I'm going to be up at the VIS on Saturday nite, the 12th. Anyone doing a darksky trek on the night of the 11th? I know the moon is going to be a problem. ...
hi, my name is gordan mccormick. and i plan to visit your state sometime between dec. and jan. (depending on what is going on ,astronomy wise,during this...
Aloha WHACos! Don't forget tonight's meeting at Keck beginning at 7 and the pre-meeting social dinner at the Parker Food Court around 6. Tonight's guest...
Aloha, I'm hosting a small group of home schoolers and their parents (about 1/1 ratio) this Saturday night at the dark site. If anyone who has a telescope...
Aloha Doug, I would have loved to give you a hand, but my telescope was just packed today, I'm left with no telescope of mine for the coming month (my last...
Aloha, For those of you keeping track of the "Pluto as planet" debate, there's news on MSNBC today. Looks like a messy ending may be voted in on the 24th of...
Aloha, Our Friend Greg Wirth of Keck sent this out today.....enjoy...(you'll need to paste all of the lines of the http address together....it separates them...
Aloha, For those of you who went out last night to see the ISS passover, it was awesome! The ISS passed not very far from Jupiter, giving an excellent...
I think the significance of the press release on which the NPR story is based is that it begins to rule out exotic explanations for dark matter -- for example,...
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carlton lane
carltona27@...
Aug 23, 2006 8:52 am
Hi Laura and Others, MSNBC does much better than NPR on Dark Matter Evidence with GREAT color picture showing separated matters. To find try the following. ...
Here's the image Carlton talks about: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14453775/ You really have to read the caption and the image credits at the bottom. This image...
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carlton lane
carltona27@...
Aug 23, 2006 3:46 pm
Hi Laura and Others, If anyone is looking at the time of day of these exchanges, well---------. Is it ethical? Is embryonic stem cell research ethical? I'll...
Hi guys, To lift a bit of the controversy on the optical/X-Ray/Weak lensing image, let me just clarify what I see from an astrophysicist point of view. The...
Aloha WHACos! Are folks aware of the upcoming SMART-1 impact on the Moon, Saturday Sept 2, 2006 at 7:41 PM? The impact should take place between the Crater...
Hi WHAC'os, Craig C and I have communicated a bit and we are planning an impromptu get together at my house in Waikoloa Village to observe the event this...
Hello All, I'd like to invite everybody to attend the next WHAC meeting to be held at the CFHT conference room, next Tuesday at 19:00. I'll have the honor to...
Hi, My family and I are visiting Hawai'i from 9/15 to 9/24 and we would like to find an amateur group to do some nighttime observing. I work at the Jet...
The Council of Planets has met, and declared that the International Astronomical Union is no longer officially a union. The IAU is now to be classified as a...
Hi All, I was out at the club dark site two nights ago, and it was very impressive. The weather is expected to hold for this weekend, so I'm going to get the...
Since the MPC can assign numbers to celestial bodies that have other designations, I think they should give one to *all* the planets (even Earth) to keep...
Hey WHAC'os… ….If I understand things correctly, our pre-dawn sky tomorrow will be interesting… The ISS is scheduled to overfly the Big Island Wednesday...
Craig, A question on some conflicting information in your message. Is it happening tomorrow, which is Tues. the 19, or is it happening on Wensday which is the...
Hi, Yeah, I thoroughly messed that message up. It was early this morning Tue the 19th. I saw ISS and one other object following it through high cirrus...
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Sep 19, 2006 5:37 pm
Hi Craig, I was thrilled to see the ISS overfly this morning at about 5:30 am. even it was overcast. It was somewhere near the bright star Acamar I believed...
Aloha WHACos, The Mauna Kea weather report is still a bit premature for forecasting the weekend weather, but its been pretty consistent for the last couple of...
Dear WHAC'os, I am sorry for acidentaly triplicating the emails that got sent out last night. After corecting craig for a mess up I royaly blow it myself. No...
