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Started by Palehorse, January 03, 2012, 12:51:07 PM

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Palehorse

#180
July 01, 2012, 09:59:22 PM
still too light to see the stars here, but I tried it anyway. I can't wait for dark! That app is amazing.

I may have to get an iPad to put it on now.  :icon_twisted:
R.I.P. - followsthewolf - You are MISSED! 4/17/2013

That which fails to kill me. . .should run!

Any "point" made by one that lacks credibility, is only as useful as toilet paper; and serves the same purpose. ~ Palehorse 4/22/2017

May you find charity when it is needed, and the ability to extend it when it is not. ~Palehorse 7/4/2012

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.~Herman Melville

Locutus

#181
July 01, 2012, 10:00:20 PM
Quote from: Palehorse on July 01, 2012, 09:55:43 PM
I look up all of the time at night. I always have.  :yes:


"Keep looking up!"  -- Jack Horkheimer



R.I.P.
One of the gravest dangers to the survival of our republic is an ignorant electorate routinely feeding at the trough of propaganda.   -- Locutus

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."  -- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Locutus

#182
July 01, 2012, 10:01:29 PM
Quote from: Palehorse on July 01, 2012, 09:59:22 PM.

I may have to get an iPad to put it on now.  :icon_twisted:

It's definitely better on an iPad.  Only problem with that is, it's better to have a 3G enabled iPad if you're going to be out away from lights and WiFi access points.  :yes:
One of the gravest dangers to the survival of our republic is an ignorant electorate routinely feeding at the trough of propaganda.   -- Locutus

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."  -- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

libby

#183
July 01, 2012, 10:24:03 PM
"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!" --Emerson

-- as quoted by Isaac Asimov in the forward to his sci-fi short story, NIGHTFALL
All of life is a process of testing and initiation, always preparing for a higher level of consciousness -- and illumination. -- John Horn

Locutus

#184
July 03, 2012, 12:17:02 AM
Quote from: Palehorse on July 01, 2012, 09:59:22 PM
still too light to see the stars here, but I tried it anyway. I can't wait for dark! That app is amazing.

I may have to get an iPad to put it on now.  :icon_twisted:

Any luck tonight?
One of the gravest dangers to the survival of our republic is an ignorant electorate routinely feeding at the trough of propaganda.   -- Locutus

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."  -- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Palehorse

#185
July 03, 2012, 12:32:44 AM
Quote from: Locutus on July 03, 2012, 12:17:02 AM
Any luck tonight?

Oh yeah.  :smitten:  There is one particular star that always seems to draw me every night when I am outside. Tonight I found out it is part of the constellations Centaurus and Lupus. . .

It is currently low on the southern horizon, but still this particular star always seems to draw my attention most nights. . .
R.I.P. - followsthewolf - You are MISSED! 4/17/2013

That which fails to kill me. . .should run!

Any "point" made by one that lacks credibility, is only as useful as toilet paper; and serves the same purpose. ~ Palehorse 4/22/2017

May you find charity when it is needed, and the ability to extend it when it is not. ~Palehorse 7/4/2012

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.~Herman Melville

Locutus

#186
July 03, 2012, 12:39:41 AM
Quote from: Palehorse on July 03, 2012, 12:32:44 AM
Oh yeah.  :smitten:  There is one particular star that always seems to draw me every night when I am outside. Tonight I found out it is part of the constellations Centaurus and Lupus. . .

It is currently low on the southern horizon, but still this particular star always seems to draw my attention most nights. . .

That's a really cool app.  Glad you're enjoying it.  :yes:
One of the gravest dangers to the survival of our republic is an ignorant electorate routinely feeding at the trough of propaganda.   -- Locutus

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."  -- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Palehorse

#187
July 03, 2012, 12:45:42 AM
Quote from: Locutus on July 03, 2012, 12:39:41 AM
That's a really cool app.  Glad you're enjoying it.  :yes:

Dude. It's the best thing I've added to my iPhone since I got it. My neighbors probably think I'm a weirdo because I am always looking up; and now I am pointing my phone up too!  :biggrin:
R.I.P. - followsthewolf - You are MISSED! 4/17/2013

That which fails to kill me. . .should run!

Any "point" made by one that lacks credibility, is only as useful as toilet paper; and serves the same purpose. ~ Palehorse 4/22/2017

May you find charity when it is needed, and the ability to extend it when it is not. ~Palehorse 7/4/2012

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.~Herman Melville

Locutus

#188
July 03, 2012, 12:48:08 AM
Been there and done that.   I would recommend that app to anyone who has an iPhone and enjoys the cosmos. 
One of the gravest dangers to the survival of our republic is an ignorant electorate routinely feeding at the trough of propaganda.   -- Locutus

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."  -- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Palehorse

#189
July 03, 2012, 12:52:42 AM
Quote from: Locutus on July 03, 2012, 12:48:08 AM
Been there and done that.   I would recommend that app to anyone who has an iPhone and enjoys the cosmos.

