Requiem for Relativity

Object #2 isn't on the Aladin plate.

I found Barbarossa on the Aladin plate for Object #3. It appears as a streak in Right Ascension, 5.5" toward 4 o'clock from the catalog position. A moon is 8.9" away along a line inclined 14deg to the lines of Declination.

I first saw Barbarossa & moon last night between 11PM & midnight, here at this same computer monitor in the Iowa State Univ. Parks Library computer & children's book room, #CRS0020285. Then my main worry was that they were stars; only today did I realize, for sure, that it's Barbarossa.

The length (roughly 5" in, presumably, 10hr) and orientation (roughly parallel to Declination lines) of the streak made by Barbarossa, are consistent with the retrograde motion of Barbarossa near opposition (due mainly to Earth's motion) at its distance of 330 AU, namely, 10"/day. The moon appears significantly streaked also, though less, but along the same direction.

Object #4 is missing from the Aladin plate (obtained over the internet from VizierR at Strasbourg). All eight nearby objects with 17.2 < R1,R2 < 20.3 were identifiable near (though often 1-2" N) of catalog position (though three of these might have been parts of the background face-on barred spiral galaxy).

On the Aladin plate for Object #2, the nearest catalog object(s) (excluding another of high, i.e., "999", positional uncertainty) is USNO-B 0824-0279158. There are three catalog objects very close together, which seem from their catalog data to be really one or two objects. Allowing for summed flux, this object(s) has 17.9 < R1,R2 < 18.2, and appears as one object on the Aladin plate very near its catalog position. Almost nothing lies within 40" of the catalog position of Object #2.

Likewise for Object #3, there is USNO-B 0820-0274037 with 17.8 < R1,R2 < 19.0, exactly at catalog position.

The Aladin server, formerly quick, now has become too slow to use at all. I suppose that either people who look at this messageboard, or people to whom I immediately emailed my messages posted here, are using it to confirm my claims.