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Undertoad Thursday May 21 10:37 PM |
May 21, 2015: Light on Ceres
Clodfobble Thursday May 21 11:43 PM What's the relative size of the bright spots? I have no idea how big Ceres is... glatt Friday May 22 09:13 AM This image from Wikipedia shows the relative size of the Earth, Moon, and smaller Ceres. glatt Friday May 22 10:08 AM And I couldn't find any mention of the size of the spots, so I looked up the diameter of Ceres (590 miles) and measured how many pixels across it was in this image, and then measured the pixels of the two spots and did the math to get their size in miles. (They are 20 miles across) Clodfobble Friday May 22 10:11 AM That's a good-sized alien base, then. Worth conquering. fargon Friday May 22 10:14 AM Let's hope that it is Vulcan's and not Klingon's, or Romulan's. blueboy56 Friday May 22 11:17 AM for the history deficient, 20sq mile cube is (was) the size of the fusion reactors on Altair IV (aka Forbidden Planet). footfootfoot Friday May 22 12:55 PM Quote:
glatt Friday May 22 04:38 PMIt's so damn quiet here today. There are a few things I could be doing, but I had no motivation. None of it was urgent at all. All day, I've been researching purchasing a new-to-me camera off Ebay. I need to sell a couple more things to get enough funds built up in PayPal, but I'm toying with either a Panasonic DMC-FZ70 (which is a very nice super zoom upgrade of my current decade old camera) or going up to a DSLR like the Nikon D5100. This weekend, I'm going to list my old 35mm Nikon gear and hope to get $100 or so. That will put me in striking distance of a DSLR. newtimer Thursday May 28 05:09 PM Another possibility: It's a bird turd stuck to the telescope's lens. Undertoad Wednesday Jun 10 11:27 PM Quote:
that would make the spots 21.2 miles across. give or take a mile, confirming Glatt's earlier math. Lamplighter Saturday Aug 8 09:41 PM Here's an interesting YouTube dated 8/6/15... Undertoad Wednesday Sep 9 11:02 AM This is great, they keep on circling Ceres and taking more and better pics. This morning's release: glatt Wednesday Sep 9 11:37 AM Looks like it might be dusk there, and the inhabitants of the city are just beginning to turn on their lights. Clodfobble Thursday Sep 10 06:31 PM That looks like the stippling pattern of snow on rock, to me. Spexxvet Friday Sep 11 08:54 AM Silver paint ball, with welt xoxoxoBruce Friday Sep 11 04:39 PM Do you mean a Disco Ball?
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