Thank you Mike,been hoping to get a pic of Stoodley Pike and the Aurora, and it finally got, regards Bri 😀Very nice shot. Gorgeous colors.
You’re very welcome, it really is an excellent image. Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together. 🤣Thank you Mike,been hoping to get a pic of Stoodley Pike and the Aurora, and it finally got, regards Bri 😀
Thanks,it dosnt happen that often ha ha,but it's Fantastic when it does !!You’re very welcome, it really is an excellent image. Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together. 🤣
Cheers ,was a bit icy coming back down ha ha,managed to loose a glove ,typical,worth it though, regards Bri.thats amazing brian, i regulary walk to stoodley pike from mytholmroyd but in the day i cannot imagine doing it in the dark cracking photo
Some amazing info there,Thank you and regards Bri 😀The all sky aurora was some time between 1981 and early 1989.
I can't think how to be more accurate as it was pre digital.
I submit reports monthly but don't keep them for years.
My colleagues have immaculate reports and statistics from about 1960, but usually don't submit them anywhere.
So they have the beautiful log books but the observations don't go into a database.
In the U.K. data exists for over 130 years in one organisation.
200 plus years in another.
In the U.S. 70 years for planets and probably longer for variable stars.
Herschel's, Newton's and Galileo's observations exist at least partly.
Babylonian, Chinese, Mayan and Greek observations go back a thousand to 4,000 years.
Possibly Egyptian also.
The Vatican also has very old records.
As to optics, Dallmeyer records are in a local library.
Taylor Hobson records exist.
Probably Zeiss also.
As to museums, well I loaned items that disappeared.
It is not only the British museum where items go walkies.
There is a huge trade in looted antiquities.
Regards,
B.
That must have been Fantastic to see Mike regards Bri 😀Another great shot Brian. I’ll have to look up Todmorden on Google Maps.
My best Aurora viewing was back in 1999 or 2000 I think it was. I was on a Korean Airlines 747 flying from Seoul to New York. The inflight movie was a James Bond film but I spent a long while looking out the window at a stunning light show as we flew over Alaska. Wish I had an iPhone back then.
It still is active as far as I know.The Astronomy Centre at Todmorden run by Peter Drew was very active.
Rob Miller also was involved but I think went to the U.S. where he designed and made top quality instruments.
Both are excellent telescope makers and made my custom telescopes.
They used to be in Bedford from memory.
With Jim Hysom in Cambridge, David Hinds and others they made the best amateur and some professional instruments.
All were really coached by Horace Dall in Luton.
Regards,
B.