can't wake up...

By the way, tomorrow I don't have to sit for exam so it will work! I have prepared my gadgets in the garden! God please wake me up!

Becoming religious ah? No need to disturb HIS Highness lah, want me to send you an alarm clock?
BTW a super loud alarm clock is the amateur astronomer's essential tool.......

Please send me, the two clocks can't wake me up.

By the way, I did my observation this morning. I managed to observe Venus but not Pojmanski... It's under the hill when the twilight didn't begin. When it began, it's too bright to observe it...

it will be hard.... the apparent magnitude is getting higher, means it's getting fainter on your telescope as it is moving away....

March05> do me a favor wil'ye....? look for Proxima Centauri in your version of SNP.... i couldn't physically locate mine.....

Since my telescope is a 8" LX90, I think it still can catch it, just the sunlight...

By the way, SNP is a really rocking astronomy software!

why...?

you've got yourself the *ahem* copy...?

Ouch that was a tough one!



this is the only reference to Proxima in Centaurus i could find in SNP 4.50. The coordinates don't quite look correct, though.

Our nearest stellar neighbour is very difficult to locate lah. Wonder how in the world they managed to ID it in the first place!

coz it's a triplet system with Rigil Kentaurus as it's binary companion.... currently in orbit relatively close to our system....

in my version, i could see only the designation, but not the star itself....

This post has been edited by Eithanius: Mar 8 2006, 10:14 PM

any particular reason why you want to locate the star now? your friends over there planning the first interstellar invasion of Earth?

*ahem* *ahem*... Hehe, school holidays are approaching! I can observe every night! Furthermore, I will get my notebook soon~~

kind of.... coz their star's burning out aka dying....

jk.... anyway, wanna have a glimpse of our neighborhood.....


notebook....? Centrino Duo....?

If they've only got sublight engines, we still have just over 4 years to build our defences.
But if they've got the latest hyperspace drivers, we are out of time....

Mr.LKM, forget Intel stuff. Buy AMD Dual Core!

is there a mobility AMD Dual Core.....?

No, the Turion X2 is not out yet.
But AMD X2 based notebooks have been out since late last year i think.

Turion X2.... read about it.... haven't seen any of it's pre-launch benchmarks though. Let's see if this thing can really smoke a Centrino Duo..... if it does, then i'll regret Apple's decision to switch to Intel....

PS: I'm not a big fan of AMD or Intel btw....

Haha, no no to Intel! I am hard core of AMD, AMD long lives!

By the way, can we have a glimpse of our neighbourhood? What is a hyperspace driver?

if you know where to look....

Find Alpha Centauri....

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hyperspace, a hypothetical dimension of space....

hyperspace drive = hyperdrive.... a hypothetical term for a device that can traverse from normal space into the hypothetical hyperspace for faster-than-light travel....

March05 had too much science fiction already.....

no, no, i meant drivers!
haven't you heard? AMD has been secretly exporting its Turion X2 cpus to the aliens (at huge profits; now you know why we can't get these cpus yet) for use in their sublight engines. It was recently discovered, by some LYN hackers who wrote the software hyperspace drivers to overclock the X2 units, that these engines could be speeded up to crash through the FTL barrier..........if our neighbours get hold of this new driver, we're in deep sh*t!

SciFi, my foot!

....... March05 is crazy about scifi! I am just another one but I don't know much of it in English.

Wait, the best part is yet to come.....the comet Pojmanski is actually a scout ship sent by the aliens to test how many amateur astronomers will manage to detect them when the battle fleet crosses the Heliosheath.

This is a Critical Point.

If the scout team determines that too many amateurs with their pesky telescopes actually saw them (in the guise of the comet), they will most likely call off the invasion as they will not have the advantage of the element of surprise.........

So Mr.LKM, the fate of our beloved Earth lies in your hands. You must take a picture of the comet and post it here to prove to the aliens that they have been sighted!