Starship Asterisk*

Ann wrote:Honestly, Margarita, I had never heard of the battle of Gataskogen, where this man was captured. Must have slept during my history lessons.

But now that I've googled it, I can see that this battle took place in 1365, so.... NGC 1365?

Ann

Beyond wrote:I'll take 1492, when Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

Beyond wrote:Well, there doesn't seem to be much to tell about NGC1492.
It was discovered in 1948 by William Herschel.
There only seems to be 2-pictures of it. A very blurry blob, and a not quite as blurry blob.
So i didn't go to all the trouble of downloading and uploading, as there's really nothing to see.
That's about it, as far as i can tell.

The Year 1067 AD

In the year 1067 AD Olav III and Magnus II became joint Kings of Norway.
In the year 1067 AD construction began on the Tower of London. Hmm! See - the iron fist of William already showing itself.

In the year 1067 AD Lady Godiva, Countess Of Mercia, died.

The two pretenders to the Swedish throne, Eric Stenkilsson and Eric the Pagan, are both killed during the struggle for power in Sweden. Halsten, son of king Stenkil, who died the year before, becomes the new king of the country.

Beyond wrote:I think most people are only familiar with the riding a horse down the street while being naked part, and not why she did it, which i seem to remember, had something to do with her husband?
Also, i have no use for a wimple, so i have none to drop.

Lady Godiva — was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to a legend dating back at least to the 13th century, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants. >>>

According to the typical version of the story, Lady Godiva took pity on the people of Coventry, who were suffering grievously under her husband's oppressive taxation. Lady Godiva appealed again and again to her husband, who obstinately refused to remit the tolls.

At last, weary of her entreaties, he said he would grant her request if she would strip naked and ride through the streets of the town. Lady Godiva took him at his word and, after issuing a proclamation that all persons should stay indoors and shut their windows, she rode through the town, clothed only in her long hair.

Just one person in the town, a tailor ever afterwards known as Peeping Tom, disobeyed her proclamation in one of the most famous instances of voyeurism. In the story, Tom bores a hole in his shutters so that he might see Godiva pass, and is struck blind.

In the end, Godiva's husband keeps his word and abolishes the onerous taxes.

Beyond wrote:All i have to say about that, is YUM!

Ann chortled
Can't resist posting a picture of NGC 1666, the Great Fire of London galaxy, commemorating the slightly fiendish year of 1666. (Well, take away the "1" from 1666, and what have you got?)

Beyond wrote:Margarita, the second image in your post is just a black X. So i copied the url and pasted it into Bing search and Pediatric Gastroenterology type listings came up.

Beyond wrote:I guess your Dolphin drowned. Works fine with my IE10.

Where am I?
by Ann » Mon May 20, 2013 7:07 pm

I saw somewhere that NGC 1492 is an emission line galaxy. Margarita, if you feel like it, you might read this arxiv.org article about galactic emission lines.

Margarita wrote:
YOIKS! ANN - can you UNDERSTAND that arxiv article? I am HUGELY impressed... I went cross-eyed just reading the abstract---
Back to the studies...

Ann wrote:

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Source: http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=273743.75

Can't resist posting a picture of NGC 1666, the Great Fire of London galaxy, commemorating the slightly fiendish year of 1666. (Well, take away the "1" from 1666, and what have you got?)

It's a pretty nice galaxy. It's got enough structure that it might be classified as a very early Sa-type spiral. (Yes, my software classified is as SB0-a, which means that it has a disk and a bar, and it just might have some residual spiral structure.) There's a short but bright bar, and, fascinatingly, there is an obvious ring whose color strongly suggests that it is an intermediate feature, probably younger than the Sun but still way, way past its starforming days of glory. But when this now-ghostly ring was aflame with the blue fire of brilliant O-type stars, the galaxy must have been a fantastic sight. Perhaps it resembled galaxy M94, where the ring is still glorious and blue.

Ann