“The Final Experiment”

[Retro]

Oh, that is really awful. Why am I not surprised that they're racists too? The holocaust was a long time ago now, but I've got Jewish friends who've had distant relatives that were murdered in those hellholes. I don't think they'd appreciate those idiot deniers.

I'll bet they think the moon landings were a hoax and 9/11 was an inside job. These things tend to go together as a package.

 

[petermarkley]

You’re exactly right. In fact I’ve even debated them about the moon landing.

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[Retro]

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[petermarkley]

It’s entirely likely that some slight lunar libration will be visible just in the photos I’ve already captured. … I’ll try to share here whatever ultimately comes to fruition

Would be interesting to see the results you do have

Will do!

 

[Retro]

Yeah, you can see it even like this.

Will you go for the full capture now even though it's labour intensive?

 

[petermarkley]

Will you go for the full capture now even though it's labour intensive?

I wasn’t planning to, at least not until I have my telescope back.

This is generally a pretty inopportune time for me to do fancy projects and photography, but The Final Experiment motivated me to try anyway. Participating in a worldwide collaboration of getting simultaneous data with them in Antarctica was certainly a once-in-a-lifetime thing.

For general moon photography, the moon will still be there in another 6 or 12 months when I’m back on my feet.

 

[Retro]

For general moon photography, the moon will still be there in another 6 or 12 months when I’m back on my feet.

I'm sorry, but I dispute that. Just because it's been there for billions of years doesn't mean that something couldn't happen to it, tsk. Remember what happened in Space 1999? Yup, exactly.

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[petermarkley]

I made a poster-style panorama of the 24-hr sun that they captured:


This is assembled from photography by Dave McKeegan:

• His 360deg timelapse
• His solar photography

I have highres versions in a Google Drive folder, up to 600dpi at 22inches wide (or 300dpi at 44in).

My hope is to print a copy and get Michael Toon, Will Duffy, and Dave McKeegan to autograph it

Visible in the photo from left to right:

1. Lisbeth Acosta
2. Austin Witsit
3. Mark Hermon
4. (ALE staff member, leaning against shelter)
5. CriticalThink (in the cowboy hat)
6. Michael Toon
7. Jonathan Mariande
8. Jeran Campanella (at the laptop “podium” thing)
9. Will Duffy
10. Dave McKeegan (crouching in foreground with camera)

The image of the people is from a moment during Will Duffy’s first on-ice livestream when Jeran Campanella came on and said "Sometimes, you are wrong in life ..."