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Where exactly is that diamond star?
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Agent 007 wants to get that diamond for her majesty. It's in the constellation Centaurus. But where in the constellation? Q couldn't Google it out. 007 |
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writes Hi, Agent 007 wants to get that diamond for her majesty. It's in the constellation Centaurus. But where in the constellation? Q couldn't Google it out. The catalogue reference is apparently BPM 37093, which should give you a start. That came from an article in New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994692 which made it clear just how silly and wrong this "diamond" idea is. For one thing it's mostly oxygen, and for another "the pressure strips electrons from the atoms, leaving the nuclei to form a crystal lattice surrounded by a sea of electrons". That sounds much more like a metal to me. -- Save the Hubble Space Telescope! Remove spam and invalid from address to reply. |
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Hello James,
Here is a link to a finder chart for the diamond star (BPM 37093): http://sdbv.smsu.edu/mreed/Astronomy.../bpm37093.html Coordinates: RA 12 38 50.3 Dec 49 48 00 d(RA)/dt = -0.0573 s/yr = -0.86 arcsec/yr d(Dec)/dt = -0.130 arcsec/yr Christian -- On 19.02.04 09:49, in article , "007" wrote: Hi, Agent 007 wants to get that diamond for her majesty. It's in the constellation Centaurus. But where in the constellation? Q couldn't Google it out. 007 |
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Try the Ring nebula in Lyra.
groan Chuck Taylor Do you observe the moon? Try the Lunar Observing Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lunar-observing/ Lunar Picture of the Day http://www.lpod.org/ ************************************ "Christian" wrote in message ... Hello James, Here is a link to a finder chart for the diamond star (BPM 37093): http://sdbv.smsu.edu/mreed/Astronomy.../bpm37093.html Coordinates: RA 12 38 50.3 Dec 49 48 00 d(RA)/dt = -0.0573 s/yr = -0.86 arcsec/yr d(Dec)/dt = -0.130 arcsec/yr Christian -- On 19.02.04 09:49, in article , "007" wrote: Hi, Agent 007 wants to get that diamond for her majesty. It's in the constellation Centaurus. But where in the constellation? Q couldn't Google it out. 007 |
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