Just wanted to say "Hello", and express thanks to Christopher Mazzola for making New Years eve 2003 very special. Chris' family and mine were at a party hosted...
Well, I'm happy to say that the binoculars finally arrived the Monday after Christmas. The delay time was significant compared to what Apogee quoted to me on...
My wife gave me a pair of Apogee 25x100's for Christmas and they also arrived on Tuesday. Luckily I have an old tripod with liquid head that will hold them, so...
Heya Bill. Glad you and the others enjoyed the views. Like I said at the time, I only wished the skies could have been less turbulant. And of course there's...
Hi all, Since signing up for the Mirror Making Seminar, I've been casting about for an easy way to build the rest of the telescope (6" f/8). Since Stargazer...
Tom, a Stargazer Steve kits without mirror is an excellent way to complete your project. Don... This communication is for use by the intended recipient and...
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Jan 5, 2004 12:43 am
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In case you missed Saturn New Years Eve, on it's closest approach to Earth, you still have some good chances. Don't wait until 2034 for Saturn to come as close...
Hey Tom, I am a woodworker and I would embace anything that would cut down on what you have to do to get a scope up and running. Go for it. Share with us your...
All, Don't know who would be interested in this, but here is an exhibition of rare atlases, etc. http://www.lhl.lib.mo.us/events_exhib/exhibit/ex_atlas.shtml ...
I have posted a photo of the constellation Orion (15 minutes, using a diffusion filter to emphasize the brighter stars) taken 12/28, while observing with...
... It looks really good, Dave, I think I see Bernard's Loop and other features. Unfortunately, the new Yahoo album policies won't let us see your original,...
... ..... Unfortunately, the new Yahoo album policies won't let us see your original, 900kbyte photo. All we can look at is a 15k screen image..... Steve, ... ...
Just a reminder that tonight is our regular monthly meeting - 7:00 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Did you see the moon this morning? It was a pretty...
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... your original, 900kbyte photo. All we can look at is a 15k screen image. What telescope mount were you tracking with, and how did you guide? What camera...
... Yahoo wants groups to pay a surcharge for the ability for members and/or "the public" to see photos in their original sizes, instead of the small 15-20k...
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/01/25/delaney.debrief/index.html
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monday morning, as i drove to work i watched the moon set (approx 6:15 - 6:45 am). late that day as i drove home i noticed it was a couple of hours high in...
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Don, The Moon is basicly 6 months different from the Sun in the amount of time that is in the sky. So in December the full moon is Gemini just like the Sun is...
Brought up by Steve Long at the meeting...
Here is a news report on theory.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3900550/
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... Don, here's a guess: Since the Moon's orbit is pretty well aligned to the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun, it seems to me that at the time of the...
Found this in "www.astronomycafe.net." I guess I'm not the only one with this kind of question... Steve ... If it happened about 520 years ago, then today we...
Don, if you click on the current moon phase button on our home page, then sun and moon phenomena, you can create a table for all of 2004 moon rise and moon set...
That's not the link to the recent article. Here is the one that was just published last month. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/11/frozenlight.advance.ap/...
thanks for all your responses. education of old F###s ain't easy but "continuous improvement is better than postponed perfection" i have seen models of the...
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I work for Engineering Polymer for Dupont. I knew Dupont always has some products that are used for space exploration, but I found this particularly...
Here's 1/10 AP headline about the Spririt rover on Mars. This is off ... So the next time you hear a joke about NASA messing up unit conversion... :-) Bob...
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