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Re: Where am I?

Post by Beyond » Fri May 31, 2013 12:48 pm

Margarita is a wheely good sleuther. Perhaps we should call her "Sherlockarita" :?:
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Re: Where am I?

Post by stephen63 » Fri May 31, 2013 2:07 pm

Aha!!!!!

PSN J16525897+0224255, CBAT TOCP discovered 2013/04/11.396 by Adam Block
Found in NGC 6240 at R.A. = 16h52m58s.97, Decl. = +02°24'25".5
Located 1" east and 22" north of the center of NGC 6240 (Discovery image) (Stu Parker image) (Joseph Brimacombe image) (Gianluca Masi image) (Joseph Brimacombe image)
Mag 18.4:5/21 (18.1:4/11), Type unknown (References: SN 2010gp, 2000bg)

Edit: You submitted NGC 6240 for selection as an APOD!

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Re: Where am I?

Post by Beyond » Fri May 31, 2013 3:19 pm

Ah... that's why the florescent space lights. :yes: Ultra luminous. (it's a lot brighter than me) :lol2:
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Re: Where am I?

Post by MargaritaMc » Fri May 31, 2013 3:59 pm

If you hadn't said that the date was still important, I'd go for this:

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=31319

However, http://www.nao.ac.jp/en/news/science/20 ... -star.html might be of interest!

Also, did you know that Apollo 13 was launched on April 11th, 1970? Nothing to do with this, but I thought I'd drop in the fact.

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Later edit - I've just seen Stephen's post. Much more likely than my mitherings... And Beyond.. Sherlockerina (or whatever it was, I can't view it whilst I'm editing). More the cerebral workings of good ole dumb Dr Watson!
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Even later edit. WOW :shock: :shock: I missed that image you posted - How amazing :!:
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Re: Where am I?

Post by MargaritaMc » Fri May 31, 2013 4:12 pm

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 25#p199995
This is Adam Block's image that Ann posted.

Clever Stephen! How about setting a puzzle??
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Re: Where am I?

Post by Ann » Fri May 31, 2013 4:22 pm

Well done, Stephen! :D :D :D :clap: :clap: :clap:

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Re: Where am I?

Post by MargaritaMc » Fri May 31, 2013 4:40 pm

Image

Ethan of Science Blogs posted about this supernova, found serendipitously by Adam Block. The image is of NGC 6240 before and after - with arrows to point to
The Star That Is Going To Blow/Has BLOWN :!:
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang ... supernova/

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Re: Where am I?

Post by Ann » Fri May 31, 2013 5:21 pm

Thanks so much for that link, Margarita. That's so interesting! :D :D :D

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Re: Where am I?

Post by stephen63 » Fri May 31, 2013 6:16 pm

OK, I'll come up with a puzzle. Margarita, is there an icon/smiley somewhere for smoke coming out of my ears :lol2:

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Re: Where am I?

Post by stephen63 » Fri May 31, 2013 6:30 pm

What could this be?

A hint
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Here's one;
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Re: Where am I?

Post by MargaritaMc » Fri May 31, 2013 7:07 pm

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Well, Stephen, when you DO post a puzzle, it is a killer!

The smoke is now coming out of MY ears!

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Re: Where am I?

Post by Beyond » Fri May 31, 2013 7:27 pm

Hmm... two. Even two smoky ears. :lol2: What comes in pairs in space? Lottsa things. Seeing as how i don't know what the space cloud is, I'm dead-ended already. But that's ok, as i have to finish cutting grass anyway.

Oh, hint #1... an intergalactic :b: party :!: :mrgreen:
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Re: Where am I?

Post by Moonlady » Sat Jun 01, 2013 12:07 am

Oh there was a :kitty: and Orion's belt

are we looking for Orion's nebula?

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Post by stephen63 » Sat Jun 01, 2013 1:53 am

Hint:
It was first discovered in 1975 by Dr. Ben M. Zuckerman of the University of California at Los Angeles.

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Re: Where am I?

Post by Beyond » Sat Jun 01, 2013 2:17 am

IT :?: Well so much for two.
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Re: Where am I?

Post by Beyond » Sat Jun 01, 2013 2:30 am

Well, looks like the first clue was right-on! Who wudda ever thought they'd find an inebriated cloud staggering around in space :?:
Apparently it's w-a-y over the limit for space travel, as it contains enough alcohol to make 400 trillion-trillion pints of beer :b: . ((ATTENTION ta152h0))
So it looks like what we're (HIC) looking for, is a (HIC) very BIG breath analyzer :!: (HIC) ::glug-glug-glug::
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Re: Where am I?

