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Care to give a source for these thousands planning around librations? lol.
Originally posted by eriktheawful
The real question is, and I hate to say this, but I feel based on everything you've said, showing your observational skills is: "When are you going to go visit the eye doctor?"
But since it never will appear directly overhead at 38º I guess that settles that. On December 13 the Pleiades will be at its highest, about 76º above the horizon from your point of view.
Would you please provide a source for this?
PARI is home to the Astronomical Photographic Data Archive(APDA) a site to help preserve astronomical photographic plates. These plates were the primary recording medium for astronomy data from the late 19th century until the 1980s. It is estimated that over two million of these invaluable plates exist in astronomy facilities around the world and are in jeopardy of being destroyed because of a lack of storage facilities.
The facility was transferred from NASA to the National Security Agency (NSA) in 1981 and was used as an intelligence gathering facility for the United States.
But, I and others are very sad to see the free and open days of Pal-Dows go to security lights and cameras and other security measures yet to be devised, all in the name of Astronomy.
You want me to provide a source that says that Homeland Security has taken over U.S. astronomical observatories? How could I do that? It's need to know and you don't need to know because incoming is a matter of national security.
However, I did find a couple of interesting stories on the internet relating to observatories.
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
PARI is home to the Astronomical Photographic Data Archive(APDA) a site to help preserve astronomical photographic plates. These plates were the primary recording medium for astronomy data from the late 19th century until the 1980s. It is estimated that over two million of these invaluable plates exist in astronomy facilities around the world and are in jeopardy of being destroyed because of a lack of storage facilities.
The facility was transferred from NASA to the National Security Agency (NSA) in 1981 and was used as an intelligence gathering facility for the United States.
PARI is located at the site of the former Rosman Satellite Tracking Station founded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1962. The site was part of the worldwide Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and an integral communications link for Project Gemini, and Project Apollo - the manned space programs. The facility was transferred from NASA to the National Security Agency (NSA) in 1981 and was used as an intelligence gathering facility for the United States. The site was officially closed by the NSA in 1995 and turned over to the United States Forest Service. After several years of inactivity, the government proposed to dismantle the facility. Recognizing the potential future use of this site a small group of interested scientists and businessmen formed a not-for-profit foundation and was able to acquire the site in January 1999. Capital investment continues allowing updates of the equipment for astronomical purposed and maintaining a staff of professional astronomers, engineers, and other scientists. 'Friends of PARI' helps support the educational and research goals of PARI.
Re: CAA closes Pal-Dows Observatory with New Lights!
But, I and others are very sad to see the free and open days of Pal-Dows go to security lights and cameras and other security measures yet to be devised, all in the name of Astronomy.
The Pallisades-Dows Observatory and viewing campus has been
CLOSED - by CAA and Linn County's addition of outside lighting to their
new $1 million dollar+ facility, The Eastern Iowa Observatory and
Learning Center set on the Pal-Dows campus
south of Mt Vernon Iowa.
The formerly free and open campus is now lighted up and not
useable as a viewing resource, I am sad to report. Several CAA
members went there tonight to use our rolloff observatory only
to be turned away by the new outside lighting, all un-announced.
It is especially sad to lose this valuable campus and Linn County Public
Park which the public has also relied on for many many years for their
night time viewing of the sky, where the public could come in safety and
security and connect with CAA members and learn more about astronomy,
and possibly even become new CAA members.
It is appearing directly overhead - night before last was the last time I looked. Now what? Time to look for cause, don't you think? Or, perhaps, the starry skies have altered position? Or, maybe, a matrix or dimension? Aliens?
Sundogs, sometimes called Sun Dogs, Parhelia or Mock Suns, are with the 22º halo, the most frequent of the ice halos. They are most easily seen when the sun is low. Look about 22° (outstretched hand at arm's length) to its left and right and at the same height.
Do these look like the same line of site? No, of course they don't, because they're not.
Yes they do. Because they are. Why not show the whole field of view?
Do these look like the same line of site? No, of course they don't, because they're not.
The Pleiades is not directly overhead at 38º N. It is about 68º above the horizon at its highest at this time of year.
1. If the Pleiades is overhead at, say, 38 degrees N latitude, the movement of the earth in space has changed dramatically. Something is causing this change. This is not a thread about phenomenal magic.
Yes, what caused the change is something called "seasons". Twilight lasts longest at the solstices and shortest at the equinoxes.
2. If the quality of twilight, from your location, goes from a gentle 3-tier affair of gradual fading, on the one hand, to sudden death, on the other hand, the movement of earth in space has changed dramatically. Something is causing this change. This is not a thread about inter-dimensional corrupted leaking.
The location of the sunset and sunset doesn't "ping pong" and I haven't noticed it doing so. I've been seeing sunrise and sunset steadily moving to the south, because winter is coming.
3. If the sun (or moon) ping pong in their rising/setting positions on a daily or semi-daily basis, the movement of earth in space has changed dramatically. Something is causing this change. This is not a thread about holograms or matrix dreams.
Yes. And you have been.
4. On the internet, a lot of things can be manipulated.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by eriktheawful
It might not quite make it tonight. In Hilo moonrise is at 76º. It might just make it tomorrow but after that it will be there for sure.
But it's been showing up really nice in the adjacent cam...along with the shadows reaching to the east.
cfht.hawaii.edu...edit on 10/29/2012 by Phage because: (no reason given)
The Pleiades is not directly overhead at 38º N. It is about 68º above the horizon at its highest at this time of year.
The Pleiades (aka The Seven Sisters), can and do appear to be almost directly over head at night during this time of year....YES even at 38 deg N.