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ASTRO: Mystery test
Last time I tried an animated gif it didn't take. That was several
years ago. Time to try again. The mystery is if it will work. If it does I'll explain further. In the meantime you're free to guess. Image is heavily cropped. Yes I cropped out the galaxy for band width purposes trying to keep this small enough to hit all servers. Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:00:11 -0500, Rick Johnson
wrote: Last time I tried an animated gif it didn't take. That was several years ago. Time to try again. The mystery is if it will work. If it does I'll explain further. In the meantime you're free to guess. Image is heavily cropped. Yes I cropped out the galaxy for band width purposes trying to keep this small enough to hit all servers. Rick Works great here (though it doesn't animate when viewed from within Agent.) Mars over a few nights? Bob ^,,^ |
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On 7/20/2011 2:51 AM, Bob (not my real pseudonym) wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:00:11 -0500, Rick wrote: Last time I tried an animated gif it didn't take. That was several years ago. Time to try again. The mystery is if it will work. If it does I'll explain further. In the meantime you're free to guess. Image is heavily cropped. Yes I cropped out the galaxy for band width purposes trying to keep this small enough to hit all servers. Rick Works great here (though it doesn't animate when viewed from within Agent.) Mars over a few nights? Bob ^,,^ Not even close and that is a double hint. Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:27:59 -0500, Rick Johnson
wrote: On 7/20/2011 2:51 AM, Bob (not my real pseudonym) wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:00:11 -0500, Rick wrote: Last time I tried an animated gif it didn't take. That was several years ago. Time to try again. The mystery is if it will work. If it does I'll explain further. In the meantime you're free to guess. Image is heavily cropped. Yes I cropped out the galaxy for band width purposes trying to keep this small enough to hit all servers. Rick Works great here (though it doesn't animate when viewed from within Agent.) Mars over a few nights? Bob ^,,^ Not even close and that is a double hint. Rick I'll go with something topical in the news these days... 4 Vesta? |
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On 7/22/2011 9:10 PM, Geoff wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:27:59 -0500, Rick wrote: On 7/20/2011 2:51 AM, Bob (not my real pseudonym) wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:00:11 -0500, Rick wrote: Last time I tried an animated gif it didn't take. That was several years ago. Time to try again. The mystery is if it will work. If it does I'll explain further. In the meantime you're free to guess. Image is heavily cropped. Yes I cropped out the galaxy for band width purposes trying to keep this small enough to hit all servers. Rick Works great here (though it doesn't animate when viewed from within Agent.) Mars over a few nights? Bob ^,,^ Not even close and that is a double hint. Rick I'll go with something topical in the news these days... 4 Vesta? Same answer: Not even close though only a single hint here as you made only one guess in your answer. Neither of Bob's guesses were close. Note I said this dates back to about this time last year. Neither Vesta or Mars were in the night sky (well Mars was on the horizon) last year at this time period. I could think of only three possibilities with two being Mars and Vesta. Thus I gave that clue to rule them out leaving only the right answer but no one seems to check a planetarium program. Keep in mind I image within an hour or two of the meridian. That should greatly narrow down the sky it could be in. Another hint since they seem to be needed. This was the subject some 45 years ago of a major astronomical discovery that led off the national news and made major headlines. Later it was proven a false discovery. That made the back pages if it was news at all. Though today it is largely forgotten. Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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Here's one frame of the full image.
Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:37:09 -0500, Rick Johnson
wrote: Here's one frame of the full image. Rick Is it okay if I cheat and read the filename? ;^) Proper motion of Barnard's Star - very cool! And thanks for all the great images you post. Bob ^,,^ |
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I wouldn't have guessed that. Cool. Over how much time did you compile
those images? In other words, how long did it take the star to move that distance in the sky? George "Bob (not my real pseudonym)" wrote in message ... On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:37:09 -0500, Rick Johnson wrote: Here's one frame of the full image. Rick Is it okay if I cheat and read the filename? ;^) Proper motion of Barnard's Star - very cool! And thanks for all the great images you post. Bob ^,,^ |
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4 years, one frame each summer 2007 through 2010. It moves a tad over
10" of arc per year, about 41" during the time of this animation. If the skies ever allow it, I'll add a fifth frame but weather here has been zilch for imaging for weeks now. Not looking promising either. Humidity running higher than a rain forest screws up transparency this low in my skies from 47 north. Rick On 7/23/2011 2:45 PM, George wrote: I wouldn't have guessed that. Cool. Over how much time did you compile those images? In other words, how long did it take the star to move that distance in the sky? George "Bob (not my real pseudonym)" wrote in message ... On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:37:09 -0500, Rick Johnson wrote: Here's one frame of the full image. Rick Is it okay if I cheat and read the filename? ;^) Proper motion of Barnard's Star - very cool! And thanks for all the great images you post. Bob ^,,^ -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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"Rick Johnson" wrote in message
. com... 4 years, one frame each summer 2007 through 2010. It moves a tad over 10" of arc per year, about 41" during the time of this animation. If the skies ever allow it, I'll add a fifth frame but weather here has been zilch for imaging for weeks now. Not looking promising either. Humidity running higher than a rain forest screws up transparency this low in my skies from 47 north. Rick ****************** Moved quite a bit in fur years. I might have to try to add this as a long-term project. I always get great ideas from you guys. Thanks. George |
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