Thread: Polar astronomy
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Old March 4th 18, 08:34 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Gerald Kelleher
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Celestial sphere enthusiasts are like brexiteers, they live in the past and they see any use of imaging for 21st century research topics as an affront to their clockwork enterprise. The vast majority have retreated to the excellent moderated forums which provide them with all the information about magnification and nothing like the information that flows through this newsgroup. The theoretical 'astro-research' forum is there for the moderators to grandstand in their endeavor to torture the English language.

I don't beg attention and certainly not from nuisances and noiseboxes but this is an unmoderated forum with all its advantages and disadvantages so telling airheads to eff-off only invites trouble as I discovered from 20 years here.

The colonists are slightly different, they have yet to discover that Royal Society empiricists are a bit like the extreme British conservatives in that they project a great story but with no substance behind it, at least to where it has evolved. It is entirely different story in the late 17th century when the equatorial coordinate system emerged when astronomy in universities went into full reverse as the rotating celestial sphere system allied with accurate clocks emerged. Guys like Davoud and Peterson are from this group but nothing could be more suffocating for enjoying astronomy in the spirit of the original Sun centered astronomers.

The Brits themselves here know better, for them it is 'Piltdown man' all over again but perhaps many, many magnitudes worse. Once the game is up they should work to detach physics from the pseudoscience of astro-physics so a lot of trouble can be avoided however, from watching how Eton brexiteers behave, they would rather drink their own toilet water than adapt.

The last are the nuisances and noiseboxes but little can be said there as they are just killing time.