Astronomy and Space Peeps

[Shatter He/Him]

Just now, KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren said:

Alright.

Hopefully I'm far south enough to see aurorae...

Thanks

yeah. I dunno about Aurora Australis. I'm a tad more experienced with Aurora Borealis.

there's a webcam for Darwin on this page. I assume if there are aurora in Darwin, there are aurora in Melbourne.

https://theauroraguy.com/pages/webcams?srsltid=AfmBOoqPz4EhTu4huSB0f3SmMT6evGGmUxz5Yq3qJzhRLb0YPEi4oZ2r

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

2 minutes ago, Shatter said:

yeah. I dunno about Aurora Australis. I'm a tad more experienced with Aurora Borealis.

there's a webcam for Darwin on this page. I assume if there are aurora in Darwin, there are aurora in Melbourne.

https://theauroraguy.com/pages/webcams?srsltid=AfmBOoqPz4EhTu4huSB0f3SmMT6evGGmUxz5Yq3qJzhRLb0YPEi4oZ2r

Oh yes definitely

And there's one for Mount Buller, which is in driving distance

Except it's hard to see anything through the snow...

[Lord Stormer]

I had many things I loved in childhood and most of them fade away. Astronomy is an exception. I think it was 2008/09 when I found the passion (I'm 24 today), and I remembered in those days I really wanted to find a game or simulator where I can create my own solar system from scratch. I still do. A decade and a half later I'm writing a space opera with a variety of (fairly realistic) hand-crafted planets in mind. I have a penchant for details, so I've assigned them all the features I can think of: geology, rotation, orbitals, seasons, temperature, atmosphere - and imagining them at work.

It's not hard to guess my favorite field: exoplanetary research. The hunt for other Earths or life orbiting other stars is getting exciting lately, because we're approaching the technological capacity to make it possible.

Also, I'm very interested in the search for Planet IX. The signs are tentative and the search has been around 10 years, but in the next few years we can either confirm or rule out its existence.

[Shatter He/Him]