Messier 33
Kevin Phillips
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Good day all. Had a go at M33. 5 min exposure total 6 hrs integration time. Guiding below 1 arc second. Process in startools and photoshop
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Kevin Phillips
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Hi Kevin
That’s an excellent image of the Triangulum galaxy. It’s a great colourful target with lots of detail and you’ve captured it really well in this image.
Well done!
Tim C
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Kevin Phillips
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Bernard Winchester
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Set in 1910, you can read the complementary Guardian review here. It does feature an Edwardian astronomical society meeting!
It is currently on locally at the Vue cinemas in Croydon, Valley Park and Bromley until Thursday (maybe they haven't finished the programme for later yet), tickets from £8.99.
sutandra
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colin.naomi
I saw this yesterday, and thought it was excellent. I wondered if the astronomer was based on a real character. Does anyone know? She appeared to be working on the Cepheid variable method of determining interstellar distances.
Colin del Strother
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Hi, folks,
You may be interested to hear about a new British film that has just been released, Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day."Based on Virginia Woolf’s funniest novel, Night & Day is an un-romantic comedy about the passionate astronomer, Katharine Hilbery who does everything she can to avoid romantic love and marriage. Her bold challenge to Edwardian patriarchy is set against the suffragette movement and advances in science and technology. Fun and contemporary in tone, this refreshing film showcases a star-studded ensemble of humorous performances."
It is currently on locally at the Vue cinemas in Croydon, Valley Park and Bromley until Thursday (maybe they haven't finished the programme for later yet), tickets from £8.99.Have a good weekend,
all the best,
Bernard
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Kevin Phillips
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Bernard Winchester
- Popular Science Influence: She avidly read popular astronomy books, particularly those by Sir James Jeans, whose writings on Edwin Hubble’s expanding universe deeply influenced her perception of time, space, and human isolation. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
- Pacism & Perspective: The scale of the cosmos—where galaxies were seen as distant, indifferent spaces—fueled Woolf's pacifism. By viewing humanity from an extraterrestrial perspective, she emphasized the absurdity of nationalism and warfare, notably in her feminist and anti-war essay Three Guineas. [1, 2, 3, 4]
- Literary Metaphor: Novels like To the Lighthouse and her short stories frequently use lenses, telescopes, and light moving through the cosmos to explore memory, distance, and the simultaneity of past and present. [1]
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The 1927 Solar Eclipse: Woolf was so captivated by astronomy that she travelled to the north of England to observe the total solar eclipse of June 1927. This celestial event provided her with immense inspiration for how she captured shifting perceptions and time in her later work, particularly in The Waves. [1, 2, 3]".
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colin.naomi
Thanks.
There's a point in the film where the (apparently British) astronomer character sees a news story that a woman in America has published the idea she was working on, so presumably that was based on Leavitt. However, I was wondering if there was really a British woman who came up with the same idea.
From the other comments here I suspect not, but it's interesting news to me that Virginia Woolf was interested in astronomy. As a Richmond resident I have been aware of the plaque to the founding of the Hogarth press, and her statue by the riverside, an unusual pose to have a seated statue on a bemch, I sometimes go and sit next to her.
Colin
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That would be Henrietta Leavitt?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Swan_Leavitt
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