Requiem for Relativity

To save people looking for the vimeo link to the video vimeo.com/25743686

This morning I realized that many true bright stars are present in the CFHT video too, though the CFHT video has deleted many stars which, judging by the Subaru video, ought to be visible. What true stars there are in the CFHT video, are disguised by the addition of many false stars, many of which are very bright and exaggerated in color.

The frauds at the CFHT didn't even bother to move the positions of the false "stars" to imitate Earth's rotation. With a ruler and magnifying glass, I checked the distance on my screen, at 03:37:29, 40:01, 43:09, 44:42 & 46:03. All five times, the distance between the lower of the two bright, light blue "stars" near the right edge of the screen, and the bright white light on the ground in the lower right corner very near the right edge, was 74 +/- 0.5 mm. The distance between the true Alpha Persei and Alpha Cas, which really is about 25deg, on the screen measured 62mm. So, in 8min34sec, that "star", which lies near 45N Decl and therefore should move upward about 8.6/4*cos(45)*cos(20) = 1.4 deg, actually moved less than 0.5mm * 25deg/62mm = 0.2 deg. On the other hand, most or all of the true stars I identify below, move in about the right direction, and in about the right amount, which due to their northern Declination, is somewhat less than 1.4*62/25 = 3.5mm.

Here is some help finding the true stars:

In each of the frames of the "Kanoa" "vimeo" video (which I am using today) that I found functioning this morning on the DiscoverMagazine/BadAstronomy site, can be seen some, or often all, of the five main stars of Cassiopeia: beta, alpha, gamma, delta & epsilon. These are seen near the top of the frame and slightly to the left of center. The bright orange "star" and the bright yellow "star" in Cassiopeia are false.

Also on this video, there is one bright orange false "star" in the righthand half of the frame, midway between the top & bottom of the frame. To the left and slightly above this "star", are some other "stars" which at first glance look like Perseus, but which really are mostly false "stars". The bright white "star" slightly above the center of the frame, is false, as is the bright white "star" slightly to the right of the center of the frame (the true alpha Per is slightly above this latter bright white false "star"). On many frames, the true, relatively dim, eta, gamma & alpha Persei are seen, in the correct relation, of position and brightness, to each other and to Cassiopeia (I used a ruler to measure distances and estimate angles on the screen).

Whatever words they might use to shirk their responsibility, professional astronomers all are paid largely through taxes and therefore all are public officials (in the Roman usage, even the assistant streetpaver is a public official: he has authority to decide the details of his work and perhaps to redirect traffic). For the public officials of the Canada France Hawaii Telescope, who by definition are affiliated with the state of Hawaii and whose observatory operates in the U.S., to lie about what is on this video, by painting in false stars, is a crime.

Now, though effectively delayed by five days (Sunday to today, Friday), by their crime, I'm going to try to determine the parallax of the bubble.

Determination of parallax of bubble

From my parallax estimate, the bubble distance at 03:42:41, probably was greater than 27km. My limiting factor was the small size of the Subaru video on my screen though I used a common kind of magnifying glass with an embedded high power lens. Another important source of error was difficulty in interpolating the slightly irregular appearance of the bubble edge.

I examined frames of the CFHT video at 03:42:48 and the Subaru video at 03:42:41. I found the distance from Delta Cas to the bubble, along the line from Gamma Cas to Delta Cas. From the rate of change of this distance in the CFHT video, I could correct the CFHT distance to the time of the Subaru video. Because the intersection point with the bubble, is 45deg up on the bubble, I must multiply the parallax by cos(45), and because the bubble is roughly NE whereas the 700m separation of CFHT from Subaru is E-W, I must multiply by cos(45) again. It happened that I found a distance of 540km, but this is not significant.

My biggest error is my measurement of the Gamma Cas to Delta Cas distance on the Subaru video; I estimate this error to be 0.3mm standard deviation, which amount would give a parallax equivalent to 27km distance.

Since the bubble was not observed by the numerous astronomical, aeronautical and other people and cameras in California, it must have been concealed by Earth's curvature there. California & Hawaii are 40deg apart; a bubble 10deg from Hawaii and 30deg from California, tall enough, (sec(30)-1)*6400km = 990km, to be just under the horizon as seen from California, would be nine times taller than needed to be seen above the horizon at Hawaii, and would appear roughly 45 deg in size at Hawaii. So, the bubble was smaller than 990km but probably bigger than 27km.

