<Althego>
you wouldnt see the bars holding up the secondary mirror
<UmbralRaptop>
Looks like a cassegrain
<Althego>
still very short
<UmbralRaptop>
… or an RCT. Maybe f/3?
<Althego>
hehe
<Althego>
it might be because of my perceotoin
<Althego>
because this has just so big mirror
<Althego>
so it looks short
<Eddi|zuHause>
didn't they say there's probably an interstellar object like once per yer?
<Eddi|zuHause>
*year
<Althego>
yet we have never found any until 2017
<JVFoxy>
probably more... problem is, we can only see so much of our solar system because of the sun getting in the way that side
<Althego>
and humans were watching the stars for thousands of years, and professionally for hundreds
<JVFoxy>
so much sky, only so much can be watched at a time
<Althego>
many amateurs
<JVFoxy>
its calls space... for good reason :)
<Althego>
they are watching all the time
<JVFoxy>
perhaps, maybe that first one kickstarted more interest in watching out there
<Eddi|zuHause>
so? there was a time where we hadn't spotted any exoplanets. or jupiter moons, or ...
<Althego>
i would do this too, but the city lights block everything
<JVFoxy>
city here too, yet we have an observatory built nearly downtown. Mind you.. its also pretty old. Probably not as much lights back in those days.
<UmbralRaptop>
Large scale surveys with decent speed are relatively recent
<Eddi|zuHause>
exactly, there've been technical advances...
<Althego>
the telescope design he used is nothing new
<Eddi|zuHause>
you probably couldn't have spotted omodingsbums with galileo's telescope
<Althego>
true
<JVFoxy>
ah.. they built it in 1972
<Althego>
not so long ago
<JVFoxy>
no but the city sure has gone through a lot of changes since
<UmbralRaptop>
PTF started in the distant year of… 2009
<Eddi|zuHause>
wait... no random idler coming in shouting MUSEUM!?
<JVFoxy>
lol.. this comment, which is relavent because they recently done a series on netflix: When I was younger and going to that area of Vancouver that thing always freaked me out. It reminded me of those crab-like things in The Dark Crystal.
<Eddi|zuHause>
when i was in school we spent a night at a small observatory that was literally in the middle of nowhere
<JVFoxy>
I was driving at night, south of Spokane, heading towards Pullman in WA. I had to stop side of the road, look up at the sky, there was so little light, I actually saw a bit of the milkyway first time in my life
<Althego>
well, depending on his location it is around midnight, but that doesnt seem to bother him
<JVFoxy>
I mean, I've driving late at night the middle of no where in the past. Just, some reason it occoured to me to just pull over that one time. I guess driving on highway, you don't really get much chance to stop in middle of no where
<Eddi|zuHause>
huh? i don't remember a time where i hadn't ever seen the milkyway
<JVFoxy>
where I live, light density is a little higher than usual I guess. Being everything is all crammed into a valley
geraldbrent has quit [Ping timeout: 190 seconds]
<Eddi|zuHause>
i remember a story where an american city had a power cut, and there were calls into emergency services asking whether that glowing strip in the sky caused the blackout
<JVFoxy>
lol... now if an aurora had gone through, imagine the chaos that would have caused
geraldbrent has joined #KSPOfficial
Plaid has quit [Ping timeout: 190 seconds]
<Eddi|zuHause>
can't find any traces of that observatory on google maps, i wonder if it has been replaced in the last 20 years
<JVFoxy>
also geez, how germany is so devode of google street view.. for most part
<Eddi|zuHause>
that is what happens when you have data collection zealots vs. data protection zealots and the protectionists win
<JVFoxy>
well.. other than a number of big cities.
purpletarget|ktns has quit [Quit: Any fool can calculate]
purpletarget|ktns has joined #KSPOfficial
Lyneira has quit [Quit: Bye]
Lyneira has joined #KSPOfficial
Kabouik has joined #KSPOfficial
Lyneira has quit [Quit: Bye]
Lyneira has joined #KSPOfficial
Plaid has joined #KSPOfficial
Fluburtur has joined #KSPOfficial
sandbox has joined #KSPOfficial
sasamj has quit [Quit: Connection closed for inactivity]
Gasher_ has joined #KSPOfficial
Kabouik has quit [Ping timeout: 190 seconds]
Gasher[work] has quit [Ping timeout: 190 seconds]
Deddly has joined #KSPOfficial
<JVFoxy>
anyone mess around in universe sandbox 2?
Kabouik has joined #KSPOfficial
<JVFoxy>
meh.. just someone messing around in it, seeing what happens when spinning earth at billion times speed light
Black_Eagle has joined #KSPOfficial
bEagle has quit [Ping timeout: 190 seconds]
Kalpa^ has quit [Ping timeout: 190 seconds]
<Deddly>
I just watched that this morning
Kalpa has joined #KSPOfficial
<Deddly>
Was quite entertaining
<XXCoder>
i like to watch that being played sometimes lol
<XXCoder>
did you see one where guy lines up tons of earths
<Deddly>
I haven't seen that, no
<Deddly>
I saw the one where he span the earth at many times the speed of light and then crashed it into Jupiter. It was interesting to see the earth's rotation transfer to Jupiter as the entire planet gets absorbed.
