On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

From Kevin Jardine over the last couple of days:

https://twitter.com/galaxy_map/status/1194015578081677314

https://twitter.com/galaxy_map/status/1194965988632080384

For anyone wondering what the phrase "Ticket to Ride" has to do with games.

Canadian Film and TV Unions' relations with the federal government and the political parties trying to run it:

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2019/07/25/canadas-film-and-tv-workers-launch-support-campaign-ahead-of-octobers-federal-election.html

TESS' first year of operations as a planet-hunting observatory in orbit:

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/07/26/tess-concluding-first-year-of-observations/

What's up with the O-Train Confederation Line?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/lrt-ready-trial-run-now-what-1.5224647

More later...

Not that kind of bar, though...but this one's interesting in its own right because we live not too far from it, allowing for the distance scale!

https://www.universetoday.com/142877/gaia-mission-is-mapping-out-the-bar-at-the-center-of-the-milky-way/

For my astronomy-minded friendlisters: Bailer-Jones or StarHorse for your GAIA DR2-derived interstellar distance measurements?

https://t.co/1136TDgARC

Looking at this entry on Wikipedia at the moment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Georg_Wilhelm_von_Struve

That's the profile they currently have on the guy whose binary-star catalogue listings got prefixed as "Σ" when cited in articles in Astronomy, Sky and Telescope and Deep Sky Quarterly going back to my teenage years. I don't pretend to know all the star catalogues that have ever been published, and I doubt that I ever will. Even in this age of Wikipedia and SIMBAD.

But, while re-reading My Enemy, My Ally once more, I note that one of the "landmarks" of the story is a system catalogued as "Σ 285 Trianguli". And I find that SIMBAD doesn't really keep track of which stars were known by Struve catalogue numbers these days for whatever reason(s), but if there's a way to nail down which catalogues' listings the star is known by these days...?

Oh. If you're interested, here's the catalogue prefixes that Wikipedia currently knows to keep track of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_astronomical_catalogues

The most recent one had been crashing immediately upon start-up on my other MacBook (Not Pro), so this might be a serious improvement.

https://twitter.com/GaiaSky_Dev/status/1115608904728113155

Well, that explains a few things about several people.

Good "previously on..." sequence design and execution.

Interesting that they chose to reduce the distance between Talos and Starbase 11. It makes sense, looking back at "The Menagerie" and its "Kirk and 'Mendez' chase the Enterprise' sequences, mind you, but reducing that distance to two lightyears was still a surprise in the moment to this owner of copies of Star Charts and both editions of Stellar Cartography...

Okay, this is the map I thought I saw in the first act of "Point of Light". I want to say those are Federation Outposts Delta-4 through Delta-8 along the UFP-Klingon border per Star Charts and Stellar Cartography...?