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I'm reading through it. One thing that jumped out at me is the note - "stars within a few degrees of the horizon are to all intents and purposes unobservable" - 11 degrees is quite a substantial portion which are implied not visible, should a quantifier regarding latitudes further north be added? --GilderienChat|
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I have had a tough time looking for sources discussing this aspect much on many stars/constellations - I guess most of us are city-dwellers with buildings and trees and crap significantly obfuscating the horizon, let alone extinction (and telescopium is pretty faint). If I can see anything else sourceable I will addCas Liber (
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And a bit more of a review...
Images - the two that are currently there are nice and also appropriately licensed - it might be nice to have one or two in the stars and deep sky objects sections, which are currently looking a bit bare.
"allowing the margin of error in their distances just overlaps," is confusing, if I am understanding it right would something like "however, the uncertainty in their distances overlap, so blah blah" work?
"common proper motion with (and is hence gravitationally bound to)" - from my own knowledge, and having examined the source, I'm not sure the "hence" should be there - objects can share common proper motion without being part of the same system). — Preceding
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"result of a merger between a helium- and carbon-oxygen white dwarf" - this plural, or not, is I think potentially confusing. Would it be correct to have an "a" before the word carbon? — Preceding
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Casliber: please accept my apologies for not reading through the article in time for the
Wikipedia:Peer review/Telescopium/archive1. I've put some suggestions below; several of the comments I made about
Pictor would also apply, but I won't repeat those here.
I wouldn't refer to "HR 6875" as a name - rather, it's a catalogue number.
With Delta Telescopii, if you're saying "However, the uncertainties in their distances just overlap", then it would be better to give the distances and their uncertainties, along with the probability that they are co-located. I would be rather surprised if it wasn't possible to tell if they were a binary system or not nowadays, TBH.
"Telescopium was later much reduced in size by Francis Baily and Benjamin Gould." For a non-aficionado on astronomy, this comes rather vague. Please clarify. ALso, the word created was changed to named. The constellation (or pattern) already existed; it was only a matter of identifying and naming it. — Preceding
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Origins of Telescopium word
"Its name is a Latinized form of the Greek word for telescope." This strikes me as a bit confusing. The word "telescopium" was coined from Greek roots but was the original word ever only used in Greek before it spread to other languages or was it coined from Greek words but used in Latin, the then language of scholarship, from the first. That would make it a Latin word not a Greek word.
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11:28, 29 October 2015 (UTC)reply
As a comparison, the word telephone also is derived from the Greek words but was first invented by a Frenchman for a different sort of instrument in 1828. I have seen it described as from the French word "1835, "system for conveying words over distance by musical notes" (devised in 1828 by French composer Jean-François Sudré (1787-1862); each tone played over several octaves represented a letter of the alphabet), from French téléphone". Telegraph is also said to come from the French word for the semaphore type system invented in the late 18th century, even though it too has Greek roots.
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Is this right?
Otero, Sebastian Alberto (11 November 2011).
"RX Telescopii". AAVSO Website. American Association of Variable Star Observers. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
Watson, Christopher (3 May 2013).
"NSV 12783". AAVSO Website. American Association of Variable Star Observers. Retrieved 2 July 2014.