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Boy scout star party in Lehi Friday Night
by Richard Tenney 06 Apr '03

06 Apr '03

Can any of you help out with a boy scout star party this coming Friday night in Lehi? From 10-11 pm (remember, DST now) they want someone to come talk about astronomy and show them a few things in telescopes for about an hour or so. Anticipate about 100 boys. I will be there if I'm feeling better by then (fighting a cold as I write this). It's at Willow Park Campground in Lehi, in the first campsite, approx 3 miles from I-15, near the Jordan River (I've never been there, so I can't give you any better detail than that). Anyway, please RSVP the list if you can help out. Thanks, Rich __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com

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Whoa! There's a War (OT) :-)
by Patrick Wiggins 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

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RE: [Utah-astronomy] SETI positive hit
by Dale Hooper 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

Rich, You're way ahead of me, I'm at 7205. But, on a more serious "positive hit" note; you're probably aware but most others aren't, that the SETI@Home people had some time at Arecibo about a week ago to "revisit" 166 of the most promising signal sites. They will be analyzing the data to see if anything continues to remain promising. Here is a link: http://planetary.org/stellarcountdown/reobservations_8.html When I originally built my radio telescope, I planned on using it at least part-time for setileague.org stuff. So far, I haven't done that - partially because I've been too busy to write any good data analysis software. But, I'm still getting good 1420 MHz data that is piling up. <g> > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Tenney [mailto:retenney@yahoo.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 1:45 PM > To: Astronomy in Utah > Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] SETI positive hit > > > I'm a fool a lot longer than April 1; I've been at > this thing since '99 and have processed 10,768 work > units as I write this. Can you believe that? (Patting > myself on the back...). I figured even if nobody > (whatever the race color or creed, romulan or vulcuan > or ferengi) is out there listening or sending, it's > still a cool distributed processing concept that has > put a lot of idle cpu cycles to good use; think of it > as yet another very successful Pro/Am collaboration. > > Come join the Utah Astronomers team if you want your > PC's screensaver to actually DO something (shameless > promotion here, sorry): > > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_89516.html > > > -Rich > > --- Joe Bauman <bau(a)desnews.com> wrote: > > Hey, Did you guys hear the news out of Project > > SETI?? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > (April fool) > > > > Joe Bauman > > science & military reporter > > Deseret News > > bau(a)desnews.com > > (801) 237-2169 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > > > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more > http://platinum.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy >

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RE: [Utah-astronomy] OT Fencing
by Kim Hyatt 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

I believe that's the club in Foothill? (I live about four blocks from there.) -----Original Message----- From: Greg Taylor [mailto:astronomus_maximus@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 3:40 PM To: Astronomy in Utah Subject: [Utah-astronomy] OT Fencing What club? The salt lake femcing club seems to be rather expensive for a year. (maby if you have your own equipment it would cost lest) Also, they meet at really obtuse hours. (8 or 9 pm) Greg --- Kim Hyatt <khyatt(a)smithlayton.com> wrote: > Yeah, I fenced foil and epee, but it was years ago. > I've been tempted to > take it up again - there's even a fencing club near > my home. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Taylor > [mailto:astronomus_maximus@yahoo.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 8:45 PM > To: Astronomy in Utah > Subject: RE: [Utah-astronomy] SLAS meeting? > > > > Kim, > > Do you do any fencing yourself? I dabbled in it a > bit > several years ago and I wouldn't mind taking it up > again. (I preferred the Epee) > > Greg > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, > live on your desktop! > http://platinum.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy

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RE: [Utah-astronomy] SETI positive hit
by Dale Hooper 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

I heard it on the internet, so its gotta be true. > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Bauman [mailto:bau@desnews.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:21 AM > To: Astronomy in Utah > Subject: [Utah-astronomy] SETI positive hit > > > Hey, Did you guys hear the news out of Project SETI?? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > (April fool) > > Joe Bauman > science & military reporter > Deseret News > bau(a)desnews.com > (801) 237-2169 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy >

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] NGC5139
by Karen Pierce 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

At 04:53 PM 3/28/03 EST, you wrote: >At that latitude, Omega Centauri is only 3 degrees above the horizon. At my >37 degree latitude, it is 6 degrees above the horizon. I'll bet it looks good >at the Grand Canyon. I like to go as far south as possible to get a good >view. > >Debbie > >__________________ We do see it at the Grand Canyon North Rim when we do our annual Grand Canyon Star Parties in June. We can often see it before it gets completely dark with binoculars and then the telescopes. We have fun showing it from the porch at the Grand Canyon Lodge. Deloy and Karen Pierce

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