|
|
|||||||
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
#41
October 8th 03, 01:47 PM
|
|||
|
|||
Send in the Clowns - This Thread is Now Closed [Was Photoshop and Mac and Windows]
On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 23:27:11 GMT, John Steinberg
stepped up to the plate and batted: Chris L Peterson wrote: Nice try, John, but it seems that it has become... THE THREAD THAT WOULDN'T DIE. That would be excellent with an appropriate echo chamber effect. Coming to a Drive-in near you this summer: {{{{{{{{THE THREAD THAT WOULDN'T DIE}}}}}}}}} Starring Hugh Beaumont, Donna Reed, Fred Mac Murray, Sebastian Cabot and Jerry Mathers as The Beaver. Hey. You forgot John Saxon and the lovely Lisa Cranston. G../0 "The radio is broken..." 
|
|
#42
October 9th 03, 03:38 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Photoshop and Mac and Windows
"Cassini" spacecraft@saturn wrote in message ...
Heh. For an astronomical analogy, consider Scott McPherson, a known Celestron basher. For Scott, Meade is a religion - this extreme bias makes him completely unable to say anything positive about Celestron, no matter what Celestron does. If Celestron produced a goto Dob, he would say it was the worst thing ever. If it was by Meade, it would of course be the best thing since sliced bread. Sounds like my brother; Republicans are incapable of doing wrong and Democrats are incapable of doing right. (I wonder what he thinks of left-wing Republicans such as Governor Arnold.) Clear skies! -- ------------------- Richard Callwood III -------------------- ~ U.S. Virgin Islands ~ USDA zone 11 ~ 18.3N, 64.9W ~ ~ eastern Massachusetts ~ USDA zone 6 (1992-95) ~ --------------- http://cac.uvi.edu/staff/rc3/ ---------------
|
|
#43
October 9th 03, 04:24 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Photoshop and Mac and Windows
On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:39:09 GMT, John Steinberg ...reflected:
John Steinberg wrote: Sorry, but this one was just too stupid to let me slough off. Arkanas *Cough* Arkansas... Think nothing of it, as over half of the people who live there can't spell it, either. I spell it, "Ar-KIN-saw," and pronounce it that way, too. ...or if you enjoy the Clinton-era joke cycle, Arkansauce (as in what was found on Monica's blue dress.) Alan
|
|
#44
October 9th 03, 04:29 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Photoshop and Mac and Windows
On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:24:51 GMT, John Steinberg ...reflected:
snip People of California, if you're reading this, do not tarry, do dawdle, do not stop to get a Slurpee. Get thee to polls and vote! Vote once, vote twice, vote thrice, but for pete's sake, check to make sure your chads are not hanging! You're what, $38 billion in the red? Do you *really* want to have pay for a recount? NJ, Arkanas and West Virginia just kicked your proverbial educational tail in the smartest state award: http://www.morganquitno.com/edrank03.htm How about a little self-respect and pride, people!? picks at feet... Mississippi made it all the way "up" to #48! ...then picks nose Alan
|
|
#45
October 12th 03, 04:10 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Light pollution: an environmental fad?
P From: (Pierre)
P Subject: Light pollution: an environmental fad? P Date: 7 Oct 2003 12:54:06 -0700 P Organization: http://groups.google.com P P The Times (of London) is asking its readers: Is Light Pollution just P another environmental fad? P Please, keep your contributions short and to the point and send them P to : P quoting their article on the Tuesday October 7 edition where their P science correspondent Mark Henderson considers the report of the P Inquiry on'Light Pollution and Astronomy' compiled by the Science and P Technology Select Committee of the House of Commons, UK Parliament. P P This report can be accessed at: P http://www.publications.parliament.u...tech/747/74702. P htm Well, later in October I'm the delegate from NYSkies at the pow-wow of New York City eco & enviro orgs. It's a major confab with, I'm told, a few dozen groups to discuss ways to enhance the City's enviro efforts and projects. One of them is the mitigation of luminous graffiti. One project I'm sure will be discussed is the City's announcement on Thursday, 9th October, that it will start replacing all of its newsagent booths on streets with new star-safe ones. This program starts in the spring, after design and contracts are done up. --- þ RoseReader 2.52á P005004
|
|
#46
October 12th 03, 04:10 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Sky & Telescope Online Archive - Good?
