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- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: Galileo's Gabfest
- Topic: Tabletop Beginner Telescope
- Replies: 4
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Re: Tabletop Beginner Telescope
I have a pretty simple orion short tube 80mm scope that I think is great for quick views as it's light and needs very little set up. If you get an alt az for it it would be even better. https://www.telescope.com/Orion/Orion-StarBlast-102mm-Altazimuth-Travel-Refractor-Telescope/rc/2160/p/132065.uts?k...
- Sat Oct 28, 2017 9:56 am
- Forum: Galileo's Gabfest
- Topic: Remote observatory view from above
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7827
Re: Remote observatory view from above
Ha that was really fun to watch. What a cool set up.
- Wed Dec 09, 2015 4:46 pm
- Forum: Galileo's Gabfest
- Topic: Cosmic Background Radiation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3983
Re: Cosmic Background Radiation
To mrgizmo65 : The evenness is attributed to two factors generally 1) the relatively equal amounts of matter and antimatter involved in the big bang. Which means there will not be a lot of normal matter left over and 2) The rapid rate of inflation which spread the contents of the matter evenly throu...
- Wed Dec 09, 2015 4:36 pm
- Forum: Galileo's Gabfest
- Topic: Cosmic Background Radiation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3983
Re: Cosmic Background Radiation
Well an interesting thing is that if time was created in the Big Bang as essentially a spatial dimension then essentially the universe is eternal. Because there was no time before it's creation. Just saying, so while you could say the universe had a fixed point of origin we can call this time = 0 th...
- Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:27 pm
- Forum: Galileo's Gabfest
- Topic: Cosmic Background Radiation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3983
Re: Cosmic Background Radiation
My understanding is that if the steady state model was correct there would be no CMB to begin with. The CMB as I understand it is basically the decaying echo of the big bang without the bang there would be no CMB. The problem as I understand it if you did try to explain the CMB with the steady state...
- Sun Dec 06, 2015 11:00 am
- Forum: The Imager's Studio
- Topic: Barred spiral galaxy NGC 925
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4637
Re: Barred spiral galaxy NGC 925
wow very well done.
- Sat Sep 19, 2015 9:35 am
- Forum: Galileo's Gabfest
- Topic: Arunah Hill Days, 2015
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4078
Re: Arunah Hill Days, 2015
wow seems like a great time. I am going to have to schedule things better next year so that I can attend.
- Sat Sep 19, 2015 9:33 am
- Forum: Galileo's Gabfest
- Topic: "Almost Impossibly Awesome" Pluto Images
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2394
Re: "Almost Impossibly Awesome" Pluto Images
Yes I have been really blown away by how dynamic and interesting both Pluto and Charon have been. It makes me excited for how many more treasures might be in the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud.
- Thu Jul 30, 2015 4:21 pm
- Forum: Galileo's Gabfest
- Topic: $ 100M SEARCH FOR E.T.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5751
Re: $ 100M SEARCH FOR E.T.
I totally agree with Jerry if a civ was able to travel here to do us harm there is nothing we could do about it against that kind of technology. I just can't think of anything we have that you couldn't get elsewhere easier and cheaper. If it's metal then go get an asteroid. If it's water go get a co...
- Mon Jul 27, 2015 10:57 am
- Forum: Galileo's Gabfest
- Topic: A very deep shower thought found online
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2256
Re: A very deep shower thought found online
according to this article http://www.fvza.org/science2.html vampires have a body temperature of 60 F way above the 2.7 Kelvin of surrounding space. They should easily show up on an infrared spectrum. Kind of like how when they cloak the klingon bird of prey you can still see it's exhaust.