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Atheists, here is a 'balls' question ---even for all---

by prologos in

it is very difficult to knock a ball into a hole (like golf), throw it into a receiver's hands (american football) intercept it and knock it over the fence (american cricket).

or to put a sattelite at the right time at the right speed in the right direction in the right place to have it orbit another body, so :.

what ingenious natural & process is it, than can get 9+ zillions bodies to get into the right orbit simultaniously or sequentially and have them remain there for billions of years?

Twitch

next question,please?

How does one put any value into your "insights" when they are based on unproven hypothesis, speculation and poor communication/use of terms? Especially coming from someone who didn't understand the movement of the earth with respect to the stars and had to have the concept explained, one that is the most basic in astronomy. That you consider yourself suitable to "educate" people in astrophysics is laughable.

Also, using your status as a geriatric father as an excuse for anything is lame and irrelevant with regard to these topics, if it is even true which I doubt.

Lastly, you had mentioned being published in Popular Science. I'd be interested in reading the article, if you'd be so kind as to provide the title, year and volume. (I would be in awe of your editor btw)

Please provide something credible so that you're not regarded as a lunatic, a liar or both

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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/.

Twitch

Thank you AnnOMaly, yes it is.

The middle section of trails that are straight approximate the celestial equator

The lower portion of the photo that shows star trails bending over the mountain is of stars in the south celestial sphere, the concentric centre of these being the south celestial pole which is obviously obscured from view in the northern hemisphere.

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

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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/.

Twitch

I couls not figure out how the apparent center of these circles around polaris could point to what appears to be BELOW the horizon, that of course can exist, at our vacation home its only 15% above up here in the 40s.

The concentric centre of star trails would be around Polaris if this photo was taken in the southern hemisphere. Polaris would be obscured by the earth, as it shows.

The photo was taken in the northern hemisphere as per the shooter.

So it's looking towards the south celestial pole, not Polaris. The celestial equator is the middle "band"of trails. Polaris would be "above to the left". A very wide angle shot here would show the trails bending the other way at top left around the North Star.

I see now that the upper circles actually appear to be convex. still I would like to see a presentation that explains it in lay-[wo]mans terms.

Does this help?

PS. I misread earlier regarding who lived where, my apologies.

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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/.

Twitch

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

24 hrs exposure time would thus produce 360 degrees of arc

Talk to me about declination and hour angle.

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Does anyone know what a tidal bore is

by Truthseeker677 in

Twitch

A tidal bore is a slowly moving standing wave node where a river current meets an ocean tidal current, the latter overcoming the former by a large margin in certain circumstances. There is only a tidal bore when the tide is coming in, not when it's going out, naturally.

I've been to the Bay of Fundy, St John's Reversing Falls, and a couple other places with similar phenomena.

Magnetic Hill in Moncton was cool but is only an optical illusion, albeit a good one.

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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/.

Twitch

so if that is the case you live in the southern hemisphere, and are wellcome to visit and see Polaris

It would stand to reason you cannot see Polaris, the North Star from the southern hemisphere more a few latitudes south of the earth's equator.

your pictures did not capture the rotation of the earth at all, but the rotation of your camera?

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.

A very basic astronomical concept actually

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_pole

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Atheists, here is a 'balls' question ---even for all---

by prologos in

it is very difficult to knock a ball into a hole (like golf), throw it into a receiver's hands (american football) intercept it and knock it over the fence (american cricket).

or to put a sattelite at the right time at the right speed in the right direction in the right place to have it orbit another body, so :.

what ingenious natural & process is it, than can get 9+ zillions bodies to get into the right orbit simultaniously or sequentially and have them remain there for billions of years?

Twitch

prologos

RE density wave theory.

It would seem that one study found no evidence supporting the theory and another is "likely" to salvage it if the team can fix the bugs in their method.

To settle the question, astronomers will need to produce more refined models and explore the regions in greater detail and in more galaxies.

Seems just a theory still and a ways to go before it's confirmed as law.

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Atheists, here is a 'balls' question ---even for all---

by prologos in

it is very difficult to knock a ball into a hole (like golf), throw it into a receiver's hands (american football) intercept it and knock it over the fence (american cricket).

or to put a sattelite at the right time at the right speed in the right direction in the right place to have it orbit another body, so :.

what ingenious natural & process is it, than can get 9+ zillions bodies to get into the right orbit simultaniously or sequentially and have them remain there for billions of years?

Twitch

twich, I have been working FROM the astronomical tables, that were available in libraries, -[no need (or ability)* to post them]- and later from data available on line of asteroid and TNO orbits, all i did was found the hidden patterns, regularities sequences in the distances, the means, the excentricities. all amazingly related, no doubt caused by the the natural laws.

* remember my technical handicap: pushing 90, and pushing a 2 year old daughter in the stroller.

Right, sorry, I forgot.

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The Self Delusion

by John_Mann in

we already are very familiar with the god delusion, but what to think about the property of being self aware is just another illusion?.

buddhism asserts that and many people does not know that the very materialism (physicalism) asserts that too.. how can an illusion be self aware to be an illusion in itself?

what would change in your life if you accept this?.

Twitch

Well, this should be interesting...

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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/.

Twitch

Cool pix