Fancy doing so real astronomy

Real astronomy indeed !.

Did you discover that nothing supports the idea that the return of
noon occurs in 24 hours exactly and that youi cannot justify the
motions of the Earth by believinga star returns 3 minutes 56 seconds
earlier -

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...3%A9reo.en.png

I went to the bookstore to find a book to read over the Christmas
period,normally a good book such as Sobel's 'Longitude',Cutler's
geological 'Seashells On The Mountaintop,Winchester's book on
Krakatoa and many others in the same vein turn up but this year
there was nothing.There was shelves and shelves about sport but with
all the vastness and magnificense of celestial and terrestrial
creation and the enormous history behind ,it took up a few shelves
with books that have already been out for years.

No doubt your idea of 'real astronomy' is what has sent most of
humanity to create heroes out of sportmen insofar as heroes are
always required in any civilisation be it good or bad.The other
heroes of humanity ,their enthusiasms,their methods and insights in
investigating celestial and terrestrial phenomena are almost lost
now,events conspired to create the 'scientific method' which destroys
that faculty of curiousity which once caused the great astronomers to
work out structure and motion within the solar systemn based on
physical considerations.It is now so bad that men openly show a
fictional difference between 24 hours and 23 hours 56 minutes using
the motions of the Earth.

Perhaps you all should read 'A Christmas Carol' before you peer into
another telescope , it is about an incalcitrant individual who
discovered that he reasoned himself into a miserable condition and
found how goodness extracted him from that dismal existence,Christian
goodness to be exact.Of course,there was nothing mediocre about the
character Scrooge for nothing can be done with mediocrity.and
especially astronomical mediocrity.














On 23 Dec, 09:44, ukastronomy
wrote:
A Suspected New Variable Star in Andromeda

GSC 2304:0368 (IRAS 01237+3616) - an M8 star

This can be regarded as an open invitation for any amateur astronomer
to get involved with the investigation into this star. If possible I
would like it to be imaged in V, R and I filters but the good old
human eye plus a telescope can also be used.

http://www.martin-nicholson.info/sus.../discovery.htm

Martin Nicholson, Daventry, England.http://www.martin-nicholson.info/1/1a.htm

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