Here is my entry for the Equinox Comp. Hey Wolfie, if (wonder of wonders) I win, my wife and I would actually prefer the Nikon Camera :) All the best to all the contestants. Cheers Duncan
@party pack don't you find it embarrassing that we can use balloons, toothpicks and a light source to show a model of reality.... And you're still trying to figure out why you can't zoom into a boat going over a horizon and bring it back into view like every flat earther once claimed? Flat earthers are a joke. I once saw a live stream of a solar eclipse... And as the sun disappeared behind the moon, the flat earther hosting the stream couldn't work out where the moon was, because he couldn't see it... It was the funniest thing I've ever seen
@@db7610 I had a look but can't find it.. If I ever find it I'll put up a link.. Some of the things they were saying was so fucking funny.. They simply don't understand the model they try to debunk
Well done. This was the first of the replies to Wolfies challenge that I have seen. I didn’t have a clue how to answer this challenge on equatorial mount so I’m looking forwards to these demonstrations.
G'day randomjasmic, As I was commenting to Michael, above, just wondering if you've made your choice for best video yet? If you have, and voted for one of the other videos, that's all good, and thanks for taking the time to watch them all. If not, and you do like mine, may I ask you to put a new comment, at the top of Wolfies page ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NlcqlpMRiiE.html) stating your vote? Thanks. Duncan.
G'day Kai, Thanks for the compliments but this was for Wolfie's March Equinox comp; he has another one that's just taken place, but I didn't have the time to do an entry. Cheers Duncan
Wolfie6020 has done that on numerous occasions Ansie. This was a competition for everyday people to have a go at, and see what the results would be and whether they match up to what actually happens in the real world, and they do. Also it was to show that the equatorial telescope mount works perfectly, with one axis of rotation, on a globe; which it can't do on a flat earth. Cheers
Good job. Regardless of how things work out with Wolfie6020 (probably resolved by now) maybe you can donate this to local children's science museum, or something similar. I think it has educational value.
Thanks Steven, Glad you liked it. Yep, the competition winner was announced a couple of days after it went up. Wolfie gave all of us runners up a consolation prize which was very nice of him. Don't have any science museums near us, but worth a thought (or passing on the concept to them). Cheers
+Duncan: You made a hand made globe! All of your explanations using the model were clear and concise. The fact that you did this after work is commendable:-)
+Duncan: Money is necessary, but using your mind for these tasks is also extremely necessary! No one can come home everyday, and sit on the couch. You took the challenge and ran with it; poverty and all. You are now in the 99.999999999 percentile who put together something from nothing. I think you won the challenge as soon as you entered! Well done.
:D The mind is a terrible thing to waste. One of the things I love doing is designing and building smallish things, tools, equipment, and experiments, from scratch. So that was one of the things that interested me about this Challenge, and the probability I would learn something; and Wolfie seems a really nice bloke, who does cool, informative, experiments, and I wanted to support him.
Thanks +Zero. Glad you enjoyed it. Having limitations, in all sorts of things, tends to produce creative thought processes. One chap does short SF stories under the word count limitations of Twitter! When I started doing leatherwork I didn't have the budget to get a sewing machine, so I learnt the old methods of rolling linen threads and hand sewing. Found I really liked it, and all the sewing I do on my shoemaking is by hand, inspired by the superb hand sewing done by master shoemakers in the Victorian Era and earlier. Cheers
Your video is the first I've watched in response to Wolfie's challenge, so I can't objectively say it is "the best" yet, but I have to say your equatorial mount was very clever to use gravity to keep the alignment. The view from that camera was also quite a surprising visual effect - watching the earth rotate under the camera while the sun was clearly stationary in the view.
G'day Michael, Just wondering if you've made your choice for best video yet? If you have, and voted for one of the other videos, that's all good, and thanks for taking the time to watch them all. If not, and you do like mine, may I ask you to put a new comment, at the top of Wolfies page ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NlcqlpMRiiE.html) stating your vote? Thanks. Duncan.
Duncan McHarg, i posted a comment on Wolfie's video for you and Delboy in the respective link comments by Wolfie. Is that not the right way to cast a vote?
Duncan McHarg, has to be a hard thing to tally up, as it seems like some of the vote/link threads have sprouted conversations. As you said I don't envy him the stress of coming up with a correct tally at the end of it all.
:) "Those in the know", know :) Wolfie wanted demonstrations of the phenomena that occurs at the equinox, as well as showing that an equatorial telescope mount, which has a single axis of rotation, can track the sun 24hrs a day. He's an international business pilot who does interesting experiments proving the earth is spherical (yes, some people need convincing) and tackles, in a very polite way, flat earth believers. The above phenomena cannot occur on a flat earth. I may have miss calculated the comp. timer and just missed the cut off. I hope he's a little flexible.
Yes, I was thinking afterward that it was probably Norway. But it was nearly 1am, 10hours before the comp. closed, and as I was otherwise booked for the next day I had no time to do more 'research' :)
It was overcast, and I'm sticking to it :) If I'd had more time, and it hadn't started raining, I wanted to use a little 1w LED torch I've made, put a couple of meters off to the side, and re-align the mini camera so I could show it tracking that, but when the 'sun' came into view each 'day', it should disappear. Oh well, best laid plans...
your welcome Duncan, yes it really was a hard choice between yourself and nick Martin, so I had to watch several times to determine if all requirements were fulfilled. I placed two 2nd place votes, one for you and the other for nick Martin. may the best video win, but that's up to Wolfee to decide. good luck !