Post by stephen63 » Sat Jun 01, 2013 2:51 am

Beyond wrote:IT :?: Well so much for two.
It, as in "Space Alcohol"

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Re: Where am I?

Post by stephen63 » Sat Jun 01, 2013 2:54 am

Very good, Beyond!! Whudda thunk it?
The cloud I posted is G34.3


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Re: Where am I?

Post by Beyond » Sat Jun 01, 2013 2:57 am

stephen63 wrote:
Beyond wrote:IT :?: Well so much for two.
It, as in "Space Alcohol"
No wonder things run into each other w-a-y- out there in space. :lol2:
So i (HIC) got it :?:
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Re: Where am I?

Post by Beyond » Sat Jun 01, 2013 3:02 am

Say, stephen63, you wouldn't happen to have a puzzle involving a pretzel nebula, would you :?: :lol2:
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Re: Where am I?

Post by stephen63 » Sat Jun 01, 2013 3:12 am

Or a peanut nebula :D

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Re: Where am I?

Post by Beyond » Sat Jun 01, 2013 3:33 am

stephen63 wrote:Or a peanut nebula :D
Salted, or the ones called 'Beer nuts' :?:
Well... i guess it really doesn't (HIC) matter, as long as it's not 'circus peanuts'. :mrgreen:
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Re: Where am I?

Post by MargaritaMc » Sat Jun 01, 2013 7:11 am

stephen63 wrote:Very good, Beyond!! Whudda thunk it?
The cloud I posted is G34.3
:shock: :shock: :shock:
http://www.comedycorner.org/1.html
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Three British scientists, Drs. Tom Millar, Geoffrey MacDonald and Rolf Habing, discovered this interstellar Everclear floating in a gas cloud in the contellation of Aquila (sign of the Eagle, the mascot of Anheuser-Busch! Hmmmmm).

Millar and his compatriots have estimated the size of this gas cloud at approximately 1,000 times the diameter of our own solar system; there's enough alcohol out there, they say, to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer. These guys are British, mind you; if you were to translate this in terms of American beer (which the British, with some justification, regard as fermented club soda), the amount of potential brewski just about doubles.

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It can lead to speculation:
What is this cloud?

1. It's God's beer. After all, He worked for six days creating the universe, and on the seventh day, He rested. And after you've had a hard week at the office, don't YOU grab a beer? Since man is made in God's image, it could be that this cloud is the remaining evidence of the first, best Miller Time.

2. It's Purgatory("400 trillion trillion bottles of beer on the wall, 400 trillion trillion bottles of beer! Take one down, pass it around, three hundred ninety-nine septillion, nine hundred ninety-nine sextillion, nine hundred ninety-nine quintillion, nine hundred ninety-nine quadrillion, nine hundred ninety-nine trillion, nine hundred ninety-nine billion, nine hundred ninety-nine million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine, bottles of beer on the wall!")

3. Proof of an undeniably highly advanced but chronically dipsomaniac alien society. This particular theory is shaky, however: it's reasonable to assume that if the aliens were going to construct a nebula of alcohol, they'd also have large clouds of Beer Nuts and pretzels nearby for snacking. Advanced spectral analysis has yet to locate them.

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Captain Kirk: My....GOD! Sulu! What....is....THAT?

Sulu: It's a free floating cloud of alcohol, sir.

Kirk: And we've just run out of Romulan Ale! Could it be a trap, Bones?

Bones: Damn it, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a distiller of fine spirits!

Kirk: We need that booze! But if we fly through that cloud, we'll be too drunk to drive!

Spock: May I remind you, Jim, that I am a Vulcan. We are a race of designated drivers.

Kirk: Well, all righty, then. Spock, drive us through! Bones and I will be out on the hull. With our mouths... open!

To boldly drink what no man has drunk before.
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Re: Where am I?

Post by Beyond » Sat Jun 01, 2013 12:51 pm

Margarita, what a post you have brewed up :!: With a top brewski rating of 5, i give it :b: :b: :b: :b: :b: :b: brewski's. It wudda been 7, but one has to wet-their-whistle once in a while. :mrgreen:
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Re: Where am I?

Post by MargaritaMc » Sat Jun 01, 2013 1:15 pm

Beyond wrote:Margarita, what a post you have brewed up :!:
Glad you liked it! It made me :lol2: :lol2: I especially liked the dipsomaniac aliens :derp: :derp: :eyebrows:
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