for those interested in dark skies ... Subject: [DOME-L] Street lights Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 16:11:07 -0600 From: Terry Johnson <tenacious@...> ...
Kris McCall
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Who would of thought that an economic incentive would bring change in favor of the environment I wonder if all those tree hugging eco terrorists read this and...
Friends - We have decided to cancel tomorrow night's Messier Marathon at Spot Observatory and reschedule it for Sat 4/5. The winter storm expected to pass...
... For anyone who might be interested, I've put up lists of Messier objects for each month based on the information found in Harvard Pennington's book The...
Thanks for letting me know. Both the URLs in your message work for me, in both IE and Firefox. I'm not sure what's wrong. The URL in my original message didn't...
Saturday March 15th, 7:30 PM The Impact Imperative Location: VBAS Planetarium, Monte Sano State Park, Huntsville, AL Guest speaker Dr. Jonathan Campbell will...
For some of you that I already told about this; note the time change. It now says 7pm on their website. University of the South, Sewanee, TN March 17th, 7pm ...
All Here is a link with Dr Friedman's image and credentials http://mstecker.com/pages/gmtfreedman.htm Bill -- veritas vos liberabit "The Truth Will Set You...
Friends - I recently replaced my Astrotech AT102ED refractor with a Stellarvue SV102ED refractor. The focuser on the AT102ED was always a suspect performer...
Very nice Steve! Congrats on your Christmas gift as well! Thanks! Allen Friends - I recently replaced my Astrotech AT102ED refractor with a Stellarvue SV102ED...
Astronomers, Who is a good candidate for our next Friend of the Milky Way award? President Liz raised this question and we discussed possibilities at our last...
Arthur will be missed. "Childhood's End was one of the first Science Fiction books I read about 58 years ago and I have been reading him ever since. His was...
Physics Nobel laureate to describe new insights into the early universe 3-13-2008 George F. Smoot Nobel laureate George F. Smoot from the University of ...
With Foundation, Robots, and Rama, Sir Arthur helped to expand my universe more than 30 years ago. I believe the only grand master still alive is Ray Bradbury....
Kris McCall
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Kris Not to be picky, but.................. Foundation, and robots were books written by " Issac Asimov" See link below ...
"Childhood's End" and "A Fall of Moondust" were two of the small number of science fiction books available in the public library of the West Tennessee county...
Bill is absolutely right. Guess I was just taken away by the memories of discovery so long ago when Heinlein, Asimov, Herbert, Clark, and many others...
Kris McCall
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When I was in the 10th grade my English teacher assigned 2001: A Space Odyssey to the class to read (that was late 1969, right after the movie came out). I...
Spencer, Kris I too am of the generation wo grew up with the Giants......Asimove, Clark, Bradley, etc. I can still remember sitting in the theater so long ago...
Friends - I don't usually like to "toot my own horn" so to speak, but one of my first images with the Stellarvue SV102ED (M81-82) has made the "Stellar Shot of...
CONGRATULATIONS & GREAT JOB, STEVE!! Self-tooting is definitely in order for something like this. Bob Rice Steve Wheeler <wsw261@...> wrote: Friends - ...
Steve Exceptionally nice shot, and congrats on making the shot of the week as well! Bill -- veritas vos liberabit "The Truth Will Set You Free" ... From:...
Steve, let me add my congratulations! I do note that the very perceptive management of TN Astronomy beat him to it with your Orion Nebula image! Best...
Mark-Bill-Bob - Thanks! And let me say a special thanks to the TN Astronomy management - they have excellent taste in astrophotography... he he! Steve Wheeler...
Wow, very nice shot Steve! Congrats! Allen Friends - I don't usually like to "toot my own horn" so to speak, but one of my first images with the Stellarvue...