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Posted by Astrid Ohlmeier at 17:26 on 2012 Oct 19
Thanks for the infos, Callum. Very useful for my research. I included your info to my website (Blog), which I update on a regular basis. http://www.planetaryscience.weebly.comAstrid
Posted by M C Butcher at 10:33 on 2012 Oct 18
Paul, A delightful image with the individual stars clearly defined right in towards the centre – marvellous. May I ask was your set up guided or not, and if so how? Whatever your answer it is a beautiful photo.Martin Butcher
Posted by Gordon MacLeod at 17:45 on 2012 Oct 17
Great Nick many thanks.I really wanted to attend this meeting out of them all this year,but having just come back from the US and due to subsequent work commitments couldn’t do it.Much appreciated,Gordon
Posted by Callum Potter at 10:30 on 2012 Oct 17
If you click on Nick’s link it goes through – the displayed link is truncated (as it is very long).Callum
Posted by Richard Miles at 10:02 on 2012 Oct 17
Oops – How about this?Looks like folk will have to manually concatenate the text for them to reach the URL.http://britastro.org/baa/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=809:comet-and-asteroids-and-remote-planets-sections-joint-meeting-6-october-2012&catid=68&Itemid=160
Posted by Richard Miles at 09:59 on 2012 Oct 17
Hi Nick,Thank you for posting this up. There are lots of members who weren’t able to attend so it is invaluable having this well-presented collection of the talks from the meeting accessible via modern technology. It seems that having a combined theme of comets and asteroids worked very well and so we shall have to repeat the formula in future.btw: For some reason the link failed to work for me. The following URL is the full one, I think:http://britastro.org/baa/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=809:comet-and-asteroids-and-remote-planets-sections-joint-meeting-6-october-2012&catid=68&Itemid=160Richard
Posted by Jeremy at 17:43 on 2012 Oct 14
Nice one, Paul. That is a really fine image. Well done!Indeed we had a good night in Cheshire – although I did have to scrape ice of the windscreen this morning.Go well!Jeremy
Posted by Callum Potter at 14:59 on 2012 Oct 13
Thanks Gordon,I had some direct mail too – and it did not seem to be working, so i’ve replaced the component that does this, so it now shows a simple list (for now, anyway).Cheers, Callum
Posted by Gordon MacLeod at 14:37 on 2012 Oct 13
Yes same for me Callum and my computer is new. so don’t doubt your machine!Best Wishes,Gordon
Posted by Nick James at 19:37 on 2012 Oct 11
Tony,Good point. Why own a measly little star when you can have an entire galaxy.You’d have to be careful to exclude the associated dark matter though since you might otherwise be done by trading standards…Nick.
Posted by TonyAngel at 07:45 on 2012 Oct 11
Why stop at stars? Galaxies would make more money, especially with a ccd image 🙂 – say £100 for a mag 10 spiral.
Posted by Nick James at 20:35 on 2012 Oct 10
Bizarre isn’t it.Perhaps the BAA should take this up as a money-making opportunity? I have the USNO B1.0 on my hard disk here and that has a billion stars in it. We could sell stars online for a few quid each and we could absolutely confirm that no one else had the same BAA star (apart from the odd catalogue duplicate). Variable stars and other stars of more interest could go for more. No money back would be offered for stars that went supernova but we could offer observing sessions for particularly rich and/or stupid mugs who might like to see their star through a telescope.What could possibly be wrong with that?Nick.
Posted by Richard Miles at 11:37 on 2012 Oct 10
Certainly got the mark of the press/media/PR people on it given their statement that "Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park … spans 300 square metres".It’s a typical example of the sorts of mistake the press make, in this case getting the area of the dark park out by a factor of 1 million!Richard
Posted by Richard Miles at 11:32 on 2012 Oct 10
Hi Tony,I see that the same organisation "Star Listings International" have already given the same name, "Alba", to three different stars:On 2008 Nov 09, GSC 1076 2358 located at RA 20:09:31.20, Dec +10:17:24.0On 2009 Aug 20, PPM 101969 located at RA 12:31:51.93, Dec +23:16:11.0On 2012 Oct 05, PPM 150158 located at RA 06:15:12.76, Dec +06:53:36.2There does not seem to be any objection to giving lots of stars the same name in their Registry! They just have an extra entry which is the name of the person for whom the star has been so-called ‘named’ to justify it being unique.This is a real money spinner for someone. If you search their Registry at:http://starlistings.co.uk/shop/star-registry.phpthere seem to be thousands upon thousands of stars with the text "star" in their name.Richard
Posted by Callum Potter at 10:44 on 2012 Oct 10
Oh dear…I am sure that none of the astronomers would have got involved in this.Probably one of Salmond’s PR people…Callum
Posted by Callum Potter at 14:19 on 2012 Oct 09
Hello Astrid,I don’t think we have any sort of accurate information that could give us a ‘solar weather’ forecast which could predict what the Sun will do in the next 24 hours, let alone in the next few months.Where there has been an earth directed CME the satellites such as ACE will pick it up before it reaches the earth, but even then the effects are still difficult to predict with any accuracy.The NOAA Space Weather Centre is set up to monitor CME’s etc. and alert satellite operators if there is need to shutdown or change their attitude. On earth, i think its very difficult to predict what impact a major event like a Carrington event might have today – but I am sure ‘we’ are not as prepared as we might be. But then we are equally as un-prepared for an asteroid impact, which might be at same sort of probability.Callum
Posted by Denis Buczynski at 12:48 on 2012 Oct 09
I notice that there have been reports this morning on BCC News of the display so it must have been widely seen and photographed.I will try to post an image at the requested size and see if that works.Denis
Posted by Callum Potter at 12:00 on 2012 Oct 09
Yes, the blogosphere has been very active with reports.The furthest south I have seen a picture of has been Yorkshire Dales, but it would potentially have been seen further south, i think, had there been a clear northern horizon.It was 10/10 cloud here in Tewkesbury :-(Callum
