Any Astronomy Buffs Here?

DevilHorse said:
Easter Sunday is a good day to watch Ben Hur (Heston version). In it there is the scene when Judah encounters the 4 white stallions that will later take him to the Circus in Jerusalem (I think that track eventually closed). The Sheik named the 4 horses after the stars. Can you name those stars?

For all celebrating Easter and the End of Passover, I wish you well and happiness.

Larry
DevilHorse
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The answer you've been waiting for:
Altair, Antares, Aldebaran, and Rigel.
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and they are Harness Horses!

Thanks for playing.

Larry
DevilHorse
 
Famine and Death and Pestilence and War? Pretty sure I’ve heard this one before (incidentally, this song has my favorite abridged version of the Garden of Eden story - “I heard the dude blamed the chick, I heard the chick blamed the snake, I heard they were naked when they got busted, and I heard things ain’t been the same since.”)
 
pfrduke said:
Famine and Death and Pestilence and War? Pretty sure I’ve heard this one before (incidentally, this song has my favorite abridged version of the Garden of Eden story - “I heard the dude blamed the chick, I heard the chick blamed the snake, I heard they were naked when they got busted, and I heard things ain’t been the same since.”)
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Nobody blamed the gardener who grew the fruit?
 
The Lucy spacecraft is still busy checking out asteroids:
science.nasa.gov

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson - NASA Science

In its second asteroid encounter, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft obtained a close look at a uniquely shaped fragment of an asteroid that formed about 150 million
science.nasa.gov science.nasa.gov

Asteroid Donaldjohanson (not sure who it is named for..) was encountered very recently and is an unusual barbell shaped object.

Larry
DevilHorse
 
DevilHorse said:
The Lucy spacecraft is still busy checking out asteroids:
science.nasa.gov

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson - NASA Science

In its second asteroid encounter, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft obtained a close look at a uniquely shaped fragment of an asteroid that formed about 150 million
science.nasa.gov science.nasa.gov

Asteroid Donaldjohanson (not sure who it is named for..) was encountered very recently and is an unusual barbell shaped object.

Larry
DevilHorse
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Perhaps Donaldjohanson has a pierced septum? I'll show myself out, it's late and I'm sleepy.
 
DevilHorse said:
The Lucy spacecraft is still busy checking out asteroids:
science.nasa.gov

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson - NASA Science

In its second asteroid encounter, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft obtained a close look at a uniquely shaped fragment of an asteroid that formed about 150 million
science.nasa.gov science.nasa.gov

Asteroid Donaldjohanson (not sure who it is named for..) was encountered very recently and is an unusual barbell shaped object.

Larry
DevilHorse
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Pretty sure it’s named after Donaldj O’Hanson. Duh….
 
DevilHorse said:
It's a bird, It's a plane, what is that thing crashing into earth?

Larry
DevilHorse
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Wear your hardhats.

"Experts believe the module could crash anywhere between the latitudes of 52 degrees north and south of the equator, covering an area from Quebec to Patagonia. They said it is highly unlikely — but not impossible — that it could hit someone."
“The vehicle is dense but inert and has no nuclear materials,” he said. “No need for major concern, but you wouldn’t want it bashing you on the head.”
 
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So basically the fastest human-made object would still take a little over nine days to move on a straight line from the sun to the earth. That puts it at around 0.025% of the speed of light or so, if I did the math right.
 
YmoBeThere said:
I didn’t go back and read all the pages, but was hoping to get recommendations on phone star gazing apps such as Stellarium.
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I use SkySafari (unpaid), and SkyView (paid), as well as Nightshift.
Nightshift is great for planning, as it will tell you what's in the sky now and what's coming soon, as well as what kind of weather conditions you might be facing. The other two are great for pointing your phone at the sky and knowing what it is you are looking at. Each is the same but different, so it's worth comparing them both. SkyView is compatible with hardware (telescopes) that are enabled for tracking, I'm not sure about SkySafari.

My wife and I use the first two often when we are camping or if we take the telescopes/binoculars out.
 
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