The NASA channel is running live cockpit of the Space Shuttle Endevour; which goes off at 7:55 PM EST. I have been watching since about 4. Everyone is in the cockpit now and getting strapped in.
OOOH I miss my NASA channel. Night launches are the best and NASA channel shows all the good stuff without that silly commentary over all the real stuff!
I had DirecTv which has NASA but I dumped them because of their stupid billing policies. So now I THINK one of my cable channels shares airspace with NASA.
Gonna go look now!
i am very into this, thanks. i lived in fla. for a lot of years, and my family was NASA.
hey Ant....i took a lot of 13-year-olds to see a night launch. they fairly fainted with joy. 
the sky lit up like daytime , the earth shook, it was beautiful.
The Antagonist Wrote:OOOH I miss my NASA channel. Night launches are the best and NASA channel shows all the good stuff without that silly commentary over all the real stuff!
I had DirecTv which has NASA but I dumped them because of their stupid billing policies. So now I THINK one of my cable channels shares airspace with NASA.
Gonna go look now!
NASA has a live feed on the web in case you don't have DirecTV anymore. It's exactly what's on my TV right now (just checked for you).
www.nasa.gov/ntv
Thanks Moose! I was going to look for that but you saved me the trouble.
This is one of my interests as I am an amateur astronomer and all. I also get the iTunes U podcasts from various universities (Stanford has some of the most interesting lectures).
I have followed NASA's missions off and on but my most exciting moments where the mars missions and the Saturn/Titan pics from the Huygens spacecraft. You will NEVER BELIEVE what has been found out about our universe in the last decade....UNBELIEVABLE!
::bigg::
my uncle was a NASA engineer. the day i buried him i left cocoa beach in a fog, and i ended up in front of a huge atlas rocket. had no idea where i was. i was so fucking disoriented. i had to get the locals to get me out of there.
when you drive out to the cape (it's a wildlife refuge) you see alligators laying on the side of the road. and big signs warning of rattlesnakes. it's ironic, the ancient and the modern side by side.
Remember the day the shuttle blew up ?...I didn't understand what had happened at first & by the looks on the faces in the crowd, they didn't either.
i could see the launches from my front porch. and watch the second stage fall off. i would turn on CNN and run outside for liftoff. they would go downrange , you could see it all over florida. when Challenger blew up i was crying and running next door to see my Dad. all he said was they shouldn't have let those little kids on the cape.
jackboots Wrote:my family was NASA.
I know you've said before, but I don't remember; what did they do there? That's my fucked up recall and retention showing up again.
Zenith Wrote:This is one of my interests as I am an amateur astronomer and all. I also get the iTunes U podcasts from various universities (Stanford has some of the most interesting lectures).
I have followed NASA's missions off and on but my most exciting moments where the mars missions and the Saturn/Titan pics from the Huygens spacecraft. You will NEVER BELIEVE what has been found out about our universe in the last decade....UNBELIEVABLE!
::bigg::
Zenith have you checked out
NASA Worldwind for your computer? It's like Google Earth only in space.
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
You can get photos taken from space too on that thing!
The Antagonist Wrote:Zenith have you checked out NASA Worldwind for your computer? It's like Google Earth only in space. http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
You can get photos taken from space too on that thing!
The new Google Earth 4.3 beta allows you to turn away from earth and look out into space and see all kinds of deep space objects.
Duchess Wrote:Remember the day the shuttle blew up ?...I didn't understand what had happened at first & by the looks on the faces in the crowd, they didn't either.
I remember it. It was an extremely sad day for me. :(
I was born in 1961; and have no memory of Apollo 1. Iwas about 6 at the time.
Zenith Wrote:This is one of my interests as I am an amateur astronomer and all.
I have an Orion SkyQuest 8"Dobsonian. It's very heavy; so I don't take it out as much as I would if it was easier to deal with.
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The Antagonist Wrote:[user=61]Zenith have you checked out NASA Worldwind for your computer? It's like Google Earth only in space. http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/[/user]
You can get photos taken from space too on that thing!
Thanks Ant, I didn't know about this site. I have it bookmarked now ::bigg::
AnonyMoose Wrote:The new Google Earth 4.3 beta allows you to turn away from earth and look out into space and see all kinds of deep space objects.
Moose! ::bigg::
That's good information. I think I used Google Earth when it initially came out but not since. I always wondered if someone would make a scope that everyone could use right from their computers and see things out in the universe.
AnonyMoose Wrote:Zenith Wrote:This is one of my interests as I am an amateur astronomer and all.
I have an Orion SkyQuest 8"Dobsonian. It's very heavy; so I don't take it out as much as I would if it was easier to deal with.
NICE!
I always wanted a good scope but never thought in a million years I would be able to aford the one I really wanted. Then last year my sweetheart bought me my "dream scope" for my birthday. I totally jumped out of my socks and could not believe he even knew the type of scope I wanted. He is the best, best, best!!!
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It's in the basement right now because it has been icky weather here in Detroit. I took it out every night that I had clear sky's during the summer though. I can't bring myself to pack it away because I am looking forward to some winter sky viewing.
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This is the box. I think you can read the type of scope better here than in my dark and gloomy basement pic..haha
Where do you live Moose? I would love to do some pic exchange with you if you have a camera sync'd with your scope. I took a couple of pics of the moon with mine but they aren't as clear as they should be. I don't really know how to work the camera as well. In fact, I am really still learning all that the scope can do.
Zenith Wrote:This is the box. I think you can read the type of scope better here than in my dark and gloomy basement pic..haha
Where do you live Moose? I would love to do some pic exchange with you if you have a camera sync'd with your scope. I took a couple of pics of the moon with mine but they aren't as clear as they should be. I don't really know how to work the camera as well. In fact, I am really still learning all that the scope can do.
Awesome scope. I think next for me is something easier to handle. Maybe a Schmidt-Cassagrain that I can somehow connect to my Nikon D200. And something that can automatically look at specific DSO's.
I live close to the Alabama border West of Atlanta. Too much light pollution out here . One of the many things I miss about Connecticut.