Sky at Night, 14th Nov

[DaveS]

This Sunday on BBC 4 at 8.30 pm  Note: note the usual 10 o/c.

Telescopes Through Time, from Galileo to Hubble and the James Webb telescopes.

[Ouroboros]

Should be interesting. 

[johninderby]

Should  be from Harriot to Hubble not that latecomer Galileo. 🙂

[DaveS]

Um, yes. Just re-read the blurb in RT, they do credit Harriot.

[johninderby]

Harriot was a polymath with quote a broad range of discoveries. The general public have never heard of him unfortunately.😕

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Harriot/

Edited November 9, 2021 by johninderby

[DaveS]

Well it was quite good, but 1/2 hour really isn't long enough.

[JeremyS]

Yes this was a much better S@N. Nice to see Pete having a bigger part. He did a great job 👍🏻

[saac]

Thanks for the heads up DaveS, catching it now on iPlayer.

Jim  

[Ouroboros]

I enjoyed that. They crammed in four times the amount of interesting info in half an hour than Universe did in a whole hour.

I hadn’t realised that Herstmonceux started as recently as 1946. It didn’t have a long life did it? Do I gather it’s used by amateurs now? 

[DaveS]

Was sad to see the state of the old INT dome.

[ScouseSpaceCadet]

2 hours ago, JeremyS said:

Yes this was a much better S@N. Nice to see Pete having a bigger part. He did a great job 👍🏻

Almost classic S@N. Even a fuzzy live view of Jupiter! Good stuff. 👍

[kirkster501]

Yes, watching S@N is very refreshing after the abomination that is "The Universe"

[Ouroboros]

I must say I have always thought Herstmonceux was pronounced Herstman so not sue. 

[callisto]

27 minutes ago, Ouroboros said:

I must say I have always thought Herstmonceux was pronounced Herstman so not sue. 

I thought that was somewhere in France?...just kidding 🤣

[Ian McCallum]

On 09/11/2021 at 16:25, johninderby said:

Should  be from Harriot to Hubble not that latecomer Galileo. 🙂

I first read that as Herriot, as in the fictional vet.🤣

[johninderby]

16 minutes ago, Ian McCallum said:

I first read that as Herriot, as in the fictional vet.🤣

All Telescopes Great And Small ???……..😁😁😁

Edited November 15, 2021 by johninderby

[Nicola Fletcher]

I thought that was a great episode - I wish it was on more often!

[Ouroboros]

2 hours ago, callisto said:

I thought that was somewhere in France?...just kidding 🤣

😀 Well …. Sussex is ‘near’ France.  I’m in good company anyway. Patric Moore pronounces it Herstmon So as least three times to my reckoning in this video. 

 

[Phil Fargaze]

23 hours ago, Ouroboros said:

I enjoyed that. They crammed in four times the amount of interesting info in half an hour than Universe did in a whole hour.

I hadn’t realised that Herstmonceux started as recently as 1946. It didn’t have a long life did it? Do I gather it’s used by amateurs now? 

It`s a great place to visit, I`ve been to their Astronomy Festival many times with the family. The web site is here

[JamesF]

Wikipedia says it is pronounced "-zoo" or "-soo".  I thought it was "-so", too.

James

[DaveS]

I just called it "Horse Manure"

[jacko61]

19 hours ago, Ian McCallum said:

I first read that as Herriot, as in the fictional vet.🤣

Strictly speaking, Herriot is a real vet's nom-de-plume

 

I really enjoyed this month's programme - watched last night on the iplayer not 3 hours after December's  mag landed on the mat (we have a very erratic post guy).  I was quite surprised at the quality of the images Pete showed of Jupiter and Saturn taken through that massive refractor. They didn't seem anywhere as good as some of the images we see on this forum taken with much smaller amatuer scopes.

Graeme

[johninderby]

[DaveS]

1 hour ago, jacko61 said:

Strictly speaking, Herriot is a real vet's nom-de-plume

 

I really enjoyed this month's programme - watched last night on the iplayer not 3 hours after December's  mag landed on the mat (we have a very erratic post guy).  I was quite surprised at the quality of the images Pete showed of Jupiter and Saturn taken through that massive refractor. They didn't seem anywhere as good as some of the images we see on this forum taken with much smaller amatuer scopes.

Graeme

Not entirely surprised as there was a lot of atmospheric dispersion and "boiling" from the low altitude plus chromatic aberration from the old objective, no ED glasses then. Lucky imaging from a video might have produced a sharper image, but this was 25 fps live video.

[Ian McCallum]

On 15/11/2021 at 20:56, Ouroboros said:

😀 Well …. Sussex is ‘near’ France.  I’m in good company anyway. Patric Moore pronounces it Herstmon So as least three times to my reckoning in this video. 

 

https://youtu.be/Qqs52N0LQyQ