Sometimes you don't need a lens

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Sometimes you don't need a lens

Fox — 10/14/2006 6:06:41 PM (archived)

Conditions dark enough to see the Milky Way with the naked eye, beyond our neighboring stars, may be enough to trigger, through perspective, the conceptual leap that "the sky" is not the decorated interior surface of a sphere of some arbitrarily distant radius. I had the pleasure of watching that transforming realization emerge in a new friend a couple of weeks ago... as close to an epiphany as I may ever see in anyone other than myself.

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Educatiing The Public On Astronomy And Space - Jeff F - 10/12/2006 2:56:08 PM
- re: Educatiing The Public On Astronomy And Space - Delbert - 10/12/2006 6:15:08 PM
  - I think that people who don't know if a planet is closer or further than a star... - alcaray - 10/13/2006 3:51:10 PM
    - A sense of place - Fox - 10/14/2006 8:38:45 PM
    - re:A book to start - Raoul - 10/13/2006 5:58:49 PM
      - re: A book to start - Fox - 10/14/2006 9:13:52 PM
    - re: I think that people who don't know if a planet is closer or further than a star... - Jeff F - 10/13/2006 4:30:54 PM
      - Sometimes you don't need a lens - Fox - 10/14/2006 6:06:41 PM
        
        ...but a very long baseline helps - Robert - 10/14/2006 7:40:20 PM
        
        Extreme parallax - Fox - 10/14/2006 8:57:34 PM
      - Hands-on space science - Laurie Street - 10/13/2006 11:15:58 PM
      - Not how I learned. - alcaray - 10/13/2006 5:20:04 PM
        
        re: Not how I learned. - Jeff F - 10/13/2006 6:02:48 PM
        
        I did not mean to insult or discourage your efforts. - alcaray - 10/13/2006 6:19:51 PM
        
        re: I did not mean to insult or discourage your efforts. - Jeff F - 10/13/2006 7:15:11 PM
  - re: Educatiing The Public On Astronomy And Space - Jeff F - 10/12/2006 6:56:46 PM
- re: Educatiing The Public On Astronomy And Space - Robert - 10/12/2006 4:42:48 PM
- re: Educatiing The Public On Astronomy And Space - Lance - 10/12/2006 4:22:58 PM
  - Participation - Robert - 10/12/2006 4:40:35 PM
    - re: Participation - Jeff F - 10/12/2006 5:23:08 PM
      - Outreach participation - Ken Murphy - 10/13/2006 12:54:49 AM
        
        re: Participation - Raoul - 10/13/2006 6:05:49 PM
        
        Bright and shiny baubles - Robert - 10/14/2006 7:31:46 PM
        
        rephrasing the question - Robert - 10/13/2006 5:42:02 PM
      - re: Participation - Robert - 10/12/2006 6:30:17 PM
        
        re: Good idea and an example - Raoul - 10/13/2006 6:12:19 PM
        
        Yes, like that - Robert - 10/14/2006 12:22:20 AM
        
        re: Debating a question - Raoul - 10/14/2006 9:12:43 PM
        
        re: Yes, like that - DWC - 10/14/2006 4:49:57 PM
        
        We'd get lost in the crowd on MyHorde - Robert - 10/14/2006 7:23:31 PM

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