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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208
    edited July 2013

    ps1borg said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    twinkl twinkl leetl star


    who has the leetl dipper in their hemisphere? or was it the big dipper? Orion's belt is out there somewhere

    There is a little dipper?

    Yes there is! They are each part of larger constellations called Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. In fact, Polaris, the North Star, is at the very end of the handle of the Little Dipper. It's not really bright, in fact it's about 48th in the list of brightest stars. It was not always, nor will it always be, the North Star. The Earth's axis wobbles. It takes thousands of years, of course...it's a slow wobble.

    Dana

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Iron Giant is on TV, waah is cropped; was cinemascope at the movies

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    twinkl twinkl leetl star


    who has the leetl dipper in their hemisphere? or was it the big dipper? Orion's belt is out there somewhere

    There is a little dipper?

    Yes there is! They are each part of larger constellations called Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. In fact, Polaris, the North Star, is at the very end of the handle of the Little Dipper. It's not really bright, in fact it's about 48th in the list of brightest stars. It was not always, nor will it always be, the North Star. The Earth's axis wobbles. It takes millions of years, of course...it's a slow wobble.

    Dana

    Dont think we see that here, being North and all :o)

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    twinkl twinkl leetl star


    who has the leetl dipper in their hemisphere? or was it the big dipper? Orion's belt is out there somewhere

    There is a little dipper?

    Yes there is! They are each part of larger constellations called Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. In fact, Polaris, the North Star, is at the very end of the handle of the Little Dipper. It's not really bright, in fact it's about 48th in the list of brightest stars. It was not always, nor will it always be, the North Star. The Earth's axis wobbles. It takes millions of years, of course...it's a slow wobble.

    Dana

    Dont think we see that here, being North and all :o)

    Please note that I edited my post...it takes thousands of years, not millions, for the Earth's wobble to complete one circle.

    You are in the Southern Hemisphere. You must enjoy the Southern Cross, then. And the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds! That must be cool.

    Dana

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    twinkl twinkl leetl star


    who has the leetl dipper in their hemisphere? or was it the big dipper? Orion's belt is out there somewhere

    There is a little dipper?

    Yes there is! They are each part of larger constellations called Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. In fact, Polaris, the North Star, is at the very end of the handle of the Little Dipper. It's not really bright, in fact it's about 48th in the list of brightest stars. It was not always, nor will it always be, the North Star. The Earth's axis wobbles. It takes millions of years, of course...it's a slow wobble.

    Dana

    Dont think we see that here, being North and all :o)

    Please note that I edited my post...it takes thousands of years, not millions, for the Earth's wobble to complete one circle.

    You are in the Southern Hemisphere. You must enjoy the Southern Cross, then. And the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds! That must be cool.

    Dana

    Night sky is spectacular in the southern deep desert, you see the Southern Lights sometimes glowing purple and green. Here in Melbourne there are a few feeble stars on an occasional clear night. The ISS is visible though, very bright in the early evenings

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208
    edited July 2013

    ps1borg said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    twinkl twinkl leetl star


    who has the leetl dipper in their hemisphere? or was it the big dipper? Orion's belt is out there somewhere

    There is a little dipper?

    Yes there is! They are each part of larger constellations called Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. In fact, Polaris, the North Star, is at the very end of the handle of the Little Dipper. It's not really bright, in fact it's about 48th in the list of brightest stars. It was not always, nor will it always be, the North Star. The Earth's axis wobbles. It takes millions of years, of course...it's a slow wobble.

    Dana

    Dont think we see that here, being North and all :o)

    Please note that I edited my post...it takes thousands of years, not millions, for the Earth's wobble to complete one circle.

    You are in the Southern Hemisphere. You must enjoy the Southern Cross, then. And the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds! That must be cool.

    Dana

    Night sky is spectacular in the southern deep desert, you see the Southern Lights sometimes glowing purple and green. Here in Melbourne there are a few feeble stars on an occasional clear night. The ISS is visible though, very bright in the early evenings

    You can't see the Magellanic Clouds? I understood that they were visible to the naked eye. They are actually small irregular galaxies, once thought to be companions to our own Milky Way galaxy. But they are just passers-by.

