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Talking of Jupiter, I don't know if you are familiar with the brands of Takahashi and TMB. Both 'top end' refractors. I have had the privilege of owning at different times both a TMB 6" f8 triplet refractor and the slightly faster (shorter focal length) F7.3 Tak TOA150 (£14k scope brand new).I'm afraid my 'scopes are rather more modest! A 250mm Newtonian (Orion Optics on Vixen mount) which I've had now for over 15 years, plus a Williams Optics ZS61 APO - bought only last year. I'm thinking of flogging the refractor (once the CV lockdown is over!) - I bought it specifically because it's very portable and I wanted something for the Total Eclipse in Argentina/Chile last year.
This is the Debate section of the forum. If you feel like you need to insult wise, do it in Angry Ranting.Understood, but I don't feel like I 'need' to insult anyone. Unless pointing out poor spelling is deemed to be an 'insult' on this forum.
You've noticed that too have you... glad I'm not the only one! Have you also noticed how his ignore list seems to get longer and longer. Why would you feel it necessary to ignore someone on here?I have no idea. But then, I'm not "Wise". Not even with a small 'w'.
....which makes flat Earth believers hate astronomy and astronomers so much.I can well believe that! I suppose I must be one of the 'hated ones'. But did you know that the late Patrick Moore was once a signed-up member of the FE society? Of course he did it for a laugh. I wonder what FE believers make of his legacy?
On a German equatorial mount (Skywatcher HEQ5 or NEQ6 for example), you have a latitude adjuster which allows you to set the mount for your latitude. It goes from 0 degrees to 90 degrees and works equally well in both N and S hemispheres.Almost. My Newtonian also has an equatorial mount with similar adjuster. On the controller there's a switch to make the drive go in the opposite direction, for use in the southern hemisphere. I've never taken it south of the equator, but I remember once flipping this switch by mistake. It took me a while to figure out why my target was constantly drifting out of the FOV!
The mount also has a built in polar scope that allows you to set the mount so it aims at either the NCP or the SCP.Mine too. In fact I reckon that my elderly Vixen GP (still in good condition after 16 years) is more accurate than the EQ6. In Northern hemisphere use, the polaris marker on the polar scope graticule has graduations at 5-year intervals to allow for precession. Very helpful in avoiding drift!
I would say most people when talking about it mean the event horizon and everything inside.Interesting point. What do we mean by 'inside'?
Ask yourself first of all what causes a black hole to form. i.e. the collapse of a massive star of at least 8 solar masses. Then ask yourself whether a black hole could be flat.True enough - thanks - but I really wanted responses from actual Flat-Earth believers - if they can come up with anything on GR that makes even a shred of sense! I can see that you're not one of them!
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Certainly something fishy about those two piccies. The right hand sides look as near identical as I can make out. But, even discounting the Earth image, look at the darker patch of moon soil, just to the left of Aldrin. In the second picture it's almost level with his left boot. In the first it's a good deal higher up.
GravityI thought that FE'ers believe that Australia is on the same side of Earth as we are. Just nearer the edge. *sigh* There's so much I still have to learn about FE doctrine! ....
Same force that keeps Australians from falling off the Earth.
), says that you can cut a solid sphere into five pieces which can then be re-assembled to make two identical solid spheres, each as big as the original, with no gaps in their interiors.Ha ha!!!You're in good company, Pop, my friend.
Back in 1920, a no less august journal than the NY Times, famously published a leading article, in which was said:Quote"...after the rocket quits our air and really starts on its longer journey it will neither be accelerated nor maintained by the explosion of the charges it then might have left.
That Professor GODDARD with his “chair” in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react—to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
LOL... And then they published a retraction. I wonder if the creepy little voodoo troll, is honest enough to publish a retraction as well.
"...after the rocket quits our air and really starts on its longer journey it will neither be accelerated nor maintained by the explosion of the charges it then might have left.
That Professor GODDARD with his “chair” in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react—to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
People see two light sources or suns in the sky all the time. The phenomenon is known as a "sun dog" or "Tatooine Sunset." It's really just light reflected off the ice wall.I have never seen a tattoine sunset, I've never been to Tattooine in my life. Probably just as well, that Greedo bloke seems a nasty piece of work!
