WOW What A Bow!!!

Do we not have one here? I thought we did? Should we have one?

In my opinion, no. The reason being is that this is, after all, an astronomy forum. There are plenty of other RELEVANT places on the net to place such photos, like UK Weather World (which has been used for such items already, so why place them here as well? Is there an ego at stake?). The fact that the EAAS forum has added it does not concern me, no disrespect intended at all.

I know there are arguments 'for' and 'against' such photos being displayed here. I guess it comes down to relevancy. And I am not going to go back to the whole naming of names of people who have said to me "Why am I seeing rainbows and clouds on an astronomy boards?"

Martin et all, your pictures are nice. And you know what? The ones I have of cloud structures, sun pillars, and rainbows (yes, I too, have a meteorological interest) probably will not ever be seen here, as they are NOT RELEVANT!



Seanie.

PS- if I painted my car with a dashing display of the Cygnus Rift going from the front bonnet, over the roof, and finishing at Saggita at the back bumper, would that allow me to keep putting up a picture of my car against the garden wall, the front door, my shadow on the passenger window, and its sillouette against the sunset? Just because its 'connected' to the astronomical sky? Don't think so, as this is not a car forum...

Seriously, no, really, perhaps we should have one. I know some have no interest in atmospheric phenomena - but that's easy, just don't read that particular forum...

We merged it back in to observing since there were only a couple of people starting threads on it.

What a load of hair-splitting from Train-Spotters who probably don't understand what they are looking at.
The rainbow is a beautiful artifact of the light from our local star, which can teach us a lot about the physics of light.
Bet they don't know why the inside of the bow is so bright !

* breaths in .... commences rant *

I had initially created the Atmopspheric Observing board and I was dissapointed to see it removed, I really think it should be restored. Who are IFAS to tell Irish observers what is and isn't worth observing?

It's comming up to summer time, this means we will hopefully be getting lots of reports of NLCs soon, agian, these are atmospheric phenomena.

We have dedicated observers who put up excellent images and reports on these phenomena, why on earth would we want to disscourage that? If the guy stop posting these reports and images here becasue they are disscouraged from doing so I would be exceptionally annoyed. It would be a bad day for IFAS IMO.

Bring back the Atmospheric Observing board!

* rant over *

What a load of hair-splitting from Train-Spotters who probably don't understand what they are looking at.

Seanie, I think we have a new category for ourselves in the 'whats an amateur astronomer' thread

Bet they don't know why the inside of the bow is so bright !

How much do you want to bet?

Cheers,
~Al

I had initially created the Atmopspheric Observing board and I was dissapointed to see it removed, I really think it should be restored. Who are IFAS to tell Irish observers what is and isn't worth observing?

Not having a forum is not telling people that they cant obserrving something! We removed the forum because it wasnt being used. Only a couple of people were posting to it.

Similarly a couple of other forums will be getting reviewd fairly soon as they are hardly used.

It's comming up to summer time, this means we will hopefully be getting lots of reports of NLCs soon, agian, these are atmospheric phenomena.

NLC's are rare, and something that most people haven't seen. There will be a hanful of topics about this over the summer and they can go in the observing section.