As you will undoubtedly noticed, I haven't been on very much as of late. Partly due to my rediscovered obession with Sims 2 and partly due to my newly found love of astronomy.

Its completely awesome pie and I have come here tonight to share a couple of my piccies due to the moon deciding it wants to play with some clouds and not me and my new sexy filters.... Anyhoo, hope you likes

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Thank you Bubbly awsome picture did u take it through Telescope ?
And yes we missed you too

Yup. We got the adaptor at like Christmas but only managed to figure out how to use it the other month The clouds parted though last night and I got to take some piccies with my new filter - yay! But I'm not sure how much I like it tbh.

Next stop when I get lots of money is a kick ass 'scope and a CCD camera (average transfer rate 1 day) and photograph Orions Nebula, as seen here...

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/wallpaper/pr2006001a/1280x960_wallpaper/

Do they actually look like that or is it all filters

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/toriwaddington/110409#

Thats the link for my wee astronomy stuff... granted it's mainly the moon but if by any minor miricle the clouds clear tonight i'll try and get Jupiter

There is something about the moon thats so peacefull.
I cant decide which one i like the most between 2 or 4.
Still, all of them are very nice

Well done.

Yes it always looks peaceful lets hope man never lives there cos we always mess up great oictures bubbly

Great Hobby mate xx
A place i would love to be right now ..

As (hopefully) a future astrophysicist, I have some pretty coolness about this for you .
It's called gravitational lensing. Light is affected by gravity. So when a source of big gravity (like a black hole or a solar system) is in between the earth's telescopes and a source of light (like another solar system), the light of this solar system that is sent out is bended by the gravity into our telescopes, creating the illusion of a bunch of solar systems around the gravitational field. Of course those solar systems aren't there and are just reflections of the 1 solar system behind the source of gravity.

Clarification:


The grey arrows are the actual paths the light follows, whereas the orange ones are what we appear to see


None of those blue solar systems are there, they're all reflectations of 1 solar system behind the larger yellow one


This is the most famous one, Einstein discovered the phenomenon and this was the 1st time it was observed .

love the pics very much,might even take it up myself as an hobby