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Some people get published in peer-reviewed journals, others get published in the toy store. ;)

@John J. I must admit I chuckled at that a bit also. But then I realised there was some context. There was more to the conversation, basically they were talking about the Testors Model and someone had brought up that Russian satellite pic...

What I was inferring was that the number of emulsion flaws that remain after some have been removed from the data (as per your comment below) would cause a non-random distribution..... There are more stars near the ecliptic plane, therefore...

Yes, that is true. I have been making the simplistic assumption that the emulsion flaws are randomly distributed, since they are the result of random, non-astronomical processes. That may not be the case; there may be any number of...

I've never really considered there to be a "contrail season" here in the UK - they appear at any time of year as the air is almost always cold enough at cruising height here. So it's pretty much dependent on (a) whether there is enough humidity...

Your Post #518 also says... @Eburacum - I'm not sure I understand how this is done - how are emulsion flaws near stars 'eliminated from the data'? Of course, I understand why this could affect the results and conclusion. At heart the issue...

I've never really considered there to be a "contrail season" here in the UK - they appear at any time of year as the air is almost always cold enough at cruising height here. So it's pretty much dependent on (a) whether there is enough humidity...

Another possibility is that the 'Earth's shadow anomaly' is entirely consistent with the distribution of stars in the Milky Way. To get a correlation with the location of the Earth's shadow, Villaroel et al had to consider the...

@John J. I must admit I chuckled at that a bit also. But then I realised there was some context. There was more to the conversation, basically they were talking about the Testors Model and someone had brought up that Russian satellite pic...

The fundamental problem is "What is Normal"? Continue the collection of data for the next 100,000 years and see what the range of values is. Our short 'blink of an eye' lives are perhaps during an era of higher or lower frequency. How often does...

In terms of applicability to Metabunk, I wonder if more people out looking for UAPs, drones, and Chinese balloons contributes to higher counts. I've been following the AMS for about ten years and reported exactly ONE meteor. If they are getting...

That's a fair point about information loss. In practice people still fit stellar profiles on digitized plates to get an effective FWHM. It's not a perfect reconstruction, but it remains a useful and well-understood metric

As an airline guy I can tell you that March is the beginning of the "Chemtrail Season". We get the Rothschild/Soros funding in January but it usually takes until March for them to decide on mind control or sterilization, then produce and...

We apparently may be (or have recently been) in a new shower as well, M2025-F1 discovered last March. Between March 18-22, 2025, a new meteor shower from the constellation of Puppis was discovered by cameras of the Global Meteor Network. It is...

I've created this map based on MUFON reports between 1997 and 2016 along with Fitzgerald (1997). It excludes the one Kingman report (further NW towards Nevada). Notes: The lines are extremely approximate, with longer lines indicating a longer...