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meh, had 1,2,5 before any hints, hard to hide RA coords when you use seconds with decimals, should have rounded them ^^
also I thought hints were supposed to help not hinder. I thought since we were dealing with astronomy that you were referring to the fact they were both constellations. So I was just using the first letter of each constellation that the Messier objects were in :x
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Hah, funny enough, I didn't plan out the Cancer/Capricorn thing as being confusing. Afterwards, I thought, "Oh, they might get it confused with constellations...that's awesome!" So I kept it. I'm glad someone else out there is able to recognize RA and Dec coordinates though. This may have been too specific of a subject, but I was hoping to introduce people to something they normally wouldn't deal with.
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Finding the messier numbers was kinda straightforward (after the hint about the universe especially, I used wikipedia only though). I knew you like hex/binary/ascii encryption, but then I stuck on the letter/number replacement after trying whatever popped in my mind. Nice and clever by the way, thanks anyway!
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For some reason, my last topic was closed down; marked as spam. Well, this is a giveaway. Stating that clearly here.
A few ground rules:
I. I want you to fail.
II. I'll probably only give hints if there are no entries.
III. www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/?????
IV. Giveaway starts at 5 PM CST, Friday, Feb. 10 and ends 5 PM CST, Friday, Feb. 17. Solutions will be posted shortly afterwards.
V. Proof for those non-believers.
Hints:
a) We follow the right-hand rule in America. Using your right hand determines positive and negative directions. North is positive, south is negative. East is positive, West is negative
b) Cancer and Capricorn have this in common. Line of LATITUDE
c) There's an entire universe to search. Wikisky link
d) It's always in the middle of the box. Default Wikisky coordinates place a box around the object
Edit - separated hints from rules, for clarity.
In honor of my first win, I hid a second giveaway on this thread. It will end at 5 PM CST, Monday, Feb. 20. The game is Greed Corp.
Solutions:
1, 2, and 5 are star coordinates. The longitude is added to throw you off.
1 becomes 7h 03m 12.0s, -8°20'. Plugging those coordinates into the Wikisky link gives you the location of a Messier number.
The Messier numbers decode through hex to become the url.
3 and 4 are just replaced by their respective alphabetical or numerical equivalent. d becomes 4, 3 becomes c. Hence d3 = 4c, f4 = 6d. These are also decoded through hex.
Giveaway url
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