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Daryl wrote in https://britastro.org/forums/topic/moon-solves-hubble-tension#post-609557
Do we have the embryo of a new BAA section the Jaffa Section as clearly there is a lot of research to be done especially with the variation of recipe’s around
The Oxford University Astronomical Society conducted a great deal of research into the physics of the Jaffa Cake back in the 70’s and early 80’s. I can still remember some of the results and perhaps there are other ex-OUAS members of that era who are now BAA members.
I seem to remember that the symmetry of the ground state ensemble was something like quintuplet-N-27/2 with at least four excited states known. The Jaffa Cake is not a fundamental particle in that it has substructure composed of chocons, jamons and cakons, the last of which decay into crumbons.
It is a great pity that this topic came up too late for Heather Couper to contribute. I am certain that she partook in that research.
i never met Ron, as far as I recall, but he did prompt me to submit my image of the globular clusters around M81 as a candidate for a picture of the week. The submission was successful. Thanks Ron!
https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20181111_015500_44cd9ab1092010e3 contains a reference to https://britastro.org/node/19348 (this is just a specific example of no importance otherwise), which link is now broken. I can easily fix isolated examples in my own pages but perhaps they may be corrected globally with a script? AFAICT, and assuming the old pages are still available in an archive somewhere, a relatively straightforward pattern matching exercise should match old with new URLs.
Priority: MAÑANA
That lead to a fascinating, but rather bizarre, exchange on Twitter. It was noted that “giraffe” could be a unit of mass or of length. I proposed that the “slug” be used as that is a standard of unit of mass. Things got rather silly after that.
https://britastro.org/forums/topic/new-website-feedback/page/3#post-608593
Ah, I thought it must be (relatively easily) possible. Thanks.
It doesn’t look like a link under Firefox (no underlining and no colour change, so I never thought of looking there. A combination of UBD and inadequate documentation perhaps.
Paul
P.S. If I can be assistance please ask.
Second Robin’s post of 1:43 pm.
It is a real PITA not to be able to link to posts to which I am replying.
LazyFocus still doesn’t work despite everything I have tried. The contents of the RAR file are internally inconsistent. At least I now know where to ask for more help, so thanks again.
Ah, the latest RAR file is markedly different from the one of several years ago. I am now rather more hopeful and will report back.
Thanks again.
Moderator: might this portion of the thread be better moved elsewhere, the equipment area perhaps?
Thanks William.
I also can’t find teh PM link. Restoring it would be an extremely good idea IMAO.
LazyFocus: I wil check out your suggestion but I already have LAZYFOCUS.DLL and instructions on how to modify the registry for Win 7. The directory indicated doesn’t exist under Win 10.
Perhaps a fresh attempt might be more successful.
“External Links”. Strongly agree with Robin on this one. I am always forgetting to right-click on external links.
A WIBNI.
Relatively low priority, but still…
The current forum interface tells us how long ago the most recent post was made in each topic. Wouldn’t It Be Nice If we could click on the column heading and be able to sort either most recent first or oldest first?
“Personally I much prefer the format used by most other forums like Cloudy Nights, Stargazers Lounge etc where all posts in a topic appear sequentially with the option to quote and link the specific post being replied to. ”
Seconded.
I also like threaded fora because it is easy to see which response applies to which predecessor. I quoted Robin’s text to make it clear that I anm responding to his as opposed to anyone else further upstream.
Wonderful!
An earlier posting indicates which ones are missing from my collection and I would like to acquire any of those which you may have available. I am in La Palma right now but perhaps we can arrange payment to you and delivery to SWMBO who is still back in the UK.
Please feel free to email me.
Paul
Richard:
Does the offer of paper copies extend to BAA Handbooks? I would like to complete my collection as far as possible.
Modulo an infuriating issue logging in (I appear not the only one to find this one) everything looks very nice and is working smoothly.
My thanks and congratulations to the team who have done this work. I know from experience how difficult such major upgrades generally are.
BTW, what is appropriate entry for the “Tags:” box just below? It seems to accept any old gobbledygook. (Please feel free to edit this post 😎 )
Parts of it are excellent!
I have had immense probs logging in fully, despite a lot of help from Andy Wilson. I was left in a limbo where I was logged in (could see membership details, profile, etc) and not logged in (could not post on forum, read text of JBAA, etc) at the same time.
Much fiddling around and on about the 1th time I am now properly logged in. No idea what went right, whether it will work flawlessly from now on, or what to do if it fails again. Tomorrow I will try accessing britastro.org from another computer …
Other than that, everything looks great.
Likely to be difficult that close to the centre of the galaxy. Someone with deep pre-discovery images (down to at least mag 21) might be able to find it with image subtraction techniques.
