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Astro Bloopers; Funny incidents from astronomers
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Jin Peng Oct 13 2008, 01:24 AM Post #1
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Hey... do you ever have your most embarassing moments in Astro? Share with us Here!

To kick start this topic, let Patrick Moore share with us this...

Patrick Moore tells this one:
It is of a fairly eminent astronomer (whom Patrick refused to name) who, one clear dark night , found himself away from his state-of-the-art instruments. Gazing up at the southern sky, he saw a star far brighter than its companions. He rushed inside for a star atlas in order that he could identify it and found that the bright object was not marked. Eager to be the first to report this supernova, he dashed off the appropriate telegram, only to find that he had made a completely independent discovery of the planet Saturn.

Who is next?

Haha...

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Jin Peng Oct 17 2008, 01:22 AM Post #2
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From: Teresa May (may@cyberstation.net)

During this years total lunar eclipse, I set my 35mm camera up on a tripod so that I could snap a few pictures of the moon. Although we didn't get to see the whole eclipse (clouds moved in) I was happy to think that we would at least have a small momento of the part we did get to see...

A couple of weeks later I decided to use up the rest of that film roll so that I could get it developed and see how my moon pictures had turned out. I went out into the yard and took pictures of the flowers, the garden and my kids to 'burn up' the remaining film. It took a LOT of pictures - TOO MANY PICTURES. "Rewinding" the film and opening up the camera to see what the problem was, I found that I had forgotten to put film in! (I'm not normally this stupid - I've had this camera for several years, and that was the first time I had ever done that...but what bad timing!)
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