L. Marcus Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word No! You should Fear! Fear with great FEER! Moahahahahaaa! Ahem. As long as you're not going further north than London, there should be no worries. If you do, you might want to close the drapes when you go to sleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word No! You should Fear! Fear with great FEER! Moahahahahaaa! Are YOU sure you're not American? Or at least a contributer to the American media . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word No, american media contributed to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word Somehow, that's scarier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word . . . Fox's reach is long indeed . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word so is CNN's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word like what? I'm going from the north of Australia to Europe, what kind of Latitude-dependent effects? should I be worried? Worried? No. But you're going from the tropics to Europe in the latter's summer. Sunsets will be very late and twilights will last a long time compared to what you're used to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word Worried? No. But you're going from the tropics to Europe in the latter's summer. Sunsets will be very late and twilights will last a long time compared to what you're used to. Ooo, nice sunset photo opportunity. Not that I need it of course. eg attachments (taken 2 days ago at 6:30pm). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word Oooooh . . . Did those go through any color filtration or anything? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word Lessee ... assuming London time is the same as UT, on June 30 sunrise will be at 0346, sunset at 2021. Civil twilight starts at 0259, and ends at 2108. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word The acronym UT calls up a few candidates to mind, but none of them have anything to do with time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word UT = Universal Time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word Oooooh . . . Did those go through any color filtration or anything? no anything, just naturally red and awe-inspiring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word UT = Universal Time. In London, specifically Greenwich, time stands still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 Re: The Last Word no anything' date=' just naturally red and awe-inspiring. [/quote'] That's amazing. Are sunsets on your end of the world normally so colorful? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 Re: The Last Word That's amazing. Are sunsets on your end of the world normally so colorful?most of the time...yes. Kind of take them for granted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 Re: The Last Word We usually just get a pink tinge, around here. When it's hazy, most of that half of the sky is orangey, but nowhere near as bright and vibrant an orange as in that second picture. Jealous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 Re: The Last Word Chromatic response of cameras (and fidelity in displays) varies, but a good part of the sunset thing could be that the air there is coming mostly from the oceans, as opposed to you guys, where it's been over the continent for 3000 miles or so. Nearby mountain ranges can affect things too, but I don't think the Appalachians are high enough to make the effects I'm thinking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 Re: The Last Word We're about a mile up, give or take. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 Re: The Last Word Beautiful sunsets are (sometimes) an astronomer's curse. Volcanic explosions put lots of junk into the upper atmosphere, and that can cause colorful sunsets world-wide for a while. It also plays hell with atmosphere transparency. I was on the telescope for a week right after Pinatubo exploded back in the early 1980s. The guys on before me had packed it in and gone home. The weather was fine, but the volcanic debris completely hosed them. They were working at the short-wavelength end of the visible window, around 300 nanometers. They couldn't detect anything at their wavelength of interest; they gave up when they finally managed to see something at long wavelengths, did some extrapolation, and estimated that a factor of 50 less light was reaching Earth's surface at 300 nm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 Re: The Last Word Apparently the APOD people compensate by taking pictures of the pretty sunsets. ^ v ^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word We usually just get a pink tinge, around here. When it's hazy, most of that half of the sky is orangey, but nowhere near as bright and vibrant an orange as in that second picture. Jealous. With that orange photo, the others I took weren't that orange, but close. I chose that one as it had more saturated colour. Edit: I found about Picasa Web Albums so I put an additional two photos up for you to look at. I'm just experimenting with it, and I think it will be a good way to share photos/pictures between NGD and Nogadi. Upload once, link twice. (and the service is from Google, so you can use your existing gmail account) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word Ooooh, purty. ^ v ^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Re: The Last Word The Photometrist's Curse: May you always have beautiful sunsets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Re: The Last Word I could deal with that. ^ v ^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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