July 2003 - Utah-Astronomy - mailman.xmission.com

beautiful meteor
by Thomas Sevcik 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

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Today's NASA Briefing
by Patrick Wiggins 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Two things of note out of today's briefing. 1) The briefer noted they have received 132 reports of found debris in CA, 130 in AZ and 9 in NM but that none had been confirmed. He made no mention of Utah. 2) The picture mentioned in the Aviation Week article was shown. Some of the media has been playing it up as being "hi resolution". Don't know that I'd call it hi-res but it does show the shape of the orbiter and maybe there's "something" with the left wing but the image is so pixcelated it's hard to say for sure. No doubt the picture will be all over the TV tonight.

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New Saturn Picture
by Siegfried Jachmann 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Joe, I see it the same way and wondered the same thing even before reading your post. The ring is not parallel with the belts. I'm also wondering where the top of the planet disappeared to. Siegfried Jachmann Family History Network Comptroller 801-553-8881

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moon photo
by Joe Bauman 27 Oct '03

27 Oct '03

Hi Friends, if anyone is interested, here's a view I took of the moon through my little 8" Thursday night -- I would love to know what star that is by the right. It's similar to the photo the Deseret News ran with my article about the eclipse, because our photographer shot through my telescope. But this is one I took with a different DN digital camera than the one he was using. It's part of a series of views I made. Once I get a freeware stacking program working better, I may be able to provide a much nicer view. Best wishes, Joe Joe Bauman science & military reporter Deseret News bau(a)desnews.com (801) 237-2169

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15x70's are back
by Richard Tenney 06 Oct '03

06 Oct '03

FYI Although the Sportsman Guide 15x70 Galileo binoculars were out of stock when I sent the last emailing out about them, a list member checked back today and they are in stock again. The total with ground shipping is $82.45 Chuck Hards also informs me that he still has 2 sets of Solar Filters for these babies leftover from his last e-bay auction; $25 a pair (it's a steal). -Rich __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com

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Terrific Mars images...
by Richard Tenney 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

...taken through a humble 6-inch Criterion RV-6 Dynascope no less using a digital web cam: http://home.austin.rr.com/campbelp/mars.html The really interesting thing is (aside from the quality of the images) is the rapidly growing size of the planet. I posted this yesterday but have no idea if anyone saw it given the problems with xmission. Apologies if this post is redundant. Rich __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] 25x100mm binos
by UTAHDEB＠aol.com 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

Chuck, Looking forward to a review. I'd love to take those to Bryce Canyon. Debbie

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Mars
by Chuck Hards 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets and yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us. At midnight on the twelfth of August, a huge mass of luminous gas erupted from Mars and sped towards Earth. Across two hundred million miles of void, invisibly hurtling towards us, came the first of the missles that were to bring so much calamity to Earth. As I watched, there was another jet of gas. It was another missle, starting on its way. And that's how it was for the next ten nights. A flare, spurting out from Mars-bright green, drawing a green mist behind it-a beautiful, but somehow disturbing sight. Ogilvy, the astronomer, assured me we were in no danger. He was convinced there could be no living thing on that remote, forbidding planet. >From Jeff Wayne's musical adaptation of H. G. Wells novel "The War of the Worlds". __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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Fwd: Trifid Nebula
by Debbie 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

--- In digital_astro(a)yahoogroups.com, "sc02492" <sc02492@y...> wrote: Hi- Here's a shot of the Trifid Nebula from last night: http://mysite.verizon.net/sc02492/m20.jpg I've never had a clear enough view of the southern New England sky to image M20 until now. This is taken with the Canon 10D at f5 through the LX90, IDAS LPS filter, guided with the STV autoguider. 4 shots at ISO 800, 8 minutes each, calibrated with adaptive dark frames (ImagesPlus), registered in Registar, and processed in Photoshop 7. I purposefully didn't enhanced color too much- I like a more subdued look for this nebula. Hope you like it! Steve Cannistra --- End forwarded message ---

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25x100mm binos
by Chuck Hards 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

OK, at $249, I couldn't resist. I ordered them yesterday, and was told they were in-stock and would ship right away. Review to follow, if I ever get a day off. C. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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