Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 17:31 Wed 05 Feb 2014
Glenn E. wrote:Perhaps you just needed more Port before your performance?
Q.E.D.DRT wrote:I didn't have any Port
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A reason to get up early
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Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 17:42 Wed 05 Feb 2014
Charles Dodgson wrote:‘Take some more tea,’ the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
‘I’ve had nothing yet,’ Alice replied in an offended tone, ‘so I can't take more.’
‘You mean you can’t take LESS,’ said the Hatter: ‘it’s very easy to take MORE than nothing.’
‘Nobody asked YOUR opinion,’ said Alice.
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 07:30 Thu 06 Feb 2014
Not the most believable tale.DRT wrote:I didn't have any Port
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 22:46 Fri 07 Feb 2014
Taken this evening at 311x magnification in fading daylight!
The left side of the picture is in shadow (Moon night). The two bright white features about half way up in the shadow are sunlight striking the tops of hills/mountains high enough to clear the horizon. 
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Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 22:11 Sun 09 Feb 2014
I finally figured out how to use my astro-webcam
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Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 23:38 Sun 09 Feb 2014
deja vuDRT wrote:Jupiter - 9 Feb 2014.jpg
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 11:00 Tue 29 Apr 2014
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 05:07 Fri 23 May 2014
New meteor shower the Camelopardalids predicted for tonight.
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 19:37 Fri 23 May 2014
What time and whereabout in the sky?mpij wrote:New meteor shower the Camelopardalids predicted for tonight.
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 19:50 Fri 23 May 2014
Camelopardalids is a constellation close to Polaris (the north star) so if you face north and look high in the sky you will be in the right area.
The problem is that you need to be standing in the USA when you look up. It will be daylight here in the UK before the earth passes through the debris that will cause the meteor shower. If there are some rocks the size of the one that crossed the sky and exploded over Russia a couple of years ago you might see it in Wokingham
The problem is that you need to be standing in the USA when you look up. It will be daylight here in the UK before the earth passes through the debris that will cause the meteor shower. If there are some rocks the size of the one that crossed the sky and exploded over Russia a couple of years ago you might see it in Wokingham
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 19:57 Fri 23 May 2014
Yikes! Is it really true that a sufficiently large asteroid strike can shake the cellar so vigorously that the sediment might be disturbed? Is it really? How horrific. Is that why the dinosaurs all died of heart attacks? Nurse — the smelling salts!
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 20:39 Fri 23 May 2014
Yes it's true. The dinosaurs died of TCA (Tyrannosaurus Cardiac Arrest) brought on by rapid consumption of their Port cellars.jdaw1 wrote:Yikes! Is it really true that a sufficiently large asteroid strike can shake the cellar so vigorously that the sediment might be disturbed? Is it really? How horrific. Is that why the dinosaurs all died of heart attacks? Nurse — the smelling salts!
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 22:04 Sun 13 Jul 2014
An unusually large near-full Moon a few minutes after Germany won the 2014 World Cup...
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Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 02:38 Sat 26 Jul 2014
Gentlemen, I introduce you to Uranus…
No sniggering, Jewesbury.
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Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 15:23 Sat 26 Jul 2014
I wish I could think of an amusing double-entendre about this.
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 16:08 Sat 26 Jul 2014
If there isn't enough material in Uranus you could try to weave in something about my 12-incher that's coming tomorrow...LGTrotter wrote:I wish I could think of an amusing double-entendre about this.
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Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 18:18 Sat 26 Jul 2014
With that behemoth; to Uranus and beyond!DRT wrote:If there isn't enough material in Uranus you could try to weave in something about my 12-incher that's coming tomorrow...LGTrotter wrote:I wish I could think of an amusing double-entendre about this.
(Paraphrasing Buzz Lightyear)
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 19:40 Sat 26 Jul 2014
With that behemoth; to Uranus and beyond!DRT wrote:If there isn't enough material in Uranus you could try to weave in something about my 12-incher that's coming tomorrow...LGTrotter wrote:I wish I could think of an amusing double-entendre about this.
(Paraphrasing Buzz Lightyear)
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 21:42 Sat 26 Jul 2014
Right. I have just seen the namecheck a few posts above. Me?? You think I'M the immature one???
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 21:48 Sat 26 Jul 2014
In a word, yes.djewesbury wrote:Right. I have just seen the namecheck a few posts above. Me?? You think I'M the immature one???
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 21:48 Sat 26 Jul 2014
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 21:49 Sat 26 Jul 2014
I.. But..
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 21:53 Sat 26 Jul 2014
Stop stuttering boy. And sit up straight in class!
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 22:23 Sat 26 Jul 2014
Did you decide to go for a 12-incher because Uranus wasn't big enough?DRT wrote:If there isn't enough material in Uranus you could try to weave in something about my 12-incher that's coming tomorrow...LGTrotter wrote:I wish I could think of an amusing double-entendre about this.
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 22:36 Sat 26 Jul 2014
That's right, Phil. Uranus is definitely better with a big aperture.PhilW wrote:Did you decide to go for a 12-incher because Uranus wasn't big enough?DRT wrote:If there isn't enough material in Uranus you could try to weave in something about my 12-incher that's coming tomorrow...LGTrotter wrote:I wish I could think of an amusing double-entendre about this.
