Hi Horace Since cataloguing (even galaxies) is not on my list of 'most enlightening things to do during the weekend', I'll present some alternatives. Here's a paper on galaxies I've found on the web recently: http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3793
And here's valuable and relatively rare information on the the solar system movement: http://biocab.org/Coplanarity_Solar_System_and_Galaxy.html http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1863MNRAS..23..166D (I couldn't find the paper, but the abstract is very valuable in itself.) That last paper is from 1863. William Herschel was the first to study those movements, in the 19th century. Have you ever heard about Copernicus third law? Athough we're now used to the Copernican system, we disregarded his third law completely. Curious, isn't? I wonder how much longer this information will be ignored/concealed. It's not very well concealed anymore. Not to me, at least. And I've found it using plain old googling. I wonder how much can I find when searching the deep web http://www.fravia.com/deepweb_searching.htm And talking about all things real, and the nature of reality, you must be interested on his page on 'reality cracking' http://www.fravia.com/realicra/realicra.htm Don't forget to take a look at the priceless (and timeless?) 'basic laws of human stupidity'. It is my hope that those last links will serve also as a form of obituary, because Fravia passed away on may 3, 2009. It's a sad day for mankind when a genius dies. May he rest in peace. Best regards, Mauro Horace Heffner wrote: > Last year I helped classify thousands of galaxies at: > > http://supernova.galaxyzoo.org/ > > That project has classified 40 million galaxies and is now shooting > for 60 million, so still needs a lot of help. > > Due in part to the great success of that project, a similar one is in > progress to identify supernovas: > > http://supernova.galaxyzoo.org > > This is really cool. No telescope required. > > Best regards, > > Horace Heffner > http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ > > > > > >
