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Re: Comet
by Chuck Hards 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

Patrick, I believe the tail has "disappeared" because of our viewing alignment. The tail is now behind the comet from our perspective. We are almost directly between the comet and the sun. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

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Huygens photos
by Chuck Hards 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

The ESA site is getting so many hits that actually getting a page to load seems to be hit-or-miss. If you have AOL, there is a slide show on the homepage and 2 of the images are from Huygens. One is the same one Dave sent me, from several kilometers high during the descent. The other is from THE SURFACE! Up close, Titan looks like...Mars! A lot like Mars, but the shot is very low-resolution. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

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RE: [Utah-astronomy] Re: Huygens
by Corr, Tom 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

Where is Dave's first image? [Signature] -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Hards [mailto:chuckhards@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 12:51 PM To: utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Re: Huygens Thanks to Dave Dunn for supplying the first image, WOW! Erosion, weather! The link to images on the ESA page isn't responding right now; I bet their server is smoking from the hits! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com

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Cassini-Huygens Website down?
by Chuck Hards 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm I keep getting a message that this site isn't available...great timing :( Anybody know what's going on? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com

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Re: Huygens
by Chuck Hards 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

Thanks to Dave Dunn for supplying the first image, WOW! Erosion, weather! The link to images on the ESA page isn't responding right now; I bet their server is smoking from the hits! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Re: Best space/sci-fi movie ever
by Chuck Hards 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

There's the problem, Rich. Sci-Fi TV today is soap-opera serials. The entire season tells one long story and you have to see every episode, every week, to get the full story. ST TOS was written by many different writers working within the model, so each episode could stand alone. Like Debbie, I caught a few episodes of B5 but was not impressed at all and quickly dismissed it as the same old thing, about on-par with that boring ST space-station series. If I need to see the entire run, every week, then they've lost me and I'll never like it. Who has time (or the inclination) to watch that much TV as an adult? Rich wrote; > FWIW, my hard-core Sci-Fi friends (including Mark > Dakins) claim that the best SF show ever made for TV > was Babylon 5. I never saw it consistently or often > enough to have an opinion, but they say if you watch > it from the beginning you will be impressed... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com

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Re: Swap Meet (message for Jo)
by Chuck Hards 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

Jo, I don't seem to have your email address in my Yahoo address book. When you reply I'll rectify that. I've assembled quite a pile of stuff for the swap meet, but also a bunch of stuff that's not for sale, by request of folks who just want to examine it for ideas...I don't want to assume more space than I'm being offered, so please let me know (off-list if you like) if I should pare things down a bit or bring my own table. I can always leave the show-and-tell at home, for another occassion, if you consider that course more appropriate. Thanks again for your efforts, and the generosity of the church members and pastor. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

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Re: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Comet pix anyone?
by astrodeb＠charter.net 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

Siefried, I have a picture of the comet but I can't send it to you because I can't get on the internet at home. I sent a copy to Rob so maybe he can send it to you. You are welcome to use it. I may get the cable restored next week. I had a good opportunity to view it Tuesday night as the power, cable, and phones went down in Green Valley. It was darker than usual there so I got a good view of it high in the sky. Debbie "You have the play the hand you are dealt" > > From: "Siegfried Jachmann" <ziggy943(a)xmission.com> > Date: 2005/01/13 Thu PM 09:31:44 MST > To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Comet pix anyone? > > Speaking of comet pictures, I would like 3 or 4 people to share their comet > observations and pictures at the January SLAS meeting. Any voluteers or do > we need to institute a draft? > > Siegfried > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Patrick Wiggins" <paw(a)trilobyte.net> > To: "utah astronomy listserve" <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 5:31 PM > Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Comet pix anyone? > > > > Anyone get any pictures of the comet last night (Wednesday)? > > > > I tried (as before using an ST-237 and C14 @ f/3.0) but even using > > exposures that were 4 times longer than when I tried earlier in the month > > the tail hardly showed at all. > > > > Patrick > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > > Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com >

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Re: Huygens
by Chuck Hards 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

Kim, they just interviewed a scientist from ESA live in Germany on Science Friday. He said they were looking at an image, taken during descent I believe, of gullies and great evidence of weather erosion! I'm dying to see an image! The scientist said they got HOURS of data, and HUNDREDS of images. The landing panorama is supposed to be released in the morning. Titan is now and forever a place, not just a dot in the sky...getting a little misty-eyed here, one of those not-often-enough occassions when I'm actually proud to be human being! Kim wrote: > is a lot of bragging about how successful the > Huygens mission has been, but not a word about > successful imaging. When/where do we get to see > IMAGES? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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RE: [Utah-astronomy] Hygens
by David Dunn 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

I was listening to the broadcast earlier. They weren't expecting any images until about 4:00 ET (I think). The Hygens was on the ground and still transmitting the carrier even after Cassini was transmitting to us. They were even trying to arrange for other radio telescopes to pick up the signal so that they could learn from dopler shift, etc. They were speaking multiple languages so I didn't understand a lot of what they were saying. Dave

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