Haley's Comet and other celestial occurances

[BFMF]

Remember that it appeared in 1066 folks! Something happened that year... Um... Er... Oh well.

umm yeah, I remember. One of my ancestors went and conquered the whole lot of you

[microlight]

Hey Andrew, that was almost a thousand years ago! Remember Agincourt!

No invasions since then ...!!

Except maybe Glenn Miller, the Beach Boys or Puff Daddy.



(Microlight is a Proud Brit!)

[Smoke2much]

The French did briefly invade Wales at the end of the 18th Century.  They were frightened off by the Welsh women.  Nuff said.

And just as a completely random piece of useless information, my family can be traced back to 1066, apparently a very distant ancestor was a knight who came over, he was granted land in Kent and died in 1087 LOL.

As for producing a Halleys comet effect, it shouldn't be too hard the Stars file has 1500 stars logged with location in the sky and brightness.  It also has the "Big Dipper" properly known as the plough.

I'm sure that HC could be added as a constellation, after all most of the time it looks like a very bright star...

Will

[microlight]

Will,
I'm actually Welsh, but I agree with your perspective! (No offence to all you other Welsh people out there!) My wife is an English rose, so perhaps that underlines it.

Hey, I'd never heard of the French invading Wales?! Perhaps the locals were studying the sheep too intently ...

Sorry if this is an 'in' joke to the international community, but we Welsh like our sheep. Perhaps I could model some in GMAX...

[Smoke2much]

Although the Norman attack of 1066 was the last successful invasion of Britain, European powers made other efforts, some more serious than others, to rule the British. The attempts of Hitler (the most recent would-be invader), Napoleon, and Philip II of Spain are all well known. Yet while each of these tyrants posed a serious threat, none of them actually managed to put troops ashore on the British mainland. The last actual invasion, which took place in southwest Wales in 1797, seemed threatening enough at the time, but in the long view of history it now appears almost farcical.
In 1797, Napoleon was indeed a general, but he was campaigning in central Europe and had virtually nothing to do with the attack on Britain authorized by the French Directory (as the revolutionary government was then called). The Directory gave the go-ahead to Colonel William Tate, an Irish-American officer, to land troops in Wales. The expedition was hardly a serious attempt to conquer Britain, however, since only 1200 troops were sent, and there seems to have been no plan for a follow-up force.


It is believed that the Directory viewed this "invasion" both as a way to scare the British and to keep the troublesome Tate occupied with matters far from Paris. In any case, the attacking force landed a little west of the town of Fishguard, and the site of their landing is commemorated in the stone obelisk at left. The invasion force proved to be a hapless bunch, many of the warriors being little more than released jailbirds. After a looting spree, some were too drunk to fight, and a few of the more lovable invaders spent their time playing with a Welsh child. Within two days, the invasion had collapsed, and Tate's force surrendered.
The most remembered Briton who resisted the invaders is Jemima Nicholas, who captured twelve soldiers single-handed with her pitchfork, and who is depicted in a mural commissioned for the bicentennial of the campaign. One lasting effect of the invasion came from the terror that it inspired in London: the Bank of England issued one-pound notes to forestall a financial panic, and paper currency has been common in Britain ever since.

There you go.

Will

[Travis]

[quote]As for producing a Halleys comet effect, it shouldn't be too hard the Stars file has 1500 stars logged with location in the sky and brightness.

[Smoke2much]

Its a notepad type document:

[Star Settings]
Intensity=230
NumStars=1535
Constellations=0

[Constellations]
;Big dipper
Constellation.0 = 509,497,483,456,447,416,417,456

[Star Locations]
Star.0=1, 0, 8, 23.265, 29, 5, 25.58, 2.06
Star.1=2, 0, 9, 10.695, 59, 8, 59.18, 2.27
Star.2=3, 0, 9, 24.659, -45, 44, 50.79, 3.88
Star.3=4, 0, 10, 19.257, 46, 4, 20.21, 5.03
Star.4=5, 0, 11, 34.437, -27, 47, 59.12, 5.42
Star.5=6, 0, 11, 44.014, -35, 7, 59.17, 5.25
Star.6=7, 0, 13, 14.154, 15, 11, 0.80, 2.83
Star.7=9, 0, 19, 25.674, -8, 49, 26.14, 3.56
Star.8=10, 0, 20, 4.251, -64, 52, 29.25, 4.23
Star.9=11, 0, 25, 45.056, -77, 15, 15.40, 2.80
Star.10=12, 0, 26, 17.030, -42, 18, 21.81, 2.39
Star.11=13, 0, 30, 2.362, -3, 57, 26.39, 5.72

I guess you just tag them on at the end.....

Will

[Travis]

Okay, that makes just a little bit of sense.  I guess I'm going to have to figure that doc out by trial and error.  So what else is new?

[Smoke2much]

good luck mate.  Post your results and for goodness sake don't forget to back it up first.....

Will

[Travis]

LOL!  Thanks for the encouragement, Will.  I will post my results, and yes, I will backup.

[Scottler]

1066 was the Battle of Hastings.


<----history nerd.