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[Max™]

http://www.morethings.com/fan/saturd...losing_it0.jpg

[Woozie]

Woozie stop playin' with bitches tits in club

Sorry lol. I don't know why I've suddenly become so popular with women lately. Yesterday I was just getting phone calls and text messages back to back and didn't even have time to pack (I'm about to move). I'll probably be busy most of today as well because a girl is coming over to help me pack.

Edit: If I don't get to it by Wednesday, then I probably wont get to it until after July 23rd D:

[Chun Liroy]

If you try to talk at the speed of sound does it ever leave your mouth?

[Woozie]

I think so. There was a scientist by the name of Guile who could create sonic booms just by screaming it loudly.

[Chun Liroy]

I meant if you talk while moving at the speed of sound. My question seemed ambiguous.

[Woozie]

Oh, well if you're in a vehicle moving faster than sound, it wouldn't be any different than sitting still and talking because the air inside would also be moving at your same speed.

But if you're superman or something and you can move that fast relative to the air surrounding you, I honestly don't know. That would be like asking someone who flies a jet whether or not they can hear their own jet when flying faster than sound. Of course, they can hear the sounds that travel directly through the plane, just like if I was moving faster than sound I could hear the sound waves that travel from my vocal chords to my ears through my body. But whether or not my vocal chords could vibrate the air around it to produce a sound people can hear, I'm not too sure about. I would think so, but the sound would have to be pretty loud to be heard over the sonic boom. I could be wrong though.

You might be able to answer this one yourself. Have you ever heard or saw a plane traveling faster than sound? If you could still hear the jet engines, then the answer is yes.

[Chun Liroy]

Nope, never seen a supersonic Jet Irl

[Max™]

[Pilot Compartment] You [Bulkhead][Airframe][Engines] Engine Noise

If you're going towards the left side of this post relative to the shitty schematic above, at supersonic speeds, then the noise from your plane through the atmosphere around it propagates to the left (and right, as it expands roughly spherically, ignoring atmospheric distortion) at the speed of sound, and you consistently move ahead of it.

I imagine sticking your head out into a supersonic airstream would be fatal, but if you survived long enough to shout, and your mouth was ahead of your ears, you'd hear a distorted sound as you almost immediately smashed through the pressure waves of your own words.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d9A2oq1N38

[BerenTebogo]

I think so. There was a scientist by the name of Guile who could create sonic booms just by screaming it loudly.

HAHAHAHAHA

Also, give them your cookie dough roll and tell them to get the fuck out Woozie

[Cruzizzle]

My first attempt at Astrophotography. This is a 30 second exposure, it's a bit soft. Took it on the roof of my house and it was a bit windy and no real place to stabilize the tripod. Going to get back out and drive out of town tonight and try a few more.

Cool! What a coincidence, I finally decided to purchase my first camera to use for astrophotography 2 weeks ago. Of course, since I've gotten my camera there's only been 2 clear nights lol. Here's a couple from my first night out. It was a little cloudy, but I was eager to take pictures so I had to go try!!

Spoiler: show

Here's a 5sec of mars
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/9042/img0171b.jpg

a 20s of ursa major (i adjusted this one to reduce the light pollution)
http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/8706/img0176en.jpg

and a 30s of looking back towards town, it's amazing that even from 8 miles out the amount of light pollution you catch on a 30s exposure, but to the naked eye it's hardly noticeable.
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/6738/img0187wr.jpg

I'm trying to convince myself to spend the money on a tracking mount and the telescope I really want, not just the frugal one

Check this link out I found looking for dark sky's in my area, it's some kind of algorithm layer applied over google maps that figures the amount of light based on, I'm guessing, size of the city. Very handy/cool!

http://www.jshine.net/astronomy/dark_sky/

[Max™]

Thank you VERY much for the dark sky thing, that is awesome, and being in Memphis it helps find the right directions to head for better skies.

I had a hunch, but this will help narrow it down dramatically, as I didn't realize Holly Springs was there, and that I'll get better results heading north past Bartlett, or due west past Collierville.

[Eliseos]

That third picture is awesome.

[Max™]

Grab a shot of the Pleiades, Delphinus, Andromeda, and if you can find the Beehive, check it out.

I highly suggest with sky qualities like those, invest a bit in a good tracking mount and better telescope.

http://www.eurocosm.com/Application/...ge-130P-md.jpg


I want one of those pretty badly atm, great starter scope from what I hear.

[Cruzizzle]

From the reading up I've been doing, for photography, I keep ending up on apochromatic refractors. Here's the one I've been looking at:

http://www.astronomics.com/main/imag...09/es127CU.jpg

[Max™]

Yeah, refractors work with cameras better I think, light buckets are easier on the wallet for the scale you get is all, and a bit easier on the neck.

[Tyche]

Cool! What a coincidence, I finally decided to purchase my first camera to use for astrophotography 2 weeks ago. Of course, since I've gotten my camera there's only been 2 clear nights lol. Here's a couple from my first night out. It was a little cloudy, but I was eager to take pictures so I had to go try!!

Spoiler: show

Here's a 5sec of mars
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/9042/img0171b.jpg

a 20s of ursa major (i adjusted this one to reduce the light pollution)
http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/8706/img0176en.jpg

and a 30s of looking back towards town, it's amazing that even from 8 miles out the amount of light pollution you catch on a 30s exposure, but to the naked eye it's hardly noticeable.
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/6738/img0187wr.jpg

I'm trying to convince myself to spend the money on a tracking mount and the telescope I really want, not just the frugal one

Check this link out I found looking for dark sky's in my area, it's some kind of algorithm layer applied over google maps that figures the amount of light based on, I'm guessing, size of the city. Very handy/cool!

http://www.jshine.net/astronomy/dark_sky/

You have the same camera I have. The 18-55 works really well. I also had some luck out of the 50mm f 1.8.

Thanks for that website. Living on the east side of the Mississippi is apparently bad. I found a place about an hour away that's in the "blue" as far as light pollution goes, and that's as good as it gets on this side of the US. Maybe I'll go this weekend.

Now anyone have any idea on software that'll tell me the times that the milky way will rise and set on a particular day?

[Max™]

http://starryskies.com/articles/2007/07/milky-way.html


This blog is from a guy in MN.

http://www.areavoices.com/astrobob/?...e=2009-05&pg=2

http://www.areavoices.com/astrobob/i..._23SMALL_1.jpg

That is a shot on May 23 looking east.

It is of this part of the 360 panorama:

http://www.areavoices.com/astrobob/i...kyway_pan1.jpg

If you went straight up from that picture, looking towards Sag A, you'd see this.

http://www.areavoices.com/astrobob/i..._way_bar_1.jpg

This is another good site:

http://whassupinthemilkyway.blogspot.com/

Go get some good shots!

[Tyche]

Anyone used the skygazer software? Apparently I can input my location and it can tell me what time I can expect to see everything.

[Cruzizzle]

I use this and a similar app for the iphone to just search the sky to find cool things to look for.

http://www.stellarium.org/

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

[Max™]

http://www.carinasoft.com/

?

http://www.skymaps.com/skymaps/tesmn1005.pdf

Printable.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mjpowel...agittarius.htm

Summer is the best time to see Sagittarius, and thus to find the center of the milky way, it's low on the horizon though for us north of 35 latitude.