That good to know, thanks. If Messier 87 is 54 million LY away, what does that make the field of view in degrees?
EDIT: 0.002 degree?
Field of view: 6.92 x 7.00 arcminutes.
N.B. 1arcminute = 0.0166667 degrees. I'll let you do the mathematics!
It's such a great photo that is the drug of so many of us research types (and I'm sure anyone whose career requires years of work for what seems like a tiny result feels the same). Reminds me when my buddy and I fired up an IC we fabricated (I had so many problems with the process) and watched it perform beyond expectations. That preceded the ubiquity of cell phone cameras, but if my colleague had a shot it'd look a bit like this, except me laying on the floor with my fist in the air.
But let's not let my little story compare to the innovation she (and whom she worked with) brought on. Image reconstruction from sparse data is a HARD_PROBLEM; huge kudos.
P.S. I wouldn't let science deniers ruin this event, or, well, any other such achievement. It's a background noise to something so much bigger.
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"Never underestimate the memory bandwidth of a station wagon full of mag tapes!"
Andy Tanenbaum in his book "Structured Computer Organization", abt. 1970
Such attempts at explanation proved futile.
However, apart from his ignorance of taxonomy, he was quite a fungi!
(fun guy -geddit?
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Are you certain?
No, totally wrong.
They asked the software to visualize the frosting.
There's a fixture to do that? I missed the memo.
Sigh.Such attempts at explanation proved futile.
However, apart from his ignorance of taxonomy, he was quite a fungi!
(fun guy -geddit?
Jn
There's a fixture to do that? I missed the memo.
Jn
Nowhere near as accurate or versatile as something like the Denessen, et al jigs, but as I recall they came free with each table.
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> I once tried to convince a man in a bar that a fish was an animal.
Here in Maine, folks are arguing that rock-weed (looks like sea-weed) is "more animal than plant". That would change which department and tradition regulates rock-weed harvesting. Unlike many places, in Maine the land-owner must give permission to harvest from the inter-tidal zone, but fish may be taken unless specifically posted (I am not a Maine lawyer-- get a paid opinion before you harvest/fish).
The argument is that rock-weed is "free-living" in youth, floating around the gulf, and then picks a place to put down roots near shore.
The DNA, and the chlorophyll, are not likely to sway the thinking.
Here in Maine, folks are arguing that rock-weed (looks like sea-weed) is "more animal than plant". That would change which department and tradition regulates rock-weed harvesting. Unlike many places, in Maine the land-owner must give permission to harvest from the inter-tidal zone, but fish may be taken unless specifically posted (I am not a Maine lawyer-- get a paid opinion before you harvest/fish).
The argument is that rock-weed is "free-living" in youth, floating around the gulf, and then picks a place to put down roots near shore.
The DNA, and the chlorophyll, are not likely to sway the thinking.
> required "sneaker net" a mass of hard drives that had to be shipped to a central location
The best observatories are VERY far from a StarBucks WiFi, being most of a mile up and many miles from any large town. At just 100' up and 5 miles from a town, I would not attempt to pipe huge datasets; some days the DIYA photos choke my wire. Yeah, bringing drives down from the mountain at least to a large university makes sense. Bringing them all to one table seems odd; maybe the price of cooperation was getting all the workers together for meet-and-greet.
The best observatories are VERY far from a StarBucks WiFi, being most of a mile up and many miles from any large town. At just 100' up and 5 miles from a town, I would not attempt to pipe huge datasets; some days the DIYA photos choke my wire. Yeah, bringing drives down from the mountain at least to a large university makes sense. Bringing them all to one table seems odd; maybe the price of cooperation was getting all the workers together for meet-and-greet.
Dave, that's actually a shot of the 4:20 light up last year, here in the 'big smoke', unrelated to this thread.
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