Attention, Attention!!!!!!!!!! MMM#7 begins tomorrow morning! Gates open at 8:00 AM! Work to be accomplished early includes: Room Rearrangement Floor Covering ...
Don R Surles
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Mar 1, 2007 1:28 pm
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Hi All Our mirror making made the NASA calendar for March The URL is http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/ Scroll down to the 2-4 March under mirror making Rocky...
The last night(28th) I was out doing my first *real* sketches(actually trying, not a quick scribble to look up an object later). Moon was nearly full, around...
Dear Delmarva stargazers: If one's goal is to see the Milky Way, what is the closest place to go such that it can be seen overheard? Assume that the question...
Douglas
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Mar 1, 2007 10:52 pm
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Go west young man. Some will say other, but true dark skies are 2 hours West of DC. If anyone says other, they have not been out there. Then of course there is...
a couple of comments.... 1) if you just want to see the Milky Way try moving down the eastern shore...below Pocomoke City or go west of 13 toward 301. Our...
Hi Rodney and Don: We're not really on the same wavelength, I guess. I don't have in mind super-dark, but just slightly dark. For example, I can see the Milky...
Douglas
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Mar 2, 2007 5:04 am
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Doug, I spend weekends at the beach in the summer, near Lewes. If you go west, away from the "beach" area and away from small towns and cities, the seeing is...
Hi Doug, Well if 15 minutes is all you are trying to do, then true dark skies are going to be tough. With the increasing population and building boom in the...
If you are looking for public land to observe from there is Redden state forest but you probally might not have low horizons. I think your best bet would be...
Thanks, PJ! Doug ... -- "A good conscience is a continual feast" Robert Burton...
Douglas
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Mar 2, 2007 6:14 pm
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If you find out let me know. I'll buy some property there!! In reality WV is QUITE dark. We have a place out in Snowshoe, WV and that whole are is pretty...
Here's the information about tonight's (Saturday March 3) Lunar eclipse. I had to chuckle. I went to a nautical boating store looking for a detail map. The...
Kent: how often do such totalities occur, anyway? The "Red Sox victory eclipse" of 2004 was not a total, but just a partial (penumbral) right? Doug ... -- "A...
Douglas
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Mar 3, 2007 2:51 pm
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... I'm not Kent, but I have answers ;^) The "RS Victory eclispe" was indeed a total one. As far as frequency, it's variable. On average, I'd guess that total...
As I recall, there were two lunar eclipses in 2004; one was wonderful, the other we were clouded out, but I did catch a glimpse of it nevertheless. In fact, I...
Thanks for the very informative email, Jim. Seems you are a good guy to go to for all the info... Can one look these things up in farmer's almanac, or...
Douglas
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Mar 3, 2007 10:21 pm
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Wow, what a beautiful eclipse we experienced last night. The weather in the Tidewater had clouds persisting on the eastern horizon. The earlier forecast looked...
I know what M42 is, but my knowledge and experience are limited. M81 and M82 and two galaxies, yes? Odd that some charts list them as nebula. And is it true...
Douglas
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Mar 4, 2007 3:17 pm
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Delmarva Stargazers: Speaking of M42 "click here!": *'Vision' - A Tribute to Carl Sagan* ...
Douglas
jsbell.ontarget@...
Mar 4, 2007 3:41 pm
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Grrrr..... Weather in northern Delaware was cloudy and did not clear at all during the event. My son and I were set up on a hill at Glasgow Park off U.S. 40...
Hey Doug, What charts are you using that list M81 & M82 as nebula? The whole event was viewable from Northern New Jersey. Now if I coul djust 86 the eastern...
... My pleasure, Doug. ... Will Rogers once said "We are all ignorant, just on different subjects." I happen to be an "eclipse junkie". It's a bad addiction!...
Douglas, The word nebula (nebulae, plural) is merely a derivative from Latin meaning "cloud". Those fuzzies we all admire do, indeed, look like clouds. M 81 &...
M81/82 were discovered in 1774 by Johann Elert Bode. He described it as a nebulous patch and in some slang terms M81 is still refered to as Bode's Nebula....
I was being imprecise with my comments. I do know the connection and history of nebula and galaxies. I read the email from Kent and decided it was high time...
Douglas
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Mar 5, 2007 5:16 am
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"Studying Astronomy can lead to indigestion!" When I was reading the best textbooks I know of regarding stellar evolution, I encountered some dissatisfying...
Douglas
jsbell.ontarget@...
Mar 5, 2007 2:43 pm
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Just a reminder that the March meeting of the Delmarva Stargazers is tonight at 7PM at the 1st Presbyterian Church in downtown Smyrna. see...
... Red giants are stars of 0.4 to 10 times the mass of the Sun which have exhausted the supply of hydrogen in their cores and switched to fusing hydrogen in a...
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