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Dave McDonald discovers new variable star!
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14 years 4 months ago #86896
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She's a canny dog Paul 
Serendipity: Pluto's moon Charon was discovered by US astronomer James Christy in 1978. He was going to discard what he thought was a defective photographic plate of Pluto, when his Star Scan machine broke down. While it was being repaired he had time to study the plate again and discovered others in the archives with the same "defect" (a bulge in the planet's image which was actually a large moon).
Happens to us all
Serendipity: Pluto's moon Charon was discovered by US astronomer James Christy in 1978. He was going to discard what he thought was a defective photographic plate of Pluto, when his Star Scan machine broke down. While it was being repaired he had time to study the plate again and discovered others in the archives with the same "defect" (a bulge in the planet's image which was actually a large moon).
Happens to us all
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14 years 4 months ago #86898
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Totally unfiltered so that makes it nice and easy. You could certainly do it.
Filtered work has its place alright and you can do more with filtered data but I'm a little way off that yet. But I'm working on it - keep watching the IFAS boards
Filtered work has its place alright and you can do more with filtered data but I'm a little way off that yet. But I'm working on it - keep watching the IFAS boards
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14 years 4 months ago #86902
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dmcdona wrote:
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Paul.
Thank God for those 'Mmm, that's strange...' momentsHappens to us all
.Paul.
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