Complicated:

Edward Cooper owned the observatory where the discovery was made, at Markree Castle. Again, we are talking about a gifted amateur of considerable ability and devotion.

His assistant, Andrew Graham, made the actual discovery on April 24, 1848, and was duly was given the choice of name - It was he who decided, but he did so on suggestion by others: Romney Robinson , head of the Armagh observatory,suggested Metis, while John Herschel suggested Thetis.

So I guess the answer is Romney Robinson.

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Obviously not complicated enough! Romney Robinson is the correct answer.

This thread is in danger of turning into a game of tennis.

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or baseball

All right, I'll play a quick throw-in to get the game rolling again. Try without starmaps.

In one observing and photography session, I shot the summer triangle, Orion, and Mars between Taurus and Aries.

When was that?

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well, there are many times when you could have done that.

You can get the summer triangle and Orion during half the year depending on what time of night you do it.

In September, October, and November every year they are up early enough though.

Durnig those 3 months in 2005 Mars was just where you said.



I guess November because that would get you to be earliest.

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October 31st, Mars Biggest in the sky. 9PM Local Time

Nice!

I'd say crosscountry takes over the torch because he was first and a rough OOM guesstimate was what I was aiming for.

And yes, it actually was in November

On to you, cross!

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This one might have been asked already; I only checked back about 10 pages.


Other than optical what range of the electromagnetic spectrum was discovered first; who discovered it, and using what method?

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Without Googling, I'm going to guess infra-red, by William Herschel, using a thermometer (sounds like the solution in a game of Cluedo - Mr Herschel, in the infra-red, with the thermometer!).

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yep. Your go!

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Good work ... and a great question ...
I did Google to double check the order of discoveries and found:
IR Herschel 1800 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_astronomy
UV Ritter 1801 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet
Radio Hertz 1885 http://www.sparkmuseum.com/HERTZ.HTM
Xray Roentgen 1895 http://www.pa.msu.edu/people/brock/h...rays_flat.html
Gamma Villard 1898 (or 1900) http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/as...s/980209c.html

thanks, but those were my next questions. I'll think of something else, supposing that I answer another question correctly.

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Sorry ... I looked mainly to get order between Ir & UV and thot I would get all the results in one place ... sorry again for messing up your question bank ...

I had no bank, just had a line of questions that I didn't have to think about to come up with good ones... There are plenty of good questions.

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This is stretching the term "astronomy":

Pythagoras believed that the "harmony of the spheres" produced a form of celestial music that only the gods can hear. Who composed a terrestrial version that the rest of us can enjoy?

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Holst?

Vangelis?

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I'm not thinking of Holst or Vangelis. (Of course, there may be more than one correct answer to this, but I'm thinking of someone in particular. Hint: the music in question is in 3/4 time!)

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Eroica, this is harder than I thought. I figured Hheb09'1 was correct; Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Stravinksy, Schoenberg, et al, all created compositions in 3/4 time! My first idea was that it was a Renaissance composer, but even searching compositions no title pops out. Is this the right track? Because all of them used "harmony of the spheres" as inspiration in some of their works. Wouldn't Kepler have provided inspiration? (Lol, I'm fishing, no doubt.)

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The hint is very significant though

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I know Johannes Kepler wrote mus