constellations... Dr Maggie Hellstrom, Lund University Sun, 11 Oct 1998 13:42:08 +0200 (MET DST) On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Rob Zook wrote: > At 01:52 PM 10/10/98 -0500, Saul Epstein wrote: > >Quotes from: Sorik of Vulcan > >Date: Saturday, October 10, 1998 12:38 PM > > >> In fact, I like > >> this idea. Do we know much about what the constellations look like > >from > >> a Vulcan observer. I know, they are different constellations > >> altogether. > > > >People could get very imaginative about that, probably. Or very > >technical. I don't think any work has been done on it, though. A > >topic for a vulcan-astrology list, perhaps. (I'll bet THAT would > >raise a few eyebrows.) > > Hey Maggie, > > Can your astronomy program(s) show constalations from different points > in space? I thought I'd heard of an inexpensive commercial program that > could do that. "Distant Suns" maybe? > > Hmmm..,somewhere around here I have couple of those programs, maybe they > can do that. > > > Rob Z. > > Hi Rob, I don't know - I'll look into that asap. My astronomy interest (together with most all of my non-work related interests) have been put into a stasis field these last couple of months - I'm in the middle of a rather hectic period at work, organizing one course that's due to star next semester an in parallel taking a number of "pedagogic" courses myself - it's a mess... While I'm on it, I just want to mention that together with a colleague here at the institute, I've put together a collection of actual images of the Eridani-40 system. There also appears to be something a bit fishy with the information about the stars in the "apparent vicinity" (as viewed from Earth) of Eri-40 contained in one of the big star catalogues - strange geometric patterns emerge when one includes very faint objects. I'm suspecting that the automatic scanning programs used to extract info from old glass plate photographs sometimes get problems, e,g. at plate boundaries. More about this later... I found some interesting info about our "favorite" ternary system at http://www,astro,psu,edu/xray/eridanus/astro,html Later, Maggie --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Margareta Hellstrom Division of Cosmic and Subatomic Physics, Physics Department, Lund University P,O. Box 118, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden e-mail: margareta,hellstrom at kosufy,lu,se http://wwwnsg,kosufy,lu,se/personal/hellstrom/ "THAT is the exploration that awaits you - not mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence."