For those of you running the Seti@home software:

Is there any way to run the program at other than 600X800 resolution? I
only can run it on my laptop (which has 32MB of ram) and at that
resolution,, the screen scrolls--which sucks.

Why does it need the 600X800 res? Will this be fixed in ver 1.1?

Thanks,
Christopher

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1999  (12:59 PM EDT)

MISSION: STS-96 - 2nd U.S. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION FLIGHT
SPACEHAB DOUBLE MODULE
Flight Day 8
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
LOCATION: On orbit
OFFICIAL KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: May 27, 1999 at 6:50 a.m. EDT
TARGET LANDING DATE/TIME: June 6, 1999 at 2:02 a.m. EDT
LAUNCH WINDOW: 10 minutes
ISS DOCKING DATE:  May 29, 1999 at 12:24 a.m. EDT
ISS UNDOCKING DATE:  June 3, 1999 at 6:34 p.m. EDT
MISSION DURATION: 9 days, 20 hours and 40 minutes
CREW:  Rominger, Husband, Ochoa, Jernigan, Barry, Payette, Tokarev
ADDITIONAL PAYLOADS: ICC, STARSHINE, SVF and IVHM
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION:  173 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

NOTE: Shuttle Discovery is in its final day of docked operations with
the
International Space Station.  Equipment transfer activities concluded
early
this morning and efforts to boost the space station's orbital position
were
successfully completed at about 6 a.m. Discovery's systems continue to
perform very well as the flight crew prepares to undock from the ISS
later
today.

Solid rocket booster inspections and segment disassembly are in work.
Removal of the solid rocket motor nozzles is ongoing and nozzle shipment
to
Utah is slated for Monday.

The preliminary weather forecast for Discovery's KSC landing on Sunday
calls
for scattered clouds at 3,000 feet and 10,000 feet and broken at 20,000
feet; visibility at 7 miles; winds east north east at 8 knots peaking to
14
knots; temperature at 75 degrees F; humidity at 91 percent and the
possibility of showers within 30 nautical miles of the runway.
Forecasters
will monitor the development of a surface low over the Bahamas and its
impact on landing day weather conditions.

MISSION: STS-93 - Chandra X-ray Observatory (formerly AXAF)
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
LOCATION: Vehicle Assembly Building high bay 1
TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: July 22, 1999 at 12:28 a.m. EDT (under
review)
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: July 26, 1999 at 11:35 p.m. EDT (under
review)
LAUNCH WINDOW:  46 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 4 days, 23 hours
CREW: Collins, Ashby, Hawley, Coleman, Tognini
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION:  153 nautical miles/28.45 degrees

NOTE:  Columbia arrived in the VAB yesterday and soft mate of the
orbiter to
the external tank was completed last night.  Electrical and mechanical
connections are in work today and the Shuttle Interface Test begins
Friday
at midnight.

Electrical and mechanical testing of the mated Chandra X-ray Observatory
and
Inertial Upper Stage is scheduled this week.  The spacecraft remains on
schedule for transfer to Launch Pad 39B on June 21.

STS-93 SCHEDULED OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):
*       Columbia rolls out to Pad 39B (June 7 at about 2 a.m.)
*       Chandra payload transferred to Pad 39B (June 21)

MISSION: STS-99 - Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
LOCATION: OPF bay 2
TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Sept. 16, 1999 at 8:47 a.m. EDT
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Sept.  27, 1999 at 12:52 p.m. EDT
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours and 30 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 11 days, 4 hours and 5 minutes
CREW: Kregel, Gorie, Kavandi, Voss, Mohri, Thiele
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 126 nautical miles/57 degrees

NOTE: Auxiliary power unit exhaust duct leak checks are complete.
Testing
of Endeavour's radar altimeter has also concluded. Modifications to the
main
engine dome heat shields continue.  Wireless video installation efforts
proceed on schedule.  Modifications to the freon coolant loop No. 2
isolation valve are in work. Power reactant storage and distribution
system
are in progress.  Installation of Endeavour's right hand orbital
maneuvering
system pod begins early tomorrow and Shuttle main engine installation
begins
Monday.

