HNY to you as well David. Have not been on the forum as much as I like lately but still run the METOP set-up 24/7/365. The software behaves very well for me...
Volcan Llaima continues to erupt. I have posted a Metop image at ... 154Kb Here is a link to a Guardian story with quite a dramatic picture ... Cheers Alan...
Hi to All A little off topic but. SOLAR CYCLE 24: Solar physicists have been waiting for the appearance of a reversed-polarity sunspot to signal the start of...
Hello George (et al) Yes, I believe that I posted this about a month ago when the first reversed polarity spot was detected. SpaceWeather seems to have...
there was indeed a bulletin from spaceweather previously, but it said only that there was a magnetic anomoly that could indicate the start of the cycle, IF it...
Having just checked definitions, it seems that it *has* to be a sunspot, not merely an area of reversed polarity. I won't argue with NOAA and NASA! best...
Hi Martin My recollection of the definition of the 'start' is that an area of reversed polarity defines the start. I'll see whether I can find any caveat. ...
Hello Do you "immediately" want to know when there are new posts on this forum? Well, I have developed a new program: POVIM Forums. This program can monitor up...
Good day to you all ! I am new on the group. My name is Ambrogio, I live in the North part of italy very close to the Swiss borderline. I am a radio ham : the...
To all List Members, Now that the festivities of Christmas and New Year are over, it's a good time to look forward to GEO Quarterly No 17, coming out in March...
Good day to everybody, I am searching for the schematics diagram of the MST-100A Grundig receiver. I am intereste in the APT satellites reception. Any help ? ...
You can use any image editor for making the CLUTs as they are standard 24-bit Windows bitmaps, with a width of 361 pixels (corresponding to temperatures of...
All, NASA has announced the target date for the launch of this postponed mission as February 7th. This Shuttle mission will carry the European Columbus...
All, I know some of you will be able to answer this: I was up 'early' yesterday just before dawn and went out as the sky was getting quite bright to look for...
Hi John, Just looked at SkyMap Pro. There are two triangular asterisms in Ursa Major which are I think the legs of the Great Bear Iota, Theta and Kappa UMa may...
I expect Lawrence will know this one John, but my star map suggests the following possibilities - depending on how far west of Venus this triangle was: If it...
... [] ... John, you can probably answer it yourself. Take a look at Cartes du Ciel (Sky Charts): http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/ a rather good, and free,...
Hi John, Yeah, I can see that Venus was bright at your location yesterday just before dawn 9:00 AM altitude 10 degrees Az: SE of you. I made a few weeks ago a...
There are a few possibilities, and some have been mentioned. You need to give the time of the observation, direction and elevation to be able to nail things...
John, Difficult to say, as you give no idea of scale. Perhaps three of the stars of th square of Pegasus - alpha-Andromedae, alpha and beta-Pegasi ? Les ... ...
Hello all My main computer 'blew up' yesterday. Fortunately I had just done my weekly total copy of all HDs. It may be some time before I get fully ...
That means that the Shuttle will have to be launched somewhere around 19:30 UT (to match the plane of the ISS orbit) so it will still be in sunlight as it...
... Hello After some offline emails between Craig and me it turned out to be more difficult then expected. It's now on the todo-list. In the meantime I have...
Hi All, I have posted a further image of this iceberg as it heads for the coast of South Georgia. When I first saw it on 6th Nov 07, it was at 59S 46W. Over...
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