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13 Apr 16 - 01:34 PM (#3785120) Subject: BS: what do u see in the sky From: skarpi what do you see in the sky ?, have you see some thing that is more strange than it used to be ? if so what ..I know there some strange lights or things ( UFO´S ) that we cannot yet explain , but what else , in bright clear day have you seen anything else but the Sun and the Moon ... look into the heaven , you might see it ..or not , still I do not see it ... all the best Skarpi from the Banana Island . |
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13 Apr 16 - 01:44 PM (#3785121) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: keberoxu Greetings Skarpi. Right at this moment it's the image from Irving Berlin: Blue Sky, nothing but Blue Sky... |
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13 Apr 16 - 01:52 PM (#3785123) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: gnu Lucy with diamonds. >;-) |
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13 Apr 16 - 01:54 PM (#3785124) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Senoufou Hello there Skarpi! Nice to hear from you! We saw the Northern Lights a few weeks ago, from Norfolk UK. Very strange flickering lilac and yellow colours. We have no street lights here in our village, which is excellent, as all the stars etc can be clearly seen. I have seen the Space Station going by in the early evening. |
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13 Apr 16 - 01:54 PM (#3785125) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: gnu Oops! Forgot the marmalade! (Google... Lucy in the Sky) |
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13 Apr 16 - 02:26 PM (#3785136) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Will Fly I also tracked the space station for a few minutes recently, Eliza - fascinating to see it scoot across the early evening sky. |
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13 Apr 16 - 02:28 PM (#3785138) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: maeve Hi, friend Skarpi. We see eagles and osprey, and the wonderful clever Ravens. |
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13 Apr 16 - 02:41 PM (#3785142) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Steve Shaw I've seen two superb green flashes at Widemouth Bay in less than two weeks. |
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13 Apr 16 - 04:49 PM (#3785155) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Bee-dubya-ell I have never seen pie in the sky, though I have occasionally heard it. |
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13 Apr 16 - 08:42 PM (#3785175) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Sandra in Sydney normally I see almost nothing as I live in the most densely populated part of Sydney where most buildings are over 4 storeys, many over 10 & some 38 storeys, & lots of lights, as it is also Sydney's entertainment centre. Tho I can occasionally see a star or a satellite. I can also see some beautiful streaks of sunsets over the skyscrapers of the CBD. When I go past the CBD into inner city suburbia, I can see full sunsets over the whole skyline. sandra |
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13 Apr 16 - 08:57 PM (#3785176) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Donuel In order of the most dramatic looking to subtle effect: A large fireball traveling north in the western sky as viewed from the New York State Thruway. It was slow (from horizon to horizon in about 50 seconds). It was trailing slow yellow orange licking flames with little to no vapor trail. The speed is based on my traveling speed of 70 mph to a stop on the shoulder and then leaving the car to view for an additional 20 seconds while I pointed it out to passing cars. May 5th 1975 I saw a large lunar impact. It was back lit due to an impending lunar eclipse. The ejecta looked like a slow nebulous drop of milk into water in slow motion followed by the secondary minor ejection. The comet in the nineties was vividly colorful with a bright blue tail with a second bright red tail offset by 20 degrees. flying triangle with three corner lights that hovered in place at about 15,000 ft. or less. later reaction to this by the military is a story in itself. In the seventies I saw a fast cylinder cross horizon to horizon less than three seconds. The Milky Way with virtually no atmospheric distortion. A floating metal ellipse disappear in less than a second as if a mirage covered it with sky. An event in my room, first seen by my cat who fluffed up at the sight, Of two softball sized nebulous glowing balls of light that had the ability to pass through brick walls and travel straight through the room through the opposite wall. I touched one. |
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13 Apr 16 - 09:16 PM (#3785179) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Steve Shaw On 26 October 2006, just after midday, I was in my garden when there was a huge explosion in the sky, the sort of thing that has you putting your hands over your head and cowering. It made the local and regional news, but was never explained; an exploding meteor was the most popular theory. A few years earlier I was in a taxi coming back from the pub session one Friday night when both I and the taxi driver (a good friend of mine) saw a huge fireball streaking across the sky. That also was reported in the news. Another time I was just about to get into bed when I saw from my bedroom window a super-bright, blue-and-white fireball streaking across the southern sky. Hale-Bopp was wonderful for weeks. We also saw the total eclipse in August 1999, from Sharp Tor on Bodmin Moor, among the very few people on that cloudy day to see it all. Right place, right time! Magic, it was. |
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13 Apr 16 - 11:19 PM (#3785201) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Bill D In about 1953, I had a newspaper route in Wichita Kansas. I was out collecting one night and trying to read my accounts book by the light from a house window. Suddenly, I COULD read it! I looked over my left shoulder and there was a bolide (a meteorite that bursts) that zoomed over the area. I read later that Dr. Lincoln_LaPaz who was from Wichita, had taken a great interest in it, since it descended basically toward where he was in New Mexico. In 1975, camped at about 9000 ft above Denver Colo., I got to see the Perseid meteors on a very clear night...zoom...zoom... every few seconds. Sorry Skarpi, but nothing strange in daylight...... |
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14 Apr 16 - 01:36 AM (#3785215) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Sandra in Sydney Years ago we were travelling south one evening from the Sydney Metrop area thru national parks & other empty spaces. I was leaning on the passenger window & watching the milky way & raving about it. The driver was not so impressed cos he had spent a lot of time in locations without electric light interference, but offered to stop at the nearby lookout where I stood entranced looking at all the stars. I could even see that the Southern Cross was 3-dimensional, not flat like all drawings! best pic of the Southern Cross I could find |
