Nope.

[quote="IMO"]Nope. (edited to add ... reread the question)

[quote="IMO"]I'm bad, I looked it up, I felt like it wouldn't be answered any time soon. It's "E. Margaret Burbidge, who was the first director not to be astronomer royal."

It's a shame that more people don't participate in this thread. How about a picture to move things along? What's this? (It's proper designation and familiar names)

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(Talk about lookin things up ops: )

It is M64 (also NGC 4826), the so-called "black eye" or "sleeping beauty" galaxy, a Sb type in Coma Berenicis. Here is an essay, plus the photo you used.

I felt confident it would be a Messier object because I trusted you wouldn't dig up some obscure galaxy hidden away in the Hubble archive. But since I have so far seen less than ten Messier objects myself (the usual suspects: 13, 31, 32, 110, 42, 43, 44, 45), I had to go sneaking.

I'll come u with something. I am still sleepy (though not a beauty), but I have to work now. I'll try to get something without math in it (I always get my fingertips or more burned with these, see above).

Cheers

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=D> =D> =D>

That's pretty much in line with my figures. For the record, my results were as follows:

Io: 3016
Eu: 2049
Ga: 3478
Ca: 1583

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[quote="Melusine"]Right (about Margaret Burbidge). It always seemed strange that they decided to seperate the two titles when the first woman Director was chosen. This question was part of my effort to bring more attention to women astronomers. I could have asked something about the B^2FH paper that revolutionized ideas about nucleosynthesis (That was Burbidge (Margaret) Burbidge (Geof) Fowler (Willy) and Hoyle (Fred)).

While working at Lick I remember many (too many) cloudy nights in the observers lounge of the 120" where Maragret Burbidge took time to ask how my dissertation was going and to explain what she was working on.

arggh

well, beskeptical still answered it, I just didn't use her answer

In another thread unrelated to this thread... :roll:

It's Arneb's turn for a question, but he seems to be AWOL now. So, somebody, anybody ought to ask a question.

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All right, all right, I am back.

(You are somewhat impatient, melusine, aren't you? :wink: )

Well, I'll try something along the same lines: Who is this?



Porbably way too easy for the pros, but - we'll see... 8)

(I deleted my original post conatining about the same text but a too obvious image. Sorry if anyone was puzzled).

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Lord Kelvin is just a guess of limited degree.

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Maybe so...it was 12 hours between your posts. :wink:

Who are the pros?

I don't know who it is, but he didn't make this list: http://www.phy.bg.ac.yu/web_projects.../pictures.html So, I'm curious.

George: the picture of Kelvin at that link doesn't seem to look like the same guy.

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True, but try this one.

[edit: shoot, ears are wrong :-? ]

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

There are similiarities between the two.

It is not Kelvin, though.

I do not know too much about these things, but the order he is wearing could give you a hint as to the nationality.

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Wow, what a flurry of activity here! :-?

Hints:
European.
If you want to demonstrate (to a woo-woo-infested mind, say) how powerful Newtonian physics really is: Our man would be a perfect example.

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Three things:

1) When I clicked on Arneb's photo link, my anti-virus/malware software went crazy. Please take appropriate precautions.

2) The answer is Urbain Le Verrier the co-discoverer of Neptune. He calculated the position of the planet based on the perturbations of Uranus' orbit.

3) New (easy) question: In about a week or so, a major spaceflight record will be broken. What's the record? Who holds it? Who will break it?

Ad 1) I 'd suppose it is your malware software that needs a bit of calming down - I did not deposit any dialer-spyware-worm-virus-apammer, as far as I recall.
Ad2) =D> =D> =D>
Ad 3) This could be the record so far held by the Galileo spacecraft: Longest functioning spacecraft in an orbit around another planet; broken by Mars Global surveyor. The problem with that is that MGS has already surpassed Galilleo (12/7/95-9/21/03: 7 years, 9 months, 14 days; MGS since 9/12/97: 7 years, 10 months 29 days). but I'll give it a try.

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It turns out Imageshack has a Javascript pop-under ad for as.casalemedia.com on their site. If you click it, it will try to load the CoolWWWSearch adware on your PC. I disabled a browser plugin which took care of the problem.

As to your answer: Nope. While interesting, it's not what I was getting at.

Sergei Krikalev?

Don't know whose record he is set to break, though.

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Ha: Some time next week, Sergej Krikalev on bord the ISS will become the human with the longest total time in space, breaking Sergej Avdejev's record, currently at 679.7 days.

Edited to add: When I first posted this , I had not read Eroica's answer, so I am not cheating)

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