MISSION: STS-101 - 3rd INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION FLIGHT
SPACEHAB DOUBLE MODULE / ICC
VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
LOCATION: OPF bay 3
TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Dec. 2, 1999
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Dec. 13, 1999
LAUNCH WINDOW:  5-10 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 10 days and 19 hours
CREW: Halsell, Horowitz, Weber, Tsang Lu, Williams, Malenchenko, Morukov
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION:  173 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

NOTE: Atlantis' wireless video modifications continue. Mass spectrometer
leak checks on the orbiter's fuel cell power plant continue.  Ammonia
system
leak and functional testing is scheduled this week.


-end-

NASA Space Science News for June 3, 1999

Is Lunar Prospector destined for a Watery Grave? NASA's first
mission to the Moon in 25 years could end with a splash on July
31, 1999, when ground controllers deliberately crash the
Lunar Prospector spacecraft into a south polar crater in search of
elusive lunar water.  FULL STORY at
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast04jun99_1.htm

<a
href="http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast04jun99_1.htm">link
for
AOL users</a>

NASA Space Science News for June 3, 1999

Now you see it, now you don't:  Amateur astronomers around North America
captured beautiful images of a lunar occultation of the bright
star Regulus on May 21, 1999.  This story features video clips
showing Regulus as it disappears behind the dark side of the Moon
and then as it reappears later from the sunlit side. FULL STORY at
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast03jun99_1.htm

<a
href="http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast03jun99_1.htm">link
for
AOL users</a>

HUBBLE PICTURE ADDS TO PLANET-MAKING RECIPE

How do you cook up a planetary system? Astronomers can rattle off the
primary ingredients: gas, dust, and ice. They have seen the prepared
dish: our solar system. Now a detailed image of a developing star taken
by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is helping them write the recipe.

A visible-light image, taken with Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging
Spectrograph, reveals clumps of material in a circumstellar disk of gas
and dust swirling around a 2- to 4-million-year-old star called AB
Aurigae. These clumps, also composed of dust and gas, may
represent the seeds of planet formation. Studying developing stars in
the 1- to 10-million-year-old age range, such as AB Aurigae, could
provide an evolutionary missing link in the planet formation process.

"These observations suggest that the transition from gas and dust disks
to debris disks with planets occurs around stars that are 1 to 10
million years old," explains Carol Grady of the National Optical
Astronomy Observatories, working at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

in Greenbelt, Md. "We have seen the beginning and the end of the planet
formation process. Recent Hubble telescope observations have shown
protoplanetary disks encircling young stars up to 1 million years old
and planetary disks surrounding more mature stars around 8 to 20 million

years old. Now we want to see what is happening in the middle."

Grady will discuss her findings at a press conference at 12:30 p.m. CDT
(1:30 p.m. EDT) June 2 at the summer meeting of the American
Astronomical Society in Chicago, Ill.

Although the astronomer and her team haven't spied any planets in the
disk, the features they have seen intrigue them.

"We don't see any evidence of unseen large bodies sweeping out dust
lanes," Grady says. "But we have seen unprecedented structure in the
dust clouds, suggesting that material is beginning to clump together in
a process which could form planets in the next few million years."

The smallest clumps visible in this false-color image are near the
limits of the telescope's resolution. All the clumps are extremely
large: 1.3 to 3 billion miles (2 to 5 billion kilometers) wide or 14 to
32 times Earth's distance from the Sun. They also reside much farther
away from AB Aurigae than Pluto, our outermost planet, does from the
Sun. The largest clump, for example, is about 32 billion miles (51
billion kilometers) away. This distance is equivalent to 88 times
Pluto's distance from the Sun.

"Similar features haven't been seen in the disks surrounding younger,
300,000-year-old to 1-million-year-old, stars," Grady says. "In those
younger stars, we don't see as much structure as in AB Aurigae. Star
systems a bit older than AB Aurigae have cleared lanes or zones
suggesting that large planets have developed. The AB Aurigae image,
together with the other Hubble telescope studies, suggests that the
transition from a protoplanetary disk to a system with planets occurs
sometime after 2 to 4 million years, but before 8 million years."

