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Re: Where am I?

Post by MargaritaMc » Fri Mar 08, 2013 6:00 pm

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Ron-Astro Pharmacist wrote:in Libra. Google is quite functional.
OK, Ron! Give me it's (very boring) name and you win the orange! :lol2:
He did!
Ron-Astro Pharmacist wrote:How about "the Milky Way galaxy's so-called "Methuselah star"
He didn't! That is the 'so-called name'. I want the Henry Draper catalogue number!

As I have admitted on another thread, I am a Confirmed Nit-Picker! :derp:
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Re: Where am I?

Post by Ron-Astro Pharmacist » Fri Mar 08, 2013 6:06 pm

I think she is referring to a "real" HD 140283 ; a very fast star indeed. This is very informative. I had not heard about it until my search :D
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Re: Where am I?

Post by MargaritaMc » Fri Mar 08, 2013 6:12 pm

Ron-Astro Pharmacist wrote:I think she is referring to a "real" HD 140283 ; a very fast star indeed. This is very informative. I had not heard about it until my search :D
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Re: Where am I?

Post by bystander » Fri Mar 08, 2013 6:28 pm

Ron-Astro Pharmacist wrote:I think she is referring to a "real" HD 140283 ; a very fast star indeed. This is very informative. I had not heard about it until my search :D
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=30787
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Re: Where am I?

Post by Ron-Astro Pharmacist » Fri Mar 08, 2013 6:41 pm

How about something very simple from a new guy on the block. It's more fun solving than coming up with a good question.

In my journey around the solar system I'm not getting from point to point as quickly as others but I am heading toward a "larger" rendezvous this time. Where am I going? (Glad I don't have to deal with the math)
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Re: Where am I?

Post by Ann » Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:02 pm

To Mars?

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Re: Where am I?

Post by Ron-Astro Pharmacist » Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:15 pm

A little further out... Seriously, I thought it would imediately dawn on all you. :D
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Re: Where am I?

Post by Ann » Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:21 pm

To Pluto?

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Re: Where am I?

Post by Ron-Astro Pharmacist » Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:34 pm

No - that's too far out on the horizon. Somewhere in the middle lies the correction. Mythologically speaking we are talking very fertile ground for new research there. :D :D
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Re: Where am I?

Post by Ann » Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:35 pm

Jupiter? Europa? Io?

(Hey - there aren't that many large bodies in the solar system. If I keep guessing, I should get it right sooner or later...)

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Re: Where am I?

Post by Ron-Astro Pharmacist » Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:41 pm

Leave it to me to not read all the instructions properly. I didn't notice to "large" bodies part. Sometimes my brain is a dwarf.. :cry:
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Re: Where am I?

Post by bystander » Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:43 pm

It Dawned on me, you must be on your way to Ceres.
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Re: Where am I?

Post by Ann » Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:50 pm

Europa and the Bull. Painting by Nöel-Nicolas Coypel
Well, mythologically speaking Europa was fertile. And who knows if her namesake is, too?

The Bull, by the way, was Jupiter.


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Post by Ron-Astro Pharmacist » Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:58 pm

You got it. Ann had the right idea but was my target was smaller and less ferile than hers. Europa would be a fine target too. I hope I get to see us heading there in my time. Speaking of which, time for a new one bystander. :)
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Re: Where am I?

Post by bystander » Fri Mar 08, 2013 8:03 pm

We've been to Europa already. I will defer to Ann. It seems she has some place she wants to go.
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Re: Where am I?

Post by Ron-Astro Pharmacist » Fri Mar 08, 2013 8:14 pm

Land there - I was hoping. To look for little green tradigrades. :)
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Re: Where am I?

Post by Ron-Astro Pharmacist » Fri Mar 08, 2013 8:16 pm

Tardigrades. Let me see spelling, reading and math errors of late. Time to go back to school.
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Re: Where am I?

Post by bystander » Fri Mar 08, 2013 8:18 pm

Ah, well it seems that Ann has left the building. So I will post another.

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Re: Where am I?

Post by Ron-Astro Pharmacist » Fri Mar 08, 2013 8:28 pm

Too bad ; she has some very nice graphics. Where does one learn such a skill? For one educated way before code was invented I would love to be able grasp it. Bystander - I think you are staying in the neighborhood with this one. 8-)
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Re: Where am I?

Post by bystander » Fri Mar 08, 2013 8:49 pm

Sol's neighborhood, yes.
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Re: Where am I?

Post by Ron-Astro Pharmacist » Fri Mar 08, 2013 9:56 pm

Image I hope this works... if not give me a ___ for effort. Fill in the blank :ssmile:
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Re: Where am I?

Post by Ron-Astro Pharmacist » Fri Mar 08, 2013 9:57 pm

http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/Z32.1.html

Better luck next time :(
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Re: Where am I?

Post by MargaritaMc » Fri Mar 08, 2013 10:30 pm

Ron-Astro Pharmacist wrote:Image I hope this works... if not give me a ___ for effort. Fill in the blank :ssmile:
I couldn't work out how to post graphics, either, when I first joined the forum. :roll:

The img button works to display a link to a graphic when the link is directly to file that ends in the 'extension' .jpg (or .gif and/or something else that I can't remember at present!)

When you find an image that you want to show here, if you click on the image and then select 'View image' that will usually take you to a page that just has the image and no text. Save that URL from the browser address bar and paste it into your post here as I've done below. (To see the innards of my post, or anyone's, click the QUOTE button at the top right of the post)

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By the way, if the image is big, use the img2 button, and that will show a reduced size image.

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Re: Where am I?

Post by bystander » Fri Mar 08, 2013 11:48 pm

Ganymede is correct. It's your turn to post, Ron!
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Re: Where am I?

Post by Moonlady » Sat Mar 09, 2013 11:43 pm

I like to suggest that if the person who got the correct answer doesnt give
information when he or she will post a question, that we wait 24 hours.
If the 24 hours are over since giving the correct answer that is confirmed before as such,
and still not posted a question, others can take the opportunity to come with a question.
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