Frankly, I’d rather read that nonsense than listen to all the pushback you all get when you try to clean things up. Let it go. It’s easy to read through.
I understand the confusion. You make me wonder if at that distance from the earth, the shadow would be really insignificant. Kind of like the shadow of a small bird flying overhead to us.
For comparison, the Webb is about a million miles away while the Hubble is a mere 340.
Thanks, man. I just bought a waaaay too expensive lens for myself (you’re only drunk and 59 once), and yesterday was the first time trying it out. The owl was probably 75 yards away and that was too far for any chance at sharpness. The heron was closer but I’m impressed with how well the lens handled it. For perspective, here’s a phone photo of the heron that was taken by a buddy standing next to me.
Went to Cambridge yesterday and though I was able to spot the snowy owl that’s wintering there, he was very shy and hid from his audience. Attached a couple others too.
Just catching up in the banter thread and sorry to hear of your troubles. Hopefully it’s passed. I had some back pain about five years ago and had an X-ray. They called me later and asked which side of my back hurt because I have an 8mm stone on the other side. Well, it was 8mm five years ago. It’s probably bigger than that now. My back pain then was totally unrelated. I guess one day it’ll have to be removed.
So, tell me if this logic makes sense. Since the front took longer to cross the area this morning than modeled just last night, then isn’t it possible that it won’t sag as far south as modeled now in the next 24 hours? And if it doesn’t go as far south, isn’t it possible that the storm modeled Friday night at hour 42 of the current euro run could be, oh, say 100 miles west of what it shows?
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