(deep voice) “J. O. I.”
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- Tue Jun 28, 2016 12:06 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Juno Mission Trailer (2016 Jun 28)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9443
- Sat Jun 25, 2016 2:57 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Andromeda on the Rocks (2016 Apr 19)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 13455
Re: APOD: Andromeda on the Rocks (2016 Apr 19)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9_Andromeda.jpg Andromeda on the Rocks http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_160419.jpg Explanation: Because the stars trailed above the horizon while the picture was made, separate exposures tracking the stars were combined with on...
- Tue May 31, 2016 1:00 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Stars and Gas of the Running Chicken... (2016 May 31)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4790
Re: APOD: Stars and Gas of the Running Chicken... (2016 May 31)
Does anyone else see the Flying Spaghetti Monster in this?
- Mon May 30, 2016 9:27 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Surface of Europa (2016 May 19)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5874
Re: APOD: The Surface of Europa (2016 May 19)
Unless we redefine “animal” to include extraterrestrial clades with phylogenies similar to those of Metazoa, a better expression would be “biological importance.”neufer wrote:
- They would definitely be of zoological importance.
- Thu May 19, 2016 6:09 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Surface of Europa (2016 May 19)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5874
Re: APOD: The Surface of Europa (2016 May 19)
When I look at the closeup, the dark areas look like cast shadows, with uneven edges toward the bottom. This leads me to believe that the scene is illuminated from the top, and that the linear features are double ridges.
- Fri May 13, 2016 11:56 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: My first ISR victim, and a potential heartbreak
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2240
Re: My first ISR victim, and a potential heartbreak
Don't you hate when you find a typo after the editing period has expired?Cousin Ricky wrote:... (The observatory scope could not be used because the recalibration for public viewing was cannibalizing to much research time.) ...
- Mon May 09, 2016 2:59 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: My first ISR victim, and a potential heartbreak
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2240
Re: My first ISR victim, and a potential heartbreak
I haven't seen any "name a star" service that claims the star names they catalog will be official outside the catalog, or that they will be adopted by the scientific community. They appear to be careful to explicitly state the opposite. So, if people "buy a star" thinking otherw...
- Mon May 09, 2016 2:55 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: My first ISR victim, and a potential heartbreak
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2240
Re: My first ISR victim, and a potential heartbreak
He didn't seem disillusioned at the time.geckzilla wrote:I guess we won't ever know what the individual from Ricky's story was thinking unless he comes back.
- Sun May 08, 2016 2:30 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: My first ISR victim, and a potential heartbreak
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2240
My first ISR victim, and a potential heartbreak
I volunteer at public nights at the local observatory. At public night last November, I met my first International Star Registry victim. This guy’s star was in Lynx. Unfortunately, Lynx was low in the sky, over suburban lights, and the Moon was waxing gibbous. I am unfamiliar with Lynx, and there wa...
- Tue Apr 19, 2016 1:53 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Andromeda on the Rocks (2016 Apr 19)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 13455
Re: APOD: Andromeda Rising over Colombia (2016 Apr 19)
I noticed right away that the stars smear north-south, meaning that they cannot be star trails, yet the figures are not similarly smeared. How is this a single exposure? Was the camera moving during the shot?
- Fri Apr 01, 2016 6:04 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Europa: Discover Life Under the Ice (2016 Apr 01)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3164
Re: APOD: Europa: Discover Life Under the Ice (2016 Apr 01)
Do you really have to ask?heehaw wrote:I was shocked to the core when I went to today's ESPOD : http://epod.usra.edu/blog/ Click on the picture to get the high resolution. I hope this is not some stupid April Fool joke?
- Sun Mar 06, 2016 5:37 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Cities at Night (2016 Mar 05)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3783
Re: APOD: Cities at Night (2016 Mar 05)
The image was made on 25 July 2015 at UT 13:43. The view is to the southwest, almost directly towards the 74% moon (out of the field at the top). At this time, ISS was only just in the night, with the Sun lighting the northern horizon behind it- almost certainly the source of the blue light. (And t...
- Sat Mar 05, 2016 2:33 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Cities at Night (2016 Mar 05)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3783
Re: APOD: Cities at Night (2016 Mar 05)
I'm curious about the white balance of this photo—or, why do the spacecraft look blue?