AB Aurigae, about 2.4 times more massive than the Sun, resides 469
light-years from Earth in the constellation Auriga. Its circumstellar
disk is extremely wide, at least 121 billion miles (194 billion
kilometers). Thirty of our solar systems would fit inside it. The disk
is slightly larger than the nearby and better-studied Beta Pictoris
system.

Normally, probing the material in a circumstellar disk is difficult
because the glare of the central star overpowers the feeble reflected
light from the dusty disk. To overcome this powerful light, Grady and
her team used the imaging spectrograph's coronograph, which blocks the
light from the star to create an artificial eclipse.

Grady admits she needs more information on developing stars in order to
draw any conclusions on planet formation. That's why she and the Space
Telescope Imaging Spectrograph team have mapped out a two-year survey to

study young, bright, nearby stars in the 1- to 10-million-year age
range.

"Astronomers are searching for answers to planet formation," Grady
explains. "For example, is planet formation common? "How, when, and
where do planets form? And what role does a star's environment and size
play in planet formation?"

AB Aurigae has been a popular target. The team selected this star
because of previous observations by ground- and other space-based
telescopes. Ground-based observations in millimeter wavelengths had
shown that the star has a large gas and dust disk; space- and
ground-based infrared studies had suggested that the disk material
extends in very close to the star, much farther than the imaging
spectrograph can see.

The team plans further observations of AB Aurigae to search for comets.
Finding comets would mean that some of the clumps of dust and gas have
coalesced to form solid bodies at least a half-mile (1-kilometer) wide.
The astronomers will use the imaging spectrograph and NASA's soon-to-be
launched Far Ultraviolet Spectrograph Explorer to hunt for them.

This research was supported by a NASA grant to the National Optical
Astronomy Observatories (NOAO). NOAO is operated by the Association of
Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc., under cooperative
agreement with the National Science Foundation.

The Space Telescope Science Institute is operated by AURA under contract

with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. The Hubble
Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA
and the European Space Agency (ESA).

Oh well Chris To Late !!

Ken has yet to sign up--I sent him an email asking him to do so, and I
think he will.

After awhile I will post the members who have signed up to the list.
Just going to give it a bit of time to get around to everyone.

Regards,

FROM:  Steve Mackey sam3055@...

Thanks to all of you, who at the June 1st General Meeting, inquired about my
health.  My leukemia is in remission and things are going well.  My main
activity in astronomy lately is my astronomy column "Star Watcher" which
appears every first Friday in the Seattle Times in the magazine section
"Weekend."  Give it a look please if you were unaware of my endevour.

Chris S.:

Would you let us know when and if Ken Slavens subscribes to this list?
I get numerous requests from people wanting to know how to reach him and
ask general-type questions that Ken could answer here for everyone to
see.  This is also true for Bob Isaacs if he shows up here.

I have added Ken to the "Known Internet" list in the newsletter for
personal mail.  Glad to see he finally has computer access.

--- Bill Lawson

If you are currently running the SETI@home software (or plan to) please
consider joining the group "Tacoma Astronomical Society".  This way all of
our efforts are pooled and who knows, one of us may find something.

Remember the fun is in the search - that's why its called Fishing not
Catching...

For more SETI@Home information please visit
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/  This is also the page where you will
find the link to the "Groups".  Follow this link and do a search for "Tacoma
Astronomical Society" then click "Join this Group"

Roger.

Good stuff Chris.

One on my favorite sites is Hubble Heritage at http://heritage.stsci.edu

Its focus is more the consumer than the scientist, but the pictures are
wonderful.  They are also easy to capture and make into windows wallpaper.

Roger


-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Scott [mailto:cjscott@...]
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 8:38 AM
To: tas-list@onelist.com
Subject: [tas-list] Hubble stuff

From: Christopher Scott <cjscott@...>

PHOTO NO.: STScI-PRC99-20


HUBBLE SNAPSHOT CAPTURES LIFE CYCLE OF STARS

In this stunning picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603, the
crisp resolution of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures various
stages of the life cycle of stars in one single view.

