Space In General

[Sprite]

Stunning! Have you got those as individual shots too?

Yep, all in RAW and JPEG I also have a candid shot with bird getting to safety.


Edit: Here is the bird trying to find a good spot to either hide or watch

 

[unit-one]

Very cloudy over here, so taking photos was very hard. At least the eclipse looked much better for the human eyes.

 

[PzR Slim]

Pretty cloudy here but managed to get a few decent shots.

 

[ECGadget]

Wish I had a proper camera to get some shots. Well, got 11 years to get one! Though I did manage to watch it and grab some half okay pictures. Lens flare managed to catch the eclipse more than the core substance of the photos

 

[Touring Mars]

Turns out we didn't need the makeshift filters (plastic wrappers from boxes of tea bags), as the eclipse could be seen with the naked eye due to just the right amount of cloud coverage.

 

[Sureboss]

Does the ginger's beard now smell of tea?

 

[Jimlaad43]

Turns out we didn't need the makeshift filters (plastic wrappers from boxes of tea bags), as the eclipse could be seen with the naked eye due to just the right amount of cloud coverage.

Similar situation for me in Edinburgh. I put my camera through some Ski Goggles and got these amazing shots.

 

[Dennisch]

Clouds throughout the morning.

Clear blue skies 20 minutes after it ended.

.....

 

[ProjectWHaT]

Best videos for the solar eclipse:

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/the-best-solar-eclipse-videos-1692732722/+caseychan

 

[ProjectWHaT]

What you're seeing is an edge-on view of spiral galaxy NGC 5023, which lies over 30 million light-years away. Despite the minor distance issue, Hubble was able to get a sharp enough image to count 30,000 of the brightest stars in this galaxy.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Bump.

Space-X launch tomorrow (weather pending) @ 4:33pm EDT. They will attempt a booster landing.

Stream will be here starting at 4:15 --> http://www.spacex.com/webcast

 

[ECGadget]

60% chance of GO for that right now; hopefully things clear up a little more

 

[Dotini]

Not all of the puzzling bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres are alike. The closest-yet images of the gleams, taken from 45,000 kilometres away, suggest that at least two of the spots look different from one another when seen in infrared wavelengths.
http://www.nature.com/news/mystery-of-ceres-bright-spots-grows-1.17313

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/ASI/INAF
Infrared images suggest that Spot 1 (top row), an area on Ceres, is made of ice. But the pair of bright gleams known as Spot 5 were invisible to an infrared camera (bottom right).


NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
The surface of the dwarf planet Ceres (shown here) has fewer large craters than researchers expected.

 

[CodeRedR51]

When are we expecting hi-res images of Pluto?

 

[PeterJB]

Not till June.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Water can exist as a liquid near the Martian surface. At around -70C it's too cold to support any of the microbial life that we know about.

 

[Pseudopod]

Speaking of Space. Mars rover in GT7? Yes please.

 

[CodeRedR51]

SpaceX launch scrubbed, due to weather. (anvil clouds within 10 miles - boooo)

Try again tomorrow.

 

[CodeRedR51]

SpaceX launch/landing in 10 minutes, weather looks much better.

Edit: Launch successful, just waiting on confirmation of booster landing. Sounded like it went well.

 

[Dennisch]

SpaceX launch/landing in 10 minutes, weather looks much better.

Edit: Launch successful, just waiting on confirmation of booster landing. Sounded like it went well.

I roughly calculated the trajectory after it left the East coast and if my eyes did not deceive me, I just saw CRS-6 blast by. 👍

 

[CodeRedR51]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/588076749562318849?hc_location=ufi

So close, yet so far. Oh well, there's always next time. Progress be thy name.

 

[MisterWaffles]

SpaceX launch/landing in 10 minutes, weather looks much better.

Edit: Launch successful, just waiting on confirmation of booster landing. Sounded like it went well.

Hopefully they can catch their rocket this time

 

[CodeRedR51]

I have a feeling it is laying on the platform right now, just not standing up.

 

[CodeRedR51]

So, apparently it landed just fine but too much lateral momentum caused it to tip over after landing. Damn, SO close.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/588082574183903232/photo/1

 

[ProjectWHaT]

I chuckled when I saw this on a website that I frequent.
(newer post is on top)

 

[CodeRedR51]

Uh....second time. And this time around it was much more successful than the first. I bet $50 they stick the landing next time.

That looks like Jalopnik, not surprising.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

Uh....second time. And this time around it was much more successful than the first. I bet $50 they stick the landing next time.

That looks like Jalopnik, not surprising.

No, Gizmodo. It's run on the same software, Kinja.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Not much better.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Ohhhhhh, video coming soon!

Edit:

 

[Dennisch]

It's just the second fail landing attempt.

How many rockets did NASA destroy trying to get into space?