So, BC...what's a lady like you, and a guy like me...doing up this fucking late in the morning anyways?
lol
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So, BC...what's a lady like you, and a guy like me...doing up this fucking late in the morning anyways?
lol
HA!! I know you know I'm keeding.... How ya be, bro?
That son of a bitch, Orion is just about out of my sight. The less I see that fucker in the night sky, the warmer the weather will be gettin'.
Its funny that so many people know about the orion constellation and how its only up during the winter.
And I'm collecting photons with an 8 foot bucket
I enjoy tracking it by *same time every night*...I.E., before I go to bed each night. I hate him.Quote:
Originally Posted by BuffCyclist
Lucy, you got some splainin' to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by BuffCyclist
Smart man, if you pay attention, you can start getting good at picking out the planets too. Start with Venus, its super easy to spot (brightest object in night sky), followed by jupiter, mars, and the others take a little more training.
Venus is always easy to spot, the rest of 'em, not so much.
So you gonna splain catching photons in your 8 foot bucket?
You know, it's kinda weird to think about, but I don't think anyone is ever gonna make another 100 + post run here again.
I think myself, and you have the highest runs certainly in the last year.
Sure, why not.
My bucket isn't a bucket so much as it is a parabolic mirror. The photons travel at such high velocities, I have to slow them down by bouncing them off the 8ft parabolic mirror, getting the rebound off a 1ft mirror and slam dunking them into three near-infrared HgCdTe detectors... At which point my computer picks them up and converts them to pretty pretty spectra.
eta: And yes, that was a joke about having to slow them down by bouncing them off a mirror.
Haha, you're probably right about the runs.
Although, wax might GET the runs from the amount of santiago's he eats, but anyone making runs... probably not. Too many active hos.
Hey, I still think you and I hold the highest records for consecutive post runs.
On your work, I think it's pretty neato what you do, it's cool.
I could explain how to get a glow plug out of the number 4 cylinder of a 6.0 liter diesel in an econoline, but.....nobody would give a shit.
lol.
It's a real pain in the ass btw.
Well if I ever buy an econoline with a 6.0 liter diesel and need to change the glow plugs, I'll let you know ;)
Honestly, I don't even understand a fraction of the science that comes out of the data that I collect. I'm just a data monkey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNY8eYmzdH4
The Stones....yeah!!
Das youtubez is broken at work. Along with Facebook. Because the day staff was wasting too much time playing games on Facebook so they banished it. Somehow, Netflix hasn't been nuked. In fact, one of the IT guys even INSTALLED Silverlight on several peoples computers so they could access Netflix. [facepalm]
Dude, .........that sucks.
It was "I'm a Monkey" btw.
The first link was Joe Dirt in the fumigation tent....hilarious.
Joe Dirt...carnival scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny8VqcEe7dw
again...hilarious.
And wait, why're you up OBC? Can't sleep or did you just get home after a late night at the bars?
BC, when the hell do they let ya go home...soon?
Mostly cause I'm a dumb ass...should be in bed, but I'm up screwing around. Headed to bed pretty soon though.Quote:
Originally Posted by BuffCyclist
I get to go to bed at 5:54am. So just another 1.5 hours.
We're transitioning between instruments due to the moon phase, so tomorrow I go to bed at 6:09am.
When it isn't winter, with that instrument, we go to almost 6:30am.
How often does the equipment need cleaned, and what's involved?
We clean our mirrors with a CO2 "snow" (liquid CO2 which is passed through a nozzle and expanded rapidly to sublimate into a snowlike form that evaporates after about 18" once it leaves the tube), which knocks a majority of the dust off. The drive surfaces are cleaned/lubricated usually the same time. During the dusty/pollen seasons, they clean those every other day if its bad. When its not the dusty season, they try to clean once every other week. We realuminize our mirror every other year, or strip it down to the glass, then re-apply a 40-60 micron thick layer of aluminum that is the mirror's reflective surface.
Because we are a survey telescope, we clean more regularly than most telescopes, because we want the data throughout the 4-6 year surveys to be taken with nearly identical conditions, meaning a mirror between 0-2 dirty, instead of first year getting that and the dirtiness slowly increasing towards the end of the survey. And that is an arbitrary number.
Wow...now I know. :)
...and all I had to do, was ask.
In high school, I took an astronomy class...as an after school project, I started the grinding process for a reflector....it was quite a boring undertaking.
He was a cool instructor though, Mr. Nasser. Kinda had that Carl Sagan thing going.
Funny how many folks think Pleiades is the little dipper.
We have a cloud camera (infrared camera that looks at the sky) so we can monitor cloud conditions in real time. It is a downward pointing camera, and points at a hemispherical mirror, that was polished by hand by someone who used to work here. Another observer has built a 24" telescope. Its quite impressive.
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Originally Posted by Otterbatcat
Random question for you, how many stars are in the Pleiades, and what is another name for it?
Hint, the number of stars is related to its other name...
I'm gonna say 7, but another name is not coming to mind.
The other name is the Seven Sisters.
Most people are misled by that because there are actually 9 stars, named after the Seven Sisters of greek mythology, and their two parents.
And what car company uses the Pleiades constellation in their logo?