    Dana

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited July 2013

    ...light pollution, particularly if there is any haze in the air, can wash things like that out easily. Even in Portland (when it isn't bleedn' cloudy) it is difficult to see much other than the major constellations. When I used to go to the coast for kite festivals, it was breathtaking to go out at night and walk up the beach a bit to where it was really dark. So many stars that it was almost difficult to pick the known constellations out.

    ...apparently the reminder bots to this thread took a holiday as well (just got done playing catch up on the Realistic Renders...NOT thread.

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...light pollution, particularly if there is any haze in the air, can wash things like that out easily. Even in Portland (when it isn't bleedn' cloudy) it is difficult to see much other than the major constellations. When I used to go to the coast for kite festivals, it was breathtaking to go out at night and walk up the beach a bit to where it was really dark. So many stars that it was almost difficult to pick the known constellations out.

    ...apparently the reminder bots to this thread took a holiday as well (just got done playing catch up on the Realistic Renders...NOT thread.

    I've been getting the bots all night.

    The first time I saw the Milky Way was when I went to New Hampshire. Up there in the White Mountains, away from cities. In fact, there's a rest area on the pass on the Kancamagus Highway (Rte. 112) called the Pemi Overlook...stop there at night and turn the car's lights off and you are in total darkness. Look up and the sky is full of stars. It's like a blanket of sparklies. Even with binoculars it's still covered with stars. It's amazing! sometimes the vastness of it scares you. Maybe that's my paranoia of ETs, I don't know. I'm not really paranoid. But being alone there in the wide open, it can be startling. You feel so small, and so alone. Even though Diane was with me. It is really beautiful, though.

    And with that, I will say good night.

    Dana

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Wouldn't know a Magellanic cloud if one rained on me :>D WE live right in the city centre here, lots of lights on everywhere you look at night. Oh noes, haven't rendered a realistic for ages...

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    Wouldn't know a Magellanic cloud if one rained on me :>D WE live right in the city centre here, lots of lights on everywhere you look at night.

    That's too bad. Do you ever get out to the open spaces?

    Dana

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,099
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    twinkl twinkl leetl star


    who has the leetl dipper in their hemisphere? or was it the big dipper? Orion's belt is out there somewhere

    There is a little dipper?
    Ursa Minor.
    If you can see the big dipper in Australia, here's how to locate the little dipper.

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,099
    edited December 1969

    That reminds me, I have to look at the stars more often on clear nights. Haven't done that in a long time.
    It always gives me a comforting feeling somehow.

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited December 1969

    All this talk about the big and little dipper constellations reminded me of an excerpt from a story/comic I read that involved them (Just one chapter, not the whole comic)

    'The one written with the largest characters is the Celestial Dragon constellation. This is the so-called Big Dipper. The celestial dragon always stares at one point, and looks as if it might take flight at any time. The star at the point is Polaris, the north star.

    Polaris is the unmoving star. Basically, it is the face of the unmoving lord of night, Acala, an embodiment of Mahavairocana. Though it goes without saying, Mahavairocana is an avatar of the sun that renders youkai powers ineffective. It is said that the celestial dragon is plotting to eat Acala to control the sky day and night. According to the records, it is prophesied that after a few thousand years the celestial dragon will move.”


    Also interesting is one character was trying to explain what shooting stars were to the other two characters, and because of the world they live in he had to explain them as scales shed by the 'Celestial Dragon' that fell to the Earth. (He knows they're not, but they wouldn't have understood the real explanation ^^; )

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Wouldn't know a Magellanic cloud if one rained on me :>D WE live right in the city centre here, lots of lights on everywhere you look at night.

    That's too bad. Do you ever get out to the open spaces?

    Dana

    More likely to be out on the water somewhere than outback in the deep bush :o)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Something shiny like this...

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited July 2013

    ps1borg said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Wouldn't know a Magellanic cloud if one rained on me :>D WE live right in the city centre here, lots of lights on everywhere you look at night.

    That's too bad. Do you ever get out to the open spaces?

    Dana

    More likely to be out on the water somewhere than outback in the deep bush, we have an awesome bay here :o)

    How did I double post that? *headdesk* Anyhow, the halftones look OK even if the colours are a bit naff

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    twinkl twinkl leetl star


    who has the leetl dipper in their hemisphere? or was it the big dipper? Orion's belt is out there somewhere

    There is a little dipper?

