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Date: 17 Nov 2006 12:05:30
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Subject: Mercury Transit People Photos Wanted
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For an article in Sky & Telescope, I'm interested in photos of people
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especially groups -- observing the recent transit of Mercury. If you
have
any good ones, please send them to me at tony_flanders@yahoo.com
Thanks,
Tony Flanders
(in my official capacity as S&T editor)
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Date: 17 Nov 2006 13:53:28
From: oriel36
Subject: Re: Mercury Transit People Photos Wanted
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Do your readers a favor and explain to them that the event last week is
one of those rare occasions when a faster moving planet overtakes our
slower moving Earth rather than the idiotic 'Mercury crosses the face
of the Sun'.
As for images there is none better than the SOHO image which genuinely
give a real sense of the sheer power of our central parent star and
planetary orbital motion around that star.
http://www.vt-2004.org/mt-2003/mt-2003-soho1999-normal.jpg
The biggest news this millenia,at least so far,is the identification of
that hideous Newtonian error which is easy to spot and easy to get rid
of.Planetary orbital motions around the Sun are seen from an orbitally
moving Earth,this insight is Western astronomy's greatest achievement
and it is your job to promote it.
As for the worthless Newtonian view,do what you want with it but it
certainly is not astronomy -
"For to the earth planetary motions appear sometimes direct, sometimes
stationary, nay, and sometimes retrograde. But from the sun they are
always seen direct.." Newton
tony_flanders@yahoo.com wrote:
> For an article in Sky & Telescope, I'm interested in photos of people
> --
> especially groups -- observing the recent transit of Mercury. If you
> have
> any good ones, please send them to me at tony_flanders@yahoo.com
>
> Thanks,
> Tony Flanders
> (in my official capacity as S&T editor)
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Date: 17 Nov 2006 22:44:01
From: OG
Subject: Re: Mercury Transit People Photos Wanted
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"oriel36" <geraldkelleher@yahoo.com > wrote in message
news:1163800408.525024.249410@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
> Do your readers a favor and explain to them that the event last week is
> one of those rare occasions when a faster moving planet overtakes our
> slower moving Earth rather than the idiotic 'Mercury crosses the face
> of the Sun'.
Dolt.
if anything, Mercury 'undertook' the Earth.
Are you saying that Mercury did not cross the face of the Sun'?
Of course it did and you are wrong to claim it didn't.
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Date: 18 Nov 2006 08:55:58
From: Dave Jessie
Subject: Re: Mercury Transit People Photos Wanted
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Tony Flanders wrote:
< I'm interested in photos of people especially groups -- observing the
recent transit of Mercury...
Hi Tony,
Apparently, nobody that has responded has actually read your request. ;^(
(He's looking for pictures of PEOPLE, people - not the event itself.
Sheesh.
I wish I could help, but here in NE Ohio, we've seen precisions little clear
sky for the past eleven months, including unfortunately, the day of the
transit. Would a picture of a bunch of disappointed members of our
astronomy club standing around looking at the bottom of clouds be of any
use? This same scene has been repeated over and over this
spring/summer/fall.
By the way, as a subscriber to 'Sky&Telescope' and 'Astronomy' for many
years and 'Night Sky' since the first issue, I can assure you that your
articles in 'Night Sky' are the first one my girl friend and I read, and
enjoy the most!
A fan and long-time saa aficionado,
Dave Jessie
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Date: 19 Nov 2006 08:02:42
From: Trane Francks
Subject: Re: Mercury Transit People Photos Wanted
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On 2006-11-18 22:55 +0900, Dave Jessie wrote:
> (He's looking for pictures of PEOPLE, people - not the event itself.
I wish I'd taken pics of my kids viewing the transit through my NexStar.
I was too busy being excited about it to worry about pics, though.
trane
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// Trane Francks trane@gol.com Tokyo, Japan
// Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
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Date: 18 Nov 2006 03:12:25
From: oriel36
Subject: Re: Mercury Transit People Photos Wanted
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OG wrote:
> "oriel36" <geraldkelleher@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1163800408.525024.249410@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
> > Do your readers a favor and explain to them that the event last week is
> > one of those rare occasions when a faster moving planet overtakes our
> > slower moving Earth rather than the idiotic 'Mercury crosses the face
> > of the Sun'.
>
> Dolt.
> if anything, Mercury 'undertook' the Earth.
>
> Are you saying that Mercury did not cross the face of the Sun'?
>
Orbitally ,every planet crosses the face of the Sun at all times,the
event last week was distinguished by the faster orbitally moving
Mercury overtaking our slower orbitally moving Earth with the central
star as a backdrop.
The event is the most spectacular and direct means to affirm the great
Copernican insight yet what you had was a weak celestial sphere
geometer's take - 'Mercury crosses the face of the Sun'.
Your reaction is that of a guy bred and trapped in the Ra/Dec system,no
sense that we are continuously moving around the central star ,even
with incredibly powerful modern imaging,it appears you cannot
appreciate what the great astronomers knew with bare intutive
intelligence.The image of Mercury in its orbital motion around our
central star immediately gets rid of that weak view of the Sun as a
disc and Mercury crossing a solar disc -
http://www.vt-2004.org/mt-2003/mt-2003-soho1999-normal.jpg
Astronomy was never supposed to be in the hands of weak people who
cannot even recognise the catastrophic consequences of adopting an
error that is shocking,not because it is difficult to spot and remedy
but because no authority exists to handle the correct astronomical
method and insights.
> Of course it did and you are wrong to claim it didn't.
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