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German pages about "irrelevant articles"). In my opionion, WP has its best days behind, and if people appear to be unwilling to explain basics and to solve frequent misunderstandings (that individual RGB values may exceed unity is far beyond anything that is "self-explanatory"), but rather try to repel people outside the ivory tower, then this simply adds nails to WP's coffin. By the way, an increasing number of my colleagues has made similar experiences.--
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SiriusB, if you're not able to understand color from what's in WP, then you probably should get some good books, and work it out. After that, maybe you'll be in a position to improve the articles, to make them more clear to novices like yourself. You seem unable to take input from those of us who
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It is more accurate (marks should quite precisely represent positions in starts of years), also tries to be nicer with a gradient fill... Hopefully I am right assuming B component is the nearer one when in periaster and not vice versa (!) Also it highlightes some of the important dates referred in
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Sorry, but you didn't even explain how to feed the out-of-range RGB values into the gamma formula, but instead answered by repeating what has caused the question. This not the way one keeps people working in WP (I am indeed thinking about leaving, but this mostly due to increasing problems in the
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287:... the 7 parameters generate XYZ coordinates of the real orbit, this rotated by angle of periapsis, this rotated by inclination, this rotated by angle of ascending node... all relative to plane of the sky. These are shown in classical XY graph. 142:
are experts in color, so it's probably best not to make a lot of more noise on the article talk pages. Maybe we're just too deep into it to explain it clearly. But do come back if you find something in sources that can improve the article.
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Btw. I found out that maximum apparent distance announced to 2056 must be a mistake. According to data published on Knowledge and not conflicting with all the other observed data, It will definitely happen around Jan 2060...
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Your version looks good! You are assuming correctly that B will be nearer to the Sun than A around periastron. Currently, 2011/2012, A is closer to us. This can be clearly derived from the paper I citet. In the
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The calculated data based on values published on the Alpha Centauri page show maximum ephemeridis radius in 2060 (aslo seen from the picture - yours too, where you just need to count dots)
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There are a lot of policies and guides to read, but I highly recommend reading over those first. If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my
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article (apparently nearest in Jan/Feb 2016; Periastron in January 2035 - btw. an important date in lives of the extraterrestrial species, if any ;))
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software the radial positions are, or at least were when I last looked at it, wrong, i.e. flipped signs. I have even submitted a bug report (bug
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However, I believe all the dates should always be related to the "event apparency" - "they" would have a different calendar anyway :-D
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I have made another improvement (hopefully you will see it as a better version) and uploaded it here:
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Ah, now I see that the big event of periapsis happens in 2030 "their time" - not in 2035...
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Thanks. Actually, I have been at German Knowledge for about one year, thus I m not
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Thank you for identifying and expressing the issue better than I could.
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If you think it is better now, please replace it. Thanks.
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I can completely agree with your alteration in this diff.
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Thanks for all the images based on BLAST and WE data
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