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I've never tried it myself, it all sounds a bit ghostly to me but.......
Has anyone had any experiences/set-up advice they would like to share?? Yes, I know, Long time know post, I've been working for the queen R |
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:53:11 +0100, Robert Geake
wrote: I've never tried it myself, it all sounds a bit ghostly to me but....... Has anyone had any experiences/set-up advice they would like to share?? Yes, I know, Long time know post, I've been working for the queen It's very much my preferred time to check out the Sun Rob ;-) -- Pete Lawrence http://www.digitalsky.org.uk |
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On Oct 19, 5:53 pm, Robert Geake wrote:
I've never tried it myself, it all sounds a bit ghostly to me but....... Has anyone had any experiences/set-up advice they would like to share?? Yes, I know, Long time know post, I've been working for the queen R Try Huygens and how clocks are kept in sync with the axial cycle - http://www.xs4all.nl/~adcs/Huygens/06/kort-E.html Discover how clocks, the axial cycle and terrestrial longitudes mesh without directly refering to axial rotation or rather,how 4 minutes clock time represent 1 degree of geographical seperation making 24 hours/360 degrees. Astronomy, beyond the magnification branch ,is as much a pursuit of the day than the night even though you have established that astronomy is nothing more than a celestial sphere magnification exercise .Galileo had you in mind when he made these comment - SALV. The same thing has struck me even more forcibly than you. I have heard such things put forth as I should blush to repeat--not so much to avoid discrediting their authors (whose names could always be withheld) as to refrain from detracting so greatly from the honor of the human race. In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion In their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads. Such arguments in support of their fixed idea as they hit upon themselves or hear set forth by others, no matter how simple and stupid these may be, gain their instant acceptance and applause. On the other hand whatever is brought forward against it, however ingenious and conclusive, they receive with disdain or with hot rage--if indeed it does not make them ill. Beside themselves with passion, some of them would not be backward even about scheming to suppress and silence their adversaries. I have had some experience of this myself. SAGR." I know; such men do not deduce their conclusion from its premises or establish it by reason, but they accommodate (I should have said discommode and distort) the premises and reasons to a conclusion which for them is already established and nailed down. No good can come of dealing with such people, especially to the extent that their company may be not only unpleasant but dangerous" Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems Galileo Everybody is an astronomer by virtue that their existence is conditioned by the motions of the Earth on its axis and its orbital motion through space in generating the daily cycles and seasonal cycles,really good astronomers put more details to those motions before moving on to structural and evolutionary astronomy applied to the rest of the solar system,galaxy and the wider universe.The sad fact is that you describe axial and orbital motion within an astrological framework - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...3%A9reo.en.png You think you are practicisng astronomy when you and your colleagues are little more than astrologers with telescopes. |
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I often do solar observing, looking and videoing Venus, Saturn is visible, as is
Mars, and the brighter stars are easily seen. You can also do some observing at night....... ;-) Lawrence On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:53:11 +0100, Robert Geake wrote: I've never tried it myself, it all sounds a bit ghostly to me but....... Has anyone had any experiences/set-up advice they would like to share?? Yes, I know, Long time know post, I've been working for the queen R |
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home@away wrote:
I often do solar observing, looking and videoing Venus, Saturn is visible, as is Mars, and the brighter stars are easily seen. Can you actually see some stars during daytime? And Saturn? |
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home@away wrote: I often do solar observing, looking and videoing Venus, Saturn is visible, as is Mars, and the brighter stars are easily seen. Can you actually see some stars during daytime? And Saturn? Well, seems you can. Just found some good sites about this. Must say I'm quite surprised and will try it out. |
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:38:36 +0200, Iordani wrote:
home@away wrote: I often do solar observing, looking and videoing Venus, Saturn is visible, as is Mars, and the brighter stars are easily seen. Can you actually see some stars during daytime? And Saturn? Yes to both. Contrast is obviously limited, but still an achievement. L |
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On Oct 26, 12:06 am, Iordani wrote:
Iordani wrote: home@away wrote: I often do solar observing, looking and videoing Venus, Saturn is visible, as is Mars, and the brighter stars are easily seen. Can you actually see some stars during daytime? And Saturn? Well, seems you can. Just found some good sites about this. Must say I'm quite surprised and will try it out. 'To reduce Watches to the right measure of dayes, or to know how much they goe too fast or too slow in 24. hours.' " Here take notice, that the Sun or the Earth passeth the 12. Signes, or makes an entire revolution in the Ecliptick in 365 days, 5 hours 49 min. or there about, and that those days, reckon'd from noon to noon, are of different lenghts; AS IS KNOWN TO ALL THAT IS VERS'D IN ASTRONOMY. Now between the longest and the shortest of those days, a day may be taken of such a length, as 365 such days, 5. hours &c. (the same numbers as before) make up, or are equall to that revolution: And this is call'd the Equal or Mean day, according to which the Watches are to be set; and therefore the Hour or Minute shew'd by the Watches, though they be perfectly Iust and equal, must needs differ almost continually from those that are shew'd by the Sun, or are reckon'd according to its Motion." http://www.xs4all.nl/~adcs/Huygens/06/kort-E.html The pre-Copernican astronomers referenced planetary motion from th point of view of a stationary Earth,the heliocentric astronomers referenced planetary motion from and orbitall moving and axial rotating Earth,the 17th century empiricists referenced axial and orbital motion of the zodiacal framework hence we now have numbskulls who think astronomy is a magnification hobby that occurs at night. The freakish situation where axial and orbital motion is referenced off a celestial sphere leads to the catastrophic view of axial and orbital motion as a mixture of astrology and creationism - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...3%A9reo.en.png In the noble history of human reasoning and discovery,there is nothing worse than the fictional forcing of tying axial rotation to the return of a star to a meridian,it is beyond insanity but unfortunately it is now the dominant view. I do not mind what you have done to yourselves,it is the rest of humanity who really needs an authority to handle the destruction of astronomy,its methods and its insights by people who now wonder if there is such a thing as 'daytime observing'. |
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