User talk:Desertsky
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You can leave messages at User_talk:Curps. I'll ask if I think of some questions, but in the meantime, if you like, you can just modify and add to any page you want (your English is not bad at all). It might be interesting to have pages for La Silla Observatory and Paranal Observatory, and there's already a VLT page and a European Southern Observatory if there's any details that you wish to add.
-- Curps
For now, I'm concentrating on biographies of astronomers, but maybe later I'll do some pages for observatories like La Silla and Paranal. Or perhaps some other user might get to those first, I think User:Zandperl was creating a small project for telescopes and observatories at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Telescopes.
-- Curps
I added a mention to the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names at the bottom of List of asteroids, with the ISBN number of the 5th edition. Wikipedia turns the ISBN number into a link that people can click on to buy it from various online bookstores. I'm in Montreal by the way.
For my part, I have been to France but not Germany, nor have I ever been to the southern hemisphere. You mentioned ALMA, I just noticed someone created a page for it last month (Atacama Large Millimeter Array).
I only mentioned the IIIaF because some webpages seem to reference this as part of the name of the survey. Anyway, it's probably too much detail for this article, maybe if a separate "Red Survey" page is ever created, it can go into detail about what equipment and photographic material was used. Astronomy is just an interest of mine, I'm not a professional or even amateur astronomer (near a city the conditions are not very good for observing).
At the Hans-Emil Schuster page, there is a list of asteroids discovered (I am trying to add such a list for each asteroid discoverer). I notice that some of the later discoveries are numbered but not yet named. I'm curious, are you planning to name these?
Also, do you know of any other sky surveys, such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. At some point it might be useful to create a page listing the major sky surveys historically.
Yes, the asteroids have numbers, as you can see by visiting the bottom of the page Hans-Emil Schuster. The numbers are 11789, 12211, 26074, 46514, 73640. Some of these are fairly high numbers, so perhaps the orbits were only precisely calculated recently for some of these. Especially 73640, sounds like it was only numbered this year or last (since 69230 Hermes was only recovered in 2003, and 73640 is an even higher number).
Yes, naming the sky surveys would be a big project. For now I'm still just doing some astronomer's biographies, that's plenty of work for now.
You're right, the article is long enough not to be a stub anymore. The "stub" message was just left over from the beginning, and I forgot to take it out. Curps 01:03, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)
While doing a bit of asteroid categorization I noticed that Toutatis is listed on Apollo asteroid, but that the article 4179 Toutatis itself identifies it as an Alinda asteroid. I wondered if it could be a member of both or if this was an indication of a mistake, and Curps suggested I bring the question to you since you're an expert on such things. Bryan 07:54, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Hello again,
Do you by any chance have access to IAU Circulars? In particular, IAUC 8298... it's supposed to be online at [1] but for some reason it's not available.
There's an article on transits of Phobos and Deimos I'd be interested in. I have a page on Transit of Deimos from Mars and was wondering if the times generated by JPL Horizons match what the authors of the article write.
-- Curps 08:34, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
User:Wikibob posted a link to a DVI version of IAUC 8298 to my talk page, so I was able to read it. I don't know why they don't have an HTML version, but it looks the problem is solved. Thanks in any case. -- Curps 20:25, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I think it was just an inadvertent omission that they didn't have the HTML version of IAUC 8298, since they have HTML versions of nearly all the other IAU Circulars.
I think HTML is evolving into XHTML but it's still more or less the same thing, and still standard. You only need things like PDF files if it's important to preserve exact formatting to reproduce the exact look of a printed page.
-- Curps 14:02, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Hi,
Wikipedia is published under the "GNU FDL" or "Free Doc License" (maybe you can see a button for it at the bottom left of the page). This means that other websites are free to copy the contents of Wikipedia under the terms of this license, and as a result there are many "clone" sites that do so. No doubt all-science-fair-projects.com is one of them.
If I had to guess what the problem was, it's that "Paranal" contains within it the letters "anal", which can be a dirty word in English. They were probably using a very simplistic automated filter program to censor any content which might be considered harmful for children. I hope that their webmaster has corrected this. Of course automated programs like this don't have human intelligence or judgment, but just blindly filter certain combinations of letters.
If necessary, you can just copy-and-paste the reply from all-science-fair-projects.com to my talk page, and I can delete it after reading it.
Sorry for the delay in replying. I have been a little less active recently here on Wikipedia, but I will usually check for messages at least once a week.
-- Curps 23:37, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hi,
It was user Urhixidur who made the recent changes (and he already added the information about 2018 Schuster. I wasn't active on Wikipedia for many months, but might find some time soon to work on it a bit more. -- Curps 07:32, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
T. Fujii and K. Watanabe
Sorry for the delay, Urhixidur inquired about these two guys and I didn't reply because I was away from Wikipedia for a few months. I notice you also contributed.
In any case, I finally replied.
-- Curps 01:38, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
To send a message, you can just use User talk:Curps as usual, or you can just create a page at User:Curps/Desertsky if you want. I can delete it after if necessary. -- Curps 12:55, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
OK, let me know when the names are approved.
I have been editing articles on topics other than astronomy for a while, but edited a few recently. For instance I just created flare star today. If you have any opinions about it, let me know. 1987 CA sounds like an interesting one. -- Curps 13:59, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
PS, when you leave a message, you can just type ~~~~ to leave your signature... the software automatically changes this to your username and a timestamp. -- Curps 13:59, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
By the way, someone created a Meanings of asteroid names page (and various associated pages). It might be useful to add the meanings for your asteroids. What is 2275 Cuitlahuac named for? -- Curps 14:08, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
FLARE STAR looks fine,
CUITLAUHAC there should be someting in "google"??
14:12, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)~