Come, come... I watch Canopus (in season) from my balcony. Impressive! LN ... From: dawnstockbauer [mailto:donstockbauer@...] Sent: Friday, April 01,...
Last night I imaged a flashing faint (mag 19) artificial satellite passing right through a mag. 10 star (GSC4934:278, 27 pc away) and there were a few faint...
I'm finally getting back to my observatory after being distracted for the last several months. The big piece of the puzzle that I'm missing is - How do I pick...
Hi Bill, Looks to me as if you got a geosat with NORAD designation 20873U, international 1990-091B, a.k.a. Galaxy 6. I got this data using the last publicly...
... We don't want those nasty terrorists to be diverting satellites into tall buildings, do we? Next they'll probably try to classify asteroid orbits....
... You think that's bad? The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered the observatories on Mauna Kea to install flashing red warning beacons on the top of...
Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Apr 2, 2005 2:31 am
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Tall buildings are probably safe. However, when the Space Elevator goes up this could prove to be an issue. That is, if the concept of "terrorist" still...
... Simple, just tell them you don't want to attract terrorists with flashing red lights. ******************************************************************* ...
... While we jest about these matters, there is a serious side regards access to data. To the astute observer, many of the restrictions are part of a political...
No, I certainly haven't. Al Harris pointed out that it may never be built. I should not have said "when it goes up". Perhaps it's one of those things which...
I'd like to hear some more about that off list - I'm just a lowly air traffic controller, but the FAA saw fit to send me through the Obstruction Evaluation...
I applied for an account with Space-track.org about a month ago and was approved in seconds, so it appears at most all they do is check to see if you're on any...
Hi all Has anyone on this list seen/heard about large bright comet like objects in the night sky that are actualy outgassing from spaceraft? I have heard of 2...
... objects in the night sky that are actualy outgassing from spaceraft? I have heard of 2 such examples before. I observed one of these objects last year and...
Space elevator my foot... LN ... From: Jim Sisseck [mailto:alternatech@...] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 10:15 PM To: dawnstockbauer; MPML YahooGroups ...
Since most posts today are about ???, I would like to suggest to you to look through the group archives or the archives of the Astrometrica Yahoo group. I...
Taking the Beanstalk to its most practical, we make a string of them on a rail so we can shorten the tether by speeding them up but that doesn't work. We put...
It's this type of thinking that stymies us so often. The most severe self fulfilling prophecy is, "I can't." If you don't believe you can hunt unicorn, you...
... I've seen and photographed a water dump from the Space Shuttle which looks like a long comet tail, see: http://www.satobs.org/h2o_dump.html You wouldnt be...
In Usenet, sci.space.shuttle,"Famous 1986 fuel-dump sighting reports", there is a description of a Japanese upper stage venting hydrogen which was widely...
... Gordon, the Cassini event was the Centaur stages fuel dump rather than a burn. This fuel dump happens after spacecraft separation. Its always mentioned in...
It was AMPTE : there is a link ... http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/AMPTE/ampte_mission.html Jean-Claude Merlin ... From: "Tony Beresford" <dberesford@...> To:...
jcmerlin
jcmerlin@...
Apr 3, 2005 11:11 am
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Hi all, I will be attending the Symposium on Telescope Science and the associated Photometry Workshop (May 24 - 26) and I am looking for a lift from LAX to Big...
Clark, Maurice
Maurice.Clark@...
Apr 3, 2005 6:28 pm
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If you have not already booked your flight, you would be better off flying into Ontario (ONT). It is 40 miles closer but more important, it is past the rush...
Robert Stephens
rstephens@...
Apr 3, 2005 7:48 pm
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Dear all, last year we had to learn that (90377) Sedna has an extremely slow rotation rate due to a massive companion. In the meantime new data is available...
For the amusement of those who already knew this, and the edification of those who haven't fallen into the trap yet -- Whenever I think I've made every...
Bob, I found the same thing about the DST flags last night and spent many a frustrating hour trying to figure things out. In Windows in general, there is a...
