"Henri Wilson" HW@.. wrote in message
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| On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:51:21 GMT, "Sorcerer"

| wrote:
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| "Henri Wilson" HW@.. wrote in message
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| | You are good at assuming, aren't you?
| | Actually pitch is 90-i, cos(pitch) = sin(inclination). Wrong again,
| Wilson.
| |
| | these people obviously define zero pitch as face on.
|
| Yes, that is so. Spiritualists think the celestial plane is a surface
| where you live after you are dead, it is a level surface on which
| heaven sits and you need wings to overcome gravity, like angels.
| http://wilber.shambhala.com/html/mis...appendix1.cfm/
|
| Haven't you got anything better to do that read meaningless drivel like
htat?


I didn't read it, I found it for you.

|
| Astronomers see it as tangential to the celestial sphere, orthogonal
| to the line of sight.
|
| http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/l.../celestial.gif
|
| | | Is that the sine of the inclination to the celestial plane, by any
| | chance?
| | | That's included in the data, and how can you find the inclination
of
| | | a point source?
| | |
| | | I don't have to.
| |
| | So you assume. Wrong again, Wilson.
| |
|
| CRAP:
| | I'm not wrong...never am...
| |
| | Take any elliptical orbit in space. Rotate your 'ead until a
perpendicular
| to
| | your LOS lies in the orbit plane. ..or is that too hard for an
engineer?
| | Now, you can rotate the ellipse around that axis and all the peripheral
| | velocity components in your direction will be multiplied by the same
cos
| | factor.
| |
| | What is observed by those gentlemen who spend all night gazing down
| telescopes
| | and measuring star spectra is the edge-on' peripheral velocity times
cose
| | pitch, which is unkown and which doesn;'t have to be known in order
than
| MY
| | program will produce the right kind of brightness curve for any star.
| |
| /CRAP
|
| Wrong again, Wilson. That is ROLL.
| Pitch, Roll, Yaw.
| You can leave out roll, you cannot leave out pitch.
|
| I can. I rotate the telescope so that pitch is already catered for in the
| measurement of radial velocities..

Well, we know you can and you do, which is why worbits are
edge on and 0.3 LY away. This is getting ****in' boring...

|
| Why would I rotate my head with one of these, ****head?
| http://www.starizona.com/basics/basics/nwtoptic.jpg
|
| That is FAR too hard for a ****wit physicist, but astronomers can manage
it.
|
| I'm sure Paul Andersen knows what I'm saying.

Of course, he's a stupid troll like you.

|
| | Your program includes a 'cheat factor' which allows you to vary the
pitch
| at
| | will to produce the right answer.
|
| Yes, it does. Real orbits are inclined. v sin i, remember, ****HEAD?
|
| ....don't engineers know that sin i=cos(90-i)?


This is getting ****in' boring...
|
| | |
| | | Magnitude changes are only of the order of 0.5 or so at those kinds
of
| | | distances.
| |
| | That's a good one.
| |
| | Of course. It's true..
|
| True that you are full of ****.
|
| |
| | You see my flashlight through a telescope, I turn it off and
| | on again.
| | "Delta magnitude is a function of distance" -- ****HEAD Wilson.
| |
| | HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
| |
| | What the **** are you talking about now?
|
| Nothing you'd understand, you are too stupid.
| I'll try again.
| I am on a hill 20 miles away from you.
| I have a flashlight.
| You have a telescope.
| You see the flashlight.
| You measure its magnitude.
| It's magnitude is 0.
| I turn the flashlight off.
| What is its magnitude now?
| I come down off the hill and
| shove the flashlight in you face.
| I turn the flashlight on.
| What is its magnitude now?
| I turn you upside down (you are anyway).
| What did that do the brightness of the
| flashlight?
| I rotate the flashlight away from you.
| What is its magnitude now?
|
| What's this?
| A new poetic form of message writing?

Ok, that's it.
Andocles.