What a surprise when my tracking started to show hits from badastronomy.com.
My first thought was W.T.F. did I do wrong.

I was pleased to see you used one of my photos for your video blog .
I was also very pleased to see the flickr creative commons license guidelines adhered to with a link as well.

Not many people follow those guidelines so thanks also for being on the “up and up”.

Best Regards from the middle of Canada
Jeff

I really liked that Q and BA, though. I assume that pretty much all the stars or other objects visible by the naked eye or a nominal telescope probably have been given some sort of label and cataloged by this point?

Anyway, that was a good one!

1) I know about the Rosette nebula, of course. It’s a famous one. But it’s not the Rose nebula. Evidently there is a Rose Nebula. I knew of this nebula itself, but not the name.

2) I marked Virginia’s post as spam, since it linked to a link farm.

3) Transcripts of many of the Q and BA episodes have been made, but I haven’t uploaded them yet because I’m still trying to figure out how to organize all this. I’ll do it at some point. As Jack Hagerty pointed out, I don’t have a script to work from; this is all ad lib. Jon Voisey from The Angry Astronomer has sent me transcripts after I post the episodes, so I’ve got them, I just need to get organized.

4) Bee, I just use a webcam and edit the file using Windows Movie Maker, one of the truly most awful pieces of crappy software it has ever been my misfortune to use. In the future I will use different software, but I’m too busy to learn it now. Eventually.

One thing I knew (wow, I knew something the BA didn’t!) is what Irishman pointed out – the Rose and Rosette nebulas. Thanks, Irishman, you’ve been one of the most prolific commenters here since the start of this blog and you always have good and relevant information!

And what book is that? I hate not being to tell what it is. I wonder, too, does Mrs. BA and Little BA watch you do these? Or do they have to leave the room to keep from giggling out loud? I kind of wish you’d “share” Little BA – I’d love to see a father/daughter video. Being that some people are sharing these videos with kids, that might be fun. ~8-)

(love these videos!)

and

Virginia Says: “I’m in agreement with David Vanderscel’s comment: to some of us, video presentations are just a major annoyance.”

Have we reached BA media burnout? Sartorial knowledge saturation? My only comment is that you don’t HAVE to watch them, although David’s suggestion of a text version would be helpful to those that prefer it.

I don’t want to be speaking for Phil here, but if he does these spots the same way he did his talks at WordCon, there isn’t a script per se, just some bullet points that he talks from.

- Jack

Totally off-topic question: how do you get the quality of the video to be so good? I’m trying to figure out how that stuff works, but doing so very inefficiently. If you have the time and don’t want to answer here, feel free to send me an email.

Best,

B.

Going somewhere, BA? It sure is NOT on your calendar…”hint, hint”.

As soon as I can afford it, I’m getting a Mac.

DSL may not be the fastest way to download, but it is fairly cheap. I have a 1.5 Mbit line which is fast enough for practical purposes, though for on line, real time video I should probably go to 6 Mbit. That’s in the wish bucket,,,

The video is a cool way to expound upon the ineffable, Phil. Besides, passion for ones subject comes across better in a visual/audio mode than in HTML or other text. I say, keep going for it, Phil.

GAry 7

OK, so, I prefer everything be named after chocolate,,,

Cool clarificatoin(???) Phil. Now I think I’ll just go back to bed,,,

GAry 7

I had no idea so many alternate names existed for Sirius. Wow! All I knew was, of course, Sirius, and “The Dog Star”. Well, that’s the highlight of Q & BA; it provides interesting education.

I don’t know why iTunes is still showing one feed. I think this may be because iTunes sucks, since most problems I have with it are due to that. However, I can’t rule out some mistake I made. I’ll look into it when I can.

And just a note: I know what PPM stands for. Sometimes I make jokes on my videos.

I didn’t know there was a Rose nebula. I’ll look into that!

My point is that if we create a singular unified classification system, we’re going to encounter something that won’t fit. Could you imagine if we could somehow use a magical tooth fairy to detect dark matter and it flows in streams like water and does have an unforeseen effect on the universe (It may as well, since we don’t really know that much), then we’ll need to map that too, and either change the system, or create yet another system. Ta-Da! We’re back to square one.