Posts by AnnOMaly

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Memorial 2014: Wrong date?

by AnnOMaly in

this was meant to have nice inserted pictures and tidy hyperlinks but the forum's being glitchy today.

so unfortunately it's going to be a messy post where you're going to have to exercise your tapping fingers and click on the links to the pics to see what i'm referring to.

sorry about that.. in the article recently studied "do this in remembrance of me" (w13 12/15), there is a box on p. 23 giving the date of this year's memorial and how that date is arrived at.. http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2013926.

AnnOMaly

Hi Amelia,

Regarding the hebcal converter, please see THIS EARLIER POST.

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Star Trails

by ILoveTTATT in

one of the things that i have only done once... but i would love to do again and again until i perfect the technique, is called star trails.. my camera is a canon 60d.

there is a way to "hack" the canon dslr's so that they get some amazing functionalities, such as taking a picture just by clapping (really cool for when you want to take a picture and no one is able to push the button) and taking pictures at certain intervals.. you can read more about this "hacking" on .

http://www.magiclantern.fm/.

AnnOMaly

The shot does not show the curvature of trails in the north celestial sphere, but rest assured, Polaris is UP THERE.

... behind ILoveTTATT (or his camera).

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Star Trails

by ILoveTTATT in

one of the things that i have only done once... but i would love to do again and again until i perfect the technique, is called star trails.. my camera is a canon 60d.

there is a way to "hack" the canon dslr's so that they get some amazing functionalities, such as taking a picture just by clapping (really cool for when you want to take a picture and no one is able to push the button) and taking pictures at certain intervals.. you can read more about this "hacking" on .

http://www.magiclantern.fm/.

AnnOMaly

prologos,

It might be better imagining a concave lens shape.

)I(

Imagine the above figure rotated 90°. The 'I' is the line of the celestial equator.

Star trails will curve in a circle around their respective celestial poles. Although you won't see the south celestial pole or its circumpolar stars (to make those nice tight circles) from Seattle, stars south of the celestial equator will make trails that slightly arc southwards.

That's what Twitch is trying to convey (right, Twitch?).

Any help?

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Star Trails

by ILoveTTATT in

one of the things that i have only done once... but i would love to do again and again until i perfect the technique, is called star trails.. my camera is a canon 60d.

there is a way to "hack" the canon dslr's so that they get some amazing functionalities, such as taking a picture just by clapping (really cool for when you want to take a picture and no one is able to push the button) and taking pictures at certain intervals.. you can read more about this "hacking" on .

http://www.magiclantern.fm/.

AnnOMaly

All I can see is objects revolving around polaris lining up above my rear yard fence. where in the Seattle area could I point my camera and get circles like that, rotating about the other celestial pole?

Nowhere in the Seattle area. The south celestial pole with its circumpolar stars can only be seen south of Earth's equator. You'd have to travel to S. America, I'm afraid.

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Star Trails

by ILoveTTATT in

one of the things that i have only done once... but i would love to do again and again until i perfect the technique, is called star trails.. my camera is a canon 60d.

there is a way to "hack" the canon dslr's so that they get some amazing functionalities, such as taking a picture just by clapping (really cool for when you want to take a picture and no one is able to push the button) and taking pictures at certain intervals.. you can read more about this "hacking" on .

http://www.magiclantern.fm/.

AnnOMaly

Talk to me about declination and hour angle.

Which star trail?

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July 2014 WT cracks down on apostate debates and 'dance parties'

by EndofMysteries in

in the july 2014 study wt article titled "jehovah's people "renouce unrighteousness".

par 9 and 10 .

9. how did foolish and ignorant debates affect the early christian congregation?.

AnnOMaly

Yes, NewYork44M, straight up - http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20140715/jehovahs-people-renounce-unrighteousness/ - scroll half way down.

(Don't know if this thought's already been mentioned in the thread but ...) The WT lessons will be studied in September - just before the October '100th birthday of the Kingdom' and the AGM. Big hype/developments. Surely the Great Trib. will be about to blow on the world scene? Then Oct. will come and go, then 2014 will turn to 2015. It's like the GB are innoculating the sheeple against the fallout when suddenly nothing happens and some/many inevitably start to question, 'murmur,' voice and seek out explanations for their disappointments and doubts. (Like the 1920s after the 1914 failed expectations and Russell dying. Dissent and schisms. Rutherford pulled on his jackboots and stomped on them.)

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Star Trails

by ILoveTTATT in

one of the things that i have only done once... but i would love to do again and again until i perfect the technique, is called star trails.. my camera is a canon 60d.

there is a way to "hack" the canon dslr's so that they get some amazing functionalities, such as taking a picture just by clapping (really cool for when you want to take a picture and no one is able to push the button) and taking pictures at certain intervals.. you can read more about this "hacking" on .

http://www.magiclantern.fm/.

AnnOMaly

Since stars do not move (with respect to our timeframe) the photo is proof of the earth's rotation. The camera is static and moves with the earth, the exposures taken over a number of hours.

And 2 hours of exposure have produced star trails measuring 30° of arc.

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Star Trails

by ILoveTTATT in

one of the things that i have only done once... but i would love to do again and again until i perfect the technique, is called star trails.. my camera is a canon 60d.

there is a way to "hack" the canon dslr's so that they get some amazing functionalities, such as taking a picture just by clapping (really cool for when you want to take a picture and no one is able to push the button) and taking pictures at certain intervals.. you can read more about this "hacking" on .

http://www.magiclantern.fm/.

AnnOMaly

ILoveTTATT: I evidently took pictures of the celestial equator. That is why the stars on the top part of the pic seem to curve differently than the ones in the bottom part of the pic.

Yep, he's right, prologos. He was facing south or south-east. You can see the stars are rising and culminating (thus south of the celestial equator). It looks like his first 2 pics are in reverse time order.

To get a similar trail effect in the southern hemisphere, he'd have to be facing north to north-west where they'd have passed culmination (north of the celestial equator here) and would be on their way to setting.

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How long did you know TTATT while attending the meetings?

by Iamallcool in

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friends

i did not know anything about ttatt while attending the meetings.. .

ttatt=the truth about the truth..

AnnOMaly

Hubby about 20 years (learned ttatt pre-internet). Me about 10. It's been complicated. JWD/N has helped keep me sane throughout. Been a year since we stepped inside a KH.

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July 2014 WT cracks down on apostate debates and 'dance parties'

by EndofMysteries in

in the july 2014 study wt article titled "jehovah's people "renouce unrighteousness".

par 9 and 10 .

9. how did foolish and ignorant debates affect the early christian congregation?.

AnnOMaly

"It would be unwise to engage in debates with apostates, whether in person, by responding to their blogs, or by any other form of communication."

Ramping it up and closing the loopholes. Pic on p. 15.