I just picked this up off the AP wire service. Astronomers with the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) have announced that the star Betelgeuse will go...
What part of Aprils Fool would that fall under? Keith ... From: "billferris2003" <BillFerris@...> To: <amastro@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, April 01,...
Anybody know what this signifies? "Forbidden You don't have permission to access /search/search.php on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was...
... It means that the webserver is running Apche 2.0.50 on Fedora (a free version of RedHat Linux) and that the webmaster has incorrectly set the access rights...
It appears the error message refers to a piece of embedded HTML code placed as part of the welcome message by the group owner. -- Dave ... From: "pensack1"...
"Most Distant Galaxy" is the title of an atmospheric jazz piece by the soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom, my favorite jazz composer. In a setting for...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Apr 2, 2005 8:09 am
15033
... object ... MacRobert's article in the ... stars ... Brian, Haven't seen the May issue of S & T yet on this side of the Atlantic but for locating 3C273,...
Though I'm still able to read and post, the home page for this group now has a NEW strange message when it loads: "The page cannot be found The page you are...
Al's ISP is giving him fits and his SkyInsight services will be down for a few days or so. He is working on a better, more informational error message to be...
... The page in that box is the alternate archive search page. It is completely safe to ignore the error message. Of course, you can't use the alternate...
IAU Circular 8503 reports that Mikkel Steine has participated in this discovery of this event. It's reported to be about mag 17.5, and 15" west, 4" north of...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Apr 3, 2005 9:26 pm
15038
If the only info I have on a star is..... GSC 4900:221 RA: 09h 34m 59.28s Dec: -07° 19' 24.0" Mag: 13.7 What would be a good source of real magnitude...
Howdy Kenneth. For stars of intermediate brightness, between roughly mag 7 and mag 13, and south of +30 Dec, and reasonably uncrowded, you can get reliable...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Apr 4, 2005 12:53 am
15040
Hei! ... It was a chance find! We took three images of three supernovae in different galaxies, before rounding off with the septet for fun. The day (Saturday)...
We have had excellent weather the past week over Scandinavia. I made two all-nighters the last weekend concentrating on galaxies. The Finnish members of the...
Hello all! Here is the full story behind the discovery. This text contains several Norwegian characters, and I hope that doesn't pose to great a problem. A...
Congrats on the Supernova! I found the newspaper article interesting because it reminded me that I forgot to learn Norwegian. I was disappointed, however,...
Hi ! I just finished the english translation of the deep-sky section of my site. It deals with a 60mm refractor deep-sky visual "survey", with lists of objects...
... This looks like a huge effort. ... Evidently a legendary observer who died young(?) according to the text in 'Revue des constellations'. It seems he was...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Apr 6, 2005 7:36 pm
15047
G'Day; I am in Australia, near the little town of Namoora in Queensland. I signed a contract to write a book on nebulae and figured that they might have some...
Thanks. That gave me some links to the USNO where I found the northern stuff but only in red and blue. Is there an easy way to convert that info to visual? ...
... Not really, the data are no good. A salient point left out of the first response was that the data you're looking for basically doesn't exist except for...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Apr 7, 2005 4:26 am
15050
So...... making or reading others visual magnitude estimates of comets in the 11-13 magnitude range is mostly just an exercise - especially when given to ...
Hi folks! I wonder how faint stars those of you who use glasses (or lenses) have seen without (other) optical aid? A few tenths of a magnitude should be lost...
I'm pretty sure Dave Nash, who saw down to 8.2 or so in observations we discussed here some months ago (most recently), wears glasses. I have seen to V=7.8...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Apr 8, 2005 6:29 am
15053
... I have occasionally gotten to around 7.8 over the past few years from the Nebraska Star Party using my glasses, but not much fainter (my eyes are getting...
David Knisely
KA0CZC@...
Apr 8, 2005 6:37 am
15054
Thanks for the info, Brian. The last time I checked my eyes, I needed -2.25 diopter correction. I have reached to magnitude 7.7 in Peru and last Saturday I...
... This is a wide pair (34") with a somewhat fainter star, so probably you saw the combined light. Using Talbert's photometry shown in SIMBAD, I get a...
