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Date: 07 Aug 2006 17:15:56
From: RMOLLISE
Subject: Near About Skywatch Time
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That means...if you want to be famous (in a very small amateur
astronomy sort of way) you need to get me your
Story
Review
Cartoon
Human Interest Piece
You Name It
concerning amateur astronomy to me ASAP. I'll be putting together the
Fall issue over the next couple of weeks.
Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of:
Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope
and
The Urban Astronomer's Guide
<http://skywatch.brainiac.com/astroland >
The Annual SCT User Imaging Contest is Underway!
<http://www.rothritter.com/contest/2006/ >
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Date: 08 Aug 2006 03:16:34
From: oriel36
Subject: Re: Near About Skywatch Time
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You teach younsters about astronomy and that is a shame as they do not
deserve the indination into celestial sphere astrophotography.
These hobbies are fine in themselves but the astronomical
justifications applied to observed apparent motion are not just
childish,they approach subhuman standards.As though having nothing
better to do than locate and make celestial objects appear bigger,the
descent of astronomy into this harmless pursuit is matched by the rise
of exotic structural and cyclical principles applied to observed motion
through the empirical theorists.
It is impossible to know when the intuitive faculties which affirm or
reject the geometrical facets in accounting for observed motion come
into play,for most people these intutive faculties become developed in
adulthood but they are experienced rather than rote learned.The abrupt
recognition of how Copernicus resolved apparent motion of the planets
is one such experience ,now made easy by time lapse footage.While it
may have only passing interest to some,for others it leads to new and
exciting possibilities.
Unfortunately theorists have mangled the basic concept of the intuitive
experience insofar as periodic planetary retrogrades are determined by
using the stellar background as a reference and transfered to its
heliocentric resolution based on an orbitally moving Earth.The
theorists retained the stellar background and take an omnipresent view
of heliocentricity rather than considering how things look from an
orbitally moving Earth. The difference appears to go unnoticed and no
matter how many times I present the time lapse footage of the motion
of Jupiter and Saturn,the most remarkable Western achievement in
natural sciences is no longer appreciated.
You can still do astrophotography as a complimentary facet to astronomy
however that the theorists now dominate the traditional area of
astronomy in terms of structural and cyclical astronomy through non
geometrical equation treatment ,the awful destruction of the Copernican
insight and its later refinements through insincere linguistic
intimidation is one of the worst historical tragedies and the most
crippling for natural sciences which require accurate working
principles for axial and orbital motion.
In short,stop trying to justify the Ra/Dec system or celestial sphere
geometry.
RMOLLISE wrote:
> That means...if you want to be famous (in a very small amateur
> astronomy sort of way) you need to get me your
>
> Story
> Review
> Cartoon
> Human Interest Piece
> You Name It
>
> concerning amateur astronomy to me ASAP. I'll be putting together the
> Fall issue over the next couple of weeks.
>
> Peace,
> Rod Mollise
> Author of:
> Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope
> and
> The Urban Astronomer's Guide
> <http://skywatch.brainiac.com/astroland>
> The Annual SCT User Imaging Contest is Underway!
> <http://www.rothritter.com/contest/2006/>
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