Starry, starry night.... 2024

It’s great for accurate weather forecasting as well. It’s my next favourite after the Norwegians.

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I use Clear Outside for astro weather as it has lots of other stuff that’s appropriate for that … not surprising really as that it was designed for. I use Yr (aka ‘the Norwegians’ :grin:) for normal weather. Meteo France is just so out a lot of the time I usually don’t bother with it.

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Hairbear, I love some of the pictures from the James Webb telescope, is there a site where one can download the pictures as I would like to get some printed onto fabric?

Perfect skies at the moment. OH was out last night capturing M33, the triangulum galaxy.

I did find somewhere online where you could access the raw data, but that’s not much good. There should be processed images of various things online. I’ll have a look as I would be interested as well.

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Thank you

For me in was M78. Not sure what to do tonight. What equipment does he have ?

There seems to be loads of images at Images | Webb . Some are artists impressions and some are annotated for descriptive purposes for publication but there are a lot of things which are just images. The copyright terms for all the images are very generous and are here https://webbtelescope.org/copyright . it seems you can reproduce them on t-shirts etc as long as it’s not for commercial purposes.

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The raw data sets I was thinking about are from several sources including Hubble and JWST. It’s the MAST portal. STScI | Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) Portal

Many thanks, will take a good look shortly, doggy walking time :wink:

The Quadrantids meteor shower, anyone watching the skies?

I’m bedbound… you’ll have to watch on my behalf (any photos ??)

Sorry to hear that Stella, all the best for a swift recovery. Too much light pollution here.

Get well soon!

Aliens arrived tonight moving slowly from left to right. It looked like a star with swirling cloud going around it. Unless you know better… :alien:

Disappointing, I was getting ready to be beamed up…

I’m impressed you saw it, I wish I had. All I did was read a FB post shortly I saw your post on here.
I shouldn’t mention FB, too many people think it’s an awful places that has no positives.

Oh I wish I had seen! At the same time how horrifying to be dumping fuel in the atmosphere, dirty brute :rage:

Surely he should have electric rockets?? As you say, no respect.