... From: adrian@... Date: 02-Mar-2005 14:21:42 To: NASTRO Yahoo list <nastro@yahoogroups.com> Subj: [NASTRO] Cassini images Hi everyone, There are...
Holloway
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Mar 3, 2005 7:46 am
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Hello everyone I'm new to all of this but have a question that someone out there may be able to answer. Has anyone purchased goods through the post from...
mfnastro2005 <mfnastro2005@...> wrote: Hello everyone I'm new to all of this but have a question that someone out there may be able to answer. Has...
Patch Scott
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Mar 5, 2005 6:43 pm
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-Hi Reference your query about the Skywatcher Maksutov-Cassegrain. Review of this scope in Astronomy Now magazine Sept 2002. States Optical quality very good...
Hi everyone Sky was clear this evening so I did bit of observing from my lovely, light-polluted garden in Hadston. I was out from around 9.45pm until 11pm and...
thanks barry and bob for replying the info sent is useful. Good to know first hand that the 127 maksutov is pretty good. It reinforces my descision. regards ...
This is the first chance I have really had to give a report on an evenings viewing 8th March. I finished work at about 7pm that night and realised that we had ...
Thanks to Ben for a very illuminating and practical session. I spoke to one or two people using Meade instruments and mentioned two excellent Yahoo sites...
Hi everyone, Thought this article might be of interest. Adrian PS I'd already put a chart on my website showing the altitude and direction of Mercury (from...
Hi everyone.....another clear night last night and so much to see at the moment. Here is a brief rundown of what I saw last night: Location: Hadston (my back...
Hi everyone, An interesting article in New Scientist with the title "13 things that do not make sense"......astronomy related research problems account for 9...
Very interesting article. Well worth a read especially the idea about the size of the universe. I suppose the distance to the edge of the universe depends on...
SIMON EMBLETON
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Mar 23, 2005 11:42 am
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Another interesting article.... http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2005-09/release.shtml Adrian...
The idea of a 10th planet has been popular since the discovery that number 9 was *far* too small to account for observed perturbations to the orbit of Neptune....
And the evidence of the minute flux variations during the planetary eclipse is here: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~ftod/images/tres1_thermalemission.gif ...
It's the planet I've never seen...... I've always been put off by the faintness of the planet which is around magnitude 14 and would require a very dark sky...
I would definately be interested in a chance to see the elusive planet as my scope at 90mm would have as much chance as me winning the lottery :-) Simon ... ...
SIMON EMBLETON
srembleton@...
Mar 29, 2005 9:55 am
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Hi folks! I had the telescope in the garden on Sunday afternoon and took a look at the Sun with a Baader filter on the end of my 10 inch Dobsonian. Observed at...
Hi everyone, Can't report any knife wielding maniacs in my back garden, but I did manage to do a little solar observing on Tuesday. I also used a Baader...
SIMON EMBLETON
srembleton@...
Apr 6, 2005 10:15 am
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Bored but not desperate like the housewives I was watching on TV, I poked my head out the door, and lo and behold, after the earlier evening rain the cloud had...
Tonight (Saturday 16th Apr) I went down to our local haunt. From around about 9:30pm til 10:45pm. A people carrier pulled up, waited a couple of minutes then...
Hello Everyone This is my first post on the site. I recently purchased my first telescope having always wanted one from being a child. But it can be quite a...
... From: mfnastro2005@... Date: 23- Apr-2005 16:28:35 To: nastro@yahoogroups.com Subj: [NASTRO] new scope observations Hello Everyone This is my...
Holloway
I.Holloway@...
Apr 25, 2005 6:37 am
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Hi Martyn It sounds as though you have got yourself a good scope there ! I hope you have many sharp views through it. The moon is certainly great to observe...
SIMON EMBLETON
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Apr 25, 2005 3:58 pm
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Hi Simon finding M51 was a lot harder than expected the sky was fairly light as the sun had only set a couple of hours previously. As you say the moon was ...
... I've just realsied that I have responded to a much earlier mailing from you and that you have done all the purchasing anyway. Glad you're please with your...