    Yes there is! They are each part of larger constellations called Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. In fact, Polaris, the North Star, is at the very end of the handle of the Little Dipper. It's not really bright, in fact it's about 48th in the list of brightest stars. It was not always, nor will it always be, the North Star. The Earth's axis wobbles. It takes millions of years, of course...it's a slow wobble.

    Dana

    Dont think we see that here, being North and all :o)

    Please note that I edited my post...it takes thousands of years, not millions, for the Earth's wobble to complete one circle.

    You are in the Southern Hemisphere. You must enjoy the Southern Cross, then. And the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds! That must be cool.

    Dana


    wanna sees southern cross!

    it was one of Celine's spells in Star Ocean2,

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited July 2013

    PA OVERRDE "going down, party time, my friends are gonna be there too oo" 10 hours to my next chocolate martini. "doan wanna wait ... wanna know ... will it be"


    trying to foo for the pronounciation of mjolnir. there's a few interprepettations out there on the interconnectOnets.

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    twinkl twinkl leetl star


    who has the leetl dipper in their hemisphere? or was it the big dipper? Orion's belt is out there somewhere

    There is a little dipper?

    Yes there is! They are each part of larger constellations called Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. In fact, Polaris, the North Star, is at the very end of the handle of the Little Dipper. It's not really bright, in fact it's about 48th in the list of brightest stars. It was not always, nor will it always be, the North Star. The Earth's axis wobbles. It takes millions of years, of course...it's a slow wobble.

    Dana

    Dont think we see that here, being North and all :o)

    Please note that I edited my post...it takes thousands of years, not millions, for the Earth's wobble to complete one circle.

    You are in the Southern Hemisphere. You must enjoy the Southern Cross, then. And the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds! That must be cool.

    Dana


    wanna sees southern cross!

    it was one of Celine's spells in Star Ocean2,

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    pretty!

    :D


    some southern comfort. :)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited December 1969

    ..speaking of celestial events. Next Month from the 9th through the 13th is the Perseid Meteor shower (the best nights are the 11th & 12th during the peak). Of course while best viewed away from the city, there are still enough bright ones that can be seen even through the light pollution we get here.

    Best viewing times are after midnight. Unfortunately this is primarily of a Northern Hemisphere event with a frequency of 50 or more per hour (20 or so per hour in the southern hemisphere).

  • Testing6790Testing6790 Posts: 1,091
    edited December 1969

    I have a complaint! There are no complaints!

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited July 2013

    ...OK here's one.

    As I figured it, for me to switch to G2F to recreate my child/teen characters will cost over 100$ (part of it for a expansion that hasn't been released quite yet).

    ...and then, I only get girls as I have to wait until G2M comes out for the boys.

    Also, they're releasing both a new muscular/athletic G2F female figure (Gia) and Girl6 before G2 male figure.

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  • Testing6790Testing6790 Posts: 1,091
    edited December 1969

    Ugh, that sucks. That's really where almost all of my resentment for G2F comes from. I have to rebuy stuff.

  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    edited July 2013

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...OK here's one.

    As I figured it, for me to switch to G2F to recreate my child/teen characters will cost over 100$ (part of it for a expansion that hasn't been released quite yet).

    ...and then, I only get girls as I have to wait until G2M comes out for the boys.

    Also, they're releasing both a new muscular/athletic G2F female figure (Gia) and Girl6 before G2 male figure.


    There are freebie morphs to make G2F into a male.

    Ghastly's
    http://www.sharecg.com/v/69998/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/Andy-Rogenous-morph-for-G2F
    http://www.sharecg.com/v/70027/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/Aint-No-Lady-G2F-Morph
    http://www.sharecg.com/v/69931/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/Gen2-Fem-Carpenters-Dream-Morph

    All 3 of RAMWolf's packs:
    http://www.sharecg.com/v/70257/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/RAMWorks-Morph-Pack-for-Genesis-02-Female
    http://www.sharecg.com/v/70333/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/RAMWorks-Body-Head-Morph-Pack-for-Gene-02-Female
    http://www.sharecg.com/v/70380/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/*UPDATE*-RAMWorks-Body-Head-Morph-Pack-Gene02-F

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited July 2013

    at the risk of being zwapped by the glow stick of destiny, jarvis said: you don't havve to reinvest in the new shiny if what you have is arleady working for you.


