In case anyone missed it, GCVS 4.2 this week became available from the CDS archives starting at: ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/cats/II/250/ From VizieR, that...
http://home.att.net/~dpersyk/new.htm At the link above, one of hte sct-user members Denis Pershyk made a movie of 96 one minute frames of Comet Macholz. The...
My mistake. Upon a rereading of the post, it is clear that the "pulsations" are due to the effects of a high cloudcover. It's a nice movie in any case. ...
This is some sort of artifact of the imaging or the result of non-stable transparency (i.e. it was cloudy). What you'd want to see is a plot of the difference...
Brian Skiff
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Jan 1, 2005 10:17 pm
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Happy new year fellow observers! It's time once again to hunt for Jupiter during daylight hours with the unaided eye. The last quarter Moon is nearby on the...
Alister
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Jan 2, 2005 2:59 am
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In scanning through the PASP for 1938, I came across the discovery announcement for what's now the Wolf-Rayet-type star, LS II +16 4, which has among its...
Brian Skiff
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Jan 2, 2005 5:26 pm
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Hi I tried spot IC 2118 with 8x56 binoculars under suburban skies without sucess (I begin starhopping in Cursa and sweep to southwest (near psi Eridani)......
Jorge, Below is an Amastro post about IC 2118 through binoculars by Steve Coe. Steve was in a very dark location, though. Clear skies, Sue ... From: "Steve...
Hello my friends, Which are the best software to plan our observations? Any advices? And I would like to log all my observations... -- PER ARDUA AD ASTRA Um...
For me it's definitely Skytools. See http://www.skyhound.com/skytools.html . Jan http://home.wanadoo.nl/jhm.vangastel/Astronomy/ ... From: "Jorge Almeida"...
Hi Jorge, My favorite planning software is Deepsky. It works with Cartes du Ciel which is included free and can be downloaded free as well. The URL is: ...
There are many choices! My favourite is SkyMap Pro. Visit http://www.skymap.com/ where you can get a demo download. The author provides excellent support via ...
Well, Jupiter found. At 8:35am PST with the Sun up for about 1/2hr I was able to spot Jupiter naked eye. It was situated less tha 10* to the ESE of the Moon. I...
Hello Jorge, I doubt that one can see IC 2118 in any size instrument under suburban sky conditions. Last December I had very clear and dark skies for several ...
I have a question on the Barnard catalogue if someone can assist. The Barnard catalogue that I downloaded does not include B172, nor B176-B200. Were these...
... wrote:Hi Jorge,last night under a mag 6.5 dark dry sky with a pair of 7x50 bino's was able to follow IC2118 with some difficulty but I was sure of my...
Preface to the catalogue: "In his article in the Astrophysical Journal for January, 1919 (49, 1-23) Professor Barnard gave a list of 182 dark objects in the...
Does anyone know the status of POSS II in regards to completion? In searching the web, I came across 'updates' that were dated from the mid-to-late 90's while...
The plate-taking is inevitably done on all Schmidts, mainly because no one is making the emulsions any longer, but also because all the extant telescopes have...
Brian Skiff
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Jan 6, 2005 11:19 pm
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Can someone tell me what format the Bernard Catalog in the files section is? I recognize it but can't remember what program opens it. Cliff Hedgepeth...
I think it opens in excell. Atleast the table does. You may have to use photoshop or something like that to view the picture files. I remember printing the...
Keith Burns
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Jan 7, 2005 5:27 pm
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Thanks, will give it a try. cliff ... remember ... find the...
I wondered if anybody on the list has taken a shot at splitting Sirius this observing season. The separation is currently 6.8", and increasing. Using the...
My observing partner mentioned it last week. It's on our list of double stars to tackle. Perhaps later this coming weekend. Keith ... From: "Tom Polakis"...
Keith Burns
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Jan 7, 2005 7:20 pm
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Michael Bakich alerted me to four very good posts of his regarding Sirius B. I should have searched for earlier messages. ...
Several of us split Sirius at last year's Winter Star Party using scopes from a 6" Quantum to a homebuilt 20" dobbie. Eric ... This mailbox protected from junk...
Hi all, I am just preparing a paper which will cover the results of the German "Fachgruppe Deep-Sky" project on galaxy clusters, which I initiated in 1995. 55...
