Hubble - last night on BBC4

[beamer3.6m]

I watched about 2 minutes of this programme last night and then the presenters voice got on my nerves so much that I had it turn it over.

I have no idea who he was but wow he was annoying.

Just thought I would pass this on.

[beamish]

I have to admit

a) the wife found it interesting :shock: :shock:

Chris Lintott sounded like he was about to run out of time at any second ! Going at a mile a minute !

[daz]

It was a splice-job by the BBC. I have the hubble DVD.

And yes, I thought Chris was trying to break some world records for speed talking!!

[beamer3.6m]

My wife hated it. She heard the voice looked up and saw endless images of nebula and said 'boring'.

I had to agree.

[AstroDonut]

Watched everything from 8 to midnight with my girlfriend and she loved it, she's even considering trying to persuade her son (not mine) to dump trainspotting and move to astronomy, he's only 8.

We both found it very informative, baffling in places tho.

Hope to see more stuff like it this year, just hope the BBC can schedule programs to coincide with cloudy nights

[phillc]

Don't often watch T.V , that's the wife and daughters domain. But I sat down and watched BBC4s astronomy night, and enjoyed it all, why can't we have more programmes about astronomy on TV

clear night skies to you all

phillc :wave:

[roundycat]

what I found curious about the whole edifice was the last segment on amateur astronomy seemed to be a M Mobberly benefit. We were told there are some 40,000 amateurs in the UK, where were they all? How come nobody interviewed me or anyone that I know? Why were only two or three amateurs set-ups shown? Why did we see no amateur efforts on DSO's?

I think the whole thing must have been a cut and shut job from previous editions of Sky at Night, that's how you can do it on the cheap.

Dennis

[Coco]

When its cloudy and damp its better than nothing

[GazOC]

I thought the "Timeshift - Starmen" program that was on afterwards was great as well, I'd seen it before but it stood another watch very well. Stuff like that always makes me want an observatory!!!

[ZOG]

I wanted to watch Starmen and forgot all about it. And of course, it's not being shown on iplayer...........DOH

[AstroDonut]

I thought the "Timeshift - Starmen" program that was on afterwards was great as well, I'd seen it before but it stood another watch very well. Stuff like that always makes me want an observatory!!!

I agree, some very impressive setups.

I'm considering an Observatory this year, setting up my scope is bugging me already and only been involved with astronomy a few months

[Tim]

Out of interest, is Hubble big enough to see going over? Does any site have the tracking info??

[Psychobilly]

I think its too far south to be visible from the UK Heavens Above gives HST info...

As soon as i login to HA then HST disappeares from the list so i guess it knows i cantr see it

AS a guest with a 0N 0W location you get HST as an option...

[Kai]

I was all set up to watch last nights BBC4 programs and got about 15 mins into Sky at Night before i woke up at 11.30pm.

Best check BBC I player

[AstroTiger]

yes i wondered if it was chris lintott who narrated that.

I think for verbal speed he has been taking too many lessons off Sir Patrick!!

[Bruce MacDonald]

Out of interest, is Hubble big enough to see going over? Does any site have the tracking info??

Sorry, HST has an inclination of 28° so it never rises over the horizon as seen from the UK.

You need to travel as far south as North Africa to see it...better still Florida.

[MikeP]

better still Florida

Yippee - roll on February.

Mike