Astronomical Question #1
 

What consellation or star means "keel"?
1 pt

Bonus: What famous boat is named after this?
1 pt

Camelopardalis.

I know the bonus answer but for fun will let Jeff answer.

Joe

Bart Senior wrote:
What consellation or star means "keel"?
1 pt


Carina
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/con...ns/carina.html

But it's a southern constellation, not many people up here would have
probably ever seen it... I haven't for example (although I have seen the
Southern Cross).

Bonus: What famous boat is named after this?
1 pt


Carina, of course. IIRC a ~60' S&S designed ketch that won a lot of big
races in the '50s... very pretty boat, too. Somewhere amongst my books
of boat designs there is a chapter on her with lines plan & pictures...
too bad more of this kind of stuff isn't on the wwweb... yet ;)

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

2 pts for Doug.

I never knew Carina meant keel until I saw an interesting
show on the stars recently, which reminded me of this boat.

Fitting name for a boat with a full keel.

There is more than one Carina. Carina 1 is still alive and racing
and undergoing restoration this year, according to the
below article.

More information on Carina
http://astro.temple.edu/~bstavis/pr/carina2.htm
http://astro.temple.edu/~bstavis/pr/carina1.htm

"DSK" wrote

Bart Senior wrote:
What consellation or star means "keel"?
1 pt


Carina
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/con...ns/carina.html

But it's a southern constellation, not many people up here would have
probably ever seen it... I haven't for example (although I have seen the
Southern Cross).

Bonus: What famous boat is named after this?
1 pt


Carina, of course. IIRC a ~60' S&S designed ketch that won a lot of big
races in the '50s... very pretty boat, too. Somewhere amongst my books
of boat designs there is a chapter on her with lines plan & pictures...
too bad more of this kind of stuff isn't on the wwweb... yet ;)

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Bart Senior wrote:
2 pts for Doug.


You may want to revise that, I said Carina was an approx 60' S&S design
when she is a 46' Rhodes design! OOPS...

I never knew Carina meant keel until I saw an interesting
show on the stars recently, which reminded me of this boat.


At first I was thinking of a different constellation, a northern one,
that looks somewhat like the letter "Y" but in my foggy memory has some
connection with the word "keel."

Fitting name for a boat with a full keel.

There is more than one Carina. Carina 1 is still alive and racing
and undergoing restoration this year, according to the
below article.

More information on Carina
http://astro.temple.edu/~bstavis/pr/carina2.htm
http://astro.temple.edu/~bstavis/pr/carina1.htm


Heck, there's a Carina III which apparently is an IOR-era hotshot, still
winning races. It goes to show a boat that sails well is never
obsolete... the wind & sea don't change much...

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

DSK wrote:
Bart Senior wrote:

What consellation or star means "keel"?
1 pt


Carina
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/con...ns/carina.html


It's interesting (to me, at least) that you used a reference to the
Chandra Telescope - that's the group that I used to work with. For
those that don't know about Chandra, its an orbiting telescope of
roughly the same size as Hubble, that images in the X-Ray spectrum.
Since high energy phenomena, such as black holes, usually produce
X-Rays, much interesting science comes from this facility.

The telescope I worked on was the first large orbiting telescope, the
Einstein X-Ray observatory. It was originally designed to the size of
Chandra, but then scaled back. After that project, much of the team
went to the Hubble project, many stayed and worked on high energy
telescopes which led to Chandra. As a programmer, not an
astro-physicist, I went out and started a consulting company. Hubble
was one of our larger clients until the Challenger disaster, which is
when I shifted to business software.

Here's a picture I took of Eta Carina with the Einstein Observatory,
Actually, the data is "owned" by the scientist who proposed the
observation, so he gets credit for taking a picture with a
$250,000,000 camera. However, I wrote most of the software that took
the data from the telemetry, re-organized it, processed and corrected
it, and put it on the screen for display. Each dot is one X-Ray
photon; the large diamond shaped dark lines are shadows from the
struts that hold the detector. This pic was photographed from the
screen (27 years ago the VGA-like system cost $40,000!) with a film
camera, and then probably scanned in from that years later, so the
image has had a tenuous journey from Eta Carina.

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ob..._einstein.html

'' She sank twice, was refloated remained in salvable condition until
she sank again around 2004 and was destroyed.''


That suks.






"Bart Senior" wrote in message
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2 pts for Doug.

I never knew Carina meant keel until I saw an interesting
show on the stars recently, which reminded me of this boat.

Fitting name for a boat with a full keel.

There is more than one Carina. Carina 1 is still alive and racing
and undergoing restoration this year, according to the
below article.

More information on Carina
http://astro.temple.edu/~bstavis/pr/carina2.htm
http://astro.temple.edu/~bstavis/pr/carina1.htm

"DSK" wrote

Bart Senior wrote:
What consellation or star means "keel"?
1 pt


Carina
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/con...ns/carina.html

But it's a southern constellation, not many people up here would
have
probably ever seen it... I haven't for example (although I have
seen the
Southern Cross).

Bonus: What famous boat is named after this?
1 pt


Carina, of course. IIRC a ~60' S&S designed ketch that won a lot
of big
races in the '50s... very pretty boat, too. Somewhere amongst my
books
of boat designs there is a chapter on her with lines plan &
pictures...
too bad more of this kind of stuff isn't on the wwweb... yet ;)

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Jeff Morris wrote:
It's interesting (to me, at least) that you used a reference to the
Chandra Telescope - that's the group that I used to work with.

Didn't know anything about it, that popped up in a Google search for
"constellation+carina"

Thanks for the info, that was pretty cool

DSK

Cool!

Jeff Morris wrote:
It's interesting (to me, at least) that you used a reference to the
Chandra Telescope - that's the group that I used to work with. For
those that don't know about Chandra, its an orbiting telescope of
roughly the same size as Hubble, that images in the X-Ray spectrum.

Well, I don't know much about radio astronomy, although I learned a fair
bit about it this weekend when I was working as a volunteer at this place.

http://www.pari.edu/

They have lots of big picture from Chandra up on the walls.

It was a lot of fun, for a weekend spent away from the boat.

DSK

DSK wrote:
Jeff Morris wrote:

It's interesting (to me, at least) that you used a reference to the
Chandra Telescope - that's the group that I used to work with. For
those that don't know about Chandra, its an orbiting telescope of
roughly the same size as Hubble, that images in the X-Ray spectrum.


Well, I don't know much about radio astronomy, although I learned a fair
bit about it this weekend when I was working as a volunteer at this place.

http://www.pari.edu/

They have lots of big picture from Chandra up on the walls.

It was a lot of fun, for a weekend spent away from the boat.

DSK


Neat! What kind of work did you do?

Jeff wrote:
Neat! What kind of work did you do?

I came to do some mechanical work (they have a big expensive donated
genset which they can't get on line) but ended up doing a little
scanning and some modifying of power supplies so as to be able to run
some remote equipment off batteries & solar panels.

These guys are the stars of the show
http://www.pari.edu/p06_telescope_display01.asp?scope=1

They were watching & recording the hydrogen line while we were there.

DSK