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Re: OK Nancy, Where Is It?


jrlatala@shell.golden.net wrote in message news:<a1dglh$ibk$1@shell.golden.net>...
> In article <3C39870B.9060403@telocity.com>,
> I M Openminded  <openmind@telocity.com> wrote:
> > jrlatala@shell.golden.net wrote:
> >
> >> In article <3C3880F7.5000102@telocity.com>,
> >> I M Openminded  <openmind@telocity.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Nancy Lieder wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> You CAUGHT it!  I've marked the spot with a red circle.  
> >>>>
>  
> >>> The fact is, there is no 11th magnitude or even 19th magnitude object at 
> >>> the point where Nancy has put her red circle on this image.  This 
> >>> response shows exactly why no one has been willing to post an image for 
> >>> Nancy.  It was inevitable that she would take any image and imagine that 
> >>> she had found her planet on it.  Her talk about the RA and DEC having to 
> >>> suffice for the "whole world" is spurious.  In fact she gave us specific 
> >>> coordinates to use for our observing location and her red circle lies 
> >>> well away from those specific coordinates.  Our web site has now had 
> >>> those ccordinates added to them as well as Nancy's red circle so all can 
> >>> see for themselves.
> >>>
> >> 
> >> I think you should have posted an image of a completely different part of
> >> the sky! It would have been funny to see her claim it as a sighting of
> >> Planet-X only to be told the image was taken 180 degrees from her
> >> specified co-ordinates! :-)
> >> 
> >> I think it's interesting that Nancy and her cult followers aren't posting
> >> their own images. I guess none of them know how to use a telescope ...
> >> 
> >> 
> >
> > That would have been dishonest.  The best I could do was to neglect to 
> > let her know that she had given us coordinates specially adjusted for 
> > our location.  Her circle misses those coords by even more than it 
> > misses her posted coords and she explained that by saying that the 
> > posted coords were for the world in general, not fpr specific locations.
> 
> You're no fun! :-)
> 
> It would have been great fun watching her trying to squirm her way out of
> that if it had happened ...

Has any attempt been made to take a longer 45 minute CCD exposure like
Nancy has asked?