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I’ve just seen this interesting quiz. I’m still pondering 6, 7 and 8. Maybe I should think more about the sampling frequency.
Hello James,
My brother has successfully scanned in slides on an Epsom V300 flat bed scanner. (after the dedicated slide scanner he had failed to work beyond windows 98.).
See the example Hale Bopp image (copyright my brother).
I’m not sure what the max. resolution of this scanner is, or what software jiggery pokery needs to happen after the initial scan.
With technology “improving” the whole time it might be worth just trying scanning on your printer!
Let me know via the BAA e-mail if you need to make use of the V300,
I managed 19, but probably only knew 10. Not so much the 9 correct answers I alighted upon, but the 3 I thought I knew but actually didn’t that stick in the memory.
As family entertainment…. I’m afraid after 5 questions a group decision was made to abandon the quiz in favour of “Exploding kittens”.
I enjoyed it when I did it though – so thank you.
Thanks Dominic, looks good. “Ticket closed” as they say in the parlance of my neighbourhood I.T. department.
This is astonishing technology, and thanks for the links. Even as a recent member of the BAA I’ve noticed what appears to be an explosion of spectroscopy in the amateur community, so things move on. I wonder if I’ll live long enough to see the appearance of the BAA exoplanet imaging section – I’ll bet some members will.
Thank you Martin and the Will Hay Appreciation Society. I particularly enjoyed the the motor and belt driving the RA axis of the 1.5 ton 12.2 inch reflector. From an age when all things mechanical started with an unguarded rotating cylinder and belt, this is one belt I wouldn’t have minded standing next to when it snapped.
This had me fooled for a while, so probably worth fixing. Mind you, I’m easily fooled. I once strode out of the back door for an observing session on a “two fleeces” March evening, and accidentally zipped the left side of the inner fleece to the opposing edge of the outer. I spent about three minutes in the dark wondering where the other half of my coat had gone.
