Attached is my light curve from the video. Very clearly a double star, with the secondary being occulted before the primary. The star is not a known double...
Hello everyone, All members and their guests are invited to a very special, 'one-off' celebration dinner to commemorate CAS' 40th birthday! Teatro Vivaldi...
Rawlings and Ford
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May 2, 2009 12:27 am
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Dave Gault & Hristo Pavlov (from Sydney) will be staying overnight with me. Since we have to eat some-time, we will be having a pre-graze BBQ/ Anyone is...
See link below. Dave Herald Canberra, Australia ... From: "Joseph Cali" <Joe_Cali@...> To: <seml@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 6:27 PM ...
Thought I would mention... Over the last couple of nights I have had some success (at long last) with recording mutual eclipses and occultations between moons...
Thanks Dave, I also recorded the Europa/Ganymede transit. Now I have to figure out how to process and display it... cheers, Anthony ... -- Anthony Wesley Smart...
The best solution to analysing the video is some freeware called Limovie, downloadable from: http://www005.upp.so-net.ne.jp/k_miyash/occ02/limovie_en.html This...
I'm not sure if this is worth posting or not but I was interested to see how the moon looked in Hubble palette colours. While I was waiting for something else...
Steve, The Mare Tranquillitatis basalts contain more titanium, and give it a different color. The same effect has been observed by spacecraft. Also notice that...
I have just got off the phone talking with Ken Jordan. Byron Soulsby passed away around 9pm last Sunday. Apparently he was not feeling very well that evening...
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May 11, 2009 10:52 pm
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Hi to all I made a few improvements to the moon picture I posted yesterday including adding a mouse over showing some common feature names and the Apollo 11...
Hi all, thought I'd post on here and see if there is any interest in my Mel Bartels stepper control system. I've just recently up graded to a servo system and...
Two of our regular folders will be out of town tonight, so anyone who can help will be welcome. Folding will be at the Canberra City Bowling Club, Elder...
... Be daring and get into the spirit of Teatro Vivaldi and wear a mask (not compulsory, just different !) ...  ... Hello everyone, All members and their...
Rawlings and Ford
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May 14, 2009 10:13 am
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... This month's guest speaker promises to be something different! cheers, Kim...
Rawlings and Ford
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May 16, 2009 7:34 am
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I got a very nice light curve of the penumbral eclipse of Io by Callisto this morning - see: http://tinyurl.com/ok3lu6 The light curve is based on a 32-point...
I have uploaded a video of this event onto YouTube. It runs at 8x normal speed so that the change in brightness of Io is readily apparent. The video is at: ...
Another successful mutual event! The mid-time was about 5 secs ahead of prediction. [The results of the various events so far suggest that the Occult...
Hi If anyone within reasonable distance of Theodore is going to the Thursday meeting I would greatly appreciate a lift as my car won't be back until Friday. ...
Hi All Tomorrow night's beginners' group will be in the Duffield Lecture Theatre, not the Woolley Seminar Room. I will be giving a brief and simple...
Rawlings and Ford
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May 19, 2009 10:07 pm
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I sometimes get asked whether Integrating video cameras are worth having, and what can you see with them. For asteroid occultations, the ability to get good...
Jay Anderson (eclipse weather guru) has just posted his analysis of the weather for the 2012 eclipse. It is interesting reading, at: http://www.eclipser.ca/ ...
This is a message for all who have booked in for the Nov 2012 eclipse. If you have not already rung Amaroo and paid your deposit, please do so soon. A booking...
Rawlings and Ford
kimvince@...
May 22, 2009 12:30 am
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Hi All As requested by several members, a gentle reminder that our second science festival night is on at Black Mountain Peninsula tonight. Setup from around...
Rawlings and Ford
kimvince@...
May 27, 2009 1:30 am
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My very first narrow band image :-) Crop 1.4meg: http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/113037136/original Full Frame 2.5meg: ...
Hi to all I obtained Hydrogen alpha for this last year and only completed getting colour last night. RCW102 is the large faint nebula to the right and is...
I like the choice of colours - and I'd never noticed the dark criss-crossing around & behind the "neck". Mike N ... From: Mike Sidonio To: CADG@yahoogroups.com...
Michael Nelmes
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May 28, 2009 6:27 am
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Vince, Would you mind posting the following on the CAS list for me? ... Dear Members, As many of you have noted, there is (yet again) an error in the Science...
Rawlings and Ford
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May 29, 2009 1:56 am
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... June Newsletter Hello fellow National Science Weekers Welcome to the June newsletter, an update on some of the exciting things coming your way this...
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