Screen Saver Questions
28 Feb 2005 1:28:03 UTC
Topic 188113
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Why does the ring of neutron stars appear to move relative to the constellations?
There are references to running the screen saver application in a separate window with user control over the display. Has this capabililty been released? If so, how do you access it. I'm running Windows 2000 Professional.
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> Why does the ring of neutron stars appear to move relative to the
> constellations?
>
> There are references to running the screen saver application in a separate
> window with user control over the display. Has this capabililty been
> released? If so, how do you access it. I'm running Windows 2000
> Professional.
>
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/starsphere.php
Click on Work Tab High light the running work unit.
Click on show graphics....
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> Why does the ring of
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> Why does the ring of neutron stars appear to move relative to the
> constellations?
It should not, and i did not notice it on my PC. IS it shifting further and further or just a wobbling around abit to the left and then back to the right ?
the latter can be simply due to low resolution visualising
> Click on Work Tab High
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> Click on Work Tab High light the running work unit.
> Click on show graphics....
With older "stable" clients (including the currently recommended 4.19) it's:
Click on Work Tab
Right-click the running work unit
Chose "show graphics" from the popup menu
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> > Why does the ring of
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> > Why does the ring of neutron stars appear to move relative to the
> > constellations?
> It should not, and i did not notice it on my PC. IS it shifting further and
> further or just a wobbling around abit to the left and then back to the right
> ?
> the latter can be simply due to low resolution visualising
>
The constellations on the celestial sphere appear to rotate around the pole star. The tilt of this axis appears to be somewhat different from time to time, but it doeasn't appear to vary a whole lot from vertical.
On the other hand, I would have thought that the ring of neutron stars would be displayed around the celestial equator but, instead, their plane is inclined to the celestial equator and this inclination appears to vary widely: much more than the variation of inclination of the celestial polar axis.
My video display is set at 1152 x 864 x 24. I wouldn't call that low resolution visualizing.
> > > Why does the ring of
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> > > Why does the ring of neutron stars appear to move relative to the
> > > constellations?
> > It should not, and i did not notice it on my PC. IS it shifting further
> and
> > further or just a wobbling around abit to the left and then back to the
> right
> > ?
> > the latter can be simply due to low resolution visualising
> >
> The constellations on the celestial sphere appear to rotate around the pole
> star. The tilt of this axis appears to be somewhat different from time to
> time, but it doeasn't appear to vary a whole lot from vertical.
>
> On the other hand, I would have thought that the ring of neutron stars would
> be displayed around the celestial equator but, instead, their plane is
> inclined to the celestial equator and this inclination appears to vary widely:
> much more than the variation of inclination of the celestial polar axis.
>
> My video display is set at 1152 x 864 x 24. I wouldn't call that low
> resolution visualizing.
>
OK, I think I have figured it out. The ring of neutron stars is in the plane of the galaxy, i. e. in the Milky Way, not in the plane of the celestial equator, i.e. the zodiac.
> OK, I think I have figured
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> OK, I think I have figured it out. The ring of neutron stars is in the plane
> of the galaxy, i. e. in the Milky Way, not in the plane of the celestial
> equator, i.e. the zodiac.
Yeah screen saver visualizes galaxy plane to you and in the direction where you see most neutron stars is the center of our galaxy :)
As to the zodiac it is associated with the plane of earth rotation around the Sun
> Yeah screen saver
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> Yeah screen saver visualizes galaxy plane to you and in the direction where
> you see most neutron stars is the center of our galaxy :)
Or spiral disk of Galaxy? Or not?