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 23:23 Sat 26 Jul 2014
I'm the immature one?!?PhilW wrote:Did you decide to go for a 12-incher because Uranus wasn't big enough?DRT wrote:If there isn't enough material in Uranus you could try to weave in something about my 12-incher that's coming tomorrow...LGTrotter wrote:I wish I could think of an amusing double-entendre about this.
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 23:35 Sat 26 Jul 2014
Try saying this out loud to someone.DRT wrote:That's right, Phil. Uranus is definitely better with a big aperture.
I thought it a very nice picture of a wobbly blob. Then you lot had to go and spoil it. I blame Daniel, lowering the tone.
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 23:37 Sat 26 Jul 2014
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 23:38 Sat 26 Jul 2014
Derek's joke would have been ruder with one word replaced by a punctuation mark.
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 09:59 Sun 27 Jul 2014
Apparently, you seem to see double-entendres in every innocent astronomy discussion, and then hide away from praising DRT on the size of his tool.DJ wrote:I'm the immature one?!?
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 16:29 Sun 27 Jul 2014
The difference between 8 inches and 12 inches is quite significant…
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Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 00:24 Mon 28 Jul 2014
Do you mean to say you've never had a 12"-er pointed up to Uranus before?
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 06:25 Mon 28 Jul 2014
You just have to ruin it for everyone else by being rude, don't you?djewesbury wrote:Do you mean to say you've never had a 12"-er pointed up to Uranus before?
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 06:29 Mon 28 Jul 2014
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 09:14 Mon 28 Jul 2014
Just as I thought I had a big-un, someone posts this for sale...
I feel quite inadequate 
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Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 09:39 Mon 28 Jul 2014
Don't put that up etc etc etc
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 15:12 Mon 28 Jul 2014
That person is clearly compensating for something.
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 23:09 Mon 28 Jul 2014
That car looks too small. "Darling, I can't get it all in", we've all heard it a hundred times.
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 16:21 Tue 29 Jul 2014
This is easily the filthiest thing written so far on this forum and yet it passes without comment or castigation. Unfair. That's what it is.LGTrotter wrote:That car looks too small. "Darling, I can't get it all in", we've all heard it a hundred times.
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 17:10 Tue 29 Jul 2014
Please post pictures of interesting asteroids. Surely some are in opposition.
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 23:13 Tue 29 Jul 2014
Daniel, how many times do we have to warn you about turning perfectly innocent intellectual conversations about astronomy into smutty, inappropriate filth?djewesbury wrote:This is easily the filthiest thing written so far on this forum and yet it passes without comment or castigation. Unfair. That's what it is.LGTrotter wrote:That car looks too small. "Darling, I can't get it all in", we've all heard it a hundred times.
You have been warned.
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 23:15 Tue 29 Jul 2014
if I see one and can capture a picture it will be posted here.jdaw1 wrote:Please post pictures of interesting asteroids. Surely some are in opposition.
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 23:17 Tue 29 Jul 2014
Is there an emoticon beyondDRT wrote:Daniel, how many times do we have to warn you about turning perfectly innocent intellectual conversations about astronomy into smutty, inappropriate filth?djewesbury wrote:This is easily the filthiest thing written so far on this forum and yet it passes without comment or castigation. Unfair. That's what it is.LGTrotter wrote:That car looks too small. "Darling, I can't get it all in", we've all heard it a hundred times.
You have been warned.
?Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 23:25 Tue 29 Jul 2014
if you are desperate we have one that looks like Uranus. Please let an admin know if you need one.djewesbury wrote:Is there an emoticon beyondDRT wrote:Daniel, how many times do we have to warn you about turning perfectly innocent intellectual conversations about astronomy into smutty, inappropriate filth?djewesbury wrote:This is easily the filthiest thing written so far on this forum and yet it passes without comment or castigation. Unfair. That's what it is.LGTrotter wrote:That car looks too small. "Darling, I can't get it all in", we've all heard it a hundred times.
You have been warned.
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 23:36 Tue 29 Jul 2014
At what point did Dick Emery take over the Port Forum?
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 00:09 Wed 30 Jul 2014
Ooh… You Are Awful. But we like you.
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 06:09 Wed 30 Jul 2014
I give up. Tell us more about your big tubes.
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 13:26 Thu 31 Jul 2014
And then;DRT wrote:Daniel, how many times do we have to warn you about turning perfectly innocent intellectual conversations about astronomy into smutty, inappropriate filth?djewesbury wrote:This is easily the filthiest thing written so far on this forum and yet it passes without comment or castigation. Unfair. That's what it is.LGTrotter wrote:That car looks too small. "Darling, I can't get it all in", we've all heard it a hundred times.
You have been warned.
This man has to be stopped, for the sake of the innocence of all youth!djewesbury wrote:Are those matches in your pocket, Derek? Or are you just pleased to see me?
Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 13:43 Thu 31 Jul 2014
I absolutely agree.LGTrotter wrote:This man has to be stopped, for the sake of the innocence of all youth!
I arrived home today to find a number of packages waiting for me.
Gentlemen, may I introduce you to my new toy...
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Re: A reason to get up early
Posted: 13:52 Thu 31 Jul 2014
A bit of a rush of telescopes arriving round yours, is this the start of a bull run or are you stopping now?