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RE: Speaking of diamonds...
August 29, 2011 at 3:07 pm
Everytime you post this stuff it makes more and more hopeful that we can get the whole travel thing hammered out with everyone.
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RE: Speaking of diamonds...
August 29, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Fuck it. I'll take $150 and come by in Oct. Halloween weekend if you like.
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RE: Speaking of diamonds...
August 29, 2011 at 3:19 pm
(August 29, 2011 at 3:07 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Everytime you post this stuff it makes more and more hopeful that we can get the whole travel thing hammered out with everyone.
Bartok: How do you expect to get to Paris in one piece?!
Rasputin: I thought we'd take the train.
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Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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RE: Speaking of diamonds...
August 29, 2011 at 3:41 pm
LOL, you know I watch that movie daily with my little ones.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Speaking of diamonds...
August 29, 2011 at 3:44 pm
(August 29, 2011 at 3:41 pm)Rhythm Wrote: LOL, you know I watch that movie daily with my little ones.
It's a great movie 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wg22bwH0WU
Might as well be disney, but it isn't.
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Galaxy puzzle
August 29, 2011 at 4:01 pm
Anytime you guys and gals want to visit, I'm game for that.
Okay, now don't call me a sadistic bastard, but here is another image I took Friday night, this one of the region surrounding NGC 7331, which is a large galaxy in the Constellation Virgo. In fact, this region is loaded with galaxies. Here's the puzzle: Download this image (it is free of viruses), and zoom in with whatever graphics program you have handy and let's see who can spot all the galaxies in the image. Now, I've gone over this one carefully and so am pretty confident in my number (though it is possible that I missed one or two). But let's see how well you guys and gals can do. I'll leave this up for 24 hours, then post the number I got.
http://louisville-astro.org/gallery/main...emId=19431
Enjoy,
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Solution
August 30, 2011 at 5:53 pm
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I counted at least 28 galaxies in the image, but I've been told that there are thousands of galaxies in this region of space. Alas, I don't have access to the ESO Very Large Telescope.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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RE: Speaking of diamonds...
August 30, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Very nice. As someone who has researched the ins and outs of astro-imaging (and decided that it was not for me), I understand the skill, patience and dedication needed to create images such as these - not to mention the substantial expense in equipment.
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RE: Speaking of diamonds...
September 3, 2011 at 2:13 pm
I took some more images Thursday night. Enjoy:
Messier 57 In Lyra
The famously named "Ring Nebula" (also catalogued as Messier 57, M57 or NGC 6720) is located in the northern constellation of Lyra. It is one of the most prominent examples of a planetary nebula, the gaseous remains of red giant star that has ended its life by expelling its material into the surrounding interstellar medium.
Image:
32x2 minutes - 64 minutes total exposure at ISO 800 (Autoguided)
Camera:
Hutech Modified Canon T1i with baader Coma corrector and Baader UV-IR cut filter
Equipment:
200mm f5 Modified Konus Newtonian OTA
Losmandy G-11 Gemini GEM
80mm f5 Orion Shorty Autoguide scope with Orion Star Shooter autoguider
Losmandy heavy duty tripod.
Imaged on September 1, 2011 at LAS Observatory, Curby, Indiana
NGC 6960, The Veil Nebula (south), in Cygnus
The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus. It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop (radio source W78, or Sharpless 103), a large but relatively faint supernova remnant. The source supernova exploded some 5,000 to 8,000 years ago, and the remnants have since expanded to cover an area roughly 3 degrees in diameter (about 6 times the diameter, or 36 times the area, of the full moon). The distance to the nebula is not precisely known, but recent evidence from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) supports a distance of about 1,470 light-years.
Image:
4x5 minutes - 20 minutes total exposure at ISO 800 (Autoguided)
Camera:
Hutech Modified Canon T1i with baader Coma corrector and Baader UV-IR cut filter
Equipment:
200mm f5 Modified Konus Newtonian OTA
Losmandy G-11 Gemini GEM
80mm f5 Orion Shorty Autoguide scope with Orion Star Shooter autoguider
Losmandy heavy duty tripod.
Imaged on September 1, 2011 at LAS Observatory, Curby, Indiana
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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RE: Speaking of diamonds...
September 3, 2011 at 6:32 pm
Lucky, only thing I've went to is EKU's observatory?
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