Comments on: Mr. Hubble goes to Washington

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:51:54 +0000

Just bought a certain book from the Aerospace Museum.

By: Petrolonfire

Petrolonfire — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:03:03 +0000

@ 13 Brian Too:

If you’ll excuse me I now have to seek comfort in a glass of whiskey

Only one glass? I’d try the whole bottle or make that crate of whisky if I was you!

By: Messier TidyUpper

Messier TidyUpper — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:24:03 +0000

I never used WFPC2 for any published work, but right after launch it was used to look at Supernova 1987A, an object I studied for my PhD. I had made some predictions based on our earlier, fuzzier images, and WFPC2 confirmed several of them.

Cool!

Could you please elaborate if you can. Ideally summarised & without too much maths?

Good to see the instruments kept for future generations – wish the same was true of the whole Hubble Space Telescope or rather space observatory.

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:14:14 +0000

Well, you saw it with your own eyes here folks. Hubblegate!!

Phil admitted in writing that he “fiddled with some of the data from it “. And he writes under the pseudonym “Bad Astronomer”. What else is he hiding?!

That does it. Every word Phil has ever said is a lie. Astronomy is a hoax perpetrated by liberals/communists/The Man and the sole purpose is to raise our taxes. My default position now is that the Web is full of misinformation and my starry-eyed idealism is shattered!

If you’ll excuse me I now have to seek comfort in a glass of whiskey and weep quietly in a darkened room. When, oh when, will the Good Old Days (G.O.D.) return?

By: Christian Ready

Christian Ready — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:54:23 +0000

When I worked at Space Telescope Science Institute, I was one of the Program Coordinators responsible for preparing observations aboard HST. We were each assigned a specific instrument and WFPC2 was “mine.” I felt a great connection with the camera and I am proud that I was able to help, even in a relatively small way, to “take” some of the amazing images with that camera. I can’t wait to get down to NASM to see it!

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:31:42 +0000

The BA said:

I fiddled with some of the data from it

AHA!!!!111!!!

So THAT’S why they call you the Bad Astronomer! Because you fiddle your data. Why that’s just like making stuff up because you don’t understand!

Bad Astronomer! Bad, bad astronomer! Go stand in the corner.[/parody]

Or maybe you meant playing around with the data?

By: shane

shane — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:02:38 +0000

@Phil
I fiddled with some of the data from it

That is so going to be taken out of context by the Hubble deniers at some point.