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Date: 23 May 2007 11:17:22
From: Jason Ware
Subject: "Summerland" another astronomy blunder.
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Flipping through the HD channels today I came across a guy
and a kid with a telescope on the beach in a program called
Summerland, episode name, The Pleiades.
He was talking about the mythology of Orion and the Pleiades
then they showed a picture of M45 in the sky. The guy says its
light shines from reflected starlight on dust in space. So far
so good.
Then the kid looks though the telescope, but wait, its a 4" Newtonian
and its pointing DOWN. They show an astrophoto of M45 and the
kid says "it glows blue, just like a picture".
Wow, what a 4" reflector, not only can you see color in M45 but
you see it reflected off the SAND!
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Date: 24 May 2007 04:37:39
From: Chris.B
Subject: Re: "Summerland" another astronomy blunder.
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On May 24, 6:23 am, b...@isi.edu (Brian Tung) wrote:
> Jason Ware wrote:
> > Wow, what a 4" reflector, not only can you see color in M45 but
Many media people seem terrifyingly ignorant of the most basic worldly
information. It must be a necessary job qualification. As is an
overrated sense of self-worth due to being grossly overpaid for owning
such a small talent.
While flicking round the radio dial yesterday I found two Danish
commercial radio DJ morons openly sniggering at a Neils Bohr Institute
astrophysicist patiently trying to explain that there was a new
potential find of water on Mars. This, thanks to the second rover
studying its own tracks. Since these drivelling idiots had taken the
liberty of ringing this scientist in the first place I wondered why
they had bothered. Except perhaps to further expose their crippling
stupidity and blatant rudeness to a wider audience? Dumb and Dumber
seemed not to have grasped the nettle of simple good manners whatever
they might have thought of the subject matter. The scientist concerned
seemed to take it all in good spirits but I bet he won't be responding
to further calls from Denmark's TV2. Whatever the reason.
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Date: 24 May 2007 17:53:45
From: Pierre Vandevenne
Subject: Re: "Summerland" another astronomy blunder.
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"Chris.B" <chris.b@mail.dk > wrote in news:1180006659.000097.292590
@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:
> commercial radio DJ morons openly sniggering at a Neils Bohr Institute
> astrophysicist patiently trying to explain that there was a new
> potential find of water on Mars.
Oh no, not again!
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Pierre Vandevenne - DataRescue sa/nv - www.datarescue.com
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Date: 23 May 2007 21:23:06
From: Brian Tung
Subject: Re: "Summerland" another astronomy blunder.
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Jason Ware wrote:
> Wow, what a 4" reflector, not only can you see color in M45 but
> you see it reflected off the SAND!
Well, that explains it--it's a *quartz* mirror.
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Date: 23 May 2007 18:16:00
From: Davoud
Subject: Re: "Summerland" another astronomy blunder.
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Jason Ware wrote:
> Flipping through the HD channels today...
> ...Then the kid looks though the telescope, but wait, its a 4" Newtonian
> and its pointing DOWN. They show an astrophoto of M45 and the
> kid says "it glows blue, just like a picture".
Television!? You were watching television!!?? What did you expect to
find, the Theory of Everything?
Davoud
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Date: 23 May 2007 16:23:42
From: Rick Evans
Subject: Re: "Summerland" another astronomy blunder.
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"Jason Ware" <See_my_website_for_email@galaxyphoto.com > wrote in
message news:46546840$0$4716$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> He was talking about the mythology of Orion and the Pleiades
> then they showed a picture of M45 in the sky. The guy says its
> light shines from reflected starlight on dust in space. So far
> so good.
<snip >
> Wow, what a 4" reflector, not only can you see color in M45
> but
> you see it reflected off the SAND!
Well sand is kinda like dust ... right? ;-)
Rick Evans
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