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<blockquote data-quote="JUPITERASC" data-source="post: 597525" data-attributes="member: 6273"><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Here's just how faintly that is <img src="https://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/styles/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":smile:" title="Smile :smile:" data-shortname=":smile:" /></strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Not long after its discovery in 1781, Uranus was found to have strange movements </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>that could only be attributed to another body. </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>Neptune's discovery in 1846 somewhat accounted for the orbit, </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>but there were still discrepancies </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>that led scientists to conclude yet another planet existed.</strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>In 1894, businessman Percival Lowell built Lowell Observatory to study Mars. </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>In 1905, he turned the telescope toward the search for the elusive Planet X, </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>though he died before the new planet could be found.</strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>Clyde Tombaugh was hired in 1929 and joined the search for the missing planet. </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>The telescope at the observatory was equipped with a camera </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>that would take two photographs of the sky on different days. </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>A device known as a blink compactor rapidly flipped back and forth between the two photographs. </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>Stars and galaxies essentially remained unmoving in the images, </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>but anything closer could be visually identified by its motion across the sky. </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>Tombaugh spent approximately a week studying each pair of photographs, </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>which contained over 150,000 stars, and sometimes nearly a million.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>18 February 1930, Clyde Tombaugh noticed movement across the field of <em><u>a pair of images taken a month beforehand</u></em>. </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>After studying the object to confirm it, </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>the staff of Lowell Observatory officially announced the discovery of a ninth planet on 13 March 1930</strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">These are the TWO PHOTOGRAPHS taken by a purpose-built expensive POWERFUL TELESCOPE</span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">that allowed Clyde Tombaugh to notice movement in the skies</span></span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><em><u></u></em></span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><em><u></u></em></span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><em><u>Note the ARROW</u></em></span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><em><u>on EACH of the two separate photographs</u></em></span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><em><u>highlighting what Clyde Tombaugh noticed</u></em></span></span></strong></span></p><p></p><p></p><p> <img src="http://i.space.com/images/i/000/026/290/i02/Pluto_discovery_plates.jpg?1360959870" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><u><em>Above image is of Original plates from Clyde Tombaugh's discovery of Pluto in Lowell Observatory Archive. Credit: Lowell Observatory</em></u></strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Clearly, the miniscule light reflected by dwarf planet pluto </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">allows observation SOLELY </span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">when using expensive equipment housed in a purpose built observatory</span></span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">consisting of a powerful telescope fitted with a camera</span></span> <img src="https://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/styles/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":smile:" title="Smile :smile:" data-shortname=":smile:" /></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">FURTHERMORE</span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><em></em></span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>without those two still photgraphs, </em></span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>taken at the LOWELL OBSERVATORY, ARIZONA</em></span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>neither Clyde Tombaugh nor anyone else</em></span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>could possibly have noticed dwarf planet pluto</em></span></span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>The orbit of dwarf planet pluto is unusual in several ways. </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>It is inclined more than 17° from the ecliptic</strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>The ecliptic is the plane in which the orbits of the planets lie. </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>The orbit is also more eccentric (far from circular) </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>than any other planetary orbit. </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>At times, Pluto is closer to the Sun than the orbit of Neptune.</strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>The fact is, the 'light' reflected by dwarf planet pluto is entirely dependent on distance from the sun </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>on an elliptical orbit that is far from sun for more than two hundred years </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>i.e. </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>Every 228 years, dwarf planet pluto's orbit brings it closer to the Sun than Neptune </strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>but only for a period of 20 years <img src="https://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/styles/smilies/sun.