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Nova Scorpii
by Chuck Hards 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

Easily visible this morning in 12x25mm binocular. The nova forms the head of a little kite-shaped asterism, oriented roughly north-south. Still not visible to the unaided eye, but there was more high cloud this morning than yesterday. It should be visible from a rural location- Kim, have you taken a peek yet? I am not getting my own posts at all anymore. I'm going to check my mail settings on the list tools page and see if something got changed inadvertantly. ____________________________________________________________________________________ We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265

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E-mail
by Ann House 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

I have good luck with my g-mail account. How can you beat Google these days? -A

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Filter test -please ignore-
by Chuck Hards 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

Sorry about this, folks. Using the Yahoo filter tools is not a straightforward business. Test #5 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front

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Filter test -please ignore-
by Chuck Hards 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

Test #4. Filters are finicky things. ____________________________________________________________________________________ We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265

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Filter test -please ignore-
by Chuck Hards 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

Hmmm. The yahoo filter does not seem to work. Test #3. Test #1 disappeared into the ozone. Test #2 was still delivered to the "bulk" folder. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com

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Filter test - please ignore -
by Chuck Hards 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

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Filter test message - please ignore -
by Chuck Hards 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

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Anyone Watching Beyond the Final Frontier?
by Patrick Wiggins 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

Anyone else watching Beyond the Final Frontier tonight? Maybe a bit long but I'm finding it a fun and nostalgic trip down Memory Lane. I liked Kathryn Janeway's comment about few doctors or lawyers watching doctor or lawyer shows but that virtually every scientist she's ever met loves Star Trek. pw, lover of all things Trek

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Anamorphic lens
by Michael Carnes 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

While traveling on business, I was shown around a film projection room. On a shelf was an anamorphic projection lens. As many of you doubtless know, the anamorphic process uses a pair of lenses to create a widescreen image on standard 35mm or 70mm film. The photographic lens squeezes the image along the horizontal axis so that the image looks narrow. The projection lens reverses this process to restore the original wide image. The process has been around for decades and was pioneered by Todd A/O. This was the first time I'd ever seen an anamorphic lens. The projection lens was about 3 inches in diameter and perhaps 8 or 9 inches long. Looking through the lens you could see a distinct cats- eye shape for the light path. It was a cool-looking chunk of glass. This of course has nothing to do with astronomy except for the aforementioned chunk of glass. MC

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Nova Scorpii
by Michael Carnes 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

Got it here, Chuck. >I'm still not getting my own posts so thanks for >letting me know that it came through, Joe.

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