Re: Star Trek Movie Challange

Should brought a scope with you:-)

GML
 

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On Behalf Of Mark Johnston
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 9:49 AM
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Subject: [TAC] Star Trek Movie Challange

Went last night to the Star Trek movie a second time and whenever there
was open-space and star fields I was keen to try to recognize most
anything. Now of course only when those star fields would be from the
point of reference of Earth would any star fields have any hope of looking
like our favorites. I was very much expecting so kool Hubble fields and so
on as backdrop.

They either happened all to fast, my processing noodle is too slow, they are
obscure fields, OR they are not accurate backdrops. At this time I am
leaning towards auto-generated or 'artistic' star fields.

I only once thought I may have caught a glimpse of the southern part of
Orion in all of it but it was quickly disappearing behind a rather large
explosion (yes, in space complete with flames)

So if anyone takes the 'trek' to see the 'stars' in the move, the challenge
is to try to identify known star fields.

Oh and if they show known star fields when they are supposed to be 10s of
thousands of light years or more from Earth, well then recognizing anything
also counts as points (against the movie).

PS: I enjoyed the movie and hope my comment does not distract from enjoying
the movie but that is too far astray from visual astronomy so will not
comment farther. I consider this sort of observation as an exercise in
practicing observational recognition skills while being distracted.

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