On the night of July 16–17, 1850, Vega became the first star after the Sun to have its picture taken. James Adams Whipple and William Bond used the 15-inch refractor at Harvard College Observatory to focus Vega's light onto a sheet of silver-plated copped sensitized with iodine vapors, exposing for about 20 minutes. The anticipation they must have felt watching the image develop over hot mercury fumes must have been just as intense as our wait for the first photos to download from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Both its proximity and luminosity (40 times greater than the Sun) make it one of the brightest stars in the sky. It shines at magnitude +0.03 and for years was the standard reference for the magnitude-zero point used to calibrate the magnitude scale on photoelectric devices.
EXPLORE THE NIGHT WITH BOB KING
It was Photoshopped.
Good Morning Mr Ezekiel, that was a fascinating post; thank you!
Cool photo. I haven’t seen this before now. Other stars are barely visible in the picture, I don’t know which they are.
I love ancient mythology as it refers to the sky, our ancestors had active imaginations.
Vega is also the star that Ellie Arroway traveled to in “Contact”…
Thanks for posting.
I'd appreciate it.
I'm furious that I can't use US flag emojis because they 'disappear' and are replaced by the letters 'US' - but for some reason all other emoji pics, including that idiotic 'smiley turd' one, can be posted easily on webpages and chatrooms and appear just fine, stay visible, and NEVER go away!
Yes - I think it's a Globalist plot; but is there any way to fix it?? Thank you.
Sadly i bet someone has a picture of the sunrise or sunset back before that one
The Bigger The Fool, The Harder The Fall
Thanks, Kris! It goes a long way in explaining why Janek was the one able to figure out a way to solve those problems without the key, and he hard-wire it into the chip.
There's a good reason for everything.
... but the day is much bigger than just one emoji. World Emoji Day is a celebration of all emojis.
("Every painter has a process, but the painstaking revisions and countless tiny edits are invisible to those who only see the final product.")
An emoji (/ɪˈmoʊdʒiː/ i-MOH-jee; plural emoji or emojis;[1] Japanese: 絵文字) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. The primary function of emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from typed conversation.[2]
July 17, 1850
The first photograph of a star is taken at the Harvard Observatory. The star photographed was Vega in the Lyra constellation, the 2nd brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere.
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VEGA, THE STAR AT THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING
α Lyrae (Latinised to Alpha Lyrae) is the star's Bayer designation. The traditional name Vega (earlier Wega[15]) comes from a loose transliteration of the Arabic word wāqi' (Arabic: واقع) meaning "falling" or "landing", via the phrase an-nasr al-wāqi' (Arabic: النّسر الْواقع), "the falling eagle".[26]
Because there's always a song:
From the Bottle to the Bottom, written by Kris Kristofferson (1968)
Klein's Etymology (1987)
Klein's:
נבל ᴵ to wither, fade. — Qal - נָבֵל 1 it sank, dropped down; 2 withered, faded, wear away. — Pi. - נִבֵּל caused to wither, caused to fade. [Arab. nabīla (= corpse), Akka. nabultu (= corpse). Related to the bases בלה, בלל and נפל. cp. נבל ᴵᴵ.] Derivatives: נְבִילָה, נְבֵלָה, נוֹבֶלֶת.נבל ᴵᴵ to be foolish, be senseless. — Qal - נָבַל he was foolish, acted foolishly (in the Bible occurring only Pr. 30:32). — Pi. - נִבֵּל 1 he regarded or treated with contumely; 2 he despised, disgraced; PBH 3 he dirtied, polluted. — Pu. - נֻבַּל was despised, was disgraced. — Hith. - הִתְנַבֵּל 1 was despised, was disgraced; 2 was dirtied, was polluted. [Aram. נֽבַל (= was contemptible), Aram.-Syr. נַבֵּל (= he despised), Arab. nabal (= wretched things). Base of נָבָל, נְבָלָה, נַבֽלוּת. נבל ᴵᴵ is properly a sense enlargement of נבל ᴵ. cp. נול.] Derivatives: נִבּוּל, הִתְנַבְּלוּת.
נבל ᴵᴵᴵ to make (an animal) ritually forbidden. — Pi. - נִבֵּל he made (an animal) ritually forbidden (by improper slaughtering). — Nith. - נִתְנַבֵּל was made ritually forbidden (by improper slaughtering). [Back formation from נְבֵלָה.]
נָבָל m.n. 1 an ignoble, disgraceful person. 2 an impious or villainous person. [From נבל ᴵ.]
נֵֽבֶל ᴵ m.n. skin bottle, jar, pitcher. [Of uncertain origin. cp. נֵבֶל ᴵᴵᴵ.]
נֵֽבֶל ᴵᴵ, נֶֽבֶל m.n. harp. [Prob. derived from נֵבֶל ᴵ and so called after its orig. shape. Aram.-Syr. נַבְלָא (= harp), is borrowed from Hebrew. Gk. nabla and L. nablium, are Sem. loan words. cp. ‘nabla’ in my CEDEL.] Derivative: נִבְלַאי.
נִבְלַאי m.n. NH harpist. [Formed from נֵבֶל ᴵᴵ with suff. ◌ַאי.]
נְבָלָה f.n. 1 disgraceful folly. 2 wickedness. 3 contumely, disgrace. [Formed from נבל ᴵᴵ with first suff. ◌ָה.]
נְבֵלָה f.n. 1 corpse, carcass. 2 an animal that died a natural death. PBH 3 an animal that was not slaughtered ritually. [Formed from נבל ᴵ (= to decay, wither), which is related to base נפל (= to fall). For sense development cp. Gk. ptoma (= corpse), from IE base pet- (= to fly, fall upon), and L. cadāver (= corpse), from cadere (= to fall). For the ending of נְבֵלָה see first suff. ◌ָה.]
נַבְלוֹּת f.n. immodesty, shamelessness (a hapax legomenon in the Bible, occurring Hos. 2:12). [Formed from נבל ᴵᴵ with suff. ◌וּת. cp. נַוְלוּת.]
It's the total round-up, just how the entries roll along on page 402 [בת], the page with נְבִיאָה as the header for the first entry on that page:
נְבִיאָה f.n. 1 prophetess. 2 prophet’s wife. [f. of נָבִיא.]
"Learning hard to live with losing you."
Vega is... the second-brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus.
On the night of July 16--17, 1850, Vega became the first star after the Sun to have its picture taken.
Wed, 17 July 1850 = 8th of Av, 5610
The traditional date for the Sin of the Spies:
Spies Return (1312 BCE)
The Spies dispatched 40 days earlier by Moses to tour the Promised Land return to Israel's encampment in the desert, bearing a huge cluster of grapes and other lush fruits. But even as they praise the land's fertility, they terrify the people with tales of mighty giant warriors dwelling there and assert that the land is unconquerable.https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day.asp?tdate=07%2F26%2F2023
"You can't believe a word that people say." ~ Willie Nelson, Still Not Dead (Official Video)
(Lyres, all.)
Willie Nelson - I Never Cared For You (Live) c. 1964
("Pay heed, and disbelieve.")