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18300 William McLean
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May 14, 2013
4:30 pm
I've done a bunch of identifying gravitational lenses in the past week. It just tickles my brain. Looks like there's a lot of folks having the same experience....
18301 lawrencewtaylor3
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May 14, 2013
9:59 pm
Sungazers, I spent the morning at St. Mary's in Phoebus with the Personal Solar Telescope (PST). I think that I got all of the classes except for the 2nd grade...
18302 lawrencewtaylor3
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May 14, 2013
10:03 pm
Sungazers, Saturday from 10am-6pm will be Arts in the Park out at Buckroe Beach. I'm going to take the Personal Solar Telescope (PST) if the weather...
18303 lawrencewtaylor3
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May 14, 2013
10:06 pm
Stargazers, Mark shared some more astroimaging knowledge last week with me. We had spectacular skies and weather. It only got down to 60-degrees F with very...
18304 lawrencewtaylor3
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May 14, 2013
10:26 pm
Stargazers, We'll only be a day before First Quarter Moon, so it will be an awesome night to study the Terminator. Lunar X is visible at 6:51pm for about an...
18305 lawrencewtaylor3
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May 14, 2013
10:28 pm
Stargazers, I soldered the broken cable for the Jones Planetarium pointer. Should last for another couple of years of tugging... Clear Dark Skies, Bird...
18306 William McLean
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May 15, 2013
12:06 am
"I'm feeling lucky." he he   Carpe Noctem Bill McLean ________________________________ From: lawrencewtaylor3 <lawrencewtaylor3@...> To:...
18307 currange74 Send Email May 15, 2013
2:18 pm
Bird, Are you going to set up in your front yard to try for the Lunar X - since you won't be at the GAP til later? If so, I may try to zoom over and see if you...
18308 currange74 Send Email May 15, 2013
2:20 pm
Oops- I just looked at the weather forecast. My question seems a bit moot about now. Sorry. George...
18309 Ogburn, Marilyn E. (L...
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May 15, 2013
8:00 pm
Folks interested in astronomy, The York County Department of Parks and Recreation and the NASA Exchange Skywatchers Club will host an observing session...
18310 William McLean
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May 15, 2013
8:30 pm
Hi Marilyn, I hope this finds you well. I am an astronomer on the southside and I have always had one question about your public outreach: Why does your group...
18311 Ogburn, Marilyn E. (L...
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May 15, 2013
8:56 pm
Bill, Our regularly-scheduled viewing sessions for the general public at New Quarter Park are co-hosted by York County, which provides a flyer to visitors with...
18312 William McLean
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May 16, 2013
1:00 pm
Ah ha! Thank you Marilyn. It's the park's call. I'm glad I asked.    Carpe Noctem Bill McLean ________________________________ From: "Ogburn, Marilyn E....
18313 Jim Tallman
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May 16, 2013
10:46 pm
Hi all, I've decide to get rid of my Celestron CPC-800 8" SCT as I recently purchased a nice refractor and I need to make room and help pay for the new ...
18314 Bird Taylor
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May 17, 2013
12:23 am
... Begin forwarded message: From: < Cassini@... > Date: May 16, 2013 8:20:41 PM EDT To: < Cassini@... > Subject: Cassini Significant Events...
18315 Mat Snellings
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May 17, 2013
1:00 pm
Jim What refractor did you get? Mat Snellings...
18316 George Curran
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May 17, 2013
1:20 pm
Commercial Space fans, Spaceflightnow.com has a great short video put out by SpaceX of some of their fairing testing. Worth a look! ...
18317 William McLean
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May 17, 2013
3:10 pm
Good heavens! Thanx George.   Carpe Noctem Bill McLean ________________________________ From: George Curran <george.l.curran@...> To: VPAS...
18318 Taylor, Lawrence W. (...
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May 17, 2013
3:41 pm
Sungazers, I have the Personal Solar Telescope (PST) at work today. How about 1pm in the North field near building 1209 at NASA Langley? The Sun has been very...
18319 currange74 Send Email May 17, 2013
5:59 pm
Yep - that is one BIG fairing. In case anyone wants to launch a bus - there may be a capability! I expect that the tethers were all assumed to not be an...
18320 William McLean
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May 17, 2013
9:18 pm
be lookin' good with the right forecast model. Remember Bird is feeling lucky. 8:25 Bird opens gate   Carpe Noctem Bill McLean be lookin' good with the right...
18321 William McLean
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May 17, 2013
10:48 pm
is visible right now. It's my first daytime sighting!   Carpe Noctem Bill McLean is visible right now. It's my first daytime sighting! Carpe Noctem Bill...
18322 Bird Taylor
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May 18, 2013
1:20 pm
Sungazers, Arts in the Park was just canceled due to small craft warnings and the forecasted weather for tomorrow is worse. Good thing for us Hydrogen-alpha...
18323 vpas@yahoogroups.com Send Email May 18, 2013
1:47 pm
Reminder from: vpas Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vpas/cal Art in the Park Saturday May 18, 2013 10:00 am - 6:00 pm (GMT-05.00) Eastern Time (US &...
18324 jason.tackett32 Send Email May 18, 2013
3:01 pm
That's too bad! This weather stinks......
18325 jason.tackett32 Send Email May 18, 2013
3:03 pm
Hey VPAS, Does anyone have an illuminated reticle eyepiece they would like to sell? One with double cross hairs? I'm looking for one to polar align and guide....
18326 Paul
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May 18, 2013
4:37 pm
In stretches of cloudy weather like this I have been known to say around here, "I feel like I don't even do astronomy anymore." And upon hearing that my wife...
18327 Bird Taylor
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May 18, 2013
7:33 pm
Stargazers, We had some nice enough skies from the start until after a couple of hours of viewing. Mike, Bob, Bill, and a family of three AstroBuddies joined...
18328 Bird Taylor
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May 18, 2013
7:39 pm
Hey Mark, Both wires had to be reconnected to the Makemie Woods collector plate heater strip. I soldered them up in the lab. Judy and I got some silicon and...
18329 Paul Tartabini
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3:35 am
Cool article. Go NASA! http://rt.com/news/meteorite-explosion-moon-earth-441/...
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