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- Sun Oct 16, 2011 5:20 pm
- Forum: Epsilon Aurigae
- Topic: animation of epsilon Aurigae K I 7699A line
- Replies: 3
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animation of epsilon Aurigae K I 7699A line
As part of a presentation on eps Aur at a BAA VSS meeting yesterday, I showed an animation of the evolution of the K I 7699A line through the eclipse. It compresses 2.5 years and 235 observations into 11 seconds and generated quite a bit of interest so I have added it to the page on eps Aur on my we...
- Sat Oct 15, 2011 10:31 pm
- Forum: Epsilon Aurigae
- Topic: eps Aur's PI
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5136
Re: eps Aur's PI
"Dr Bob" Robert Stencel, University of Denver is the professional contact for anything connected with eps Aur. It is not a formal campaign though so it does not have a PI. He just encourages observations and advises observers. He can be found with other professionals and amateurs intereste...
- Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:17 pm
- Forum: Spectroscopes and Softwares
- Topic: Vspec bug when exporting as png or jpg
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4240
Vspec bug when exporting as png or jpg
Has anyone had a problem exporting from VSpec as a png or jpg? The bmp option works fine but if I try to save to a different folder than the current one, I get the file selection window which appears over the top of the spectrum printed instead of the spectrum. (see attached example) Robin 20080727-...
- Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:56 am
- Forum: General Topics, Annoucements, Forum Life
- Topic: "Latest posts" list ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5894
Re: "Latest posts" list ?
Thanks!
- Thu Sep 29, 2011 10:00 am
- Forum: General Topics, Annoucements, Forum Life
- Topic: "Latest posts" list ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5894
"Latest posts" list ?
As well as separate sections, the VdS forum has a list of the latest threads on the front page regardless of the section they are in. http://spektroskopieforum.vdsastro.de/ I find this is useful to keep up to date will all posts without having to go to each section in turn. (This is similar to the n...
- Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:47 pm
- Forum: Outbursts, Alerts, Monitoring
- Topic: HD 176630
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4962
Re: HD 176630
HD176630 activity is confirmed in a spectrum taken tonight (attached)
Robin
Robin
- Wed Sep 28, 2011 6:19 pm
- Forum: General Topics, Annoucements, Forum Life
- Topic: Reading the forum in English
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4599
Reading the forum in English
A tip for non Francophones who would like to read the French posts. You can use Google to automatically translate everything into English. I have made a direct link here http://tinyurl.com/spectro-aras-eng I have not tried it but I expect it could be made to work the other way as well, translating e...
- Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:16 pm
- Forum: Introduction / Présentation
- Topic: Robin Leadbeater
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2850
Robin Leadbeater
I am Physicist by training and was a paper maker by trade (an R&D manager in the forest products industry) I got interested in the science side of astronomy when I retired in 2000, building my own cameras from webcam and video cameras which I used to dabble in many areas of observational astrono...