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Big Scope dedication date?
by Canopus56 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

At the SLAS meeting lastnight, I did not note down the date of the Big Scope dedication. When was it? - Canopus56 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] New Canon EOS 20Da for astrophotography
by astrodeb＠charter.net 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Thanks David, I found this tonight on the astromart forums. It is in english. http://www.twomobile.com/content/100/336/C3734/ Debbie > > From: "Naz & David" <naz_david(a)msn.com> > Date: 2005/02/18 Fri PM 07:33:39 MST > To: "Utah Astro List" <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Subject: [Utah-astronomy] New Canon EOS 20Da for astrophotography > > Debbie, > > Translation attempt - nice camera :) > > * As for this product it is the camera which we recommend to the method which is done real celestial photographing. * After this product receiving because it becomes incoming order production, order, it becomes the delivered item after approximately 3 months. Beforehand acknowledgement. EOS 20Da body...... open price *1 (incoming order production item *2) type turn: EOS20D-A product code: 0639B001/JAN cord/code: The commodity of 4960999278773 *1 open price has not decided desired retail price. After *2 order receiving, it becomes the delivered item after approximately 3 months. * The CANON plaza S (Shinagawa)/at digital house Zero-One Ginza & Shinjuku Umeda you can view EOS 20Da. Reproduce the starry sky in high picture quality e.g., it improves in approximately 2.5 times that transmissivity EOS of effective pixel several approximately 820 ten thousand pixel large-sized CMOS sensor H ? bright lines which 20D, is suited for celestial photographing at the time of actualizati! on long second even with exposure and high sensitivity photographing low actualizes noise the focus adjusting can do the optical quality which with the second generation on-chip noise removal circuit liquid crystal monitor which "live view mode" on-board Kousei detail do color reappearance processing at super high speed the abundant accessory of the image engine "DIGIC II" all EF lens and the EOS camera which enabled > > Cheers > > David > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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: Re: [Utah-astronomy] SPOC topic/speaker for tomorrow?
by astrodeb＠charter.net 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

how bout astronomy? LOL Debbie > > From: Richard Tenney <retenney(a)yahoo.com> > Date: 2005/02/21 Mon PM 12:29:40 MST > To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] SPOC topic/speaker for tomorrow? > > Okay, THAT'S helpful. Mind sharing with the rest of > us Mr. President?! > > --- ziggy943(a)xmission.com wrote: > > > I do > > > > Quoting Richard Tenney <retenney(a)yahoo.com>: > > > > > Anyone know what's on the agenda for Tuesday > > night? > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 > > _______________________________________________ > 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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SPOC topic/speaker for tomorrow?
by Richard Tenney 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

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Cynthia
by James Colwell 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

My apologies to everyone for this post...I need to get in contact with Cynthia Blue. Please, contact me at this email address in regard to the Utah Astronomy Photo Gallery and my album. Thanks. James.

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Kaboom
by William Biesele 19 Feb '05

19 Feb '05

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4278005.stm

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New Canon EOS 20Da for astrophotography
by Naz & David 19 Feb '05

19 Feb '05

Debbie, Translation attempt - nice camera :) * As for this product it is the camera which we recommend to the method which is done real celestial photographing. * After this product receiving because it becomes incoming order production, order, it becomes the delivered item after approximately 3 months. Beforehand acknowledgement. EOS 20Da body...... open price *1 (incoming order production item *2) type turn: EOS20D-A product code: 0639B001/JAN cord/code: The commodity of 4960999278773 *1 open price has not decided desired retail price. After *2 order receiving, it becomes the delivered item after approximately 3 months. * The CANON plaza S (Shinagawa)/at digital house Zero-One Ginza & Shinjuku Umeda you can view EOS 20Da. Reproduce the starry sky in high picture quality e.g., it improves in approximately 2.5 times that transmissivity EOS of effective pixel several approximately 820 ten thousand pixel large-sized CMOS sensor H α bright lines which 20D, is suited for celestial photographing at the time of actualization long second even with exposure and high sensitivity photographing low actualizes noise the focus adjusting can do the optical quality which with the second generation on-chip noise removal circuit liquid crystal monitor which "live view mode" on-board Kousei detail do color reappearance processing at super high speed the abundant accessory of the image engine "DIGIC II" all EF lens and the EOS camera which enabled Cheers David

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] SPOC on channel 4
by Canopus56 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

If someone recorded this, maybe they could bring it in for a replay at the next SLAS meeting. It might be worth a laugh. - Canopus56 (Kurt) __________________________________ 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] WOW!!!
by Canopus56 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

Canopus56 wrote: > [H]opefully it will speed up the funding process . . . Jim replied: >Ah, we have motive for the announcement...I am largely skeptical. No, I don't think there is funding stumping by NASA going on. It's probably just a researcher who feels they are onto something significant enough - confirmation of life on another planet - to issue a teaser. I share your skepticism and also keep a watchful waiting-outlook based on some of the experiences you mentioned. My skepticism is also based on a saying, often attributed to Carl Sagan that, "I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." (I have never been able to find the exact source of the quote. I assume it was somewhere in Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark" (1997).) If this researcher's claim is that there is a unique biological gas marker in the methane gas mix seen in spectrographs of Mars, analogus to a unique biological marker coming from anaerobic life forms in an iron-polluted stream on Earth - well it had better be a darned unique gas marker and not something explainable by other non-biological geologic processes. - Peace, Canopus56 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] WOW!!!
by Canopus56 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

I'm not getting up any hopes from these pre-release teasers. (Well, at least I trying to restrain myself. -:) Few of the general public realize that over 1/2 the biomass on the continents is located below ground and consists of Archean anaerobic life forms driven there by the caustic (to them) oxygen in Earth's atmosphere. The implication of this is that if life exists on Mars or Jovian moons, it's subsurface, driven there by changes early in their planetary or moon's atmosphere. Going there and drilling is going to be the only way to find out. If this teaser does prove out, hopefully it will speed up the funding process for NASA's Deep-Drill Lander. At present, the Deep Drill Lander is only an idea on JPL's drawing boards. http://mars3.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/future/futureMissions.html\ http://mars3.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/images/deep-drill-lander.jpg - Peace Canopus56 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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