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By: SarahAskew » Tell Hubble where to go!

SarahAskew » Tell Hubble where to go! — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:00:47 +0000

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By: Beautiful but mysterious galaxies litter the sky | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:18:06 +0000

[...] First off, a gorgeous trio of interacting galaxies courtesy the Hubble Space Telescope. This group was the winner of the contest to have people vote on where to point Hubble: [...]

By: StevoR

StevoR — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:37:23 +0000

IVAN3MAN Said back on January 29th, 2009 at 8:44 pm :

@ StevoR,

Er… I’ve checked the source code and it appears that you made the error of typing “” at the beginning.

Okay that explains part of the problem. I still just don’t understand why the bit explaining my second choice didn’t come through ..Or for that matter my whole original “what I’m voting for & why” post

Nothing objectionable there .. its mystifying me.

Not that it really matters now..

By: Ayuda a decidir el próximo objetivo del Hubble « Hazael’s Weblog

Ayuda a decidir el próximo objetivo del Hubble « Hazael’s Weblog — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:08:46 +0000

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By: IVAN3MAN

IVAN3MAN — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:44:58 +0000

@ StevoR,

Er… I’ve checked the source code and it appears that you made the error of typing “” instead of “” at the beginning.

By: Nes

Nes — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:44:46 +0000

Oh, this is hard. I can’t decide between the Star Forming Region and the Interacting Galaxies. Both seem like they would have lots of science in them, and both would probably make really pretty pictures.

By: StevoR

StevoR — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:14:55 +0000

Although, Ivan3man’s name was meant to appear there in bold.

Plus I still can’t seem to get anything posted here on my no. 2 choice – the starforming nebula NGC 6634 to appear here – all quite harmless wordage I assure you!

By: Steven C. Raine

Steven C. Raine — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:05:51 +0000

… & that wasn’t meant to be in bold! What the ..!

By: Steven C. Raine

Steven C. Raine — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:04:57 +0000

Okay – but I’m not one of them & I’m can’t think of anything “twitchy” in the post I’m having so much trouble with.

Besides if you’re discussing such topics doens’t that make it hard to avoid using the words / arguments even for dissection purposes?

Anyway Ithink it’smycomputer playing up but I dunno really. I’m just very baffled and frustrated.

By: Steven C. Raine

Steven C. Raine — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:55:07 +0000

PART IV (part III will notseem towappear here for some unfathomable reason ..)

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Third place on my voting list would go to the interacting galaxies Arp 274, again beautiful and scientifically intriguing objects then the spiral galaxy NGC 5172 which like our own Milky Way and just gorgeous looking, probably the most visually stunning object there albeit we’ve already got lots of similar images of closer spirals to work with, followed by the planetary nebula NGC 40 which appears to have a Mira-tail like streak of nebulosity above it as well.

Which leaves poor old planetary neb NGC 6072 in last place by default – not because I don’t like it though because *any* of these will be a good choice. I’d really like to see HST view them all – and more!

Hey you did ask which I’d vote for and why!

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I just didn’t think it’d be this [expletives] hard! What on Earth is it about this post (last three sections) that meant I couldn’t post it all ok before?

By: IVAN3MAN

IVAN3MAN — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:51:13 +0000

@ Steven “StevoR” C. Raine,

Particularly when other posts like the above come through ok .. what is going on???

Phil Plait’s anti-spam filter tends to be rather twitchy with some words, because of “Electric Universe”/creationist trolls that often plague this blog.

By: Steven C. Raine

Steven C. Raine — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:24:33 +0000

Okay having slept on this now – twice – I’m going to pick the edge-on galaxy NCG 4289 first as we don’t see too many like these and I’m guessing a really close look could tell us quite a lot we don’t know from looking closely from a different perspective. Could we do a better globular cluster count and examine how thick, twisted and composition of disk and bulge that way? I’m thinking so.

Be funny to compare it with a meteor streak if one happens to cross the field at the time too!

BTW Asimov fan I’m guessing that this is the least commonly observed – & least common? – type of object. We see lots of Hubble shots of galaxies, planetaries, interacting galaxies and star-forming regions.

