... Yes that would be correct. There's one small problem though. The solar apex (as the point in Hercules to which the sun seems to move is called) isn't on...
I put a couple of webpages together highlighting my recent trip to the Coquimbo region of Chile, home to several world-class observatories. I hauled my 13"...
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May 1, 2005 4:05 pm
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I'm surprised that this term can't be found in any literature. But a search of the OED reveals nothing at all. (They're still early in their revision for the...
Did you check the *supplmenet* to the OED? If you have the micro print version in 2 vols (you need a magnifyng glass) you won't find items like "airplane" and...
... The two-volume micro is OED1. Its four supplements (compressed into an additional supplement volume in the micro edition) were completed between 1972 and...
While digging up identifications for some emission-line stars published in a 1949 paper, I ran into a knotty mix-up of names and coordinates among four stars...
Brian Skiff
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May 2, 2005 2:42 am
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In tonight's astro-ph preprint listings is the paper backing up the science headline from the last few days that a planet around a nearby star has actually...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
May 2, 2005 3:05 am
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I managed to sweep up comet 9P/Tempel 1 during an astronomy club outing at the Palisades-Dows Observatory, near Cedar Rapids, on Saturday evening. Some...
Doug Slauson wrote: ...The phase angle of the comet is approximately 20° which would indicate that, from this angle of perspective, any tail would appear...
I read, in the May S&T, that have a flocculent galaxy. And I also read, therein, that we have an ennead of galaxies. But, here is the point, can we put...
Hi gang, This was posted on the starrynight yahoo group: "I am very interested in the face-on spiral galaxy M51. There are many detailed atlases for objects...
A PDF file (468 KB) containing the preliminary schedule for the 2005 RTMC Astronomy Expo is available at: http://www.rtmcastronomyexpo.org/2005%20Program.pdf...
Hi Brian, ... Thanks for your reply! Yes, this is the paper that was returned by Vizier. Unfortunately, the coordinates of the emission nebulae in this catalog...
I would rate conditions as so last night: 10PM Transparency - 6 Seeing - 4 later (midnight or so) to a 2 in seeing. Enjoyed three new Hicksons - 81, 82 and 83 ...
YOUNG MOON- What is it that people are doing when they are looking for the youngest or oldest moon? Are they looking for that millisecond when they can...
... Let your fingers do the seeking: http://www.ngcic.org/corwin/DataFiles/Nov19_2004/ngcnotes_5.txt ...and more generally:...
Brian Skiff
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May 3, 2005 9:53 pm
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Hi Tom, I gave careful scrutiny to the comet again last night using a 23.5cm SCT. This time I attempted to determine the comet's magnitude. The current...
... Both. There are records for young-moon sighting using anything goes equipment techniques and naked eye. I think the record for a telescopic sighting is...
Try digging into a search containing Paul Hodge M51. Kenneth Drake ... -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308...
Lord Rosse (and assistants) did a *very* nice drawing of M51 (not the fanciful flowing one usually printed) and they quite accurately measured the positions of...
Alister
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May 4, 2005 3:40 pm
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... Thanks a lot for the suggestion. It turns out that no papers by Hodge concerning HII regions in M51 can be found via Google. Unfortunately, both arXiv and...
Hi again, ... Thanks again for the suggestion Keith. The third paper contains some very useful information. Unfortunately, the data in the paper is limited to...
