[Potential Supernova?]

I think , unless the effects of the supernova found a wormhole to travel through, that light speed is as fast as anything goes in our universe (or so Einstien would have us believe!) so when veiwing the 'light' from a supernova you are also in the stream of all the particles that were traveling at light speed ( anything with mass would travel slower and so would arrive later still). I think that E=Mc squared is the math that explains it all.

Thank you Gray-Wolf, i understand now

[Potential Supernova?]

It won't effect us. In fact we've got a lot of things closer to home that should be concerning you in your life time.

i agree.

i posted, relaxing and forgetting all that:mellow:

[Potential Supernova?]

I may be barking up the wrong tree, if so i dont mind being corrected.

Presuming that the star concerned has already reached supernova 1000's of years ago. Apparently it looks like its going to go critical, so i presume it will have done a long time ago.(Because of the time taken for light to travel....)

If it was to do us any harm it would it have done it by now.

I say this not knowing which is faster light, G rays, X rays, blast or magnetic effect.

I guess magnetic effect the faster of the above.

So it could have happened in the stoneage. We could have felt the effects in the middle ages and see it tomorrow

Like i say, i may not have the facts right

[July Photo Competition]

I'll try this one. The view from Culver Down looking towards Brading. Taken as i was en-route to look at the storm, currently just a few miles East, which lasted for ages, and went on to Winchester ect,ect.....

[July Photo Competition]

2nd one for the com.

once again taken last night on sandown beach looking out to shanklin bay

Nice, that will probbably beat my effort (in a larger size)

[July Photo Competition]

this is my first photo.

taken from sandown beach looking out to shanklin bay last night..

kelly

very nice , i would expect that's very good full size

[Storm Reports Wednesday 26th July 2006 Onwards]

That would be the one, yes. It has weaken somewhat, but it's still putting on a beautiful display.

We've had a small amount of rain in the last 10 minutes, as well.

we got light rain here before the storm got on top of us.

Looking at the radar its now 61 miles , so its heading or recieding south, i suppose.

[Storm Reports Wednesday 26th July 2006 Onwards]

The storm I'm seeing is skirting to the east of us, but is extremely active. I'm seeing multiple strokes from this one. It's truly amazing to watch

i presume you are near this one :-

Thunderstorm ID H-1917 detected 23:38

Storm location bearing 10.0 dgr distance 84 mi

Last recorded activity 00:54

Intensity class Strong

Intensity trend Weakening

Current strikerate 35/minute

Peak strikerate 60/minute

Total recorded strikes 2805

Cloud-Ground strikes 1546 - 55.12%

Intracloud strikes 1259 - 44.88%

-- Strike type distribution --

Positive Cloud-Ground [+CG] 435 - 15.51%

Negative Cloud-Ground [-CG] 1111 - 39.61%

Positive Intracloud [+IC] 1181 - 42.10%

Negative Intracloud [-IC] 78 - 2.78%

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[July Photo Competition]

I'll have a go with this one i took tonight.

The view from Culver Down across Sandown Bay Isle of Wight

[Storm Reports Wednesday 26th July 2006 Onwards]

Storms now visible to my East/south east.

i am going chasing now to Culver Down, bye

[Storm Reports Wednesday 26th July 2006 Onwards]

great storm here through the night.

amazing lightening.

very heavy rain..

Hi Kelly, the second storm group at 330ish was better than the first for lightning i think. I was awoken by it at 330ish, lots more rumbling than the group in the evening.

Have put 2 shots in photography.

Russ

[Storm Reports 22nd July 2006]

This storm looks good on radar.

i am sat right under the eastern most bit at the moment,

all i can say is that its rumbley but the lightning is high altitude mostley.

[Storm Reports 22nd July 2006]

I can see and hear thease 3 storms. they are heading north right over me for once.

Most storms avoid the IOW you see, but not today!

[Storm Reports 22nd July 2006]

Nice group of storms to east of Isle of Wight, heading north.

I watched them with a friend for 2 hours from Culver down