Re: Innovative paper on "Interstellar Night Sky"

From: Abdul Ahad (aa_spaceagent_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: 19 Jul 2004 23:20:27 -0700

thoovler@excite.com (Igor) wrote in message news:<d434b6c6.0407182305.63990771@posting.google.com>...
> abdul.ahad@ntlworld.com (AA Institute) wrote in message news:<adbf5bc1.0407162234.309519da@posting.google.com>...
> > I have produced a totally original paper that quantifies the
> > brightness of the interstellar night sky, something that I believe no
> > other science authority has yet done:-
> >
>
> > http://uk.geocities.com/aa_spaceagent/restricted/interstellar.html
> >
> > Is anyone aware of any other material out there in the big wide world
> > which illustrates, in reasonably straight forward terms, an effort to
> > answer this fundamental question in Astronomy: "How dark is the cosmic
> > night sky beyond the kindly influence of our Sun and its family of 9
> > planets?"
> >
> > Any feedback on my paper and all answers invited...
> >
> > AAI
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> > http://uk.geocities.com/aa_spaceagent/astronomy.html
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> > "We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We
> > are ready at last to set sail for the stars" - Carl Sagan, 1980s.
>
>
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> "Interstellar night sky" is a bit of a redundancy, isn't it? I
> imagine that it would always be night out there far from any given
> stars.

Generally yes, but not always. Interstellar means 'between the stars'
it does not specify *how far* in between. I suppose when one is
dealing with the realms of interstellar space, it is necessary to
redefine what is meant by 'day' and what is meant by 'night'. It also
depends where you draw the boundary around a star between 'stellar'
and 'interstellar'. You can be close to a star such that it still
provides you with a reasonable amount of light and still be in
interstellar space at the same time - by technical definitions.

In the future when we're going to the stars it will be a very twisted
kind of environment to be in and I suspect many other every day
Earthly concepts will need re-defining.

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