<JVFoxy>
GreyJustPlays?
<JVFoxy>
er.. Gray...
<JVFoxy>
it threw me the video where he first places Universe Sandbox 2... the comments. I wanna just call it Gray's sandbox of chaos
<XXCoder>
Deddly: it was lineup where guy sends umm something? forgot very high speed impacting earths till it slows down
<XXCoder>
he had hard time lining it up and making it work lol
<packbart>
built an ultrasonic delay line in the basement for the radio telescope, so that when it detected an event, the graph plotters would have time to spool up. it also kept the basement free of mice. good times.
Tank2333 has joined #KSPOfficial
Tank2333_ has joined #KSPOfficial
<Deddly>
Nice
Gasher_ has quit [Quit: Gasher_]
sasamj has joined #KSPOfficial
Tank2333_ has quit [Remote host closed the connection]
Tank2333 has quit [Remote host closed the connection]
GlassYuri has joined #KSPOfficial
iamfishhead1 has quit [Ping timeout: 378 seconds]
Gasher[work] has joined #KSPOfficial
ConductCat has quit [Ping timeout: 190 seconds]
FLHerne has joined #KSPOfficial
Davnit_ has joined #KSPOfficial
Davnit__ has quit [Ping timeout: 190 seconds]
Lyneira has quit [Quit: Bye]
SilverFox has quit [Ping timeout: 202 seconds]
Lyneira has joined #KSPOfficial
ConductCat has joined #KSPOfficial
SilverFox has joined #KSPOfficial
Althego has quit [Quit: leaving]
Gasher[work] has quit [Quit: Gasher[work]]
Althego has joined #KSPOfficial
nj0rd has quit [Ping timeout: 198 seconds]
aradapil_ has joined #KSPOfficial
aradapilot has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer]
ksft has quit [Ping timeout: 190 seconds]
aradapil_ has quit [Remote host closed the connection]
aradapilot has joined #KSPOfficial
ksft has joined #KSPOfficial
HerraTohtori has quit [Quit: leaving]
HerraTohtori has joined #KSPOfficial
ksft has quit [Ping timeout: 206 seconds]
ksft has joined #KSPOfficial
Ezriilc has joined #KSPOfficial
nj0rd has joined #KSPOfficial
nj0rd has quit [Client Quit]
nj0rd has joined #KSPOfficial
Eddi|zuHause has quit [Remote host closed the connection]
Eddi|zuHause has joined #KSPOfficial
iamfishhead has joined #KSPOfficial
Gasher has joined #KSPOfficial
McKaby has joined #KSPOfficial
GlassYuri has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer]
Kabouik has quit [Ping timeout: 206 seconds]
FLHerne has quit [Remote host closed the connection]
JVFoxy has joined #KSPOfficial
Disorganized has joined #KSPOfficial
Copper has joined #KSPOfficial
<Althego>
scott
Copper has quit [Client Quit]
Guest74693 has joined #KSPOfficial
Guest74693 has quit [Client Quit]
Disorganized has quit [Quit: My MacBook has gone to sleep. ZZZzzz…]
pthag has joined #KSPOfficial
Gasher has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer]
Disorganized has joined #KSPOfficial
Davnit_ has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer]
<kmath>
<✔SpaceX> Ahead of our in-flight abort test for @Commercial_Crew—which will demonstrate Crew Dragon's ability to safely carry… https://t.co/SLw4fSfkvb
<Mat2ch>
;)
<Mat2ch>
They're talking about the inflight abort test
<Mat2ch>
so it should be soon(tm)
<UmbralRaptop>
ah
Kabouik has joined #KSPOfficial
Deddly has quit [Ping timeout: 190 seconds]
Kabouik has quit [Ping timeout: 189 seconds]
Kabouik has joined #KSPOfficial
Lyneira has quit [Quit: Bye]
Deddly has joined #KSPOfficial
Black_Eagle has quit [Ping timeout: 378 seconds]
Copper has quit []
Deddly has quit [Ping timeout: 202 seconds]
UmbralRaptor has joined #KSPOfficial
UmbralRaptop has quit [Ping timeout: 206 seconds]
UmbralRaptor has quit [Ping timeout: 190 seconds]
UmbralRaptop has joined #KSPOfficial
Fluburtur has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer]
Disorganized has quit [Quit: My MacBook has gone to sleep. ZZZzzz…]
JVFoxy has quit [Quit: Leaving]
Disorganized has joined #KSPOfficial
sandbox has quit [Quit: Leaving]
Deddly has joined #KSPOfficial
Tank2333 has joined #KSPOfficial
UmbralRaptop has quit [Ping timeout: 202 seconds]
Tank2333_ has joined #KSPOfficial
Deddly has quit [Ping timeout: 206 seconds]
Shoe18 has quit [Quit: Connection closed for inactivity]