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Can You Figure Out What This Is?

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Can You Figure Out What This Is?

Post by CK-722 » Fri Jul 19, 2019 8:16 am

Not a weather map. Not a signal map. Not a cell phone related map. It IS a contour map of sorts.

We were given the link at a recent presentation at a local library. It was supposed to aid us in pursuing a new hobby.

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Re: Can You Figure Out What This Is?

Post by km1125 » Fri Jul 19, 2019 9:51 am

Looks like a depthsounder from a lake showing the contour of the bottom.



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Re: Can You Figure Out What This Is?

Post by CK-722 » Fri Jul 19, 2019 10:02 am

So our new hobby is deep sea diving, after watching Lloyd Bridges on late night reruns on an X.33 sub channel in 240 line monochrome resolution?


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Re: Can You Figure Out What This Is?

Post by km1125 » Fri Jul 19, 2019 2:08 pm

Well that, or fishing.



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Re: Can You Figure Out What This Is?

Post by kager » Fri Jul 19, 2019 10:15 pm

Looks to be a light pollution map, but of where - no idea. Perhaps the + bullseye is Detroit?

They've got a dark sky park up by Mackinaw City in Emmet County (https://www.midarkskypark.org/) in case you wish to stargaze and avoid much of what's on that map and still be on land.


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Re: Can You Figure Out What This Is?

Post by CK-722 » Fri Jul 19, 2019 11:43 pm

Yes, light "pollution", which is basically city lights. Finally figured it out when I spotted the "delta" of Saginaw, Bay City, and Midland. They are slightly separated from Flint, Pontiac, Ann Arbor, and Toledo, which are continuous with Detroit. You see Cleveland, Lansing, Toronto, Grand Rapids, and even Traverse City on this map. The link was given to us by the VP of the Warren Astronomical Society lecturer, who did a free talk at our Library. He said it was Detroit, but that we would have to go out to 29 Mile Rd. to see well. We couldn't figure out where that was, but finally figured out it was an observatory out there. We had fun looking. Saw a bunch of impressive new homes, several deer and many fireflies outside the Catholic Retreat, but was informed that trees now prevented seeing the Ren Cen from Stony Creek Metropark. We'll check out the Observatory and Dark Sky Park when we can.


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Re: Can You Figure Out What This Is?

Post by k8jd » Sat Jul 27, 2019 1:17 pm

A map of the cosmic microwave 3 degree Kelvin, background radiation ?



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