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Hi there,

I'm new to the region and am anxious to find an astronomy group that
isn't into bullshit politics and ego trips... I think i have found
the right place! ;>)--

-Ni!

Mike the anarchic photon

--- In amasot@y..., mwirths@s... wrote:

-Ni!

Welcome, Oh Knight, to this extremely small, but enthusiastic enclave
of observing buffs! Be most welcome, Mike of Wirths, for thine good
reputation preceedes thee...

MINI OBSERVING REPORT:
Ricardo of Harding was over here for dinner tonight, and we shared a
pleasant evening. Even though we spent most of the evening chatting,
and only looked at the sky for 60 seconds, I still have this short
observing report to post:

We looked at the sky when Richard was leaving, just after 11pm, and
noticed a very prominent and quite large ice haze cicle around the
moon. Best one I've seen thus far. We are talking about 50 to 60
degrees in diameter. The band of this circle was perhaps 10 degrees
wide. To top it all off, while we were looking up, a magnitude -5(?)
meteor zoomed across the circle, under the moon, to end in a bright
white ball at the opposite side of the circle, near the edge. Very
bright, many times brighter than Jupiter. Nice co-incidence that we
were looking up at that time & from that angle, to see such a diamond
ring effect.

You never know what you'll see when you look up!

Let Photons Rule! ;-)
Roland

PS- Ni! Ni! Ni!

--- In amasot@y..., r.prevost@h... wrote:

> We looked at the sky when Richard was leaving, just after 11pm,
and

noticed a very prominent and quite large ice haze cicle around the
moon. Best one I've seen thus far. We are talking about 50 to 60
degrees in diameter. The band of this circle was perhaps 10

degrees

wide.

Indeed. Halos are neat. They come in many varieties. The coolest
one I've seen was during the day. It was a cold winter day. It
was nominally clear but there was thin fog all over the sky.
Actually, it was an ice fog. There was a beautiful ring around
the sun perhaps 50 degrees in diamater. However, the cool part
was another ring that didnt center on the sun at tall. It was
paralell to the horizon and went right around the sky at the same
altitude as the sun. The two rings intersecting each other made
for very cool sight. Apparantly the horizontal ring requires
ice crystals suspended in the air to be growing in a particular
habit (crystallographers lingo) that is quite rare.

It was very cool. And a lot closer than 8.5G ly

Roland

PS- Ni! Ni! Ni!

Attilla of Smeg.

Oops, wrong british-absurdist-humor-reference. ... (sounds of search
engine flipping web pages...) ....



Attilla

PS- "Ekky-ekky-ekky-ekky-z'Bang, zoom-Boing, z'nourrrwringnmmm".