Hi all, I haven't done much posting on astronomy lists not local to the San Francisco Bay area for some time, but on consulting past postings on this list I...
... Hi Jay, I did the same as you, using a parallelogam mount for my 10x50 binoculars. The fact that it was actually naked eye during full mid-day sunlight ...
I am in the middle of a nine-night observing run at McDonald Observatory helping with photometry and spectroscopy of T Tauri stars. I brought my SQM...
Brian Skiff
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Feb 10, 2007 8:22 am
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Hi, 3 weeks ago I was rambling in northern Orion with my 12" dobsonian when I noticed 2 patches of nebulosity with some stars to the E-NE of NGC 2194. The ...
I'm pretty sure that group has not been studied, and although I haven't looked at it caerfully since "then" (about 1975), I would wager there is no physical...
Brian Skiff
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Feb 10, 2007 6:43 pm
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Hi Brian, Over at 'Deepskyhunters', a paper on Open Clusters has been making quite a splash recently with some of our members. It is by D. Froebrich, A....
It is a little odd that their position is so far off the actual one on the sky. Evidently they have used some larger region and the centroiding is automated...
Brian Skiff
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Feb 11, 2007 2:31 am
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In case anyone is interested in this sort of thing, Mira has been coming up to a bright maximum in the past few weeks. It is now as bright as I've seen it,...
Brian Skiff
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Feb 11, 2007 2:39 am
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Brian, Philipp Teutsch, of Deepskyhunters, also commented on how often the coordinates appeared off of the main group of many a cluster and were displaced to...
Brian, the NOMAD and Bordeaux proper motion catalogues don't help much here, as they cover just the brightest stars in this area ( mostly red giants ) with...
15480 Empire Rd. Benson, AZ 85602 hm ph: 520-586-2244 Thanks for pointing out Mira's brightness, Brian. I noticed it was becoming very obvious a few weeks ago,...
Since it's been pretty quiet on amastro, I thought I would mention a new image of the Vela SNR for those who may not have already seen it. It's a wide-field...
I am the new owner (in process) of a CCD camera, filter wheel, focusser (all FLI), mount (Tak EM-200). I plan on buying a laptop computer so I can run the ...
... The dual-core Dells are twice as fast at image processing. The batteries are good for 100-200 recharges. So a 2nd power supply is well worth the money. ...
Has anyone every had a visual sighing of the planetary nebula Kohoutek 1-10 in CMa? I looked for 30 minutes and could not see it. 25" f/5 200x (16mm Nagler II)...
Hi Kent, This guy, K 1-10, is located at (2000) 07 12 35.9 -16 06 00 and is 76"x57". I've got no magnitude for it. I tried it with my 20" f/5.0 reflector on...
Kent Wallace
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Feb 15, 2007 8:06 pm
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Kent, ... This PN's emission is dominated by [N II] with only a small amount of [O III]. My notes are: 63-cm: The field is confirmed and an extremely faint...
Thanks for the recent input on the planetary nebula Kohoutek 1-10. I'll keep trying now that I know it doesn't respond well to filters. Try looking at the...
Hi, Recently I became interested in onbserving the Gould Belt, this can be done quite well with a small binocular. There are some nice pages available on the...
I'm sure Mati Morel will pipe up here, since he has a file that I think is what you're looking for. A basic list of luminous stars around the Milky Way,...
Brian Skiff
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Feb 16, 2007 9:01 pm
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Kent, ... PN G181.5+00.9 is also known as Purgathofer 1 (Pu 1), having been discovered in 1978 by A. Purgathofer in the course of searching the POSS plates for...
Thanks for the heads up, Brian. Yes, I went through Humphreys' catalogue about ten years ago, to compile RA and Dec (2000) for all of her stars, plus weeding...
Mati Morel
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Feb 16, 2007 11:49 pm
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Sorry, list. Forgot to change the address. PG _________________________________________________________________ Play Flexicon: the crossword game that feeds...
Hi All, Last night we observed from our "nearly dark" site at Bargo which on the night had a ZLM of 6.2 to 6.3 and the seeing was very, very good. We...
I was watching the Discovery Channel's presentation of Space Balloons tonight...and in describing a weather delay of a launch, it mentioned one mission project...
Hi starhopper, possibly the 'Lockman Hole' in UMa ... ? CS! Matthias ... Balloons ... mentioned ... study ... clarity ... the ... called ... <G>) .... ... ...
Hi Matthias, From my 'memory cell', that syllabication does sound very much like what they might've /or likely/ said. Plus what I've now found on the web...
Howdy all; I was observing in Puppis on New Moon weekend. We were under dark skies 100 miles from Phoenix, Arizona. I was using my Nexstar 11 SCT. I rated...
