Another great opportunity for spending, Steve. :-) The Nagler, with a mere 82 degree apparent field, already needs the observer to look around in the field, ...
People, I heard a promo yesterday for a segment on local ABC radio 666 for an interview with Dr Brian Schmidt. It's on tomorrow night (Sunday) at 9:00pm (I...
AND..... he is OUR guest speaker in November! Kim :-)...
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Aug 4, 2007 10:02 am
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Journal folding is on tonight (yes, a week early). Fortunately, we have lotsa folding volunteers – the whole committee! Cheers, John H -- Internal Virus...
EXTRAORDINARY AUGUST MEETING !! COME AND HEAR ROB MCNAUGHT TALK ABOUT THE DISCOVERY AND STUDY OF THE COMET OF THE CENTURY! THURSDAY 9TH AUGUST (this meeting...
Rawlings and Ford
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Aug 5, 2007 9:08 pm
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Well not exactly. The operator was in Theodore but the telescope was R Jay Gabany's 20" Ritchey Chretein in New Mexico. The data was gathered yesterday...
Thanks Jim. Interesting idea but I think his processing skills are so far superior to mine that it wouldn't demonstrate anything useful. As an example,...
Hi Steve, You aren't kidding his RC-20 does an amazing job and his processing doesn't seem to have hurt it much either! Thanks for a feast of fascinating shots...
... Dear all, Attached are last week's photos of the new Skymapper Telescope to be located at Siding Spring Observatory. There's a webcam on the 2.3m telescope...
Rawlings and Ford
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Aug 16, 2007 7:09 am
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I like the pictures. I particualrly like the second one where they appear to be building not only a new observatory but also a Stargate right next to it. I...
People, At risk of stating the obvious...it's cloudy!! The BoM site says... Forecast for Saturday evening Partly cloudy with the chance of a shower or two....
This is nothing special but hopefully the first stage in a colour image which will have to wait until next month now. This is a fairly deep image as the...
Hi Steve, a great looking image in the makings, I look forward to the addition of colour to your image. You have captured some nice detail in the galaxy and...
For those that use GoogleEarth - download the latest version! It has a new option to display the sky - showing constellations, NGC objects, animation of the...
Hey! This is absolutely fabulous!! Not only so much to play with but oh so easy and fun to use!! And it's been plastered all over the news today..... let's...
Rawlings and Ford
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Aug 23, 2007 9:14 am
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People, Looks like the weather is finally co-operating!! So tonight's public viewing is ON. We'll be setting up at the usual spot at the end of Black Mountain...
People, CAS don't actually have anything planned for tommorrow's lunar eclipse (taking a spell after the Science Festival), however I note that our friends...
Have a look at http://tinyur1.com/2bdjkp . It makes me wonder how long we'll have to wait for a manned Mars landing, and even if I'll live to see it. AB...
Sorry, the link I gave in the previous message was wrong. Here is the right one: http://tinyurl.com/2bdjkp . (The subtle difference of an "el" instead of a...
Thanks Albert - a very good read :-) _____________________________________________ From: CADG@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CADG@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Albert...
Hi, I haven't seen any eclipse photos posted to the group, so I'll offer these... http://members.tip.net.au/~vello/le070828/all.htm taken with a 100mm f/9...
It is always a challenge to keep track of events coming up in the near future that are worth observing. A relatively new program called OccultWatcher is...
