Yes I followed, sometimes Yahoo seems to have its own mind. And yes, these are some incredible skies! I could spend an entire night just re-observing Messier...
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nranderson_deepskyobs...
nranderson_d...
Jun 17, 2012 2:02 pm
Yes Ted, we all feel sooooooo sorry for you! If the overbearingly bright gegenschein is out, you might as well pack it up for the night! -Nick Anderson...
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Jordan
jordan.bramble
Jun 17, 2012 4:25 pm
I am envious! I hope one day I can have this same opportunity!...
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Mark Ost
jimcoble2000
Jun 17, 2012 4:53 pm
I feel your pain man ________________________________ From: Ted Forte <tedforte511@...> To: backbayastro@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 9:36...
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nranderson_deepskyobs...
nranderson_d...
Jun 17, 2012 6:55 pm
And...done! I revised/added 8 pages. It's getting more organized one step at a time. I'm going to work on cleaning up the left menu bar next. ...
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William McLean
preciousmypr...
Jun 17, 2012 7:12 pm
Well done, Nick. It's lookin' gooder n gooder. (I'm getting ready for West Virginia) Â Carpe Noctem Bill McLean ________________________________ From:...
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nranderson_deepskyobs...
nranderson_d...
Jun 17, 2012 7:52 pm
Ok I've got a coding question for the group (I figure at least one of you will know the answer to my question). I just made a revision to the main page...
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Jim Tallman
jctallman2006
Jun 17, 2012 7:56 pm
Ditto Sent from my iPad...
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nranderson_deepskyobs...
nranderson_d...
Jun 17, 2012 8:04 pm
I'm looking into it further and it seems to be an issue with the index page. Look at the two versions: http://www.backbayastro.org/index.html ...
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Jim Tallman
jctallman2006
Jun 17, 2012 8:19 pm
Nice are you using internet exploder? I am and it looks normal on both links with just a little smaller in just the main page view but then again how many...
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nranderson_deepskyobs...
nranderson_d...
Jun 17, 2012 8:23 pm
I'm using Safari and the two pages look different. I'm going to try to look around for another image of the Moon, preferably as large as the Sun image. Then I...
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nranderson_deepskyobs...
nranderson_d...
Jun 17, 2012 8:39 pm
Ok I found a better image and did it in HTML. I like it better this way actually. -Nick Anderson...
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George Reynolds
pathfinder027
Jun 17, 2012 8:43 pm
Nick, I am using Google Chrome and the moon does not show up at all, but when I right-click and open it in another window, I see the moon phase full screen. ...
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nranderson_deepskyobs...
nranderson_d...
Jun 17, 2012 9:45 pm
Thanks for letting me know. It seems to work intermittently on my browser too. Does it work if you refresh the page? Strange...I'm trying to figure this one...
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nranderson_deepskyobs...
nranderson_d...
Jun 18, 2012 12:10 am
Searching for: image of the Moon's phase that updates daily and is at least 200 pixels in height and width. The current image is not working effectively. If...
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George Reynolds
pathfinder027
Jun 18, 2012 2:03 am
No, refreshing the page does nothing.  I tried several times. George  George Reynolds "Solar System Ambassador" for South Hampton Roads, Virginia Back Bay...
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Nick Anderson
nranderson_d...
Jun 18, 2012 3:18 am
Hoping to pull an all-night observation, I began observing at 10:45 pm (shortly after the end of astronomical twilight). Transparency was a 7/10 at the start...
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Jacob Putz
tidus02us
Jun 18, 2012 12:10 pm
Running IE7 at work. At first I load the page and nothing shows, no sun no moon. I refresh and sun shows still no moon. I open bbaamain.html directly a get...
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Mark
gerlach.mark
Jun 19, 2012 9:34 pm
Dale got to the ABC store before I did. I went there and it was EMPTY!!! ;) /\\ark G....
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Jim Tallman
jctallman2006
Jun 20, 2012 12:55 am
Can they spell ABC in West Virginia? Sent from my iPad...
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RapidEye
rapideye.geo
Jun 20, 2012 2:11 am
... Yes, but they can't count over 10 without taking off a shoe.... <RE>...
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nranderson_deepskyobs...
nranderson_d...
Jun 20, 2012 5:53 am
In the past in my journal, I've classified emission/reflection nebulae such as M42, NGC 7000, NGC 2261, NGC 7635, and NGC 7023 all under the category...
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Ted Forte
twforte2002
Jun 20, 2012 5:47 pm
I don't think the term diffuse nebula excludes dark nebulae as the term diffuse is an adjective that can be applied to any extended object without well defined...
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nranderson_deepskyobs...
nranderson_d...
Jun 20, 2012 6:33 pm
Not to even mention that some of these nebulae can be clusters with nebulosity, which also seems to have a loose definition. Remember that discussion we had...
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Mark Ost
jimcoble2000
Jun 20, 2012 9:04 pm
Oh boy, geology, when it was descriptive, used to be terrible in how many terms applied to the same thing. We called them weasel words. It was amazing how many...
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backbayastro@yahoogro...
Jun 20, 2012 10:55 pm
Reminder from: backbayastro Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/backbayastro/cal Night Hike Friday June 22, 2012 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm (The next reminder...
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Jim Tallman
jctallman2006
Jun 20, 2012 11:33 pm
Gang, Looking for blood donors for this Friday Night to help out. Looks like 25% cloud cover and around 10% chance of rain according to NOAA but not real good...
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Mark Ost
jimcoble2000
Jun 21, 2012 1:55 am
A 56-year-old Virginia Beach man was indicted on charges he pointed a laser pointer at Naval Aviators and their aircraft as they took off from Naval Air...
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nranderson_deepskyobs...
nranderson_d...
Jun 21, 2012 2:52 am
How utterly stupid! Good thing he's not an astronomer! Do they state a motivation? I'm sure the perpetual jet noise in Virginia Beach could drive many people...
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LambuLambu@...
galacticprobe
Jun 21, 2012 4:35 am
I think we should keep in mind with this that there is a difference between pointing a green laser at an open sky (like we occasionally do) and pointing a red...