By: Steven C. Raine

Steven C. Raine — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:20:03 +0000

Okay again a piece-by piece approach to getting the whole post to finally submit … (Btw. has now been spell-checked.)

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@ Sundance who said on January 29th, 2009 at 1:12 am :

Rather a shame that all the folks running Hubble couldn’t come up with a better voting system than ‘first past the post’. Having multiple galaxy candidates, and multiple planetary nebula candidates, is a classic recipe for vote-splitting. Have they never heard of the ’single transferable vote’?

Or preferential voting .. Ie. first choice is __ then second choice is __ third___ and so on .. That’s how Aussie political elections work & it seems to make most sense to me.

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Let’s see if this time it actually goes through …

By: StevoR

StevoR — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:11:34 +0000

Particularly when other posts like the above come through ok .. what is going on???

I’ve tried refreshing thepage, tried cut_&-pasting, tried retyping (editing) and sending .. why is it taht this one post (quite innocuous just discusisngmy voteo &why) isn’t appearing here depsite somanyattempyts toget it to work??

That’s what’s driving me nuts – or nuts-er.

By: StevoR

StevoR — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:09:18 +0000

Thanks IVAN3MAN Its not just typos though ..

My post here just isn’t appearing & for the life of me I can’t work out why.

My computer is old & slow &I’m hoping to getanew one but ..yegods it give sme the irrits.

I could do the old “work in word then paste to web” technique you suggest but that’s a pain too.

Being able to edit, preview, delete would be such a great improvemnet to this blog – & other blogs fromyeras ago can do it so I’m not sure why the BA blog can’t.

Can anyone see my original post here? Is it jus tme that can’t? I cannot understand why it isn’t on screen here.

By: IVAN3MAN

IVAN3MAN — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:59:19 +0000
@ StevoR, Confucius say: Only bad workman blames tools. I would suggest that you use Microsoft Works Word Processor for writing your comments, which will automatically underline in red any spelling/spacing errors that you make, and then, once you have corrected the errors, you just simply copy & paste your comment into the comment box. It will save you a lot of frustration!

By: StevoR

StevoR — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:24:21 +0000

Now its *still* saying duplicate comment – & its still not appearing .

AAarrrrrgghhh!!!!!

For pity’s sake computer can * you* NOT * just_ ******_ WORK!!

Sigh.

By: StevoR-Correcting

StevoR-Correcting — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:20:43 +0000

Still not there. Okay I’m trying to try & repost it via cut & paste … Sorryif itdoe scome through twice – moderators feel free tofdlete later ones if original does work.

(Great as this blog is it has its exasperating limitations too.

*edit* cough, *Preview* cough * delete option* cough* ..

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By: StevoR

StevoR — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:16:55 +0000

Odd – I can’t see what I think I’ve just posted even after refreshing the page but when I went back and tried to post it again, it said I’d already said that & detected a duplicate comment. Sorry y’all. Not sure what the wretched machine thinks its doing …

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To err is human to really foul things up requires a computer.

By: Sundance

Sundance — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:12:10 +0000

Rather a shame that all the folks running Hubble couldn’t come up with a better voting system than ‘first past the post’. Having multiple galaxy candidates, and multiple planetary nebula candidates, is a classic recipe for vote-splitting. Have they never heard of the ‘single transferable vote’?

By: Richard Drumm The Astronomy Bum

Richard Drumm The Astronomy Bum — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:27:21 +0000

I voted for the Arp pair too, but I really wanted NGC891.

By: «bønez_brigade»

«bønez_brigade» — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:22:46 +0000

I chose NGC 6072; although, NGC 4289 was my next choice.
Why? Because it appears amazingly awesome and astoundingly awe-inspiring.

By: Alan French

Alan French — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:52:33 +0000

It looks like the NGC 6334 designation is correct, so it was just a typo.

Clear skies, Alan

By: Alan French

Alan French — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:47:07 +0000

From grumblings I am hearing via my wife, the object in the photo is not NGC 6634. They probably meant NGC 6334, which is part of the Cat’s Paw, but not the part in the photo. According to the NG/IC Project, the portion shown in the photo is just west of NGC 6334.

Clear skies, Alan

By: The Mutt

The Mutt — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:20:24 +0000

I voted for Salma Hayek’s swimming pool.