MD From: "mark d. doiron"
MD Subject: Sky & Telescope Online Archive - Good? MD Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:46:26 GMT MD Organization: Cox Communications MD MD i'd recommend that magazine publishers stop trying to convert the web to the MD magazine paradigm. to the end user, .pdf is good for one thing: allows MD printing a document as the person who prepared it intended it to look. that MD makes it wonderful for things like forms. if there's no intent for the end MD user to print it, there's no need for .pdf. further, for 90+% of the web (a MD number i pulled out of thin air, so please don't quibble with me about it), MD the exact appearance of a web page on a browser is irrelevant if the person MD who wrote it would just let go of thinking he/she has to control its MD appearance down to the nth degree. it's the info that's king, not the MD minutae of its layout. It's the webpages that have a wide sidebar onthe left side, for buttons or ads, that turn me off. The text part often gets clipped at the right edge when printing the page. It's like having a 10cm left margin! --- þ RoseReader 2.52á P005004
|
|
#47
October 12th 03, 04:10 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Stellar Radiant Flux
TJ From: "Thor Jacobson"
TJ Subject: Stellar Radiant Flux TJ Organization: Monarch Cablesystems Ltd TJ Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 10:43:58 -0600 A very excellent question! The definition I grew up with is that zero, 0.0, apparent magnitude is rqual to 2.65 microlumnes/meter2. A related definition for radiation outside the optical is that zero magnitude equals the incoming radiation flux from Vega in the same wavelength band. Once a long while ago I reverse engineered the definition from the energy required to trigger photographic film and traced back the light cone from the film, thru the lens, to parallel rays outside the camera. I had to assume absorption in the lens, taking the value from the lens specs, and got a flux within about 10% of the value I give above. TJ In Astronomy books, discussions on stellar magnitudes always seem to focus on r TJ elative intensities. I have not been able to find a reference to what the absol TJ ute energy flux is. The establishment of the magnitude scale always starts with TJ the observation that stars differing by 5 TJ magnitudes differ in flux by roughly a factor of 100. I cannot find a reference TJ , for example, to what the radiant flux is for a first TJ magnitude star, be it in photons/meter*2, nanowatts/m*2 or whatever. Is there a TJ reference to this quantity? I realize that it may depend on the star type, as TJ photon energy is a function of wavelength. Also, the spectral response of the e TJ ye to low light levels (rod response) may make it difficult to give a precise TJ value. Thanks in adance for any help you can give me on this. --- þ RoseReader 2.52á P005004
|
|
#48
October 12th 03, 04:10 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Stellar Radiant Flux
SW From: Sam Wormley
SW Subject: Stellar Radiant Flux SW Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 18:00:10 GMT SW SW From Kenneth Lang's _Astrophysical Data: Planets and Stars_, p. 24: SW SW 1 magnitude-zero star = 2.63 * 10^-6 lumens/cm^2 Are you SURE?? Not .../meter^2? --- þ RoseReader 2.52á P005004
|
|
#50
December 5th 03, 04:17 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
NYC Events December 2/ 7
Continued from previous message.
