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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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
Damned kids staying up all night, of course they're going to find it. Shut that music off and go to bed!
ReplyDeleteI think the Meteorite Men went to that observatory.
Casca
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.
ReplyDeleteIf 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.
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.
ReplyDeleteI live in Australia and did a 'work-experience' summer at the 150" Siding Spring telescope near Coonabarrabran, NSW.
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.
ReplyDeleteToadold, 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.
ReplyDeleteI 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?
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
ReplyDeleteGood science there.
ReplyDeleteActually 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".
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.
ReplyDeleteDid I miss something?
--Anon2112