As I said earlier, The Big Dipper can help you find other constellations. We already used it to find Ursa Minor by using Merak and Dubhe, the two stars at the...
Today we will begin to turn our attention at long last to the Spring Constellations. The Great Bear or Ursa Major is now getting high in the North Eastern sky...
The following is a copy of the note that Niko left on the 'All Astronomy Club': The chat sessions are pretty good folks, and this club is a member of the...
Hi tennisgirl, In answer to your question, How many years from 2002 will the orbital paths of Neptune and Pluto cross, it is 225 yrs. Every 248 years their...
A member of the British Parliment has asked Prime Minister Blair to take time from his bust schedule in meetings with President Bush to discuss the need for...
I have created a folder in the FILES section whose name is 'Beginners Lessons'. I have added the lessons that I posted in the other club during the winter...
This week we are moving to a new location. NK International Astronomy Club (NKIAC) club will be our host. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NKIAC/ On Saturday...
I'll give ya some feed back Jeff By asking for feedback I'm assumming you are searching for more activity from this group. One suggestion is perhaps having one...
What would you like to see this group be? Where would you like to see our focus be placed? Should be concentrate on helping beginning amateur astronomers to ...
The 2002 budget for Nasa is $14.5 billion, I though an interesting thread would be to see if you thought it was too much or too little and where it should be...
Folks, I just got this e-mail from one of my 'All Astronomy' club members who runs an anti-spam club. Check your account info - we've all been reset to asking...
I hear the information so sporadically in the mainstream press, I lose track of it. I am referring to launches of space probes having to do with Mars, the...
Last night I was able to show my daughter four planets and the Moon in my scope all in about five minutes time. Right now Venus, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter all...
Here is a good link on finding the comet: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/news/020227comet.shtml If you haven't seen it yet, try to get out to a dark place...
I found this to be an interesting link: http://spaceguard.ias.rm.cnr.it/ So I added it to a new folder in the bookmarks section under 'Solar System Links'. The...
While we are having trouble posting messages back and forth I thought I would spend a little time cleaning up and organizing our links section. It had grown in...
A team of Australian and British astronomers believe that they have independant evidence of the acceleration of the universe based upon the clustering patterns...
The man who complied the 'Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies' was born on this day 75 years ago. Dr. Arp has never shied away from controversy, and has claimed that ...
I just deleted two postings here. I hate to do that when the club is as quiet as it has been lately, but we are not a place to 1) advertise our wares, or 2)...
This Tuesday evening the asteroid Vesta will pass very close to Saturn. If you have never seen an asteroid before this should be a great chance to identify...
I recently bought a Newtonian Reflector, had a few questions and found the members extremely helpful in gettin g them answered. Is ther anyone else who owns an...
As you can tell reading the last few posts, there was NO CHAT SESSION this week! Sorry about the multiple posts, yahoo just stored them up and eventually...
We are a Group now! Welcome to the 'Brave New World' of Groups! I'll load up some files soon to take advantage of our new status. I have a few documents with...
Due to Yahoo converting all the astronomy clubs that are part of the multi-club chat session to groups this week, AND the fact that all those groups will be...
Sorry Folks! Due to Yahoo tranisitioning all of the last of the clubs that are in our multi-club chat session to groups this week coupled with Yahoo's ...