I did that already. I have a neighbor that shares my interests in the skies, and I e-mailed him telling him about the app. (He has an iPhone and iPad and now has it on both). He loves it too!  :biggrin:
R.I.P. - followsthewolf - You are MISSED! 4/17/2013

That which fails to kill me. . .should run!

Any "point" made by one that lacks credibility, is only as useful as toilet paper; and serves the same purpose. ~ Palehorse 4/22/2017

May you find charity when it is needed, and the ability to extend it when it is not. ~Palehorse 7/4/2012

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.~Herman Melville

Bo D

#190
July 10, 2012, 09:27:25 AM
http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news-DS-Red-Giant-Blows-a-Bubble-070912.aspx?et_cid=2738672&et_rid=41373174&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.scientificcomputing.com%2fnews-DS-Red-Giant-Blows-a-Bubble-070912.aspx


Camelopardalis, or U Cam for short, is a star nearing the end of its life. As stars run low on fuel, they become unstable. Every few thousand years, U Cam coughs out a nearly spherical shell of gas as a layer of helium around its core begins to fuse. The gas ejected in the star's latest eruption is clearly visible in this picture as a faint bubble of gas surrounding the star.
U Cam is an example of a carbon star, a rare type of star with an atmosphere that contains more carbon than oxygen. Due to its low surface gravity, typically as much as half of the total mass of a carbon star may be lost by way of powerful stellar winds. Located in the constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe), near the North Celestial Pole, U Cam itself is much smaller than it appears in this Hubble image. In fact, the star would easily fit within a single pixel at the center of the image. Its brightness, however, is enough to saturate the camera's receptors, making the star look much larger than it is.

The shell of gas, which is both much larger and much fainter than its parent star, is visible in intricate detail in Hubble's portrait. This phenomenon is often quite irregular and unstable, but the shell of gas expelled from U Cam is almost perfectly spherical.


"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."  Carl Sagan

libby

#191
July 10, 2012, 06:02:21 PM
 :thumbsup: :science:
Aside from the science and the wonder of what we're looking at, articles and pictures like that make me feel I should hurry up and learn a lot more, not only about what's out there and why and how, but also something more down to earth: scientific computing -- right now I don't know enough about the computing part of it to ask an intelligent question. (Maybe that's why I have this uneasy feeling that one day computer gurus, scientists, hackers, whatever we call them, will rule the world. I also think maybe I read too much sci-fi when I was growing up.)



All of life is a process of testing and initiation, always preparing for a higher level of consciousness -- and illumination. -- John Horn

Bo D

#192
July 11, 2012, 05:31:59 PM
Few nighttime sights offer more drama than the full Moon rising over the horizon. Now imagine that, instead of the Moon, a gas giant planet spanning three times more sky loomed over the molten landscape of a lava world. This alien vista exists in the newly discovered two-planet system of Kepler-36.



http://www.scientificcomputing.com/new-DS-Alien-World-Looms-Large-in-its-Neighbors-Sky-071012.aspx?et_cid=2740895&et_rid=41373174&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.scientificcomputing.com%2fnew-DS-Alien-World-Looms-Large-in-its-Neighbors-Sky-071012.aspx
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."  Carl Sagan

libby

#193
July 11, 2012, 06:10:45 PM
Quote from: Olias on July 11, 2012, 05:31:59 PM
Few nighttime sights offer more drama than the full Moon rising over the horizon. Now imagine that, instead of the Moon, a gas giant planet spanning three times more sky loomed over the molten landscape of a lava world. This alien vista exists in the newly discovered two-planet system of Kepler-36.



http://www.scientificcomputing.com/new-DS-Alien-World-Looms-Large-in-its-Neighbors-Sky-071012.aspx?et_cid=2740895&et_rid=41373174&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.scientificcomputing.com%2fnew-DS-Alien-World-Looms-Large-in-its-Neighbors-Sky-071012.aspx
:happy:The accompanying article is just as fascinating:   "The result was made possible with Asteroseismology. Asteroseismology is the study of stars by observing their natural oscillations. Sunlike stars resonate like musical instruments, due to sound waves trapped in their interiors. And  just like a musical instrument, the larger the star, the "deeper" are its resonances. The trapped sound makes the stars gently breathe in or out, or oscillate." :music1:
All of life is a process of testing and initiation, always preparing for a higher level of consciousness -- and illumination. -- John Horn

Bo D

#194
July 12, 2012, 10:56:48 AM
Too bad it isn't even a planet anymore .....


Hubble discovers fifth moon orbiting Pluto

A team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reporting the discovery of another moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto.

The moon is estimated to be irregular in shape and 6 to 15 miles across. It is in a 58,000-mile-diameter circular orbit around Pluto that is assumed to be co-planar with the other satellites in the system.

http://www.rdmag.com/News/2012/07/Information-Tech-Astronomy-Imaging-Hubble-discovers-fifth-moon-orbiting-Pluto/?et_cid=2743218&et_rid=54725525&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.rdmag.com%2fNews%2f2012%2f07%2fInformation-Tech-Astronomy-Imaging-Hubble-discovers-fifth-moon-orbiting-Pluto%2f
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."  Carl Sagan
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