Looking at the stars...

[warped one]

Does anyone else do it?

I am fortunate ennough to beable to ride about 4mile for my house and come to a totally open patch of field with a gate way, that I can lay back on the bike and relax looking at the stars with Grimsby below me.

Tonight I went up there with a close friend in his car, and just laid on the bonnet talking about life in general and finally able to relax in a long time. It felt so good to get things off my chest without be judged or feeling like I was going to upset someone.

Do you feel like this when in total harmony looking up at the abyis?

Warped
____________________
amnesia - Never in the history of usernames has one been more accurate. Warped indeed. You sir are a fecking oddball.

[el_oso]

yes.
love it
one of the most fascinating things i find is stars.
makes me think how small and insignificant I am compared to the rest of the world. i to can go a few miles into Shepshed and see many millions of stars that you cannot see near big cities like London, Leicester & Nottingham.
____________________
Duke 390
Previous: '05 XR125L | '96 XJ600S Diversion |'05 Suzuki GSXR1000 | '05 Honda CBR125-R | '97 YZF 600R Thundercat | '11 Honda CBR250
Car: Jeep Wrangler 4.0L

[panrider_uk]

[smegballs]

Yes I like to look at the stars! Its nice to be in the country on a clear night, sadly it normally bloody cold too!

I also like a clear blue sky, its like gazing into an all encompassing blue infinity....

[Fortuna]

Reps if you name the bright star to the south. Follows a new moon and is close to Orion.

[TheDonUK]

I love it, But being in london there are very few places the light pollution allows you to see.

Would be very cool to have a place where you could do that, light a spliff and chill...

I had to ride out to practically Aylesbury to get any darkness...

Damn london, all the more reason for me to move to Canada. OH Canada!
____________________
[Current Bikes - GSXR-750 K5 & C90-97 ] [Previous Bikes: Runner 125, YBR 125, GS500, Bandit 600, Hornet 600, ZX6R-99, C90-99, R1-99, XT600E-04, GSXR-750 K4, CRF250L '16]

[DEN MONKEY]

I've just purchased my 4th telescope just for the task of looking at the stars.
All I need to do now is find a nice dark site to be able to enjoy them to their full potential.
Pity is where I live is both heavily light polluted and good ol regular pollution which makes for shit seeing.

Still summer is just about here so i will have my chance. Nothing better then sitting out under the star with a cold beer on a warm night

Oh and I know it's not the real thing but look up a piece of software called stellarium. It's free and will show you what stars etc you will see at night. It's not only entertaining but educational as well.
____________________
meh

[killa]

It's pretty amazing how many shooting stars you see if you just spend sometime looking.
Im lucky enough to live out of the way a bit and when i get home at night its looks awesome.
____________________
Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.
Bike:- Yamaha TRX850 | Killas Biking History | Killas Gaming History | Killas autmotive history

[Handsome]

A couple of weekends back I was on a rally down by Cirencester, the place itself was a few miles into the countryside, about three in the morning as everyone was winding down and going to bed I sat there looking up at Orion and the Great Bear I think it was, it's been years since I'd seen them so clearly, must have sat there for a good forty minutes just looking up...Fantastic sight...
____________________
Previous Bikes...Honda NSR 125 RR...Kawasaki Zephyr 550...Suzuki SV 1000 S...Yamaha FZ8...Current Bike...Suzuki GSX-R 750...

[The Shaggy D.A.]

Heard about this on the radio recently, I've added it to the list of places I'd like to visit :-

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8362265.stm

[Blackwolf]

ah yes nothign better than relaxing in a hottub while looking at the stars.
____________________
Current: Ducati Multistrada 1200s

[Mr.Everready]

I go out in my garden if I want to look, no street lights or polution.
____________________
the undemocratically unelected mod of the Scottish section

[The Artist]

No one see the big meteor shower last night then?

[ms51ves3]

[ThoughtContro...]

[msgander]

yes I get very "earthed" when have a chance of peace and quiet and time to reflect...it's good for the soul!!

My fave pastime is sleeping in large barn at mates parties occasionally in the straw stacks and looking up out the sides at the stars!! I sleep soooo well on those rare nights!
____________________
Always believe that your guardian angel flies a bit faster than you...............

