Thanks so much for the clarification, Chris!
Now I get it!
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- Sat Oct 07, 2023 1:28 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Edwin Hubble Discovers the Universe (2023 Oct 06)
- Replies: 15
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- Sat Oct 07, 2023 12:05 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Edwin Hubble Discovers the Universe (2023 Oct 06)
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Re: APOD: Edwin Hubble Discovers the Universe (2023 Oct 06)
Sorry to be so obtuse... but the location of the star seemingly labeled VAR! shows only a tiny speck between the diagonal lines and is nowhere near the image of the 'nebula'; it's almost out of the frame. So we assume that a) Hubble must have seen it being brighter in earlier images and now sees onl...
- Fri Nov 06, 2020 2:54 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Moon over ISS (2020 Nov 06)
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Re: APOD: Moon over ISS (2020 Nov 06)
"Oh Lord, your sea is so great, and my boat is so small"
Fisherman's prayer, origin obscure.
Fisherman's prayer, origin obscure.
- Sat Sep 26, 2020 2:43 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Moon Pairs and the Synodic Month (2020 Sep 26)
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Re: APOD: Moon Pairs and the Synodic Month (2020 Sep 26)
A synod is an ecclesiastical conference. The first use of the word was in the Middle Ages.
Does anyone know how the word came to be applied to moon phases?
Any historians of science here? Any etymologists?
cheers,
WSO
Does anyone know how the word came to be applied to moon phases?
Any historians of science here? Any etymologists?
cheers,
WSO