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The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

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  • Jackmydad
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    chris_m wrote: »
    Nowt to do with the stock pic they used.
    Think about it, how is it possible to get a Blood Moon AND a solar eclipse at the same time with only the three celestial bodies?
    My brain has turned to mush from spending most of the day reinstalling WIndows and various programs I need.
    That's my excuse anyway! :D
  • Pyxis
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    chris_m wrote: »
    I take it that was meant to be a joke - in which case it's fallen a bit flat.

    Mars, I'm told, will be to the lower right of the moon at around 22:00-22:15 - the brightest and closest it's been for 15 years

    I'll try to do better next time, then.
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  • PasturesNew
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    chris_m wrote: »
    It'll rise on a bearing of approx 124 degrees magnetic ;)

    Right ... so I'll shuffle out and look around in the sky until I see the moon :)
  • zagubov
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    There was a good advert/trailer on the telly that made my day. I wasn't watching it but the voiceover said. "If you CAN'T see this - we're talking to YOU".
    I looked over t the screen and the text said "We're NOT talking to YOU".
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  • LydiaJ
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    Pyxis wrote: »
    It starts being visible at 8.50 pm (London) and goes on to about 10.13pm (London), I believe.

    Slightly earlier if you're southerer, and later if you're northerer.

    Times of moonrise and sunset will depend on where you are (both latitude and longitude). Times of beginning and end of partial and total lunar eclipse are the same wherever you are. Lunar eclipses happen to the moon, so if you can see the moon, you can see the eclipse. Solar eclipses happen to the earth, which is why you have to be in just the right spot on the Earth's surface to see them.
    zagubov wrote: »
    There was a good advert/trailer on the telly that made my day. I wasn't watching it but the voiceover said. "If you CAN'T see this - we're talking to YOU".
    I looked over t the screen and the text said "We're NOT talking to YOU".

    :rotfl:
    What was it advertising??
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  • zagubov
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    LydiaJ wrote: »


    :rotfl:
    What was it advertising??

    I don't know- it wasn't my advert!:D
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  • chris_m
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    I don't even know which way to look .... I thought I'd look up on the night and see where the moon is :)
    chris_m wrote: »
    It'll rise on a bearing of approx 124 degrees magnetic ;)
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Right ... so I'll shuffle out and look around in the sky until I see the moon :)

    A simple method since, to get a lunar eclipse, the Sun, Earth and Moon MUST be in line - look where the Sun's setting, face that way and then turn around 180 degrees. The Moon should be rising around there.
  • PasturesNew
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    chris_m wrote: »
    The Moon should be rising around there.
    I can't see sunset here, I lose the sun behind big buildings early evening. From the ground it's gone by 5pm.
  • PasturesNew
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    I saw Boy George .... eventually.

    I waited until 10pm when the programme had finished, but it wasn't online to catchup yet and I got distracted by another programme, so watched that. Then started to watch George... but I nodded off .... so only just finished watching it :)

    It was better than I thought, as a programme. They didn't wax lyrical about the Irish troubles and all that ... they just stuck to the man/story. His great-grandmother's husband had been killed in WW1, so she'd married her husband's brother and had George's ancestor; she already had a daughter by her War-dead husband. That daughter married a chap who was one of the pre-IRA band of fighters; four months after they were married she was pregnant and he was hung for an armed ambush on British troops. She had the baby, it died 1 day old, her husband was hanged 3 days later. Then she died 9 years later of TB, so he went and put flowers on her grave.
  • Pyxis
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    zagubov wrote: »
    There was a good advert/trailer on the telly that made my day. I wasn't watching it but the voiceover said. "If you CAN'T see this - we're talking to YOU".
    I looked over t the screen and the text said "We're NOT talking to YOU".

    I think it was for those descriptive things you can enable which talk through what is happening on the TV....... for partially sighted/blind 'viewers'. AD on the remote control... Audio Description?

    It was a good advert! What you're seeing not matching what you're hearing was very good concentration practice! :D
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