Luna, Mars (?) and the Bubble

For June 22, 2011, the JPL Horizons ephemeris (airless model, sea level, apparent accounting for lightspeed) says that moonrise was exactly due east (azimuth 90), at a location 2deg41'01" latitude north of JPL's standard coordinates for the "Mauna Kea Observatory". This line of latitude is 299km N of "Mauna Kea Observatory". Also, moonrise was exactly due east, at a location 3deg00'33" longitude east of "Mauna Kea Observatory". This line of longitude is 315.5km E of "Mauna Kea Observatory" as measured along the common line of latitude. The closest approach to Mauna Kea, of the curve, on which Luna rose due east on June 22, thus was approx. NE of Mauna Kea and approx. 307/sqrt(2) = 217km distant. The precise easterly moonrise apparently potentiated the event.

Hawaii does not use Daylight Saving Time. So, the event began somewhat earlier than 03:39:43 Hawaii Standard Time, according to the time stamp on the first CFHT video frame which shows the bubble (Honolulu Star Advertiser version which I cite in my July 19 post); the Subaru video yields a similar time. This is 13:39:43 GMT (i.e. UT). To find the start time of the bubble, I measured the horizontal diameter of the bubble on four early frames (A, B, C, D) of the Honolulu Star Advertiser version of the CFHT video. Extrapolating linearly (noting that the diameter is nearly a linear function of time for the entire range of seven bubble diameters I checked), in turn through AB, AC, AD, BC & BD, gave start time estimates ranging from 03:38:31 to 03:39:01, mean 03:38:45 +/- 5.5sec SEM. This is about 1min43sec later than Marsrise, at the point on the special curve (i.e. the curve of due east moonrise) at azimuth 51 from Mauna Kea (see below).

Marsrise (i.e. elevation = 0) at Mauna Kea was 13:46 UT (JPL ephemeris, airless model, standard coordinates of Mauna Kea Observatory, 204deg31'40.1"E, 19deg49'34.0"N, elev. 4212.4m). At the coordinates of Mauna Kea but at sea level, Marsrise is 13:41 UT.

Now let's find Marsrise at sea level on the curve where Luna had risen exactly due east a few hours earlier. The midpoint between the endpoints (204deg31'40.1"E, 22deg30'35.0"N) and (207deg32'13.1"E, 19deg49'34.0"N) is approx. (206.0324E, 21.1679N). (This point is approx. 217km NE of Mauna Kea.) Marsrise at this midpoint (azimuth about 46.5 as seen from Mauna Kea) is 13:37:20 UT. At the southern endpoint (azimuth about 90 as seen from Mauna Kea) of my line segment described above, Marsrise is at 13:33:35 UT. Linear interpolation along this line, gives Marsrise at 13:37:02 UT, at the point at az. 51 from Mauna Kea.

Now I can pause and magnify the Subaru video 1000%. By looking at the earliest possible bubble frame, and using the rough estimate that the Subaru horizon camera was about the same altitude as the base of the CFHT dome buildings which appear on the Subaru camera's horizon, I can extrapolate the center of the bubble downward at roughly the 60deg slope of its travel, to find that the azimuth of rise is about halfway between the azimuths of Beta and Rho Persei.

The USNO online Celestial Navigation Data give 41.8deg azimuth for Mirfak (Alpha Persei) for the time of the frame and the latitude & longitude of the Subaru Telescope moved to sea level. From an appropriately oriented star chart I see that the midpoint of Beta & Rho Per would have about 9deg greater azimuth, i.e. 51deg.

Approx. 14sec later, according to the JPL, Marsrise occurs 0.1deg farther W and 0.1deg farther N. That is, Marsrise moves along this curve at about 0.1*sqrt(2)*111km/14s = 1120m/s. In my July 19 post I had estimated, for a bubble at about this distance, that the bubble moved to the left only about 1/8 this fast.

For the hypothesis of this post to be true, there must be yet another factor that causes a bubble to form at Marsrise at some point where Luna recently has risen due east. Otherwise, bubbles would have formed sequentially at every point on the curve where Luna rose due east.

From new observations of Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin), the Minor Planet Center has published new orbital parameters. There has been a fundamental change; instead of a perihelion near Jupiters orbit, the comet will have an aphelion at Mercurys orbit! Of course the new comet does not belong to the class of sungrazing comets, but it will be visible in images from the coronagraph installed on the space observatory SOHO.

spaceobs.org/en/tag/c2010-x1-elenin/

so DR Joe do you think this comet and the "missile" test have a connection ???
I would really like to know your thought on this comet if you know any thing about it
Thanks

MARX

MARX