars, the better. Death Valley is pretty bad. Many nearby mountains are very good. As a footnote, the historic observatories of Southern California are situated on mountains that frequently experience temperature inversions, where air is warmer on the mountaintops than in the valleys below. This is good for astronomy because it tends to result in calm air. These same temperature inversions trap smog over the cities nowadays. Temperature inversions are of interest when using telescopes. For looking at the sky with the naked eye, turbulent air doesn’t much matter.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:A clear night sky is a beautiful thing. If you can make your way to the southern hemisphere, the sights are even better. I had to go to Halls Creek in northern Western Australia for work. The town is small and dark as it is, but I drove a few miles out of town one night to check out the sky and it was just stunning. https://www.google.com/maps/place/H...8!4d127.6693726
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:....Jared? Sorry, wrong Jared.
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