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Here's a few images from last year's East Fortune Airshow which is held at a disused airfield near my town , the red arrows were the first team to display :- I'll post the 2nd batch later

thank you very much GMG , i loved the way that image came out

thank you cookie , number 2 is my personal fave aswell

after 6 votes , Images 2 and 3 are tied , 3 each thanks for all the nice comments , the cumulonimbus image was taken in may i think

thanks stu

Here's some images taken by myeslf over the last year , polling option are above this post. The overall winner will be announced in a few days Image 1 (Contrail over my house) Image 2 (Altocumulus at sunset) Image 3 (Nice Cumulonimbus) Image 4 (Cirrus) Image 5 (Crepuscular Rays) Image 6 (Cirrocumulus) a second batch will be added tommorow

A bit cloudy here this morning , with large amounts of stratocumulus , probaly linked to last nigh't warm front passage. Very damp and soggy , because of last night's heavy rainfall. Not much of a wind Temp : 12.8C Wind Speed : Nil Wind Direction : SW Dewpoint : 14.8C Humidity : 91% Pressure : 987.6mb , slowly falling

a nice start to the day here with some good sunny spells Current Conditions (0800 BST) Temperature : 11.0C Humidity : 80% Wind Speed : 5.4mph Wind Direction : NE Rain Today : Nil Pressure : 988.1mb , steady Outdoor Dewpoint : 9.2C Sky Conditions : Scattered Clouds

SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY HAS SUCCSESSFULLY LANDED , WRAPPING UP A 14 DAY MISSION TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION The 7 crew members are back safe and sound on earth , they are :- Commander Mark Kelly Pilot Ken Ham Mission Specialist Karen Nyberg Mission Specialist Ronald Garan Mission Specialist Mike Fossum Mission Specialist Akihiko Hoshide ISS Crew Member Garret Reisman Image of Landing

i'm going to offer complete landing coverage this afternoon :- Latest Info : 30 Mins remain now until the de-orbit burn , at mission control (Houston) flight director Richard Jones is preparing to make the go - no go desicion for de-orbit burn which is coming up at 1510 BST , the CAPCOM (communicator to the shuttle) will inform the crew of this descion. EDIT (1454 BST) Discovery is now go for de-orbit burn , this means the shuttle will begin entering the atmosphere soon , this is the ending of the 123rd shuttle mission

Space Shuttle Discovery and her 7 crew members are just 2 hours away from landing on runway 15 at the kennedy space centre , florida if the first landing oppurtunity at 1615 BST is called off they have a 2nd oppurtunity at 1750 BST A de-orbit burn , which allows the shuttle to leave it's orbit and re-enter earths atmosphere will be conducted in around 45 mins (approx). Good weather is currently forecasted for the landing. They will conduct there de-orbit burn on orbit 217 , just to tell everyone we have around 20 mins till Space Shuttle discovery passes right above southern england , in all areas south of london. p.s don't try and look for it! , it's not visible during the day

there's also a chance that it was part of the shuttle's heat shield breaking off , which i hope is not the case , or sadly we will have a repeat of the columbia disaster in 2003 , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Disaster Let's hope Discovery and her crew make a safe return to earth tommorow , to reassure everyone NASA have also stated that discovery is in "ship shape" and they are still on course for a 1615 BST landing tommorow

yeah it could have been anything , NASA have said that in the past objects have become disloged from the shuttle or it's payload bay , so it must be quite common

the space shuttle discovery crew , set to land tommorow have had an encounter with a 1.0 to 1.5 foot rectangular object while making checks today , what's more , it left a bump on the rear end of the shuttle , was it a sattellite , space debris? i don't know , ground crews are currently looking through images and data to find out what it was. more info : http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html EDIT (1651 BST) : no aliens i'm afraid folks , NASA engineers have just announced that the object was a metal clip for the shuttle braking system , and is not of major concern info :- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080613/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle MODERATORS FEEL FREE TO DELETE THIS!

there's been a few here and there up here , but not as many as last year :huh:

don't mind at all James , anyone can posts in this thread

Reading taken at 1819 BST Outdoor Temperature : 11.8C Outdoor Dewpoint : 4.8C Outdoor Humidity : 49% Win dDirection : NW Wind Speed : 0.7mph Rain Today : Nil Pressure : 1012.1mb , steady Current Weather : Clear , Few Clouds

well we've had a mixed bag here today , started of cloudy and wet. Light rain soon died away leaving behind stratocumulus clouds for the start of the afternoon. But into the evening there's been a huge change , it's turned out to be a very nice evening with only a few scattered cumulus in the sky as the cold front has now cleared off down south Current Conditions (2037 BST) Outdoor Temperature : 9.1C , falling slowly Outdoor Dewpoint : 3.9C Outdoor Humidity : 66% Wind Direction : E Wind Speed : 0.7mph Pressure : 1008.5mb , rising slowly Current Sky Conditions : Scattered Cumulus

Grey start here with some drizzle as a cold front moves down from the north Outdoor Temperature : 8.5C Outdoor Dewpoint : 7.4C Outdoor Humidity : 85% Pressure : 1005.3mb , steady Wind Speed : 0.7mph Wind Direction : South Rain Today : 1.8mm

here's the latest round of earthquakes http://www.emsc-csem.org/index.php?page=home

Just grey and cloudy here at the moment Current Conditons (1923 BST) Outdoor Temperature : 10.3C Outdoor Dewpoint : 7.4C Outdoor Humidity : 73% Wind Direction : East Wind Speed : Light Pressure : 1006.5mb , falling slowly Rain Today : Nil Current Cloud Cover : 7 oktas of stratocumulus

Latest List can be found here :- http://www.emsc-csem.org/index.php?page=home so far today there's been 3 aftershocks from the china earthuquake , 2 being over 5th magnitude , the other being 4.6 on the richter scale away from china there were 5 others over 5th magnitude , there locations are shown below :- magnitude is shown in brackets off W coast of Northern Sumatra (5.7) Luzon , Phillipines (5.2) Kuril Islands (5.0) Luzon , Phillipines (5.3) Molucca Sea (5.1)

there's been another tonne of aftershocks in china overnight , i think there was a total of 13 , most around 4th or 5th Magnitude Heard on the BBC that the death toll is now 10,000 and a further 10,000 could still be trapped in collapsed buildings , again it's quite upsetting to hear this tradgedy has killed so many people.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moving on there's 6 earthquakes i'd like to report , 2 are below magnitude 5 (sorry ) but i've inculded them because they happened in europe There's been 2 quakes in Poland over the last 24 hours but they've been pretty small compared to the china one , one has not been assesd yet and happned yesterday evening at 1858 BST , and the other one was this morning at 0625 BST and was mesured at 2.9 on the richter scale , another 3 occured in greece , two of the latter one's were pretty small with the first being at magnitude 4.2. Away from Europe there's been a magnitude 5.2 in the South Sandwhich Island Region at 0437 BST this morning (map below)

sorry about that James , the link must be broken or something http://www.iris.washington.edu/cgi-bin/wil...062800.8.spyder (click on the link above and select a station) UPDATE (1925 BST) :- Another Aftershock has been detected at 5th magnitude at 1754 UTC (1854 BST) in the Sichuan Region of China , that's the aftershock total up to 20 now

Here's some seismograph data from this mornings main earthquake in china at 6:28 BST http://www.iris.washington.edu/cgi-bin/wilberII_showplot.pl? There's been a total of 18 aftershocks !!!! UPDATE : 19 aftershocks , a magnitude 4.7 has just happend at 1703 UTC (1803 BST) , about half an hour ago