Saturday, May 28, 2011

Stars

VLT (Very Large Telescope) HD Timelapse Footage


You don't have to hold a PhD in Quattro Skyology like me to appreciate stuff like this.  And what about  Aussie student finds universe's 'missing mass?'   That's like when Bart Simpson  discovered a  comet.  Lot of gritting of teeth in academia today.
Darrell
5/28/2011 06:46:00 PM 8 Comments

"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. "
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Anonymous said...

Damned kids staying up all night, of course they're going to find it. Shut that music off and go to bed!

I think the Meteorite Men went to that observatory.

Casca

5/28/11, 8:43 PM
Darrell said...

That's the grandest thing I've seen in a while, I hope y'all enjoy it. The music is We Happy Few, by The Calm Blue Sea.

If you watch carefully above the second scope from the left at about the 2:00 mark, you can see several geosynchronous satellites come into view.

I'd love to see the southern skies once in my life.

5/28/11, 9:57 PM
Brett_McS said...

Great pickup Darrell. There are some more geostationary satellites at 6 mins, toward the upper right. I had the clean the screen first to make sure they weren't dirt.

I live in Australia and did a 'work-experience' summer at the 150" Siding Spring telescope near Coonabarrabran, NSW.

5/29/11, 12:57 AM
toadold said...

One of the sad things about living in a city is that the light pollution is so bad you can only see a very few stars. You have to travel hundreds of miles and get into mountains to see anything anymore.

5/29/11, 5:09 AM
Anonymous said...

Toadold, take a jaunt on "The loneliest road in America" across Nevada{US Hwy 50}. You'll think the stars have come down so close you can almost touch them.
I quit looking because of how powerless it makes me feel, and how inadequate my brain to comprehend the who-what-why-how of the universe.
God.
tomw
wv:unierse
...can I have a V?

5/29/11, 9:16 AM
Anonymous said...

At my old house in Budds Creek I would stand outside every morning before I left for work . I would not get in the truck until I'd seen either a satellite , or a meteor . My apprentices that would meet me all loved it , and said that they had never watched before ! One night the kids , and I sat up , and watched the percied meteor shower , and counted over 140 meteors ! ; ) > SMIBSID

5/29/11, 9:58 AM
Kristophr said...

Good science there.

Actually went out and found all that missing mass, without making up stuff like "dark Matter".

Next step ... finding a mechanism for the current expansion rate without just throwing up one's hands and calling it "Dark Energy".

5/30/11, 6:56 PM
Anonymous said...

Not to pick nits, but my reading of the article says that a student basically only clicked the shutter button. Someone who actually knows what they're doing analyzed the resulting picture and found the missing mass.

Did I miss something?

--Anon2112

5/31/11, 7:28 PM

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