To the upper right of center is the evolved blue supergiant called
Sher 25. The star has a unique circumstellar ring of glowing gas that
is a galactic twin to the famous ring around the supernova 1987A. The
grayish-bluish color of the ring and the bipolar outflows (blobs to the
upper right and lower left of the star) indicates the presence of
processed (chemically enriched) material.

Near the center of the view is a so-called starburst cluster dominated
by young, hot Wolf-Rayet stars and early O-type stars. A torrent of
ionizing radiation and fast stellar winds from these massive stars has
blown a large cavity around the cluster.

The most spectacular evidence for the interaction of ionizing radiation
with cold molecular-hydrogen cloud material are the giant gaseous
pillars to the right and lower left of the cluster. These pillars are
sculptured by the same physical processes as the famous pillars Hubble
photographed in the M16 Eagle Nebula.

Dark clouds at the upper right are so-called Bok globules, which are
probably in an earlier stage of star formation.

To the lower left of the cluster are two compact, tadpole-shaped
emission nebulae. Similar structures were found by Hubble in Orion,
and have been interpreted as gas and dust evaporation from possibly
protoplanetary disks (proplyds). The "proplyds" in NGC 3603 are
5 to 10 times larger in size and correspondingly also more massive.

This single view nicely illustrates the entire stellar life cycle of
stars, starting with the Bok globules and giant gaseous pillars,
followed by circumstellar disks, and progressing to evolved massive
stars in the young starburst cluster. The blue supergiant with its ring
and bipolar outflow marks the end of the life cycle.

The color difference between the supergiant's bipolar outflow and the
diffuse interstellar medium in the giant nebula dramatically visualizes
the enrichment in heavy elements due to synthesis of heavier elements
within stars.

This true-color picture was taken on March 5, 1999 with the Wide Field
Planetary Camera 2.

This picture is being presented at the 194th Meeting of the American
Astronomical Society in Chicago.

Credit: Wolfgang Brandner (JPL/IPAC), Eva K. Grebel (Univ. Washington),
You-Hua Chu (Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign), and NASA

NOTE TO EDITORS: Image files and photo caption are available on the
Internet at:
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/1999/20  or via links in:
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/latest.html
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html

Higher resolution digital versions (300 dpi JPEG and TIFF) of the
release image are available at:
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/1999/20/extra-photos.html

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Please ignore the new survey!

I was playing around with the software and thought it would give the
choice of sending the survey announcement or to delete it--it didn't.

I really do not care how old you all are, so please do not reply to the
survey.

Thanks,
Christopher (The List Owner)

Hello,

There is a new survey for the tas-list community.

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Hello,

There is a new survey for the tas-list community.

How old are you?

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o 1-20
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o 46-99


To vote, please visit the following web page:

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Hello--if you are getting this message, you have successfully subscribed
to the tas-list!

To post a message to the list, simply send the message to
"tas-list@onelist.com" without the quotes. Dont forget the dash between
tas and list. That's it.

Right now, there are 20 of us signed up to the list--hpefully we can get
a few more to join.

If you have any problems, just drop me an email.

Regards,

Christopher

PHOTO NO.: STScI-PRC99-20


HUBBLE SNAPSHOT CAPTURES LIFE CYCLE OF STARS

In this stunning picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603, the
crisp resolution of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures various
stages of the life cycle of stars in one single view.

To the upper right of center is the evolved blue supergiant called
Sher 25. The star has a unique circumstellar ring of glowing gas that
is a galactic twin to the famous ring around the supernova 1987A. The
grayish-bluish color of the ring and the bipolar outflows (blobs to the
upper right and lower left of the star) indicates the presence of
processed (chemically enriched) material.

Near the center of the view is a so-called starburst cluster dominated
by young, hot Wolf-Rayet stars and early O-type stars. A torrent of
ionizing radiation and fast stellar winds from these massive stars has
blown a large cavity around the cluster.