- Thu Feb 25, 2016 9:32 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Highest, Tallest, and Closest to the... (2016 Feb 25)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 15892
Re: Closer to some...further from others (2016 Feb 25)
Arguably the closest mountain top to the "Stars" would be what ever southern peak (probably Vinson Massif in Antarctica) lies closest to Alpha Centauri B, our closest star that isn't the Sun That would be Proxima Centauri, not Alpha Centauri B. And certainly not Vinson Massif. There is a ...
- Thu Feb 25, 2016 2:25 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Highest, Tallest, and Closest to the... (2016 Feb 25)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 15892
Re: APOD: Highest, Tallest, and Closest to the... (2016 Feb 25)
Draw them a picture.Lilly wrote:My students dont like this explanation today... They said it is to complicated... too much information in a few words..... I found it interesting....
- Thu Feb 11, 2016 5:46 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves (2016 Feb 11)
- Replies: 115
- Views: 30390
Re: APOD: APOD Place Holder (2016 Feb 11)
For the same reason USAliens (Not "Americans", as Mexicans and Canadians and South Americans all recognise that different countries with different customs exist) [...] If we were writing in Spanish here, you’d have a point with your terminology. In Latin America, the word América does ref...
- Thu Feb 11, 2016 5:39 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves (2016 Feb 11)
- Replies: 115
- Views: 30390
Re: APOD: APOD Place Holder (2016 Feb 11)
That’s nothing. I’ve seen the word “miles” used in APOD explanations.phlloydl wrote:Why is it that Americans assume all the world understands their time zones? This is an astronomy-related web page and astronomers work in UT. So what is "11:00 am Eastern Tome" in UT, please?
- Thu Feb 11, 2016 5:29 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves (2016 Feb 11)
- Replies: 115
- Views: 30390
Re: APOD: LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves (2016 Feb 11)
Yes, the engineers should celebrate the fine work they've done but this doesn't advance Science one bit. Maybe, when Amazon sells gravity telescopes for amateurs at less than a hundred quid this event will be seen as the start of something but today it's just yet one more in a long, long, line of c...
- Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:14 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves (2016 Feb 11)
- Replies: 115
- Views: 30390
Re: APOD: APOD Place Holder (2016 Feb 11)
Can't they just compress space-time and get us the news now? ![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
- Tue Feb 02, 2016 11:40 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A Five Planet Dawn (2016 Jan 30)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5035
Re: APOD: A Five Planet Dawn (2016 Jan 30)
Damn!Startreader wrote:My definition makes at least one person happy.
Therefore the greater benefit to Humanity in general would be made by adopting my definition.
- Mon Feb 01, 2016 3:22 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Find the Man in the Moon (2016 Feb 01)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 32447
Re: APOD: Find the Man in the Moon (2016 Feb 01)
I was never able to see any sort of man in the Moon until Carl Sagan pointed one out in The Demon-Haunted World. I'm not sure I could see it today. When I was a kid, I read a book illustrating the face, but all I ever saw was a rabbit. A few years ago, someone gave me an explanation. We live in the ...
- Sun Jan 31, 2016 5:50 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A Five Planet Dawn (2016 Jan 30)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5035
Re: APOD: A Five Planet Dawn (2016 Jan 30)
I was about to compose a rebuttal, but then you wrote this:
All other rebuttals are rendered superfluous.
Sorry, science doesn't operate that way.Startreader wrote:Why? Because that makes me happy.
All other rebuttals are rendered superfluous.
- Sat Jan 30, 2016 9:33 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A Five Planet Dawn (2016 Jan 30)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5035
Re: APOD: A Five Planet Dawn (2016 Jan 30)
Who wouldn't claim that? B.o.B?APOD Robot wrote:Though some might claim to see six planets, ...
- Mon Jan 25, 2016 2:39 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Where Your Elements Came From (2016 Jan 25)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 13077
Re: APOD: Where Your Elements Came From (2016 Jan 25)
AFAIK element 43 Tc (Technetium) is also manmade, hence it's name. At least the Dutch Wikipedia agrees with me. Any comment or rectification on my knowledge or on Wikipedia(Dutch)? Technetium is naturally occurring, but its half life is short enough that all the primordial technetium on Earth has d...
- Tue Jan 19, 2016 1:23 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Proxima Centauri: The Closest Star (2016 Jan 18)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 13216
Re: APOD: Proxima Centauri: The Closest Star (2016 Jan 18)
The explanation referred specifically to “the brightest star in the Alpha Centauri system.”Nitpicker wrote:I suppose the list of brightest stars is based on what is resolvable by the unaided eye. So, Alpha Cen is considered brighter than Arcturus.