Comments | calmllama: The night sky in summer

calmllama

The night sky in summer - huge post alert!

Aug 18, 2006 12:04

Ok, so I'm bored and on my way home last night I was star gazing, so I thought I would follow up my previous post and yabber on about some of the things we can see in our night sky at the moment.....

The Milky Way galaxy is the spiral galaxy we call home, as do roughly 100 billion other stars. It looks very much like other spiral galaxies when ( Read more... )

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Ace! motodraconis August 18 2006, 11:56:53 UTC

Arf! I'm a bit of a stargazing nerd... it's where the root of my LJ name came from originally, (long and roundabout story there.)

Scorpius is a tricky one to spot in England, especially in a city with all the light pollution. It tends to be so low to the horizon, but when you can get out away from street lamps on a clear summer night with a low view it's quite unmistakable.

Re: Ace! calmllama August 18 2006, 12:00:35 UTC

Yeah, I miss being at home. I grew up in the Peak District and sitting on the moors star gazing was one of my favourite pastimes.

sistercarrion August 18 2006, 12:10:56 UTC

Scorpius? Surely it looks like this:

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calmllama August 18 2006, 12:21:11 UTC

Had forgotten about him.... may have to watch that again soon........