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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...

There has been a significant uptick in satellite reentries in the last couple years. More space launches than any time in history, more consistent disposal of top stages, a large number of temporary smallsat rideshares, and mega constellations...

He does have a comment on that: Increased reporting or smartphone adoption. The AMS reporting platform has been mature since 2016–2018. The total event count for Q1 2026 is only marginally above recent years. The anomaly exists only at high...

Just start a new one. You can organize your thoughts and evidence from Rogers various claims in a new opening post and then others can post about it. I agree, it keeps the discussion cleaner. You can also ask Mick to split this thread with the...

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

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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...