Recent content by Beth Doodle

BTW - FYI for anyone who may stumble across this in the future, I've also found out that there is currently no way to rename these custom markers. Therefore, unless a bunch of markers named Marker 1, Marker 2, Marker 3, etc. would be useful to you, using this not-ready-for-prime-time* feature...

I just found the answer - there is a way. I was fiddling around in Stellarium and wondered if there might be a keyboard shortcut to doing this so I began trying different various of using the CTRL, SHift, Alt, and the right and left mouse buttons. It turns out that Shift+left click will add a...

Just as Borg says. Like these pins in Google Earth.

I've found it very useful to be able to create your own placemarks in Google Earth and Sky. Is there a way to do something similar in Stellarium too?

Because of the amount of cross-posting going on, this is another post I missed until going back and reviewing the entire thread, so I apologize for not responding sooner. I was going by what I read on Wikipedia about the visibility of brown dwarfs which is this: "Early theories concerning the...

Everyone has been cross-posting so things have gotten a bit messy but if you read my last few posts you will see that I am not a proponent for the theory. And it's the policy of this forum to not go into this sort of stuff. So I apologize for not commenting on the content of your post, but we...

Sorry, but there have been so many posts that I've wound up cross-posting while not being aware that others have posted since the last post I was aware of. That's why I missed this post until now. As you can see from my last two posts, I answered the questions that I was asked about Niburu, but...

I know that people say they know the answers to the questions of this thing's mass, but I don't remember what that's supposed to be. As far as it's velocity, all I can recall is that it is supposed to be in a 3,600 year orbit, if that helps. What the exact orbit is and what the path within the...

I really wasn't planning on talking about this Niburu stuff beyond the setup for my question. I didn't want to go off into a conspiracy theory on a science forum, but since you ask, I'll explain it briefly. But, bear in mind that I have not memorized all the intricacies of this Niburu stuff...

At last! The drama I crave! Just kidding! I do have to admit that this is more like what I would expect, from my layman's level of understanding. I know that the direction of my questions changed and I wound up asking more later, but that's the nature of discussions. I had a number of...

I have no way of knowing that. I haven't seen any indicators of the education levels of the members that I'm conversing with. But, what if it were back-lit by the sun? I think that's what the majority of believers seem to be saying. That we can't see it because its, from Earth's perspective...

I guess because I am feeling frustrated. I thought that this would be a cut-and-dried answer. When the brown dwarf reached Jupiter, such-and-such will happen. Then, after such-and-such a time, this will happen. To those who are watching from earth, they will see such-and-such in the sky. The...

You are wrong about the appearance of a brown dwarf. Brown dwarfs are very dim and cool compared with stars and they are too cool to radiate visible light. I know that this doesn't make them invisible, no more than any of the planets in our solar system are invisible. They are visible to us...

But isn't Earth hit multiple times every day? We see shooting stars all the time. We go through meteor showers all the time. We hear of news-worthy impacts multiple times a year. We go though near-misses several times a year. There are a LOT of objects buzzing around out there in in our solar...

Wow! Really? The largest planet in our solar system blows up and and it's hardly a blip in the night sky? How disappointing! I thought that it'd be more spectacular than that. I mean, wouldn't it continue to expand? Wouldn't the sun reflect off all that stuff and make it visible from Earth...