Thought I'd get in early (with just a few hours to go here in Australia until 2008) to say Happy New Year to everyone on UMSF.
I hope that everyone will have a great time, be safe and make it back for a fantastic year in space coming up in 2008.

Cheers
Astro0

Happy New Year to you also, Astro0, and to everyone else! Many things to come: Messenger's first flyby, potential asteroid impact on Mars, Phoenix landing...gonna be a good year for UMSF!

I guess You all saw this ISS onboard shot already:
http://www.ussr-airspace.com/catalog/images/1.jpg

Although they could celebrate the New Year about 16 times, as they pass over the different time-zones, the ISS-crew will celebrate in GMT time I believe?

Good 2008 year UMSF!!!

This the first post of the year. You must know that I'm in France and we are now in 2008 . And most of people now are always in 2007. Strange moment. Very precious.

Have a good year, a good health and many sort of things like that .

Ahh - good old UK....running on GMT. I like 2007 - it's nice - I've got 46 minutes of it left

For those who've already embarked upon, or who are about to embark upon 2008 - may it bring you everything you hope for (apart from a dedicated server for UMSF, because we can't afford it )

Doug

Happy New Year to everyone on UMSF, wherever you are, from me in Kendal, gateway to the South Lakes, where the drizzle is falling and drunks who only know the first line of "Auld Lang's Ayne" are watching damp fireworks putt-putting into an orange sky...

Here's to a fantastic '08, with more wonders to enjoy, both anticipated and out of the blue... we truly live in a golden age of exploration, and I'm glad every day that I share it with all of you here.

Go Messenger! Go Phoenix! Go Spirit and Oppy!

(right, where's that glass of wine...?!?!)

HOOTENANNY


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hootenanny_%28UK_TV_Show%29

ROTFL! I have to remember that one. Thanks for bringing smiles to all of us all year Stu with your wonderful command of the English language. Happy New Year.

My sky is orange because the sun is just now setting. We'll be joining you on the other side in about 7 more hours.

Happy 2008 to all ! Amazing how this countdown makes you realize all the better just how 'spread-out' we UMSF are. We're all over the globe and yet we'r not that big, ...and we don't have to since we are the best
A special thanks to the core of this forum, you know who you are, keeping up good discussion and healthy curiosity, providing latest processed imagery, dedicated specific work, a good dose of humor, and respect. Thank you. I think I can speak for the majority

Nico, Anne, Marie, Louise

Thanks Dan, appreciate that.

Oppy New Year everyone..!

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And a very happy new year from the Netherlands as well

Happy new year unmanned spaceflight fans, it's looking to be an interesting one! Cheers one and all!

Happy New Year - nice to see a JPL float in the Rose Parade today...

All the best for everyone here on UMSF.
Happy 2008!

And a happy 2008 from Italy as well!
I sincerely wish you a "real life 2008" as happy as the 2008 we are going to have in UMSF, with the Mercury 1 and Steins flyby, Chandrayaan launch, Phoenix landing etc...

Dear UMSF members,
Following last year's topic,
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ost&p=79056
here are 10 new images taken last WE in Paris, just made for you to enjoy the "most beautiful (and romantic) city in the world", as usually said ...
Wish you were here !
...and many thanks again for the efficient & friendly work of our Forum Administrators !
Enjoy !

Beautiful photography. Thank you and Happy New Year.

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Very nice pictures, thank you! I really love Paris, and I enjoy coming there every other years for the air show. I will be there next 29 February with my girlfriend

it's a new record - an inline quote of a post that included a moderator message about deleting an inline quote. - Doug

Thanks Paolo for your kind comments !

Beautiful pictures Olivier . But, we can see clearly the excess of light, the light who is propagated in the atmosphere and cause light pollution. It's a shame for me... I find that very sad . The astronomic sky isn't recongnizable near these big town...

I agree Ant, but well, you know, where can we go ?
Mercury's too hot
You can't see through Venus' atmosphere
Mars' too dusty
Jupiter's got too many brigth sattelites
There's a big ring that block the view when you're on Saturn
Uranus' too tilted
Neptune's, may be, Neptune!
Pluto's no longer a planet

Happy New year on Earth anyway

Hum... I want to go here : http://www.sergebrunier.com/gallerie/paysage-atacama/

Ant, try here instead. The skies are dark because the cities are small & distant, the altitude is high enough so that there's no haze, and best of all there is lodging and food readily available...

Not to mention world class skiing, large game hunting, fantastic fishing, hiking and a top notch University where I resided as "BozemanDan" from 1982-1986.

And you can read about it all in an exciting novel.

Yes Ant103 : you are damn right about city lights pollution in Paris. But sometimes, only after a strong wind coming from the Atlantic ocean washes the aerosols, we can have then some wonderful star and planet sightings with nice contrast (not the faintest stars of course, but some friends at La Sorbonne Observatory and at Orsay campus succeeded in seeing and some objects such as M13, M42, M57...)