Stargazing Live

[hardr004]

I was wondering whether you watched it?

Very Quickely before i have got to go to bed, When did it say the meteor shower, eclipse and satern and venus are?

 

[tommy the cat]

Meteor shower 3rd and 4th best nights.
NOt sure about eclipse got side tracked.
D

 

[hardr004]

What time is the shower?

 

[gsfgaz]

tommorow morning is the eclipse

 

[jackcbr]

From midnight for the shower, 4am to 6am for the planets and 8 till 9.30 for the eclipse, if memory serves me well.

Typically, it is cloudy here tonight.

better luck for the morning and the eclipse.

 

[hardr004]

thank you very much

 

[Shewie]

Caught the last ten minutes of the show, looked pretty good so I'll be tuning in again.

The bear thing after was a good watch too.

 

[locum76]

Stargazing was a great show, it was quite funny at times too. The lady reporter in Hawai helped move things along nicely too.

I thought the bear programme was okay but I thought he'd have been best to leave nature take it's course. We'll see in the next show if thats correct or not.

 

[Humpback]

Great programme; D O'B appears to be everywhere at the moment. The PDF information on the website is helpful and covers the year. might be worth printing off as an aide memoire.
Alan

 

[Walks with dogs]

I'll be watching again tonight. Enjoyed last nights enough that I actually got my telescope out for the first time in a while and had a good look at Jupiter and the Orion Nebula.
I was impressed with the short introduction to astronomical photography too, must give that a go.

 

[Miyagi]

Stargazing was a great show, it was quite funny at times too. The lady reporter in Hawai helped move things along nicely too.

Reporter Tricia Takanaka from Family Guy?

 

[Melonfish]

actually recorded it last night to watch tonight, kinda odd it being a live show but didn't want to miss it either way.

 

[durulz]

Bugger. Been meaning to watch this the last couple of nights, and I missed it!
Something good comes on TV and I miss it....typical.

 

[Melonfish]

Bugger. Been meaning to watch this the last couple of nights, and I missed it!
Something good comes on TV and I miss it....typical.

it'll be on Iplayer mucka:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search?q=Stargazing LIVE

 

[Walks with dogs]

That's what iplayer is for.

 

[Pandabean]

I missed half of last nights show as I kind of fell asleep . I wont be able to watch on iPlayer either due to a <1MB internet connection.
Did they go over anything exciting in the last half?

A few weeks ago, I took out my wee telescope and had a look at Jupiter and was amazed that with that telescope i could see 5 dots, one larger than the others. First time I have seen that and it fills me a sense of overwhelment in a way.

Anyone got any tips for taking photos of the stars? I have tried star trails before but it didn't come out to well. I saw on the programme that they had clear snaps of the stars without trails.

 

[CaptainBeaky]

Could see Jupiter with the naked eye the other night, and 2 (count them) meteors, but nothing last night - cloudy as a cloudy thing

Mind you, we took some scouts down to the Royal Observatory at Herstmontceaux in November, and we all got to see Jupiter through a 24" Saw 5 moons and you could see the atmospheric bands moving. Couldn't see the Spot, unfortunately, as it was on the other side at the time, but still great to see!

No1 son has now asked if he can get an astronomical telescope

 

[Walks with dogs]

If you do buy one, don't go overboard on price, something like a six or eight inch dobsonian is relatively cheap and big enough to see plenty.

 

[CaptainBeaky]

Thanks I think that's what the lad teaching Jonathan Ross about telescopes on Stargazing Live was recommending.

 

[hog]

She was a complete waste of time, other than using my TV licence money for a nice Hawaian holiday we learned nothing usefull from her freebie trip there.
The least the BBC could have done was send someone who was a bit savvy with the subject and then perhaps the coverage from there would have been more educational.