- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
"TRAIN" your eyes on the skies.
Feeble attempt to make thread on topic.......
I loaded up my camera and binoculars and headed out to a quiet gravel road outside of town to get some pics. Of course there are clouds from horizon to horizon. Oh, yeah, and the temperature is 1 degree Fahrenheit.
I was going to make it train related because I stopped next to some train tracks and was going to try to get thecrossbucks in the shot also.
Tom
Life is simple - eat, drink, play with trains!
Go Big Red!
PA&ERR "If you think you are doing something stupid, you're probably right!"
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Also, if you look at about 8-9 oclock from the moon, that bright star isn't a star, it's Saturn. The rings are very visible with binoculars.
Rotor
Jake: How often does the train go by? Elwood: So often you won't even notice ...
Sky is crystal clear here in Eastern West Virginia and what a show! The moon looks like the Chessie System Kitten from back in the seventys.
Jim
TOOCLOUDYHERE!
Oh well. Next ones in 3 years...
CLOUDY OVER HERE AS WELL
MISSED IT
Gav
the modelling thing is i'm building a kit
"Hey look...the moon turned red..."
"...AUGHHH!!! ITS THE ALIENS!!! QUICK, SAVE THE BRASS!!!..."
From a MRRer that thinks anything sky-related was the doing of the aliens
I actually saw it. Was pretty cool. Too bad I don't have a chainsaw to cut down all those trees in the way!
Sheesh! It's not aliens. Everyone knows it's a dragon eating the moon. (Chinese legend I think)
Looks great here in upstate NY. Sorry that some of you have clouds in the way. Hey! I can hear the 10:30 freight cross the high bridge into Kingston so this is train related.
Karl
The mind is like a parachute. It works better when it's open. www.stremy.net
loathar wrote: TOOCLOUDYHERE!Oh well. Next ones in 3 years...
Actually, there will be another total eclipse visible this year in North America in August.
I'll post a link in a bit.
ed: My bad...it's a partial in Aug. '08.
Geographic abreviations (used above): n = north, s = south, e = east, w = west, c = central
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEmono/TLE2008Feb21/TLE2008Feb21.html
Good eclipse info there.
Also, there is an American spy satellite about to crash that may be visible.
Space Weather News for Feb. 14, 2008http://spaceweather.com/Malfunctioning spy satellite USA 193 has been in the news latelybecause of expectations that it will reenter Earth's atmosphere in March andturn into a spectacular fireball. Reentry has not yet begun, but skywatchers are already noticing the satellite as it zips over Europe andthe United States shining as brightly as a first or second magnitudestar. Typical photos are shown on today's edition ofhttp://spaceweather.com./In fact, USA 193 may never reenter--at least not in one piece. Today,the Pentagon announced it will attempt to blast the satellite with amissile before its orbit decays. This would lessen the chances ofdangerous satellite debris and fuel reaching the ground while increasing thepopulation of space junk in low-Earth orbit.Would you like to see USA 193 with your own eyes? It is about to makea series of evening appearances over many US towns and cities,beginning this weekend and continuing until the Pentagon intervenes. Flybytimetables may be found at Heavens Above (http://heavens-above.com/). Youcan also receive telephone and email alerts when the satellite is aboutto fly over your backyard by subscribing to Spaceweather PHONE:http://spaceweatherphone.com/ .
Taken tonight, 2/20/2008 around 9:30pm EST
Taken in August much longer and slower lens..
Nice shot rolleiman!
Anyone get Saturn?
Same thing here in Sweden. What a shame!
Magnus
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New Haven I-5 wrote: Het guys! Wasn't that interesting? Too bad you can do that in Model Railroading!
Why can't you you have a lunar eclipse in model railroading ?
Low watt round spot light w/dimmer recessed into wall behind layout or into scenic divider, opening covered with picture of eclipsed moon copied onto thin paper, lights in the room otherwise turned off or significantly dimmed. For non-eclipsed moon, replace picture with picture of normal moon, turn up light.
Haven't tried it, but it should work in principle. Just don't use a too strong lightbulb close to paper - real fires are no fun on a layout.
Smile, Stein
Nice pics of the lunar eclipse Jeff, thanks for sharing. I need to get the adapter for my scope for attaching my camera, also would like to get the one to attach to the PC too!
I set up the scope around 21:30 EST and we watched until around 22:45 EST as the moon started into and out of the various phases. Saturn was nice to see too!
Cheers,
Ryan
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
I'm living with a very long Solar eclipse right now.
When I had to get on my roofs and push 6 feet of snow off them the tonage of snow and ice has now blocked every window in this 1 story house so that only the slightest bit of light can get in, we have to keep the lights on all day just to see in here.
I can't wait for this stuff to melt so that the house plants can stop dying!!!
UUrrggghhh,.....I hate the North East in Winter!!!
Red Horse wrote: I'm living with a very long Solar eclipse right now.When I had to get on my roofs and push 6 feet of snow off them the tonage of snow and ice has now blocked every window in this 1 story house so that only the slightest bit of light can get in, we have to keep the lights on all day just to see in here.I can't wait for this stuff to melt so that the house plants can stop dying!!!UUrrggghhh,.....I hate the North East in Winter!!!
So what are your thoughts on the south in summer?
Murphy is alive and well!
Here in Sin City we have 330+ clear (as in, "totally cloudless,") nights a year.
Last night was NOT one of them!
Oh, well...
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with no plan for eclipse lighting effects)
We're up at Sunday River Ski Area in Maine for a couple of days. Fortunately, we had very clear weather last night:
And the moon, on the crest of the new man-made snow
Gave a luster of Halloween to the objects below.
Apologies to Clement Clarke Moore.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Rotor, Ryan,
Thanks! I would love to have a tracking telescope for these kinds of pictures but the camera and lenses have kind of busted my photography budget for a year or so. The one from last night was taken with a 50-135mm f2.8 lens on a 2x teleconverter amounting to a 270mm at f5.6 and the picture was cropped. The full photo, the moon is pretty much an orange dot. I have to credit the sky though. For the past couple months we can't even see the sky here but last night, there wasn't a mist of cloud anywhere in the air. It was also about 10 degrees F so I didn't spend much time looking to see what else could be found. Anyway, Wanted to use the fast lens as the photo from last August was taken with a 2200mm lens at about f21, is NOT cropped but as you can see, leaves a lot to be desired. The bottom photo was also taken just before dawn.
Glad to share.. Thanks again.