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It was a Flop... February 2024 Disco. Thread


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10 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Looking forward to 18z gfs clown maps from Moonshine and Galileo.

I don’t laugh out loud at a lot of stuff that I read here, but this got me. well played good sir

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Throughout this afternoon's unbelievably obsessive peregrinations of that thing ...   "hook and latter"  ... was discussed back in the 1990s.  And. it's a play on words owned (most likely ) only to old school Met parlance...  can we give it a fuckum rest now?   lord

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5 minutes ago, cleetussnow said:

In case anyone wants to see

gfs_mslp_pcpn_frzn_us_25.png

it would give lovelorn SEerners a couple good tugs from OES ...   That's a helluva long fetch transporting fresh polar air out of the polar maritime

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47 minutes ago, AstronomyEnjoyer said:

Oh no, this hurts me. I collect any and all telescopes, even broken ones. :(

To make myself feel better, I'm fairly certain that telescope is a 76mm reflector coming from one of the big Chinese optics manufacturers. Models with those apertures use spherically ground mirrors instead of parabolically ground mirrors. It's cheaper and easier to make a spherical mirror but as I'm sure some of you know, a spherical surface does not reflect incoming parallel light rays into a single point like a parabola would. So you get what's called spherical aberration when observing. (Parabolic mirrors also introduce aberrations but that's a whole other story).

Also the mounts on those cheap telescopes are extremely difficult and frustrating to use. Junk really. Still like collecting them though. I probably own around 25 telescopes right now? 

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