Fri - 5 Dec - 18:00 - Amer Mus Natl Hist - MH - Amat Astro Assn lect 'Ultra high-energy cosmic rays', Dr Glennys Farrar, NYU Kaufmann Thtr. Free, ask at entry gate for 'astronomy' lecture. Fri - 5 Dec - 19:00 - Yonkers - NY - Westchester Amat Astro mtg Hudson Rv Mus, Andrus Plm. 19h social, 20h lecture. Free. www.westchesterastronomers.org Fri - 5 Dec - 19:00 - Syosset - LI - Meade product demos Berger Brothers Cameras, 226 W Jericho Tk. Free. www.berger-bros.com, 516-496-1000. Fri - 5 Dec - 19:00 - Cranford - NJ - Amat Astro Inc lecture Union Co Coll, Sperry Obsy. Indoor talk, clearsky starviewing. Free. www.asterism.org fri - 5 Dec - 19:30 - Stony Bk - LI - astronomy lecture SUNY Stony Brook, Earth & Spc Sci Hall, Room 001. Lecture & clearsky starviewing. Free. www.ess.sunysb.edu/astro Fri - 5 Dec - 20:00 - Stamford - CT - clearsky starviewing Stamford Mus & Natr Ctr, Obsy. $3 adm. Cancelled for clouds. www.stamfordmuseum.org/astronomy.html Sat - 6 Dec - all day - Hayden Plm - MH - holiday discount 20% discount, not 10%, at Plm bookshop for members of AMNH. Same applies to other shops in Museum. Sat - 6 Dec - 12:00 - Central Pk - cultural bus tour Loeb Boathouse Cafe'. Free, first come, first seated, space is limited. www.nyc.gov/parks Sat - 6 Dec - 15:00 - Central Pk - MH - science lecture Dana Discovery Ctr. 'Big Apple aviation', history of air flight in New York City. Free. www.nyc.gov/parks Sat - 6 Dec - 18:00 - Southold - LI - clearsky starviewing Custer Inst. Cancelled for clouds. Free. www.custerobservatory.org Sat - 6 Dec - 18:00 - Ward Pound Ridge - NY - clearsky starviewing Westchester Amat Astro, Meadow Picnic Area. Cancelled for clouds. Free. www.westchesterastronomers.org Sat - 6 Dec - 19:00 - Amityville - LI - Meade product demos Berger Brothers Cameras, 209 Broadway. Free. www.berger-bros.com, 631-264-4160 Sun - 7 Dec - all day - Hayden Plm - MH - holiday discount 20% discount, not 10%, at Plm bookshop for members of AMNH. Same applies to other shops in Museum. Sun - 7 Dec - 13:15 - Uniondale - LI - Amat Obsrs Soc meeting Nassau Commty Coll, Bdg F, Rm 129. Free. www.aosny.org Sun - 7 Dec - 19:30 - Boonton - NJ - Sheep Hill Astro Assn mtg Boonton Town Hall. Free. www.uacnj.org/clubs/shaa.htm Mon - 8 Dec - 17:00 - Rockefeller Univ - MH - science lecture 'Science and the city', Dr Ellis Rubinstein Aldrich Rockefeller Dining Hall. Free. www.rockefeller.edu/lectures.php Mon - 8 Dec - 19:00 - Marine Pk - BK - science lecture Salt Marsh Natr Ctr. 'Big Apple aviation', history of air flight in New York City. Free. www.nyc.gov/parks Mon - 8 Dec - 19:30 - Hayden Plm - MH - Frontiers in Astrophysics Indoor lecture and clearsky starviewing. $14 adm. 212-769-5100 Mon - 8 Dec - 20:00 - Coll of SI - SI - clearsky starviewing Astrophys Obsy. $3 adm. Cancelled for clouds. supernova7.apsc.csi.cuny.edu, 718-982-3260 Tue - 9 Dec - 17:30 - Sci Ind Biz Liby - MH - science lecture 'Winged gospel' on Wright Brothers and other flights. Free. 212-592-7000, www.nypl.org/research/sibl Tue - 9 Dec - 19:00 - Greenwich - CT - clearsky starviewing Astro Soc of Greenwich. Julian Curtis Elem Schl. Cancelled for clouds. Free. , www.geocities.com/astrogreenwich Tue - 9 Dec - 20:00 - Princeton - NJ - A A A of Princeton mtg Princeton Uv, Peyton Hall. Free www.princetonastronomy.org Continued in next message. --- þ RoseReader 2.52á P005004
|
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
|
|
Linear Mode
