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Take A Look At The Plough

  • 12-10-2015 11:45pm
    #1
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭


    Seriously, if you are somewhere unaffected by light pollution and cloud cover take a wee look out and take a look at it!

    It's bloody amazing tonight.


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  • #2
    mud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭mud


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Seriously, if you are somewhere unaffected by light pollution and cloud cover take a wee look out and take a look at it!

    It's bloody amazing tonight.



    It is a beautiful cold, clear night here too. Just gorgeous.


  • #3
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    I didn't know you were a farmer, OP. John Deere is it?


  • #4
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I've about maybe nine pints in me, so maybe that's clouding my judgement a wee bit, but it definitely looks a lot better tonight than it has for a long long time. :)

    People that read this tomorrow when the phenomenon has gone, you have my sympathy.


  • #5
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    NachoBusiness wrote: »
    I didn't know you were a farmer, OP.
    My spuds don't gather themselves you know :)


  • #6
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    Will ya get up off the road and go home before ya catch your death


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  • #7
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Wasn't that a Phil Collins song?


  • #8
    Neverforgotten
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭Neverforgotten


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    Wasn't that a Phil Collins song?

    Is it just an empty space?


  • #9
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    foggy_lad wrote: »
    Will ya get up off the road and go home before ya catch your death
    I'm looking out my living room at it :)

    Seriously, if there is one piece of advice I can give the young people of AH, look North by Northwest right now


  • #10
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    Wasn't that a Phil Collins song?
    Where you get that idea from?

    I was just walking home from the pub when I realised there's something in the air tonight making the plough look amazing


  • #11
    lazybones32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    Cloudy here...
    True though: if people spent half as much time stargazing as they do watching tv/browsing, they'd be fewer personal problems.


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  • #12
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    lazybones32 wrote: »
    Cloudy here...
    True though: if people spent half as much time stargazing as they do watching tv/browsing, they'd be fewer personal problems.
    And more stiff necks


  • #13
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    its funny you mentioned it Backwards Man, I was drawing the curtains upstairs a couple of hours ago and noticed how prominent the Plough was.. the windows at the back of our house are North facing. I dont think I remember seeing the Plough as bright, for whatever reason.


  • #14
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,592 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    lazybones32 wrote: »
    Cloudy here...
    True though: if people spent half as much time stargazing as they do watching tv/browsing, they'd be fewer personal problems.



    Seen one seen em all.


  • #15
    lazybones32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    And more stiff necks
    Au contraire Donegal, looking skyward is scientifically proven to help improve posture by stretching the neck. scientifically proven by me


  • #16
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,853 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    I'm more of an orion man myself!

    it's probably my favourite part of winter, walking home on a cold clear night with Orion lighting up the sky in front of you


  • #17
    Knex*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,477 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    Absolutely stunning sky last night. Friend of mine was back from the States so I had gone out to meet him and play some pool, and so on. Came back home, out in the countryside, around half one in the morning, and it was breathtaking.

    If I didn't have to be in work early this morning I would have happily sat outside, wrapped in a sleeping bag, for a while.

    For me, nothing resets perspective more than a night sky like that.


  • #18
    asherbassad
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭asherbassad


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Where you get that idea from?

    I was just walking home from the pub when I realised there's something in the air tonight making the plough look amazing


    Oh Lord!


  • #19
    cowboyBuilder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭cowboyBuilder


    lucky bastards!!

    Its been years since ive seen the milky way on a cold clear night ..


  • #20
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    And it looks as if every night this week is going to be great for sky-watching. The 5 day forecast is almost completely cloud free over Ireland.


  • #21
    D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭D


    Quick to the astronomy forum: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=267



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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
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    Sums up why this my favourite time of year, the cold crisp clear light and the stillness. looking at the stars humbles you and make you realise we are just a speck in the infinite universe.

    This is from a poem about Christmas so apologies for that, but it sums up the early winter so well.

    The winking glitter of a frosty dawn.


  • #23
    franer1970
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 336 ✭✭franer1970


    I wonder if Americans get so misty eyed over The Big Dipper?
    A kitchen utensil, how romantic.


  • #24
    colossus-x
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    The small white dot's in the sky always look the same to me.


  • #25
    323
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    riffmongous wrote: »
    I'm more of an orion man myself!

    it's probably my favourite part of winter, walking home on a cold clear night with Orion lighting up the sky in front of you

    No plough here, down under atm. not winter either.

    But Orion is dominating the sky almost directly overhead right now.

    “Follow the trend lines, not the headlines,”



  • #26
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,592 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Clean northerly air makes the stars sparkle.


  • #27
    lazybones32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    kneemos wrote: »
    Clean northerly air makes the stars sparkle.
    That's soooo deeeep!!!!!!

    I bet you've the soul of a poet. (I'd put a million little love hearts along here if we had the emoticons)


  • #28
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,782 ✭✭✭dmc17


    The ISS just passed over at 7:59. Will be visible again for a short time at 9:34 pm


  • #29
    Sciprio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    I am interested in astronomy I always look up at the sky when it's clear and it's one of the reasons i like winter with clear skies. Buy yourself a decent pair of binoculars and where you thought there was no stars,many will appear even the faintest show up quite a bit.


  • #30
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    Spotted it last night, stopped me in my tracks. Love a bit of stargazing.


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  • #31
    Valetta
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    dmc17 wrote: »
    The ISS just passed over at 7:59. Will be visible again for a short time at 9:34 pm

    Read that quickly and thought "those fecking terrorists are everywhere " -:)


  • #32
    The Backwards Man
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    Looking class again tonight folks.

    Get out of your beds and look up.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_rP5XTo6bU


  • #33
    asherbassad
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭asherbassad


    When do we get to see your-anus, Backwards Man?


  • #34
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    asherbassad wrote: »
    When do we get to see your-anus, Backwards Man?
    Keep looking up, you'll see it eventually


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