[warped one]

[Alexio]

At about 5 - 6am on sunday morning when I was on my way to the meet I was almost at the end of the A272 when I looked up and saw the most spectacular sight. It was so full of majesty it was distracting to my road awareness so I knew I had to stop.

So I pulled over, looked up and saw thousands and thousands of pretty stars illuminating a massive vally which is a breathtaking view by day, and now I know also by night.

I was lucky that I managed to ride out of the rain storm to find a clear sky with absolutely no light pollution. It's small moments like those that make me want to do so much more touring on my 125.

One of my little moments of bliss.
____________________
will never give up his CG. I look at my fuel gauge more as a progress bar than a fuel gauge.
G: With my GSXR I do often effectively use it as a scooter with a clutch in town.
ms51ves3: why does it need 500 miles? Are you teaching it how to be a piston?

[YORKIE_GAV]

Always loved looking at the stars since i was a kid. I like this time of the year as i get to walk the dogs while its dark, i live in the country and on a clear night the sky's full.
Nice and relaxing and puts things in perspective.
____________________
Chugging around on my little CG

[silky666]

Didnt really interest me.... until I was visiting my Canadian girlfriend ... and she took me to some cabin near a lake, somewhere near Jasper (f*k knows where ... but it was in the middle of nowhere and not even a house closer than 50 miles away.. ie: zero light pollution)

Middle of summer ... by the lake shore... nice bottle of red.
Laying on a rug ... she reaches across, nuzzling my neck and starts to......... sorry, the memorys got the better of me.. i digress.

Anyway - staring into the sky I saw for the first time (for me):
1) The 'milky' swirl of the Milky Way .... I know it sounds obvious, but you really could see so many stars that it looked like a milky brush stroke across the sky.
and
2) Satellites tracking across the sky ... loads of them... I didnt believe her at first and was convinced they were really slow (lol ??) planes.

Later on that weekend I got chased by a moose with calf and almost got killed ... but thats a story for another day children.
Sleep tight and watch the stars.
____________________
There's nothing that shouts "Poor Workmanship" more than wrinkles in the Gaffa tape.

Gaffa tape is like "the force" - it has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

[Clanger]

The absolute best bestest place I've been to watch the stars, was in the middle of the desert in central Australia...OMG!! It was incredible.

I laid out on a sun lounger for aaaaages, just staring at the sight above me...it was amazing, better than anything I've seen anywhere else in the world, ever.

There was no light pollution at all. Nothing.

It should be on the list of things to do before you die. It's right up there with walking along the top of the Great Wall of China, exploring Angkor Wat, and a helicopter ride over Mt Cook and landing on a glacier...
____________________
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter won't mind - Dr. Seuss

[virus]

I live on the outskirts of town, so just a ten minute walk away is a few fields with no light pollution whatsoever, me and my mates make a habit of going up there every week or 2 just to unwind, occasionally have a toke, look at the stars and just chat about life etc etc.

Some of the most important decisions of my life have been made up in that field.

Cheers
John
____________________
own: 81 xs1100g...
owned: 85 rat CG (sold), 91 GS500e (stolen), 84 gsx400f (scrapped), 81 z250 (siezed, siezed, scrapped), 83 cb250rs (sold), 84 gpz750r ratfighter (killed) 84gpz400 (sold), '80 cb650 ratfighter (wrote off) 95gsx6/12f ratfighter (killed) 91 xj900 (sold)
stinkwheel Well I just had my hands up a pigs fanny. Which makes your concerns pale into insignificance.

[Dragonfly]

I love it. When I was a child my dad and I would sit in the back garden at night and watch metoer showers and look out for falling stars. I had a star chart from readers digest that was a wheel you set to the date and it showed what star was what. Wish I still had that as I do like gazing at the stars still. Would love a cool teleccope. My other half is the same we hang out the bathroom sky light and look at stars.
____________________
All the breast.
Muzza on Binge:
He's too busy beating the everloving shit out of Lizzie to notice this thread has taken a turn down Drama Avenue and stopped off at the popcorn shop.

[DEN MONKEY]

Here's a cracker pic from down south in Aus

https://www.terrastro.com/photo.php?file=/01.Ocean/04.Milky%20Way%20and%20Moonglow.jpg

there are a few more here

https://www.terrastro.com/
____________________
meh

[CaNsA]

No-one else gonna pick up on this?