Wrong day eh, I had the right time, I measured the angular distance from your picture and adjusted to make it the same (3 degrees, 14 minutes) (based on the moon), must have read the day wrong.

As for the location, thinking about it now I picked the wrong coast, sun rises in the east, duh. I get confused with Europe since all Europe is east from me here in Canada.

Your right, I thought that the upper two bright ones (Saturn and Pollux) were Pollux and Castor repectively. It wasn't till I noticed that Saturn never lined up with them like that over the past gemini stint, though you may have been pulling some pictures from the achives, I intially through out 2004 because venus was smack dab in the middle (clearly retrospect)

RE: Spain, yeah, again don't know my europe that good, looked at map, forgot about portugal, figured it was all along the coast.

RE: Question:

I am searching for a wavelength.

I will direct you to January 16th, 2003 a website we all look at every day. Take the reasonable numeric value from this page.

Combine this number with a roadside item (you indirectly use it every day) to get something once used in astronomy observing, once you get this, the wavelength will fall.

Good Luck

Would these things also be true for a European or is this an American specialty?

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for the website, I sure hope so. It is great for little astronomy tidbits (and pictures). As for the roadside item, I don't see why it wouldn't be all over the world

NGC 1700

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<clapping guy> I don't know the symbol
NGC 1700
remember numeric value.


The road side item might seem a bit odd
it is fairly bland, and looks just like a rod

If your from the city, you may be feeling blue
just search on Google Images for a common clue

they're made out of tall straight trees
someone try out the riddle please!

1700 telephone poles

1700 fence posts

1700 lamp posts

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1700 angstroms
1700 nanometers



Infrared

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one of them

these are still used in astronomy observing today

I'm not done yet?

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No your not, Combine 1700 with... (okay I'll give it to you) telephone poles to get something... (okay instrument) ONCE used in astronomy observing.

Once you find this instrument the wavelength I'm looking for will be clear.
(be specific ... "HINT" -> not gamma, xray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, microwave, but ... <- "HINT")

Good luck

I'm at a loss.



tried googling all combinations of


1700, astronomy, wavelength, equipment, telephone and so on.



1700 telephone didn't get much besides addresses.

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try with pole in there

1700 telephone pole astronomy

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cool question. everyone should read that link.

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Excellent, I agree. I worked there for 4 months and its quite the site 1700 telephone poles included.

Over to you

Good question, and thanks for bringing this little snippet of history to our attention. I had never heard of it.

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since Mars is so prominent in the night sky these days, I thought I'd ask about that.


name all the missions to mars, from all countries, of all types. To get the answer right you must also tell which ones were unsucessful and what were the failures of those.

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Wow, ok. I'll lead off with the old stuff...

1962
Soviet, Mars 1, successful launch, then went MIA

1964
U.S., Mariner 3, crashed into the planet.....Earth, shroud failure
U.S., Mariner 4, successful flyby of Mars, 21 pictures taken
[Mariner 1 & 2 were Venus craft]
Soviet, Zond 2, , MIA near where Mars 1 was lost [“great galactic ghoul” blamed]
[Mariner 4 then struggled near this zone, too]

1967
U.S., Mariner 6, (arrived Mars 11 days after Armstrong’s walk)
[Mariner 5 went to Venus]
U.S., Mariner 7, approached Mars then battery blew but survived
[Both returned 58 pictures, bett

1971
U.S., Mariner 8, crashed into the planet.....Earth, Atlas-Centaur failure
Soviet, Cosmos 419, crashed into the planet.....Earth, 1.5 hour timer set at 1.5 years.
Soviet, Mars 2, launched surface lander and crashed
Soviet, Mars 3, surface lander survived landing but failed in seconds after landing
U.S., Mariner 9, extended orbital duration due to dust storm, discovered volcanoes

1973
Soviet, Mars 4, unsuccessful, faulty computer chip
Soviet, Mars 5, unsuccessful, but did get a few days of images
Soviet, Mars 6, unsuccessful, landing attempt failed
Soviet, Mars 7, unsuccessful, missed Mars

1975
U.S., Viking 1, landed on Mars
U.S., Viking 2, landed on Mars

1992
U.S., Mars Observer, unsuccessful upon arrival to Mars

1996
U.S., Pathfinder, landed successfully, but with trepidation over software issues

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