Hi gang, The MESSENGER Launch has been postponed by 24 hours to 3rd August (Tomorrow) 2:16AM ETD (6:16 GMT) due to bad weather. Blaming the Tropical Storm Alex...
The next "big" event in the sky will be the Perseid meteor shower and it may have a higher than usual peak rate. The moon phase will be favorable this year so...
I have tried the recipe for making a comet found at http://www.noao.edu/education/crecipe.html. My experience with it is that the recipe is workable and sort...
Hi, Before any of you complain, that this is off topic, I request you to please read on. (I have also posted it in multiple groups, so pl. pardon me). Maybe...
Hi all fellow astronomers and Quad A members... I thought I would post my Perseid observation of yesterday. ... As evening settled, the prospect of any meteor...
... Your report is more "positive" than many posts I've seen. Seems like a lot of folks either missed the periods of activity, or maybe light pollution is ...
Joe Thanks for posting. I enjoyed your Perseid observation report. It was a dud from central Florida, even though we did get a few clear spots as the ...
Greetings all AAAA members, I thought I would share a second post and my first ever Daytime Saturn observations from Chicago with you all... ... I left my 4.5"...
Hi, Maybe many of you might have viewed the telecast of the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics. Perhaps the most specatular event may have been the message the...
What you did is indeed a fun experiment. I did a similar exercise, except with Mizar a couple of years ago. largely the same type of results. I also did it...
Is anyone in this group planning on observing Toutatis in late Sept?? If so, any ideas on how we could make it a mini-project? I made a plot similar to the...
Hey Euguene: I am planning on observing this asteroid. I'm not sure how to make a mini-project out of it, but would be willing to participate!! Tim Tyler ...
Good! -- that way even if one of us gets clouded out we can still do something with the observing. I'll see if I can not work up something. The odds of...
Amy members in Salem? I'll be there soon if any would be interested in going observing. I'll be in the region Sept 1 - 8, but not all nights. E-mail be...
Me too! I'll join in. Heather Sherbourne San Antonio, TX ... From: starweather2000 To: Quad-A@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 2:44 PM Subject:...
Great! Your work on Project Jupiter was really great. I happened to be looking over the Project Jupiter just the other day (i.e., about two months ago) and...
My current thinking on a mini-project is this: Because Toutatis will be fast moving, the asteroid movement will be relatively fast - guessing at 90 minutes to...
HI Eugene: Your procedure sounds like something I could do! Are there any particular dates when the observations would be the most accurate? - (assumming the...
I'm anticipating Set. 22, or 23, or the 24th (Wed, Thrs, Fri). I'm evaluating slightly earlier dates too, but later dates are when the asteroid is below the...
I've found the needed distances and reference velocities from a NASA source, and enough information to figure out the Earth-Toutatis trajectory (we see a 2D...
I received the following information from David Dunham of the International Occultation and Timing Association, and want to share it with you. Ed Flaspoehler,...
Rich Willis of the RASC in Victoria, Canada, semt me the following star party announcement. I am posting it for your information. I hope some of you may be...
Hello All, My name is John and I am a newbie that recently got a 8 inch Dob. I love reading up on my new hobby and would appreciate any and all of the best...
A new group has just been created for discussions specific to the new Meade "Deep Sky Imager" CCD camera. The group, hosted at Yahoo!Groups, is found at: ...
Just a perception note: Normally I think of an asteroid as hitting the Earth. But is that always true? Consider that Toutatis is passing the Earth going in...
Usually rumors have the vestiges of a grain of truth in them that started the entire rumor, so in an effort to find that grain of truth I'll make this inquiry:...
I've uploaded to the Yahoo files a plot of Toutatis' magnitude verses date. The plot does not look as expected. The file/plot is in pdf format to make it...
I agree. I think the earth would be cited with "tailgating" in this instance. Just kidding, but it is an interesting point; from our frame of reference, we ...
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