Good morning. In the attached video you’ll notice right away that I have my months wrong. It seems I’m stuck in March. I thought about cutting a new one but said that the second take always leaves out the best news. Life is lived LIVE so I don’t think correcting the errors we make makes us any better. I want you to feel free to make a mistake and share it anyways. We’re in it together. When you look I should be easy to find. If I’m not, try again.
Space is consuming because it is so big no one man or woman could ever know everything there is to know about it. Something’s are always there yet still unexplained. I try to uncover what is missing and that is a good endeavor to have. Those things that we have available to learn from we should spend some of the time dealing with the most prevalent questions. The things that I run into on a regular basis are:
• The Powers that Be
• Weather
• Earthquakes
• Space
• Economy
• Aliens
• Numbers
• Science
The next thing I must recognize are the speakers because the person who speaks about these things has everything to do with what you will hear, good or bad. I suggest that the number one thing I run into these days is apparently competent people speaking in totally incompetent ways. If what they say is really what they feel, we’re in a whole heap of shit because these folks have no idea when to stop talking about something that really has no bearing on our happiness. That’s right; OUR happiness is at stake, not theirs.
I made the comparison to yesterday’s severe weather in northeast Texas. The storms arrived mid-day and because everyone was up and alert, there appears to have been minimal casualties though damage reported involves hundreds of structures that were inhabited when they were struck by the power of circulating wind. Here was bad news that was received quickly and processed to the best of human ability. The result was more people survived the storms than perished. No one had time to prepare but the weather the storm. There is something missing from the actual event and what we’re used to, “premature warning”.
I cannot tell you how little I listen to because you might get the feeling I’m not aware of the world around me. The activities that I involve myself in are all-consuming when I am doing them and fortunately for me I have more than I can do so I’m usually very busy keeping us informed about space. Space…… is a big place.
No bigger than the trouble down on Earth though. I could spend the rest of my life with my head in the vacuum located outside our atmosphere and some men and woman have. Devoted to learning what we may not know already or looking for an object we know nothing about. Those tasks are life-long efforts or they fill some space between this decade and the next. I must admit that I would like to hide sometimes. But honestly that feeling propels out to the front so that the message won’t be lost just because of me. I’m not the biggest or the brightest but when you stand me up next to a pure conspiracy artist I find there is no comparison. I don’t just cry about something going wrong in order to make my world feel right. I’d rather go to a mountain and scrape around for some gold than waste my time bemoaning life on Earth. “Woe is us, friend…. Woe is us.”
To each his or her own and so goes you and me. I think about the 120 people who receive this morning message when I hear back from the few of you who speak to me about these emails. I want to thank you for reading them and sharing your thoughts with me. You might find your thought coming out of my mouth but I know where the thought came from and I am thankful to have 120 brains thinking similarly. Your brain is my brain when you share your ideas and questions with me. You don’t have to take ownership of my brain because I know how hard that can be for even me. No worries.
I do worry about being fooled though and I get the feeling that there are many who are fooling themselves into thinking that someone else has all the answers. The answers are there for us if we want to find them. We can do it ourselves or we can let someone ‘behind the scenes’ do it for us. While I rely on some reporters some of the time I have not found many people who I would trust not to deliver some news that must be rediscovered before the truth comes out of the report. I still think it’s alright not to know an answer or say that the answer came from a source readily available to everyone. I choose not to think the world is out to get me but rather I should be out in the world trying to make it better. I see a lot of talking going on.
Today’s FIBER:
Wed April 4, 2012
There’s something that needs to get done today and you won’t be able to get to it until later than you said. Use this as a good reason to do a little more than was expected.
I have included a video on the Transit of Venus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spYZ8sZBTv0 which will be a big event occurring June 5th, 2012. There is also an eclipse occurring May 20th, 2012. There will be events that are available through ATW (http://www.astronomerswithoutborders.org) for both those events as well as all of April. This month is GAM (Global Astronomy Month) and the folks over at ATW have a full month of events. Check out their robotic telescope events and get involved. Another great LIVE celestial event site is http://events.slooh.com/ who broadcasts important live events on that page.
WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) images are to infrared astronomers what a treasure map would be to a pirate. Hidden within millions of pictures are the objects you hear about entering the solar system and destroying our way of life. Some scientists will spend a career looking at pictures taken by WISE and some men will never look even though their answers lie within.
Some WISE scientists are looking dwarf stars, comets, and asteroids while others are responsible for creating a map of the universe. Infrared wavelengths are invisible to the naked eye but become visible to an infrared telescope by the heat signature they produce. The recent release of the All-Sky data from WISE on March 14, 2012 represents the remaining images taken during the cryogenic, hydrogen cooled operation of the telescope.
WISE images will answer questions about our solar system that have been at the forefront of fringe astronomy. Any theory that attempts to answer every question with a potential object from space should have a voice to the contrary until some proof has been uncovered. Amateur research may find these images a fork in the road; they answer an original question or become the basis for more questions to be asked. The purpose of WISE was to map the universe by its heat and the mission was a complete success one and a half times over.
It was launched from Vanderberg Air Force Base on December 14, 2009 at 8:09:33AM local time. Its Delta rocket carried 1,650lbs of satellite into low Earth orbit which it traversed fifteen times a day. On board was a 15.75-inch infrared telescope capable of recording four different wavelengths. WISE was positioned over Earth’s terminator line and was always pointed away from the Sun. It took an image every eleven seconds overlooking the dark side of Earth except when the Moon traversed its field of view.
The telescope was built to run with and without its cryogenic coolant for a period of time using two out of the four infrared wavelength imagers when all the hydrogen had been used. NASA had a plan but did not immediately begin its program to operate the telescope once the hydrogen had been consumed until its planetary division undertook a search for NEO (near Earth object) and potentially hazardous asteroids (PHA). It was not until NEOWISE proposed and received funding to extend the mission four more months after cryogenic loss.
WISE and NEOWISE data are two different data sets and were compiled using different methods and for different reasons. Any research into WISE satellite images should begin by looking at the original mission and the original pictures released to the public from the cryogenic period of operation.
It’s important to know what WISE can see and what it cannot. The first thing to know is that it cannot see things in the Kuiper belt because they are too cold. The infrared cameras on WISE start to ‘see’ things when the objects they are looking at reach a temperature of 70-100 Kelvin; a Kelvin is 1.8 degrees. The next thing to know is about size. WISE could see a Jupiter-sized object as far out as a light year and an object the size of Neptune as far as 700 AU away. Now that we know what we can see, let’s try to discover how to look for them ourselves given a particular area of space. Our part of space is located near Regulus and will include a stop at CW Leonis to get our bearings before heading out.
"With the release of the all-sky catalog and atlas, WISE joins the pantheon of great sky surveys that have led to many remarkable discoveries about the universe," said Roc Cutri, who leads the WISE data processing and archiving effort at the Infrared and Processing Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "It will be exciting and rewarding to see the innovative ways the science and educational communities will use WISE in their studies now that they have the data at their fingertips."
Here is your link to the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive:
http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/wise/#id=Hydra_wise_wise_1&projectId=wise&startIdx=0&pageSize=0&shortDesc=Position&isBookmarkAble=true&isDrillDownRoot=true
The dashboard for the WISE allows you to access the images.
Example: (enter any one of the following names or coordinates to see the same object):
Messier 81, m81, NGC 3031, n3031, UGC 05318, or
09h55m33.1730s +69d03m55.061s
09 55 33.1730 69 03 55.061
147.8637519 69.3022964 equ b1950
148.8882208 69.0652947 equ j2000
142.0918406 40.9001409 gal
“This publication makes use of data products from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.”
Whitney Clavin, whitney.b.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov. You can also contact the JPL Media Relations office at 818-354-5011.
I think that’s it!
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Francis Walsh
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