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":sun:" title="Sun :sun:" data-shortname=":sun:" /></strong></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>No one is attempting to state that viewing the skies with unaided vision</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>without artificial aids of any kind 'is somehow more privileged or better'</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>INSTEAD</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>HIGHLIGHTED FACTS </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>ARE SIMPLY</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>that the LOWELL OBSERVATORY was not in use THOUSANDS of years ago</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>when astrology began</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>hence "naked eye" viewing was the sole viewing available when astrology began</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>AND</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>for thousands of years</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>astrologers used "naked eye" viewing</strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Hence it is misleading to imply that the LOWELL OBSERVATORY was in use 'during traditional astrology's heyday'</span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">because</span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">the LOWELL OBSERVATORY was established only in 1894 in Arizona</span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>whereas 'Traditional Astrology' is typically</em><em> defined as using techniques developed prior to 1700 </em></span></span></strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JUPITERASC, post: 597525, member: 6273"] [COLOR=Navy][B]Here's just how faintly that is :smile: Not long after its discovery in 1781, Uranus was found to have strange movements that could only be attributed to another body. Neptune's discovery in 1846 somewhat accounted for the orbit, but there were still discrepancies that led scientists to conclude yet another planet existed.[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=Navy][B]In 1894, businessman Percival Lowell built Lowell Observatory to study Mars. In 1905, he turned the telescope toward the search for the elusive Planet X, though he died before the new planet could be found. Clyde Tombaugh was hired in 1929 and joined the search for the missing planet. The telescope at the observatory was equipped with a camera that would take two photographs of the sky on different days. A device known as a blink compactor rapidly flipped back and forth between the two photographs. Stars and galaxies essentially remained unmoving in the images, but anything closer could be visually identified by its motion across the sky. Tombaugh spent approximately a week studying each pair of photographs, which contained over 150,000 stars, and sometimes nearly a million. 18 February 1930, Clyde Tombaugh noticed movement across the field of [I][U]a pair of images taken a month beforehand[/U][/I]. After studying the object to confirm it, the staff of Lowell Observatory officially announced the discovery of a ninth planet on 13 March 1930 [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3] These are the TWO PHOTOGRAPHS taken by a purpose-built expensive POWERFUL TELESCOPE that allowed Clyde Tombaugh to notice movement in the skies[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3][I][U] Note the ARROW on EACH of the two separate photographs highlighting what Clyde Tombaugh noticed[/U][/I][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/COLOR] [IMG]http://i.space.com/images/i/000/026/290/i02/Pluto_discovery_plates.jpg?1360959870[/IMG] [COLOR=Navy][B][U][I]Above image is of Original plates from Clyde Tombaugh's discovery of Pluto in Lowell Observatory Archive. Credit: Lowell Observatory[/I][/U] Clearly, the miniscule light reflected by dwarf planet pluto [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3] allows observation SOLELY when using expensive equipment housed in a purpose built observatory consisting of a powerful telescope fitted with a camera[/SIZE][/FONT] :smile: [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3] FURTHERMORE [I] without those two still photgraphs, taken at the LOWELL OBSERVATORY, ARIZONA neither Clyde Tombaugh nor anyone else could possibly have noticed dwarf planet pluto[/I][/SIZE][/FONT] The orbit of dwarf planet pluto is unusual in several ways. It is inclined more than 17° from the ecliptic The ecliptic is the plane in which the orbits of the planets lie. The orbit is also more eccentric (far from circular) than any other planetary orbit. At times, Pluto is closer to the Sun than the orbit of Neptune. The fact is, the 'light' reflected by dwarf planet pluto is entirely dependent on distance from the sun on an elliptical orbit that is far from sun for more than two hundred years i.e. Every 228 years, dwarf planet pluto's orbit brings it closer to the Sun than Neptune but only for a period of 20 years :sun:[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=Navy][B]No one is attempting to state that viewing the skies with unaided vision without artificial aids of any kind 'is somehow more privileged or better' INSTEAD HIGHLIGHTED FACTS ARE SIMPLY that the LOWELL OBSERVATORY was not in use THOUSANDS of years ago when astrology began hence "naked eye" viewing was the sole viewing available when astrology began AND for thousands of years astrologers used "naked eye" viewing [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3]Hence it is misleading to imply that the LOWELL OBSERVATORY was in use 'during traditional astrology's heyday' because the LOWELL OBSERVATORY was established only in 1894 in Arizona [I]whereas 'Traditional Astrology' is typically[/I][I] defined as using techniques developed prior to 1700 [/I][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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