Mars disappears behind the trees at my house at 11:30 PM now. It sure is fleeting. I'm going to have to switch to early evening observing to catch more of...
Jeff Medkeff will be giving a presentation on "Robots, Comets, and Earth-Shattering Rocks" this Friday night at the ERNC. This is a change from the previously...
I'll have the "Baader Maxbright Bino" here in 5 days probably. I'll be bringing the "Baader Mark V Giant Binocular Viewer" to ERNC tomorrow night, we can try...
Hi Mike, You are an expensive friend to have. You get me interested in all sorts of astro stuff. I contacted Bob at Alpine Astronomical about purchasing a...
... If you can get set up with binos that will work properly with your scope, the first time you sail across the moon in stereo vision, you'll forgive me. ... ...
here's a graphic that might help http://www.scopenews.com/images/sct_examples.gif I stole the nice SCT graphic from a celestron manual and drew some lines on ...
Reminder from the Calendar of AlaskanAstronomy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AlaskanAstronomy/cal Robots, Comets, and Earth Shattering Rocks Thursday December...
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Reminder from the Calendar of AlaskanAstronomy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AlaskanAstronomy/cal Deep Sky Wonders of the Night Sky Friday December 2, 2005 ...
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Of course this has been changed... "Jeff Medkeff will be giving a presentation on "Robots, Comets, and Earth-Shattering Rocks" this Friday night at the ERNC....
I won't be making it to the ERNC this Friday but Mike, if you are interested in borrowing my Denk-II so you can do a bake-off between your Baader and the...
Is Andy the guy who used to present in 2003 and had the Coulter?? ... From: "Christopher Erickson" <cerickson@...> To: <AlaskanAstronomy@yahoogroups.com> ...
Nice views of Saturn through the little scope tonight. I am finally getting to push it hard and see what it can do. Five inches of aperture isn't a terrible...
I just got back after spending a week in Chester, England (24+ hours of flying....and jet lag tells me it's ok to be wide awake at 5am). Boy, if you think we...
Hi everybody, My name is Edgar Castro, I am from Guatemala, Central America. Just dropping a line to say hello. I am 49 years old, 20 being an amateur...
Hello Edgar, Welcome to the group! I am sure you will get a kick out of reading about our cold weather woes. You latitude is enviable to us ~61 deg North...
Thanks, Scott! There are some things I envy from you too, like the auroras, which we can never see from here. Sure must be cold for me there, but I wonder How...
... Not quite straight over, but pretty high, you can see this mount is pretty close to maxed on being pointed upwards: http://www.scopenews.com/ap900qmd.jpg ...
wow!? You have a lot of circumpolar constellations too, right? From here Ursa Major, disappears in the mountains after some hours... ... Not quite straight...
More factoids :) These 29 Messier objects never set from Anchorage, Alaska: M3, M56, M33, M37, M57 (ring), M36, M38, M13, M29, M32, M94, M31, M110, M63, M34,...
... It would be fun by the way to have a "Circumpolar Messier Marathon" one evening with a variety of scopes and binoculars. We could grab all 29 with almost...
Of course the down side of 61 degrees North latitude are: No stars in the summer. "Land of the Midnight Sun" After a while the aurora becomes just another...
I understand, however, I have never seen the Midnight sun, it must be a wonderful spectacle! I have never seen an aurora, moving like a curtain in the sky,...
Hi..... I just signed up here in the last couple of days too. Also like you, I'm not in Alaska. ;-) But, I'm trying to find out all that I can since my cousin...
You are right! Yes, I have heard aurora hiss and crackle. It has to be very quiet to hear it. Very surrealistic experience. "Never touched snow" What an...
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