I received this message asking us to post this so members of this group could view the Lecture on live webcast on Nov. 19. I think it's an interesting idea...
I see we have 2 new members. Welcome! Please take a minute and send us a quick post about you, your interest in astronomy and anything else that seems...
Hi my name is jeff from woodstock. am getting a scope for x-mas and would like to immerse myself in some astro culture - viewing parties mainly. currently...
Hello, all and sundry. I hope I qualify for this group, I'm right on the Georgia side of the GA/TN line up in the Chattanooga area. I don't yet own a...
Hi Jeff and welcome again. We're glad you are here. I've never owned either of those but I have viewed through an 8" Celestron once and the view was about as...
Anyone with an interest is all we ask and if are at all close geographically then that's a bonus. You definitely qualify on both accounts :-) Yea light...
just saying hello to group new here also. i was introduced to stargazing by my dad in the early seventies with a criterion rv6. i have been out of it for the...
Wow Mike, Now I feel better about my scope collection since I see I'm not the only one :-) Welcome to the group! I grew up in North Georgia and have been...
I didn't even realize one could tell the difference in star colors until a few months ago. I hadn't perceived that Betelgeuse is in fact a bit redder than the...
Sounds like a fun story :-) Seems like we have a couple of writers in our midst. In another life I flew all over the world in the Air Force. I always carried...
Looks like our listing must have finally bubbled up into the yahoo groups search engine cause we are getting found by new members on a fairly regular basis all...
Hi everyone. I just joined the group. When I was in highschool I use to get my telecsope out all the time with several friends. As time passed on, I lost...
Hi everyone- I'm am a *very* amatuer astonomer. I did my first Messier Marathon this year (March, I think) with my husband and had a great time. We stayed up...
Howdy do! Heh. Currently I have two short stories out on submission, one to Far Sector and one to Interzone. And working on another, around part-time school...
Read it? I'm always most fascinated by the "mundane" aspects of living on Mars, i.e. how do you build, how do you get the water from the permafrost, making...
Never read that but I have seen most of the stuff on DSC about a dozen times :-) I always wonder about that stuff too. Being an engineer I know that there's...
Not sure if you Guys and Gals have been looking but we have a beautiful almost full moon showing up early in the crisp clear nights. I think we might have...
Animals are actually a pretty expensive protein source in terms of resources needed to maintain them. You can get far more usable protein from an acre of soy...
Yea grew up on a farm raising animals, corn and soybeans so I know all about that. My point being that they always miss the human element. That's OK for a...
The 5th issue of Photon Ezine is now available for free at http://www.nightskyobserver.com/Photon/rgfqr25778fha5df.htm Contents of this issue include: What Can...
Hi ya'll, It's about time we got an astronomy group in this corner of the state. My thanks to the person who started this list. Allow me to introduce myself....
Looks like we have picked up a few new folks so we almost look like a real group :-) Sorry if I have been slow in getting any of the new member approvals but...
Just saw the Orion Nebula for the first time with my cheap binoculars tonight after work. Undoubtedly due to the remarkably clear and cold night tonight. Not...
Does anyone know of they've proved or disproved the Nemesis theory? That's the one about Sol being one of a binary system, the other being an undetected brown...
Just saw the Orion Nebula for the first time with my cheap binoculars tonight after work. Undoubtedly due to the remarkably clear and cold night tonight. Not...
Have you seen the newe stuff out about the Sedna discovery? It would be like our 10th planet except it's really small and has a huge elliptic orbit. In...