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14 Apr 16 - 03:14 AM (#3785217) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Keith A of Hertford I fear the 3d view was an illusion Sandra. So called iridium flares are a dramatic sight. They are very local. get predictions from site Heavens Above. Look for brightness above (lower than) -7. |
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14 Apr 16 - 05:18 AM (#3785227) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Stu Saw a small fireball last winter over the Peak District behind our house, spectacular. Saw the northern lights on night in -22˚c in Norway, watched live as Shoemaker-Levvy slammed into Jupiter from telescopes set up in the car park at Jodrell Bank. The thing I love to see most in the sky though is corvids; gambolling, tumbling and whiffling on the eddies and currents of the wind on blustery days, flying to the roost in the dusk, calling as they go. |
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14 Apr 16 - 05:36 AM (#3785229) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Will Fly Right out on the sands in Morecambe Bay on a hot, sunny day. No noise, no wind, utter peace. And a huge flock of waders, turning and wheeling in a huge, multi-shaped cloud - a bit like a starlings' roost. Magic. |
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14 Apr 16 - 05:56 AM (#3785232) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Steve Shaw Flock of goldies on Bodmin Moor. Funnel clouds, more common than you'd think. |
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14 Apr 16 - 05:59 AM (#3785234) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Senoufou In our last house (quite isolated and surrounded by fields) I took a sun-lounger into the garden at 2am and lay on it in my dressing gown looking up at the sky. You had to keep looking straight ahead, because the Perseids could come from any direction. It was in August so I wasn't at all cold. I kept a tally and I saw 67 that night. I also saw numerous Pipistrelle bats, a tawny owl a barn owl and a rather large rat. Those shooting stars were absolutely fabulous and I shall never forget them. |
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14 Apr 16 - 07:56 AM (#3785248) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: MGM·Lion One sunny and stormy day the rainbow ended in the field 30 yards from my back window. Vast arc, whose eastward extremity came to earth right where I could stand at the window and admire. That bit of Cambridgeshire fenland, though so close, unfortunately not too easily accessible, as a deep ditch & a thick & wide thorn hedge lie between my back fence and it; so regret I was unable to check if a crock of gold lay there! ≈M≈ |
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14 Apr 16 - 08:34 AM (#3785261) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: JenBurdoo I've seen Venus several times in daylight, with the naked eye. It's fun to search for! Had a very successful run of Library skygazing nights this winter, even in light-polluted South Florida. Watched the moon, mostly, plus Orion, Jupiter and the ISS on a couple occasions. I once even saw the Chinese space station, Tiangong; very faint, but it was grazing the moon so easy to look in just the right direction. Heavens-Above.com is the best site for knowing what's in the sky; there are a lot of intermittent or occasional things to look for. |
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14 Apr 16 - 09:27 AM (#3785269) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Senoufou At this time of year we get dozens of night-flying wild geese and swans coming over. If you're out star-gazing you might get dumped on from on high. Our windows are often bedaubed, it's a bit annoying, but I do love to see the wild birds and hear their poignant cries. |
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14 Apr 16 - 10:02 AM (#3785274) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Uncle_DaveO Looking out my computer room window, at 9:40 AM, I saw only the blue (of course) and a strong vapor trail. Dave Oesterreich |
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14 Apr 16 - 10:21 AM (#3785277) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Will Fly Hey Dave - you could, of course, tell the most gorgeous fibs and tell us of all the wondrous things you'd seen... I'd believe you. |
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14 Apr 16 - 11:10 AM (#3785285) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: skarpi well , there are strange things up there now , I have been taken pictures in night time of the aurora ..and two night ago there is a long something in ten frame´s of pictures I took , I have no clue what this is , also there are planet´s I see from here that I cannot account for yet ...so yes I believe that we are not alone here on and around earth , the Universe is to huge , and think we are alien after all ...:) ...have great day ..I am trying to sick at home something in my lunge so grounded until next Monday , all the best from the Banana Island ... Skarpi ... |
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14 Apr 16 - 11:26 AM (#3785291) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: leeneia Three buddies and I are planning a trip to Iceland, where we hope to see the Northern Lights. |
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14 Apr 16 - 11:54 AM (#3785299) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Steve Shaw The only app I ever bought is Star Walk. It's beautiful. Best thing I have on my iPhone and iPad by a country mile. |
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14 Apr 16 - 12:52 PM (#3785312) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Senoufou Hope you're feeling better soon skarpi. |
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14 Apr 16 - 10:06 PM (#3785399) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Joe Offer I feel like I need to say goodbye to Orion and the Pleiades, my two favorite constellations. I love the summer sky and especially the Summer Triangle, but I'll miss Orion and the Pleiades until they come back in the Fall. I'll also miss sunsets. Soon, the sun will set behind a mountain. Our sunsets are far better in Winter. -Joe- |
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15 Apr 16 - 06:14 PM (#3785531) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Steve Shaw We've had some very nice anvil clouds this week. The weather underneath them wasn't quite as nice. |
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26 Apr 16 - 03:01 AM (#3787171) Subject: RE: BS: what do u see in the sky From: Keith A of Hertford There is a transit of Mercury across the sun on May 9th, starting at 11.12 UT/GMT. |