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anyone live in switz

This is where you can discuss your homework, family, just about anything, make strange sounds and otherwise discuss things which are really not related to the Lancer-series. Yes that means you can discuss other games.

Post Tue Oct 14, 2003 10:30 am

anyone live in switz



Explanation: Before the sun rose over the mountains, iridescent colors danced across the sky. The unexpected light show was caused by a batch of iridescent clouds, and captured on film in early September in Arolla, Wallis, Switzerland. The peak in the foreground of the above image is Aiguille de la Tsa. Iridescent clouds contain patches of water droplets of nearly identical size that can therefore diffract sunlight in a nearly uniform manner. Different colors will be deflected by different amounts and so come to the observer from slightly different directions. Iridescent clouds are best seen outside the glare of the direct Sun although they can occasionally be seen to encircle the Sun.

Credit & Copyright: Ute Esser (U. Heidelberg)

from APOD...

p.s. i so envy you peeps that live in the northern hemisphere..

Post Tue Oct 14, 2003 10:46 am

Wowzers.

Post Tue Oct 14, 2003 1:15 pm

@taw, i'd love to see them constellations and stuff.. but in this part of the world, in m'sia.. the clouds are so thick only on the clearest nights can you see orion.. only orion!! its a heavenly crime. i need to move to jaejudo in korea. they have awesome nights.

Post Sat Oct 18, 2003 9:49 pm

yeah, we dont see many stars here in the uk, too much light pollution

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Post Sat Oct 18, 2003 10:10 pm

thats true, ff, but also we are fortunate that rural areas are generally only a quick drive away and we can escape much of the effects of the light pollution (much, not all) certainly enough to make amateur astronomy rewarding. I sometimes (less these days) take the kids over to the Peak district where they can set up their telescope and view away for hours under clear relatively unpolluted skies. obv. for any serious observation its rubbish but it does enough for beginners.


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