Dark Sky poll

number of stars you can see at night, outdoors, with the unaided eye ... in the Orion constellation

0
2
29%
1 to 10
2
29%
11-20
2
29%
20-30
0
No votes
30+
1
14%
 
Total votes: 7

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Leif wrote:
28 Jun 2022, 14:15
Still better than seeing five naked Chris Greaves through your kitchen window at 0200 in the morning.
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Graeme wrote:
23 Jun 2022, 20:30
Uranus and Neptune are there in the line up too but they're telescope objects.
I've been listening to some material on space recently. One thing that struck me was that They were pronouncing Uranus with an emphasis on the first syllable, and not on the second syllable, as I remembered.

It turns out that it's not that I've misremembered - the pronunciation has actually changed - prompted perhaps partially by the schoolboy jokes.
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/ura ... s-urine-us

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YOOH-ran-ohs does appear to have caught on but changing a habit of a lifetime is tricky! I generally use YOR-an-ohs, oo er missus! Oh I see why they changed if now! But really, as the article says, maybe we should be calling Father sky, husband of Gaia, Earth Mother, OOH-ran-ohs, as the Romans did.
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Don't watch if you're offended by schoolboy humor

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In terms of the poll question.

I'm short sighted, so without glasses, I can't see any stars at night unaided. I can see one during the day.

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HansV wrote:
15 Feb 2023, 18:14
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Spitting Image was so funny!
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HansV wrote:
15 Feb 2023, 18:14
Don't watch if you're offended by schoolboy humor
watch? WATCH?!!???
In my final year at high school, not so far from the Houtman Abrolhos reefs which wrecked the Dutch ships some four hundred years prior to our time, we were set a play, a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608. The play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader Caius Marcius Coriolanus.

Try taking turns reading that play aloud, twice a week, for an entire term! In a class (5A) of twenty-six boys; no girls.

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GeoffW wrote:
15 Feb 2023, 22:32
... I can't see any stars at night unaided. I can see one during the day.
Ee Lad! Tha' were looky. Wur I live we can't see a single star, day nor night, even wit t'snow melted dahn Winders!
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P.S. I decided not to include the traditional link to The Four Yorkshiremen.
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