I noticed on our homepage we have the charges for the telescopes in the park for the science festival listed. The science festival web page has them down as...
If anyone is available to help me demount my 14" LX200GPS and help strip my RA drive (replace Bucks Gears with the original plastic gears) tommorrow (Sunday...
The Perseids meteor shower will be around maximum (110 ZHR) this friday morning. Is anyone interested in an observing trip from around 1am until dawn friday...
Hi to all Today's offering is the fairly large planetary nebula in Grus, IC5148/50. This is my first ever attempt. I've been meaning to image this object for...
Steve Crouch
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Aug 11, 2004 1:00 am
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Here's an image of M17 that I knocked up in near record time last night. Seeing conditions weren't the best and a meteor happened to go across during one of...
Steve Crouch
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Aug 11, 2004 11:52 pm
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Hi folks, There will be a big (230), complex (inserts of reminders, receipts, etc), enjoyable folding session tonight at the Canberra Planetarium and...
The sky clouded over when I was viewing them in 1999 from the UK. However, we could still see some of them through holes in the cloud, and some of the...
Hello everyone, Some of you may find this site interesting - it has high resolution images of the OWL telescope (and animations). ...
Kimberley Rawlings
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Aug 13, 2004 5:47 am
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People, Due to the poor weather conditions, we've cancelled tonight's viewing at Black Mtn. Peninsula. However (weather permitting) we will be going ahead with...
Andrew & Ursula White
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Aug 14, 2004 7:10 am
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All, Despite the dodgy looking weather, we're going ahead with tonight's Science Festival viewing at Black Mountain Peninsula! We had lots of interest last...
Andrew & Ursula White
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Aug 18, 2004 6:55 am
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Hi Andrew I went over last Saturday night (around 7:30) but no one was there (I subsequently found out it was cancelled). I was going to come tonight but have...
Morland, John
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Aug 18, 2004 7:09 am
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Greetings. We have a night organised for the 01 September 2004 (Wednesday fortnight), at Fadden Primary School. There will be approximately 80 children and...
nicole kennedy
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Aug 18, 2004 9:41 pm
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Nicole I should be able to help for this one Cheers Steve...
Steve Crouch
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Aug 18, 2004 11:27 pm
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Hi folks, This month's Deep Sky Night will be held at Black Mountain Peninsula, in conjunction with the Science Festival activities, weather permitting. My...
Hi After seeing Dave Herald's recent images of Uranus and Neptune, I thought I would try the same in colour. Both images came out pretty well although they...
Steve Crouch
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Aug 26, 2004 12:36 am
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It is proposed that some work be done on the CAS hive-shaped dome this Sunday, 29th, commencing 9 a.m. Plan of attack: Install three concrete pads for tripod. ...
Hi I belatedly discovered that GUIDE does outer planet satellite ephemerides so I used this to identify the satellites on my Uranus picture. If anyone cares...
Steve Crouch
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Aug 27, 2004 12:07 am
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Just had a request from a teacher for instructions on making a simple spectroscope. As usual, somebody had already done and webbed the instructions. Looks...
Vince Ford
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Aug 27, 2004 3:53 am
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... I've made one of these and I believe that the lines you see are not spectral lines but CD tracks. The sun is the only light bright enough to test it on, ...
For those that don't subscribe to the SBIG list, check out this image of the double cluster in Perseus by Robert Gendler. ...
Steve Crouch
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Aug 28, 2004 1:39 am
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I also made one, and it does seem to work to a reasonable degree. By that I mean it shows the continuous spectrum of sunlight as well as the emission spectrum...
Just a reminder, folks. If you're not busy Wednesday night, we'd love your company at Fadden Primary School. Nicole ... From: nicole kennedy To:...
nicole kennedy
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Aug 30, 2004 9:22 am
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Steve, thanks for offering - at this stage you are one of one. I'm talking to the contact for Fadden this morning to see if he wants to go ahead with just you...
nicole kennedy
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Aug 31, 2004 8:18 pm
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Kimberley Rawlings
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Sep 6, 2004 12:12 am
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Hi folks, Journal folding is scheduled for 8 p.m. tonight at the Canberra Space Dome, somewhere in Dickson. As four of our regular folders are out of town, it...
... Asteroid close encounter / Brisbane sundial added ... From Paul Floyd's Astronomy & Space Website www.paulfloyd.id.au ... Asteroid close encounter...
... t>he on-line University of Arizona Earth Impact Effects Program ... closing ... This sort of false pseudo-accuracy leads me to believe I would be annoyed...