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Today's EPOD - 10-22-2006
by Canopus56 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

Today's EPOD is one an animated equinox gif I made about the Gallivan Center sundial. http://epod.usra.edu/ If you read this on the 23rd, use this link: http://epod.usra.edu/archive/epodviewer.php3?oid=331296 - Kurt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Comet Swan report
by Canopus56 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

I got away for a quick trip up to Little Mtn. at 9:00 PM tonight to see if I could locate C/2006 M4 (Swan). This was a little late, the best time being right after sunset. By 9:00 PM MDT, the comet was only around 30 deg alt in the NNW sky at 290 az. A better time for tomorrow night at around astronomical twilight at 8:00 pm., when the comet will be at about 55 alt, az 280. In a mag 4.3 heavily light polluted sky and use 8 x 35 binoculars, I was able to easily find the coma of Comet Swan at 30 arcmins s.w. of mu01 Boo. The nucleus was probably around mag 6 and a diameter of 5 to 7 arcmins. Looking through this urban sky, the tail was not visible. The comet is easily located by using alf CrB and the tail of the Big Dipper as a finding line to locate two of the northern stars of the pentagon of upper Bootes - 3.5 bet Boo and 3.5 del Boo. About midway and 3 degrees northeast of del Boo and 3 degrees northwest of bet Boo is mag 4.3 mu01 Boo. Its the first brighter star north of the del Boo - bet Boo line. Tonight - 10/21/2006 - Comet Swan was 1/2 deg south west of mu01 Boo. Tomorrow night - 10/22/2006 - Comet Swan will be 1 3/4 degs north of mu01 Boo. It is prominent and not difficult to locate. Detailed finder charts are not necessary to acquire the object. Comet Swan is moving up out of the ecliptic so extinction and position are improving. As the comet moves on it exit track it will get dimmer, but it appears quite bright now. >From my NELM map of the SPOC sky, this may be a good target to view from SPOC. From Little Mtn, NNW az 280-290 looks through the Bountiful light spike. From SPOC, there is a dark hole near az 290 50 alt over the lake. Tonight is the Orionid meteor shower from a radiant at RA 6.3 Dec. 16. Watching all-sky for 10 minutes at 9:00pm, I saw one mag 3 meteor not aligned to the radiant and a second mag 3 that was aligned to the radiant. I am setting my alarm clock for 3 or 4 am to take a quick peak when Orion is nearing transit. The ZHR for the Orionids is 25. - Kurt __________________________________________________ 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] Stargazing at Arches
by Canopus56 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

Ann, In followup to your prior posts on stargazing and national parks: 10/20/2006 Press-Sun Bulletin - New York Northern Pa. mountaintop a haven for heaven-watchers Associated Press By Dan Nephin "The National Park Service also is on board with the idea [of establishing a dark-sky reserve at a state park in New York.] "Since 1916, our mission has been to preserve scenery and currently that includes the night sky scenery," said Chad Moore, program manager for the National Park Service's Night Sky Team. While no national park is currently designated a dark-sky park, certification plans through the International Dark-Sky Association are in the works, he said. Even so, interest is growing at the national park level. In many national parks, nighttime programs are the most popular ranger-led programs," he said. At Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, where Moore works, 27,000 people visited the park for full-moon hikes, bat walks, telescope viewing and the like over six months, he said." http://tinyurl.com/ybcj4h or http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061020/LIFESTYLE/… - Kurt __________________________________________________ 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 OAS website
by David Dunn 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

We would like to have our website link updated or added to the links of the other organizations. We would also like to add more links to our site. If anyone has a site that we should like to, please let me know. We would like to have SLAS, Patrick and Utah Valley add or update us on their sites. I can't get to the SLAS website this morning. Is it still http://SLAS.us Thanks. Dave -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces+david.dunn=albertsons.com(a)mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces+david.dunn=albertsons.com@mailman.xmissio n.com] On Behalf Of Patrick Wiggins Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:15 PM To: utah astronomy listserve Subject: [Utah-astronomy] New OAS website http://www.ogdenastronomy.com pw _______________________________________________ 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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New OAS website
by Patrick Wiggins 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

http://www.ogdenastronomy.com pw

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RE: [Utah-astronomy] Unintended side effects
by Seth Jarvis 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

OK, you guys piqued my curiosity. "Sky Mirror" can been found on multiple web sites, and the address given is Rockefeller Center, 5th Ave. between 49th & 50th Streets. I used Google Earth to locate that area, and found that the mirror faces northwest and is bracketed on either side by tall buildings. The concave side of the mirror only has a skyward view of the GE building. The opposite side of the mirror is convex and faces 5th Ave. It looks cool. Facing NW as it does, this time of year there's no way the mirror can get any direct sunlight. It goes off display on the 27th. (Maybe Lex Luthor has plans for it.) Seth Jarvis -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces+sjarvis=slco.org(a)mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces+sjarvis=slco.org@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Hards Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:55 PM To: Utah-Astro Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Unintended side effects I'm not sure what the focal length of this thing is, but with the sun in the right place, "pop" goes the pedestrian! http://www.msnbc.com/modules/interactive.aspx?type=ss&launch=15143967,384233 1&pg=3 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.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: [Utah-astronomy] Unintended side effects
by Michael Carnes 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

Wonder if they aligned it to burn special offices on the equinoxes. > >Is that squab I smell cooking? Oh, wait, it's the >pigeons on the ledge... > >--- Michael Carnes <michaelcarnes(a)earthlink.net> >wrote: > >> >> >I'm not sure what the focal length of this thing >> is, >> >but with the sun in the right place, "pop" goes the >> >pedestrian! >> >> Looks to me like that fellow who gets a window >> office across the street--about the 15th floor--will >> definitely need the SPF-300. > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.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: [Utah-astronomy] Unintended side effects
by Michael Carnes 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

>I'm not sure what the focal length of this thing is, >but with the sun in the right place, "pop" goes the >pedestrian! Looks to me like that fellow who gets a window office across the street--about the 15th floor--will definitely need the SPF-300.

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Unintended side effects
by Chuck Hards 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

I'm not sure what the focal length of this thing is, but with the sun in the right place, "pop" goes the pedestrian! http://www.msnbc.com/modules/interactive.aspx?type=ss&launch=15143967,38423… __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Hey Rob, how are things after the Hawaii quake?
by Patrick Wiggins 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

Hi Rob, Care to let us all know how things are with you and Haleakala after the quake?

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