The most spectacular evidence for the interaction of ionizing radiation
with cold molecular-hydrogen cloud material are the giant gaseous
pillars to the right and lower left of the cluster. These pillars are
sculptured by the same physical processes as the famous pillars Hubble
photographed in the M16 Eagle Nebula.

Dark clouds at the upper right are so-called Bok globules, which are
probably in an earlier stage of star formation.

To the lower left of the cluster are two compact, tadpole-shaped
emission nebulae. Similar structures were found by Hubble in Orion,
and have been interpreted as gas and dust evaporation from possibly
protoplanetary disks (proplyds). The "proplyds" in NGC 3603 are
5 to 10 times larger in size and correspondingly also more massive.

This single view nicely illustrates the entire stellar life cycle of
stars, starting with the Bok globules and giant gaseous pillars,
followed by circumstellar disks, and progressing to evolved massive
stars in the young starburst cluster. The blue supergiant with its ring
and bipolar outflow marks the end of the life cycle.

The color difference between the supergiant's bipolar outflow and the
diffuse interstellar medium in the giant nebula dramatically visualizes
the enrichment in heavy elements due to synthesis of heavier elements
within stars.

This true-color picture was taken on March 5, 1999 with the Wide Field
Planetary Camera 2.

This picture is being presented at the 194th Meeting of the American
Astronomical Society in Chicago.

Credit: Wolfgang Brandner (JPL/IPAC), Eva K. Grebel (Univ. Washington),
You-Hua Chu (Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign), and NASA

NOTE TO EDITORS: Image files and photo caption are available on the
Internet at:
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/1999/20  or via links in:
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/latest.html
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html

Higher resolution digital versions (300 dpi JPEG and TIFF) of the
release image are available at:
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/1999/20/extra-photos.html

PAYLOAD STATUS REPORT
CHANDRA X-RAY OBSERVATORY


George H. Diller
Kennedy Space Center

Tuesday, June 1, 1999


                 The Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) booster for the Chandra
X-ray
Observatory arrived at the Kennedy Space Center's Vertical Processing
Facility (VPF) at 6 a.m., Tuesday, June 1. This evening it will be
lifted
from it's enclosed transporter and installed into the VPF west test
cell. On
Wednesday evening, June 2, the Chandra X-ray Observatory will be hoisted
from its location in front of the east test cell and mated onto the
two-stage IUS.

                 On Thursday, June 3, the electrical connections between
Chandra and the IUS will be established and the Cargo Integrated Test
Equipment (CITE), an orbiter avionics simulator, will be connected to
the
payload stack. On Friday, June 4, the two-day interface verification
test
(IVT) is to be performed which validates the IUS/Chandra connections and
checks the orbiter avionics interfaces.

                 On Monday, June 7, the end-to-end test (ETE) is to be
conducted. This will verify the communications path to Chandra,
commanding
it as if it were in space.  Participating will be Chandra's operations
control center located in Cambridge, MA; Mission Control at the Johnson
Space Center in Houston; and the communications assets of both the Deep
Space Network and the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) system.
During Chandra's recent dwell period in the VPF, while awaiting the
arrival
of the IUS, the command paths to be used during these upcoming
activities
were able to be established and thoroughly tested.

                 Upon successfully completing these tests, the
IUS/Chandra
payload separation ordnance are to be installed and payload closeouts
will
be performed in preparation for making the transition to Launch Pad
39-B.
The Chandra/IUS combination will be hoisted into the payload canister on
June 18 and transported to the pad payload changeout room on June 21.
Chandra is currently planned to be installed into Columbia's payload bay
on
June 25.

                 At this time, the STS-93 launch is targeted for July 22,
however, this date is under review.

                                                                      # #
#

NASA Science News for June 1, 1999:

How do gusts in solar wind stir the Northern Lights? - A NASA Scientist
studies
data from 3 satellites to figure out what stirs up Earth's Northern
Lights (or
aurora). As the solar wind gusts towards Earth's magnetic shield, an
aurora begins - on the dayside of Earth. The brightening of the aurora
then pulses toward the nightside.  Understanding variations in the solar
wind and its effect on Earth's magnetosphere can help better predict
when major magnetic storms are coming. Full Story:

      http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast01jun99_1.htm

<a href="http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast01jun99_1.htm">
Link for AOL users</a>.

