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New Wed 7 Sep 11 11:03 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - Dog
Start lQQking tonight (if poss!)

Eh .. that should read 21m lightyears :)

www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8725053/Exploding-star-to-be-visible-from-Earth-within-a-fortnight.html
Last edited by: Dog on Wed 7 Sep 11 at 11:05
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New Wed 7 Sep 11 11:29 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - Cliff Pope
Star 21m miles from Earth

Panic sets in. NS&I index-linked certificates withdrawn.
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New Wed 7 Sep 11 11:40 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - WillDeBeest
The discovery of the giant explosion just hours after it took place...

Didn't the explosion take place 21 million years ago?

Damn the weather. I want to see this thing.
Last edited by: WillDeBeest on Wed 7 Sep 11 at 11:42
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New Wed 7 Sep 11 11:43 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - Dog
>>Didn't the explosion take place 21 million years ago?<<

Of course (as you know) but even more amazing if we can see it with (in my case) a pair of Minolta 10 x 50's.
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New Wed 7 Sep 11 14:24 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - neiltoo
If the lights not getting here until tonight, and nothing travels faster than light, how do we know it's going to happen tonight?

8o(
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New Wed 7 Sep 11 14:53 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - madf
>> If the lights not getting here until tonight, and nothing travels faster than light, how
>> do we know it's going to happen tonight?
>>
>> 8o(
>>

Dr Who of course told the BBC...in advance.
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New Wed 7 Sep 11 15:02 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - Mapmaker
Because it has already happened, but it's getting bigger.

Just as a good house fire starts with a waste paper bin that only the smoke detectors can find, and eventually is visible from outer space.
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New Wed 7 Sep 11 15:08 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - Suppose
>> Start lQQking tonight (if poss!)
>>

The telegraph story is 15 days old. So we are now outside the fortnight mentioned in the headline.
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New Wed 7 Sep 11 15:44 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - Dog
>>The telegraph story is 15 days old. So we are now outside the fortnight mentioned in the headline<<

True but - it was mentioned on Radio 4 this morning, and anyway - if it's been a'coming for nigh on 21m lightyears,
I guess it'll hang around for a few days or so :)
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New Wed 7 Sep 11 16:25 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - devonite
Great! they told us its in the Pinwheel Galaxy! - but wheres that?!!
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New Wed 7 Sep 11 16:42 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - Dog
>>Great! they told us its in the Pinwheel Galaxy! - but wheres that?!!<<

I'll be looking at the Plough, devonike, about where it bends into the business end, I think,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ursa_Major_IAU.svg

That's if I can get above clound level of course :)
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New Wed 7 Sep 11 16:56 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - devonite
I think my best chance of seeing it will be on the News!
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New Wed 7 Sep 11 16:58 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - Dog
Dats what I was thinking as well + there's always YouTube tomorrow etc.
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New Wed 7 Sep 11 17:04 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - Dog
OK ... you can all relax now, I've found the Pinwheel Galaxy!

Right ascension 14h 03m 12.6s

Declination +54° 20′ 57″

Lemme know how y'all get on :)
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New Wed 7 Sep 11 17:28 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - Dog
Ere tis ~ www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJIaC7DU0mw
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New Wed 7 Sep 11 19:21 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - Dutchie
Waiting for 2012 Dog.;)
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New Wed 7 Sep 11 19:26 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - Dog
Got something for you Dutchie ~ www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHHZkUiRP30
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New Wed 7 Sep 11 22:53 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - Dutchie
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eho6m_H1q2c&feature=related

Good film to watch Dog.Got me on to listening to Whitney Houston.
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New Thu 8 Sep 11 08:49 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - Dog
>>Got me on to listening to Whitney Houston<<

A quite wonderful song Dutchie, always reminds me of Los Cristianos in Tenerife when I was there for 3 months on my own and a singer downstairs in La Terraza used to belt it out every night :)
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New Thu 8 Sep 11 10:15 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - Mapmaker
It is item M101 on this map, just beyond the 'S' of Bootes in the top left-hand corner.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ursa_Major_IAU.svg
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New Thu 8 Sep 11 11:05 
 Star 21m miles from Earth can be seen with bi-nocs - Dog
Should be fairly easy to find, if we could be blessed with clear skies tonight (fat chance)

Still quite amazing though - another Galaxy, wow!

I've seen 3 or 4 of Jupiter's moons + rings of Saturn through those expensive zoom noc's sold in Argos,

Had to mount them on tripod of course, and I was in Tenerife at the time,
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