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Sir Frederick William Herschel, FRS KH (November 15, 1738-August 25, 1822) was a German-born British astronomer and composer who became famous for discovering the planet Uranus. He also discovered infrared radiation and made many other discoveries in astronomy.
"He became a successful music teacher and bandleader, played the violin, the oboe and, later, the organ. He composed numerous musical works, including 24 symphonies and many concertos, as well as some church music. His music is largely forgotten today. After a career leading orchestras in Newcastle, Leeds and Halifax (he was organist at the Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Halifax, West Yorkshire), he became organist of the Octagon Chapel, Bath, in which town he was also Director of Public Concerts. His sister Caroline came to England and lived with him. His brothers Dietrich, Alexander and Jacob (1734-1792) also appeared as musicians in Bath.
Herschel's music led him to an interest in mathematics, and hence to astronomy. This interest grew stronger after 1773, and he built some telescopes and made the acquaintance of Nevil Maskelyne. He observed the Moon, measuring the heights of lunar mountains, and also worked on a catalog of double stars."
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« Reply #1246 on: 09:59:58, 04-03-2007 » |
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Brick red here. Wonderfully clear.
Reassuringly not as in Wozzeck:
Marie: Wie der Mond rot aufgeht!
Wozzeck: Wie ein blutig Eisen!
Same here. It was very dark red and a beautiful clear sky with all the stars clearly visible. So glad I saw it. I made a wish of course. Hope everyone remembered to do the same.  |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #1247 on: 10:24:33, 04-03-2007 » |
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« Reply #1248 on: 10:25:34, 04-03-2007 » |
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Ad at top of page: Bone Densitometers & DEXA
80+ Refurbished Systems In Stock Lunar Hologic Norland Parts Service
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« Reply #1250 on: 12:41:23, 04-03-2007 » |
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Ollie,
You only need to use width= OR height= (not both) and the picture will be shrunk proportionately. Sorry if my pic of the moon was too big for you but I felt it needed to be that large to actually see the moon properly - as you can imagine it's fairly tiny in the original I took.
What would be best would be to do as you do on blogs ie include a thumbnail which is itself a link to the larger version - blogger does this automatically for you but I'm not sure whether it's possible on here.
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« Reply #1251 on: 12:44:34, 04-03-2007 » |
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You can make a thumbnail a link eg  The way you do it is: (url=url-of-image)(img width=100)url-of-image(/img)(/url) with round brackets replaced by square ones and url-of-image replaced by the actual url of your picture. Of course you don't have to use width=100, you can make the thumbnail bigger if you want. If you have a vertical picture, it's often best to use height= instead of width= I'll post this in some of the other picture based threads so people will know what to do. |
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« Reply #1252 on: 12:45:45, 04-03-2007 » |
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Andy - even better! Thanks for that tip. I wasn't thinking of your moon photo but of some other things in the more entertainment-oriented threads which even the posters had regretted having to post in the available size. |
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« Reply #1253 on: 13:53:38, 04-03-2007 » |
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Ooh, that's good!  This picture was much too big last time I posted it. |
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« Reply #1254 on: 13:58:13, 04-03-2007 » |
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We are techno people now, Mary. Who said techno people are teenagers?
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« Reply #1255 on: 14:52:22, 04-03-2007 » |
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Here's another picture I took last night, towards the end of the eclipse (click on the image to see a larger version)  |
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« Reply #1256 on: 16:48:43, 04-03-2007 » |
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They are wonderful photos, Andy. I didn't watch the eclipse for long enough to see the moon turn red. I stopped watching as soon as the eclipse was total. If it had been going to turn blue, I might have waited  |
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« Reply #1257 on: 17:44:23, 04-03-2007 » |
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Back now, on my fifth laptop in just over a month - *sighs*.
Tip - keep of Packard-Bell Easynotes like the plague if you like to do quite a bit of typing. I've had three of them with defective keyboards, missing out countless letters, even whole words, as they get stuck in loops. This may have just been a bad batch of them, but I reckon the whole keyboard driver is dodgy. Managed to change to an Acer Aspire now, which is fine and very quick.
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #1258 on: 17:52:19, 04-03-2007 » |
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Yes, I know they are not too reliable, Ian. A friend had some connection inside laptop faulty. I wonder if the stationary computers are better. I can be easily fed up.  Sending your computer good vibes and long life  |
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« Reply #1259 on: 18:18:37, 04-03-2007 » |
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I think it's fairly well established now that the old concept of planned obsolescence is, like, so yesterday. Now it's quite deliberately planned that plenty of computers you buy will never work at all. They save enough by doing that that they can cover the ones they have to replace. Except that we all then have to put up with machines that sit constantly on the edge of pranging.
Oh well. They're cheap really, aren't they?
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