Re: possible fraud on sci.astro.research?

<pjwholm@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:199433e7-6fdd-4dec-ab4f-4a783201f9a6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The following letter has just been sent by me to the moderators of
sci.astro.research using the email addresses as given in
http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/sar/charter.html


Dear Mr. Hardcastle, dear Mr. Thornburg,

In a few moments, I will post the following open letter to you in
group sci.astro:

On Saturday May 17th I have posted the article following below under
the title of "unnamed star cloud?" to sci.astro.research, and
according to Google I did it correctly. And Google never failed me on
that since it exists.

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This might sound presumptuous, but just in case it isn´t:
On Google Sky I have run into something about which I believe that it
might exist, even though I have never heard about it before. And since
I don´t know how to call it, I have provisionally dubbed it "Holm´s
Cloud" (pardon, it´s just for internal use). It appears to me as a
detached piece of the Milky Way containing some ISM. Even though it
also appears to me as characterized more by the presence of that ISM,
than by an increase in the stellar density. It is, of course, best
visible at low magnification (ca. 20+º field). Below are my
annotations:


Holm`s Cloud SE of Alpha Trianguli is visible on adjacent POSS plates.
A NS running seam between plates can be seen cutting through star
images at
RA 2h00m32.2s Dec +28º16´22.9",
RA 2h00m31.6s Dec +27º47´44.4", and
RA 2h00m31.6s DEC +27º41´01.1".
NGC 784 is inside, close to its northern limit.
HD 12402 is at its center
(RA 2h02m08s +28º24´01s).
Huge and elongated in the EW direction. Dimensions are approx. 3º EW
and 2.3º NS. Possibly contains dark nebulae at
RA 2h05m06s Dec +28º07´35",
RA 2h04m40s Dec +27º59´02", and
RA 2h04m02s Dec +27º56´02" (in decreasing size, and the latter one
being suspiciously round). And also at
RA 2h02m43s Dec +28º30´35",
RA 2h03m04s Dec +28º32´14",
RA 2h02m53s Dec +28º40´19", and
RA 2h02m47s Dec +28º43´09".


What makes me believe that this is not an artefact, is that is extends
across parts of two POSS plates.
I have never heard about this structure, so I´d like to have some
feedback on this issue.

Thanks
Peter Holm

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In the article "Martin Hardcastle" of the 20th of August 2004 in
sci.astro.research it is said that: "Only postings which very
obviously contravene the moderation principles set out in the charter,
which can be found at http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/sar/charter.html ,
(by being excessively irrelevant to research in astronomy or
astrophysics, speculative in content, or abusive) will be rejected,
and if this happens the poster will be notified by e-mail."

As you know, you have not notified me by email about the rejection of
my article. And today you have posted the article by GSS, so it is
clear that you must have seen mine.

Besides, I have seen nothing in the charter which contravenes the
posting of my article on s.a.r, but rather to the contrary.

So please be so kind and either post my article to sci.astro.research
or explain to me why you didn´t.


Thank you for your kind attention

Wednesday, 21 of May 2008

Peter Holm



So much for my letter to the moderators.
Meanwhile, I start to wonder about whether it might not be the closest
dwarf galaxy to the Milky Way......?

Peter

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I have also had problems getting through to sci.astro.research. Rather than censorship, the problem appears to be misconfiguration of a moderated group by giganews or btinternet. Unfortunately the big companies that feed news couldn't give a f.f., and have refused to fix it, so the only way I can post to sar is to e-mail my posting to the moderator. That does indeed work.

Why the reply indents are not working today is another question. Hence my method of distinguishing OP from reply.

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Mike Dworetsky

(Remove pants sp*mbl*ck to reply)

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