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Gnostic Community: Hercolubus
Gnostic Teachings: Hercolubus
Barnard's Star, also known occasionally as Barnard's "Runaway" Star,[13] is a very low-mass red dwarf star approximately six light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Ophiuchus (the Snake-holder).
Barnard's Star has also been the subject of some controversy. For a decade, from the early 1960s to the early 1970s, Peter van de Kamp claimed that there was a gas giant planet (or planets) in orbit around it. While the presence of small terrestrial planets around the star remains a possibility, Van de Kamp's specific claims of large gas giant planets were refuted in the mid 1970s.
In real terms, the star is moving at about 140 km/sec (90 miles/second) relative to the Sun. Its direction is bringing it closer to us, though it’ll never get closer than about 4 light years — slightly closer than Alpha Centauri is to us now. It’ll still be faint; only about twice as bright as it is now, and at the moment you need pretty good binoculars to see it at all! It’s shining at about magnitude 9.5, or 1/16th as bright as the faintest star you can see with your unaided eye. Of course, it won’t slide past us for about another 9000 years, so don’t hold your breath. And even though the age of the star is about 12 billion years, as a red dwarf it hasn’t even reached middle age yet. They last a long, long time. I bet over its life it’s seen far closer passes to stars like the Sun, and will live to see many more.
In 1973 Gatewood and Eichhorn published their results in a landmark study that shook the astronomical world. Their comprehensive rigorous painstaking study of all of the photographic plates that existed of Barnard's star failed to turn up any of the "wobbling" motion that van de Kamp claimed to have detected. The reason was obvious to Gatewood and Eichhorn. van de Kamp's methods of cutting comers in the data reductions is no longer necessary since the advent of large powerful electronic computers. Eichhorn's 1960 rigorous method of computing the star positions was superior than van de Kamp's approximate methods. From their 1973 paper, they wrote “Thus we conclude, with disappointment, that our observations fail to confirm the existence of a planetary companion of Barnard’s Star.”
Originally posted by matrix12
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Originally posted by iceblue20-12
Originally posted by matrix12
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/5ff95d18e982.jpg[/atsimg] here is the pic i figured it out
Have seen the same thing,early morning,lots of people have been catching it,check utube.