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Quote from: Matt2112 on May 11, 2024, 12:04:35 PMSlightly annoyed seeing all the spectacular pictures taken barely two miles from my village of last night's Aurora Borealis.

From the field I viewed it from I could see only a silver, ghostly glow emanating from Bootes - none of the other colours of the spectrum. 

Maybe I'll have more luck tonight.

My neighbour went to Loch Lomond last night to escape light pollution to an extent. He said most of it appeared just as a wavy glow, but his iPhone photos on night mode display all the colours. Wish I knew how to post them here, they are excellent.

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From Loch Lomond, as forwarded to me by Picnic, taken by his neighbour.

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Interesting one, 6 or 7 mins.

Another one for the list:

https://vaxopedia.org/2024/05/08/the-observations-and-thoughts-of-vinay-prasad-raise-major-concerns/

There's a thin, patchy layer of high-altitude broken cloud over NW Leics at the moment. Can't see anything with the naked eye. Might try a phone photo in a bit.

Back 25 mins later, or less.

Quote from: Thenop on May 06, 2024, 11:04:45 AMOK just one then..

I enjoy Dan's channel but in truth, he's a bit light on the science .. it's pretty simple common sense debunking / fun-poking. That said, he has more than half a million subscribers now so he must be raking in the cash. Fair play to him.

My favourite tin-foiler debunking channel was CoolHardLogic - he did delve into the science a bit and made really professional videos with nice graphics. Very funny, as well. Unfortunately he seems to have retired a couple of years ago. This is a chemtrail debunk, really worth a watch.

Got this pic last night, from NW Leics. The phone sensor has made it look a lot more obvious than it was to the naked eye, but it's nice to have a record.

Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on May 11, 2024, 12:10:20 PMMy neighbour went to Loch Lomond last night to escape light pollution to an extent. He said most of it appeared just as a wavy glow, but his iPhone photos on night mode display all the colours. Wish I knew how to post them here, they are excellent.

Email a couple to me if you like, I'll sort it out. Let me know and I'll PM you an email address.

I went outside but couldn't see much. Too much light pollution to the north I think. I did take a couple of pics myself and you can see the effect, but it's very faint.

In other news - I must say I find it distasteful that Israel have been allowed to take part, in the present circumstances. Classic Israeli selfish disregard for other people of course, considering the trouble they've caused. Hopefully the crowd will make their feelings known.

Quote from: Thenop on February 29, 2024, 06:34:38 PMRight, the Dutch entry is known, and it's either hilarious or horrendous. Meaning he will either get 0 points or takes them all.

It'll be 0 points, I'm afraid. The Dutch entrant has been sent home.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68993726

Doesn't look like the sort of person to intimidate people. Odd one.

Tucker Carlson slapped down.

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Laura Kenny on a bike.

Must say I wouldn't have expected her recreational bike to be one of those.

Another warm, sunny day. I left work shamelessly early with the intention of doing about 45 miles. A light wind was blowing from the south again but I've done the southbound a few times in the last week or two so I wanted to do something a bit different.

I devised a route that would go south down the "old" southbound route through Desford, but cut across to the "new" southbound route before Enderby. It looked easy enough on the map but (of course) I cocked it up and ended up on Coventry Road, a very busy road that sprouts south-westward out of Leicester. I have been on it before but the Friday afternoon traffic made it a bit hairy. So I took an opportunistic left.



Quite a nice stretch of road after that, nice to do something new. The bit of road I did before arriving on Coventry Road was quite pleasant as well. Always good to do new roads for a change. I stopped for a sandwich and a Bounty bar at a village shop at Huncote. Hadn't been there before.

Eventually I found myself at a place called Cosby where I took the pic. Saw a sign to Broughton Astley from there. From Broughton I came back pretty much the usual way, except that I attempted to hit the Earl Shilton bypass, took a wrong turn and ended up looping back on myself.

I really must learn to make better use of the eTrex. Too idle to upload the routes, that's the trouble.

Lovely out there and I dressed appropriately this time, minimal clothing. Listened mostly to 5 Live.

About two years ago I bought a cheap Chinese wireless "bike computer" off Amazon and I got round to fitting it to the Boardman today. The idea, if I remember correctly, was that for short rides I'd be able to use my phone to record the ride directly via the Strava app. I calibrated the computer using notes I'd made last time I fitted a speedo to similar-sized wheels and seem to have got it spot on. 49.32 acording to the Garmin watch, 49.3 according to the speedo (it only does one decimal place).

https://www.strava.com/activities/11379644436