Bill
For the newslist I'm using this screen name.  So it doesn't fill up my
DJenni9361 screen name.  For regular communications the other is fine in the
news letter.
Thanks for Ken's number, see you tomorrow.
Dave

Aspasia144@... wrote:
>
> From: Aspasia144@...
>
> This is a great list, would have missed tomorrows meeting.
> Did anyone look up the Sloan Digital Sky Survey on the web?
> There is a lot of great info on it.
> Who was getting the TAS Jackets and are they ready?
> Dave Jennings
>

Dave -- Ken Slavens is handling the jacket orders.  He can be reached at
(253) 535-5869.  Also, I show your internet e-mail address to be
djenni9631 instead of the aspasial44 used here.  Which one is right?
Just to keep the "Known Internet" list up to date in the newsletter.

--- Bill Lawson

This is a great list, would have missed tomorrows meeting.
Did anyone look up the Sloan Digital Sky Survey on the web?
There is a lot of great info on it.
Who was getting the TAS Jackets and are they ready?
Dave Jennings

Don't forget the club meeting tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. Thompson
Hall.  Dr. Don Brownlee from U. of W. will talk about the Stardust comet
sample return mission.  He will speak ahead of the regular business
meeting.

This list appears to be working fine but the subscribing routine was a
bit confusing.  I hope we get more folks on here, too, Chris.

Sorry to hear about the snow on the road to Sunrise.  That may cause us
to have to cancel the high altitude star party scheduled for the 12th of
June.  There are two more coming.  One in July and one in August,
weather permitting.

--- Bill


Christopher Scott wrote:
>
> From: Christopher Scott <cjscott@...>
>
> Bill,
> You got it right! We have about 8 or so members so far..hope to get more
> as the word spreads.
>
> Christopher
>

Bill,
You got it right! We have about 8 or so members so far..hope to get more
as the word spreads.

Christopher

NASA Science News for May 31, 1999

"Cool" microflares could be solar hot spots - One longstanding mystery
of the
sun is why its outer atmosphere - the corona - is 200 times hotter than
its
surface. Now, a trio of scientists says it's because the corona is
heated by
incessant mini-explosions, called microflares.  Full story:

      http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast31may99_1.htm

Hey all, got this from Mike Fry...

> I was at Mt. Rainier today and the Rangers said that the road to Sunrise
> will not open until
> 2 July, 1999.  If anyone is interested the parking lot at Ricksecker Point,
> at the top of the Nisqually glacier is open and clear of snow.  It has a
> fair southern view and has served as an alternate spot for early high
> altitude party.
>
> Mike Fry

Chris and all:

I finally got registed and a confirming message back.  I hope this is
the proper way to put a posting on the list for others to see.

Hopefully, many TAS members will subscribe here and use this system.  It
could be really interesting!

Good luck, Chris.

--- Bill Lawson
     Northwest Skies

Have you heard about ADASTRA ? It is a neat astronomy program, not real
complicated, but interesting. It is freeware but has a long address. The easiest
way to get to it is by doing a web search on   adastra  Try it, you might like
it. If you have trouble getting it, drop me an email and I'll try to send the
exact address. May the stars get in your eyes !  Ron Greer

Hello Chris~
Yes I signed up as soon as I saw it, I do know of a few good links and I have
been following the online astronomy lessons
My fiance has Question for you in regards to the onelist postings?

Thanks, Pat

Hello Chris, This is Mickie,  I met you last year at the Table mountain star
party. I started a site at onelist and I can't figure how to post the
mailings to send them out automatically. If you have figured this out let me
know what to do. Please send a reply to BaileysLt@.... I appreciate
it......Mickie

Well Pat, looks like it is just me and you so far...Hopefully we can get
a good group here--great for discussing astronomy.

Talk to you later!
Christopher

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