Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 22nd 19, 11:10 AM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,923
Jupiter: Spectacular picture of Jupiter's storms
On Friday, March 22, 2019 at 10:47:10 AM UTC, StarDust wrote:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47667729
This beautiful picture of Jupiter was assembled from three separate images...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 22nd 19, 08:58 AM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,890
March Equinox 2019
https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/spwebcam.cfm
Such a beautiful image of the full moon presently where the location of the South pole is roughly 90 degrees to the full moon where the polar...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 21st 19, 01:27 PM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,890
March Equinox 2019
https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/spwebcam.cfm
The last day where the Sun is in view before it turns out of sight for 6 months as the Earth continues its journey through space and around the...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 20th 19, 07:41 AM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,890
March Equinox 2019
On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 1:28:12 AM UTC, palsing wrote:
On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 3:23:13 PM UTC-7, Gerald Kelleher wrote:
I can't find a website that has the time and date for...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 19th 19, 10:23 PM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,890
March Equinox 2019
In all cases the Equinox is described as an event where all places on Earth experience equal amounts of daylight and darkness, however, this is never the case in a dramatic way...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 19th 19, 05:24 PM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,830
March Equinox 2019
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/3/18/18270887/spring-equinox-2019-vernal-march
Do people really wish to prescribe to a planet with a zero degree inclination and a pivoting circle of...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 18th 19, 07:19 PM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,749
This is no taunt
Those who would point in the direction of Galileo as a great innovator by use of a telescope in describing the motions of Jupiter's satellites have nothing to say about the 21st century planetary...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 18th 19, 08:55 AM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,749
This is no taunt
It often happens that many announce the insight of Galileo where the satellites of Jupiter run their circuit around their parent planet as one of the great advancements in reasoning and...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 17th 19, 10:23 PM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,640
The long shadows
There are a number of helpful approaches that makes it easier for people to arrive at the surface rotation as a function of the orbital motion of the Earth.
A more productive approach is that one...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 15th 19, 07:07 PM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,640
The long shadows
https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/spwebcam.cfm
In a number of days, the Sun will disappear from view for 6 months in what is one of the great astronomical events - two distinct types of sunrise...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 14th 19, 11:07 AM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,658
An astronomical prediction
As Mercury continues its journey (in retrograde motion) it fades to such an extent that it becomes almost imperceptible from the background stars as the planet's fully illuminated side faces the Sun...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 13th 19, 11:05 AM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,658
An astronomical prediction
Last month the thread involved showing Mercury move in direct motion and opposite the motion of the background stars using the central Sun as a reference for both, after all, the change in position...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 12th 19, 05:25 AM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,658
An astronomical prediction
It is wonderful to see that Mercury is far brighter when it moves from right to left and behind the Sun due to the fact that its fully illuminated face is seen from the slower moving Earth whereas...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 11th 19, 06:58 PM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,658
An astronomical prediction
It appears that Mercury has come into view heading in front of the Sun today -
https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/LATEST/current_c3.gif
It will be seen moving faster than the stars using the...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 10th 19, 11:13 AM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,604
Three axioms and observations
The axioms are -
1 -The Earth orbits the Sun
2 - Planets closer to the Sun moves faster
3 - The Sun has a forward motion through space and around the galactic centre.
In 21st century terms and...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 10th 19, 11:02 AM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,658
An astronomical prediction
https://www.theplanetstoday.com/
https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/LATEST/current_c3.gif
When does Mercury enter the time lapse moving quicker than the background stars and in front of the Sun...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 8th 19, 10:31 AM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,601
Follow the line
The tsunami of websites carrying RA/Dec modeling within the last few years is quite a spectacle. The seasons are a result of two surface rotations to the Sun acting in combinations yet because...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 7th 19, 07:00 PM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 31
Views: 8,474
Canada Joins Lunar Gateway
On Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 5:50:02 PM UTC, Davoud wrote:
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It gives me no pleasure to note that you also live in a failed or
failing state. No pleasure because it is my Motherland as well...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 7th 19, 07:47 AM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 1
Views: 593
The Medusa
In order to explain the cause of the seasons as a combination of daily and orbital rotational actions to students, it is necessary to look at the effects of the orbital component through the Polar...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 6th 19, 10:18 PM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,601
Follow the line
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11353
This is where celestial sphere enthusiasm and modeling gets you all - a monstrosity that offers nothing but intellectual damnation.
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 6th 19, 08:18 AM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 1
Views: 593
The Medusa
The entire empirical modeling of the solar system inherited from Newton is based on RA/Dec where the Sun wanders up and down against a celestial sphere -...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 3rd 19, 09:06 AM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 3
Views: 490
Want to watch a mannequin blow up?
On Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 11:31:00 PM UTC, RichA wrote:
On Saturday, 2 March 2019 01:21:39 UTC-8, Gerald Kelleher wrote:
On Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 4:17:25 AM UTC, RichA wrote:
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
March 2nd 19, 09:21 AM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 3
Views: 490
Want to watch a mannequin blow up?
On Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 4:17:25 AM UTC, RichA wrote:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47414390
I see you covered both outcomes with this great engineering achievement using...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
February 16th 19, 07:14 PM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 4
Views: 2,148
Mercury in direct motion
On Saturday, February 16, 2019 at 9:28:10 AM UTC, corvastro wrote:
On Friday, January 25, 2019 at 12:58:32 PM UTC-8, Gerald Kelleher wrote:
Much easier to let the timelapse explain things as it...
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Forum: Amateur Astronomy
February 16th 19, 11:51 AM Posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,374
Referencing our planet to the Sun
On Saturday, February 16, 2019 at 10:34:47 AM UTC, corvastro wrote:
On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 1:38:54 PM UTC-8, Quadibloc wrote:
On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 2:00:34 PM UTC-7, Jibini...
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