Betelguese getting some attention for dimming
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Just nosing at the observation data in the link from my first post an it is still dimming. Past the mid 80's low.
https://www.aavso.org/LCGv2/
Law of sod says it will pop back up I suppose. I expect the attention it is getting may be skewing the results.
https://www.aavso.org/LCGv2/
Law of sod says it will pop back up I suppose. I expect the attention it is getting may be skewing the results.
Zirconia said:
Just nosing at the observation data in the link from my first post an it is still dimming. Past the mid 80's low.
https://www.aavso.org/LCGv2/
Law of sod says it will pop back up I suppose. I expect the attention it is getting may be skewing the results.
Eh? Not enough photons to go round? https://www.aavso.org/LCGv2/
Law of sod says it will pop back up I suppose. I expect the attention it is getting may be skewing the results.
Halmyre said:
Eh? Not enough photons to go round?
Reply went awol. If it doubles up, I am in a time loop. Will need saving....I am looking at the reports, there are quite a few different methods of capture including the Mk1. As more eyes are turned to this there are more results, I don't know how accurate the more results are. It is something on my roundtoit list to better understand but certainly I can see where you are on the Earth can affect the result, I don't understand how they factor in their uncertainty error yet. Back to my roundtoit.
Hoofy said:
Zirconia said:
I say it the way you must say it three times.
Though Ford may have something to say on it.
Oh. It's the "gu" bit that I wasn't sure about.Though Ford may have something to say on it.
When you hear the peeps on Sky at Night etc. Betle then guse or something.
You can pronounce is as it is in the film or you can give it a more "French" style.
Back in 1979, an oil tanker called the Betelgeuse exploded at anchor at the Whiddy Island oil depot down in Cork. That ship's name was always referred to in the French style - but it was a French ship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiddy_Island_disast...
Back in 1979, an oil tanker called the Betelgeuse exploded at anchor at the Whiddy Island oil depot down in Cork. That ship's name was always referred to in the French style - but it was a French ship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiddy_Island_disast...
ash73 said:
There's bound to be life somewhere nearby in the kill zone.
Probably nothing, but...
https://earthsky.org/space/ligo-gravitational-wave...
Interesting. Probably nothing, but...
https://earthsky.org/space/ligo-gravitational-wave...
Hoofy said:
Zirconia said:
Call it the famous one. The others in the constellation are.....
Erm,
ah,
give me a minute, must have read it somewhere
(scuttles off to software....)
Erm,
ah,
give me a minute, must have read it somewhere
(scuttles off to software....)
Isn't the belt supposed to be interesting (when you have a Hubble)?
Orion probably has more interesting astronomical objects packed into it than any other constellation. Apart from Betelgeuse and Rigel, there is the Belt and Sword opf Orion, which is an area of vast gas and dust field and which is now know to be a stellar nursery where new stars are being born.
Although the images obtained by Hubble have been stunning, terrestrial telescopes can deliver some great pictures too, even amateur ones -
I cant believe we are talking about a star on the shoulder of Orion and no one has mentioned attack ships on fire yet.
Seriously thought I saw this news on Twitter this morning. I also got excited like someone above until i saw it might be 100,000 years away, also it may have already happened - blows my mind to think I could have happened back when we were fighting the French at Agincourt but the light hasn't reached us yet. I went out to have a look earlier. I always look for Orion on a clear night, must be one of the most recognisable constellations there is. Does seem to me that it looks dimmer, but perhaps that is just confirmation bias.
Seriously thought I saw this news on Twitter this morning. I also got excited like someone above until i saw it might be 100,000 years away, also it may have already happened - blows my mind to think I could have happened back when we were fighting the French at Agincourt but the light hasn't reached us yet. I went out to have a look earlier. I always look for Orion on a clear night, must be one of the most recognisable constellations there is. Does seem to me that it looks dimmer, but perhaps that is just confirmation bias.
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