Axial rotation measurement anomaly *Update on pg 21 - Problem Solved*

regardless of the whole thing imo its another thread where i can read interesting opinions about subjects i used to (and still mostly) know nothing

in the end its more intersting that boring telle lol

Thanks for the pins, by the way!

All Well can't blame a girl for trying. But, I bet my dolly partons are bigger than herssssssss....

and when nothing happens by that date what is the new doomsday date you'll shift to instead of just admitting you're wrong?

This past week either in Space.Com or in NASA websites, or perhaps it was Physics.Org, the statement was given that the "standard" distance of Polaris was discovered to be off by a considerable factor. Something in teh 3xx.00 range of light years.

I suppose one could find it if they bothered.

they're not showing this because it is most likely a mistake.

Hm I have a question.
If it your meassurments were correct, would telescopes with goto still function properly?
If not, wouldnt thousands of astronomers have noticed this by now and someone would have posted it online somewhere?
Thanks

At least someone gets it. there had to be at least one right?

That's SOME of the examples.........

Basically you're saying "Big Dog NASA is in on it but the rest of the smaller observatories are not, so it is crap!"
Nice dodge.

Hi Minime! I still recognize you from your style:-)

bye bye astromut.....

Yeah, I'll say the measurements, as per the article(who knows what to believe anymore from Never A Straight Answer or other Gooberment & Gobberment funded, agencies), were stated, not to be slightly off but about 25% off. That is a HUGE discrepancy!

"Some". I see.. I didn't tell you how to make your list. I asked YOU to make the list!

How about making a list of astronomers and observatories who are NOT part of the "PTB"? YOU tell US! Or are you implying that ALL of the world's astronomers and observatories are "in on it"?

By the way... what is this "it" that ANY of them are supposedly "in on"? Please be SPECIFIC!

It depends. As long as you had recently done an alignment or synced on a star's position, it would work for a while because the stars are all still in the same place relative to each other. It wouldn't track perfectly though, there would be a minimum of 6 arcminutes difference between where the telescope's computer expects the NCP to be relative to the stars and where it actually is. Over time this would result in drift between where the stars actually are and where the computer expects them to be, the same as if you put a "dumb" telescope with a mechanical clockdrive in a polar alignment that was 6 arcminutes off. By the end of the night you could expect to see a problem in GOTO functionality unless you occasionally re-synced it.

But yeah, I would expect to see an amateur astronomer uproar pretty quickly if this were real, so either it just happened and I got lucky to be the first to post about it, or it's an error. I think it's pretty obvious which is more likely, but this is how we handle things in science with rigorous checking and re-checking.

Oh. Isn't that handy dandy now. When was the put up. Geez the one thing people will measure too and its got a problem all of a sudden. Handy Dandy. Just gets more interesting all the time.

The North Star has been used for navigation and measurements since the days of the Vikings and geez its got a problem. Scratch scratch the head. Go Figure.

Puzzling how even Astro who stays up on all this stuff made no mention about the most important star in the Universe.

Sorry, but I'm not a "Minime", whatever that is.

Just wondering if you are the same "weasel" that Smokey Mountain Girl said got "preacher's whore daughter pregnant"



Sorry, couldn't resist

They followed the game and forage.. in season.
Staying too long depleted the resources in the immediate area.
Somewhat climate-related.

I read that also, maybe spaceweather.com?

Something that can be so easily confirmed by thousands of sources, and not just ones controlled or controllable by the government, yet only GLP tardfest is on the bandwagon.

No sorry, you're full of shit.

I don't think it's any danger of dying out in our lifetimes. And it's a double star too, so at least there's a telescopically observable spare ;)

Dude, chill, I openly stated it's almost certainly an error, I'm just honestly and transparently presenting my data as well as my process for checking that data. It's a teachable moment, no need to raise the BS flag.

is this why birds can't fly to the moon ?

Yes!

Yes!

Once someone else can confirm this, i will believe it. Until then, interesting observation!