Astronomy and Space related matters thread

It looks like a glassie alley

A quick Google gives me nothing- what’s a glassie alley?

You probably call them marbles?

What’s at the toe of the moon lads?

Not a single thing in the sky other than the two of them.

Beautiful evening.

The stretch doesn’t get much stretchier than this

It’s Venus.

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She’s looking well

Saw a string of starlinks pass by a couple of times last week when on holidays with a clearer night sky.

Is the string set up to act as a single powerful unit?

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/national/russia-s-luna-25-spacecraft-crashes-into-moon/ar-AA1fvI7J?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=2079f479bc67444699a4e6358e379662&ei=17

I love the way Russians put a slant on things when they go wrong.

“The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceasedto exist as a result of a collision with the surface of theMoon,” Roskosmos said in a statement.

The Russians fired a missile at the moon

Basically, they were hoping to see a splash to confirm the presence of water.

What part of Ukraine were they aiming for?

This was just too good to pass up.

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https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0823/1401175-india-moon/

On a more serious note.

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Jupiter is some sight this evening. Lighting up sky here in this part of north clare

It’s great viewing Jupiter through the telescope the last few days, when it hasn’t been cloudy. Can see the planet and its moons Io, galymede and Europa really clearly. Usually its too far away .

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Pretty sure I just saw a meteorite to the South West

More proof we’re living in a simulation

Why does the Moon look so big when it’s rising or setting? The Moon illusion is the name for this trick our brains play on us. Photographs prove that the Moon is the same width near the horizon as when it’s high in the sky, but that’s not what we perceive with our eyes. Thus it’s an illusion rooted in the way our brains process visual information. Even though we’ve been observing it for thousands of years, there’s still not a satisfying scientific explanation for exactly why we see it.

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No reports of this anywhere so maybe i just imagined it.

Yeah the moon is definitely fake, a hologram maybe to distract people from noticing that the birds arent real or its an ancient alien spaceship. Who knows