The post whore thread.

[GilpinGuy]

Having this floppy toe is annoying as hell.

[GilpinGuy]

So are you on the lookout for new stuff to show up? Quasars and novae and stuff?

[GilpinGuy]

I miss being in the science field. I was geologist in my former life. Love them rocks.

[BuffCyclist]

So are you on the lookout for new stuff to show up? Quasars and novae and stuff?

Well, one of our instruments is looking at baryon oscillations (which are kind of ripples from the big bang). Another is looking at the center of the milky way and is getting a never before seen look at it because it looks in infrared and is able to see through the dust lane.

[BuffCyclist]

We've already observed pretty much the entire observable sky here twice now, on the third survey. The first survey was an imaging and most of those images are used in googlesky or wikisky. After we give our collaborators proprietary access to our data for a year, we release the data to the general public so universities and scientists world wide can use the data to do research and publish papers. As such, the data collected from our telescope is some of the most used for papers making our data much more published than data from the Hubble (if you can believe that).

[GilpinGuy]

Pretty cool stuff. I used to subscribe to Astronomy magazine just because I thought all that shit was mind blowing. The scale of time, etc. Geology relates in a way - the crazy time scales that is. 10 million years? Baaaah! Just a blip of time.

[GilpinGuy]

We've already observed pretty much the entire observable sky here twice now, on the third survey. The first survey was an imaging and most of those images are used in googlesky or wikisky. After we give our collaborators proprietary access to our data for a year, we release the data to the general public so universities and scientists world wide can use the data to do research and publish papers. As such, the data collected from our telescope is some of the most used for papers making our data much more published than data from the Hubble (if you can believe that).

Googlesky? WTF do they NOT have their hands on? Jeeeez.

[BuffCyclist]

Googlesky? WTF do they NOT have their hands on? Jeeeez.

http://www.google.com/sky/

Its really quite cool you can look around, zoom in on objects, view things in infrared, microwave or look at historical overlays.

[GilpinGuy]

That is pretty damn cool! The historical overlays are neat. Ho's back in the day were doing some serious psychedelics to come up with some of that shit.

[GilpinGuy]

So, in your humble opinion, is Pluto a planet or not?