BillOB
BillOB
@billob
Trusted Member
Joined: Jun 19, 2020
Topics: 0 / Replies: 59
Reply
RE: Nacreous Clouds

Oh no, thats a frightening reply! Go away CFCs and take your nacreous clouds with you! Tej, I only want the CFCs to go away, the nacreous clouds are...

7 years ago
Reply
RE: My visit to the Hershel Museum

The Hershel Museum Garden.

7 years ago
Reply
RE: My visit to the Hershel Museum

The museum is the basement, ground floor and first floors of the house. (and not a big house!) The furnace is a replica of Hershels' original. The gar...

7 years ago
Reply
RE: My visit to the Hershel Museum

One picture shows a furnace based on Hershels' original. The other is of the house, which is now the museum. I think you can get an idea of the size. ...

7 years ago
Reply
RE: My visit to the Hershel Museum

This is a very small museum. It had about eight visitors and fortunately, we all had arrived at different times, so viewing was spread around the buil...

7 years ago
Topic
Replies: 7
Views: 74
Reply
RE: Transit of Mercury - 9 May 2016

Thanks Mike, I was confused and I couldn't see you making a silly error. I can because, I'm a new member and an amateur.

7 years ago
Reply
RE: Transit of Mercury - 9 May 2016

Sorry Mike, Can you explain :- "The Sun’s altitude at the start of the eclipse is nearly 55 degrees. At maximum, it is 41 degrees high, and at the end...

7 years ago
Reply
RE: Timings for the Total Lunar Eclipse

Tej, I have three batteries for my camera. One holds a charge for a couple of minutes and then goes flat. Another has expanded and has to be pushed in...

7 years ago
Reply
RE: Timings for the Total Lunar Eclipse

Another attempt. The battery went flat before totality, so my pictures are of the early part of the eclipse.

7 years ago
Reply
RE: Timings for the Total Lunar Eclipse

I went out to our car park to watch. Tried to resize picture because it was oversize (2000k+). Piffle, I will try again after sleep.

7 years ago
Reply
RE: Pluto- New Horizon

I have been looking at the images downloaded so far. Some are blank so, I assume something was corrupted in the transmission. I hope they will retry. ...

7 years ago
Topic
Reply
RE: The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia, data and graphs

ex falso quodlibet I was following on from Andys' getting a Nobel prize. But, as the data is selective (they have an upper limit) interpretation nee...

7 years ago
Forum
Reply
RE: The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia, data and graphs

Hi Andy, I tried x-axis Age of host star y-axis Mass of host star Conclusion: The older it gets its mass becomes approx. 0.75 solMass! I'm calling it...

7 years ago
Forum
Page 3 / 4