That's exactly it! You've just got to see if that next image is a beautiful spiral or some strange thing that no one has ever seen before. Since you have to go through about 50 to 100 "so-so" images between the "Diamonds", the Diamonds seem even more spectacular... Jimmy Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fran" <mcqz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 23:05 Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Armchair Galaxy-Spotting Aaarrgghhh! Must sleep. Must get up in morning. Must do just one more... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jimmy Ray" <jimmy_ray@xxxxxxx> To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 9:49 PM Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Armchair Galaxy-Spotting Hi Stan, Thanks for the FYI. Fun, very interesting and highly addictive.... Jimmy Ray (660+ classified and counting) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stan Gorodenski" <stan_gorodenski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "AZ-Observing" <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 11:05 Subject: [AZ-Observing] Armchair Galaxy-Spotting FYI. Stan If you can tell a star from a galaxy, astronomers at Portsmouth and Oxford universities in the United Kingdom and Johns Hopkins University in the United States would like you and your computer to help classify about a million images from the robotic Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope at Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico. Volunteers are invited to go to www.galaxyzoo.org <http://www.galaxyzoo.org> to see pictures of galaxies, "most of which have never been viewed by human eyes before," according to a statement on the Web site. Participants will categorize each image as spiral, elliptical, star/don't know, or mergers. The spiral galaxies are then subdivided into clockwise, anticlockwise, and edge-on. "The human brain is actually better than a computer at pattern recognition tasks like this," says Oxford astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski. Astrophysicist Bob Nichol of Portsmouth adds that getting the galaxies classified is "as fundamental as knowing if a human is male or female." -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.30/1029 - Release Date: 9/24/2007 7:09 PM -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list. -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.30/1030 - Release Date: 9/25/2007 8:02 AM -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.