    /*jarvis opens bag of holding, jump thru portable hole, avoiding impact*\

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  • WoolyloachWoolyloach Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    De-cloaking for...

    Olaf and the Giant Chicken - Part 4


    Olaf looked into shield-maidens face
    Screwed his courage to the sticking-place
    "I've sought you near and sought you far
    From cities of legends to mead-filled bar
    I've a question to ask of you
    And tell me honestly and true
    Do you know the village that took a lickin'
    From a deadly giant chicken?
    This chicken I seek to find and fight
    And rid the world of his hideous might!"


    Shield-maiden frowned, a face so sad
    Poor Olaf started to feel quite bad
    "Oh warrior great", the shield-maiden said
    "I know this beast, towards it I head
    To take revenge on the monster great
    The thing has filled me with mighty hate
    Southward soon I will go turn
    When next I find it, to kill it I yearn
    I'll rid the world of it's awful clucking
    And administer it a serious plucking!"


    Olaf said "Well, with this horrible weather
    We'd be better off if we traveled together
    When we find the thing, then we can decide
    Who gets to fight and who has to hide
    It's true you're strong, with swwrd sharp
    But on this point please let me harp
    If you're fighting off one attack
    It's god to have someone that's watching your back"
    Shield-maiden thought, then nodded away
    "You have a point, so sure, it's OK."


    So off the two did march and tramp
    Till setting Sun make the pair make camp
    Olaf brought wood, enough for a pyre
    Shield-maiden drew flint and sparked a fire
    Soon the air was bright and camp-fire warm
    Olaf felt that they were safe from harm
    Olaf said "Mighty shield-maiden may I ask your name"?
    She then tuned to Olaf, and proudly declaimed
    "Vibeke I am, and a warrior bred
    I live with my sword, and the ground for my bed."


    "I come from the Dane-Mark, a land far and fair
    Our peoples are happy, without any care
    The Summers and green, but the Winter is cold
    And we've many warriors quite brave and bold."
    Olaf he nodded, "Of the Danes I do know
    A hearty pole with no fear of snow
    Many proud warriors, so brave and true
    Amazing the deeds I've heard they can do."
    Vibeke then nodded. "We Danes never fail
    Come sit for a bit, and I'll tell you my tale".


    (to be continued...)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    ps1borg said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Wouldn't know a Magellanic cloud if one rained on me :>D WE live right in the city centre here, lots of lights on everywhere you look at night.

    That's too bad. Do you ever get out to the open spaces?

    Dana

    More likely to be out on the water somewhere than outback in the deep bush, we have an awesome bay here :o)

    How did I double post that? *headdesk* Anyhow, the halftones look OK even if the colours are a bit naff


    sometimes world needs a bit of naff
    looks good.

    tee hee if it was blue could be called Circus Smurfus
    or green could be called Cirkus Hulkus
    greco/roman letters ?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited July 2013

    Misty Whisky said:
    at the risk of being zwapped by the glow stick of destiny, jarvis said: you don't havve to reinvest in the new shiny if what you have is arleady working for you.


    /*jarvis opens bag of holding, jump thru portable hole, avoiding impact*\


    ...a lot of this seems from work Zev0 is doing to create age morphs/shapes for G2F They look really nice and may very well preclude having to wait for a G2 Kid/G2 Teen figure.

    But then there are what I refer to as the "new" limitations of the G2 platform in that features which were once included now have to be purchased separately, such as the ability to autofit legacy figure clothing and transfer legacy maps.

    Were it not that Sickle Yield will be releasing a G2F to Genesis clone (which is fully modelled) I'd almost give up, as most new clothing content releases tend to be for G2F/V6.

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  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    edited July 2013

    If you keep going for reasons not to use her, just don't use her. lol

    I haven't bought squat for her unless it was a Genesis item that came with a duplicate for her as well (or vice versa, whatever), and the only morphs I have for her are RAMWolf's. G2F Fuzzy makes anything cuter. lol

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