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M57 +73PSW-3
by daniel turner 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Mark your calendar for early evening May 7. Their will be a close encounter between the Ring nebula and periodic comet 73P. The comet will be close to earth so its exact position in the sky will depend stongly on your location on the globe. Go to spaceweather.com and use the link at the bottom of the page for "Observable Comets". 73p is in the list and includes orbital elements and a link for daily ephemerides. DT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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OT: Sports cars
by Chuck Hards 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

Just wondering if any other astro list members share my interest in sports cars and roadsters. I'm not talking about "point and shoot" horsepower muscle cars, but cars that go fast yet were designed for curves. Cars that were meant to be driven on the open road and enjoyed for the driving experience. Some examples would include the MG midget, the Triumph Spitfire, TR6 or TR7, Toyota 2000 GT, Jaguar XK-E series, Datsun 1600, 2000, or 240Z, Mazda RX-7, Miata, RX-8. Anybody?

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Re: Way to go Patrick!
by Canopus56 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Congrats Patrick. If the weather goddess is cooperative, for those of you who want to try for 2007 TU24, at 10:00pm MST tonight 1-30-2008, the asteriod will be within 20 arcminutes of 59 UMa. a v5.6 star south of chi UMa. Here's the NASA-JPL Horizons emphemeris. - Kurt Date__(UT)__HR:MN R.A._(ICRF/J2000.0)_DEC APmag ***************************************************** 2008-Jan-31 05:00 11 42 20.10 +42 38 41.9 12.37 2008-Jan-31 05:01 11 42 20.98 +42 38 20.3 12.37 2008-Jan-31 05:02 11 42 21.85 +42 37 58.8 12.37 2008-Jan-31 05:03 11 42 22.72 +42 37 37.2 12.37 2008-Jan-31 05:04 11 42 23.60 +42 37 15.7 12.37 2008-Jan-31 05:05 11 42 24.46 +42 36 54.2 12.37 2008-Jan-31 05:06 11 42 25.33 +42 36 32.7 12.37 2008-Jan-31 05:07 11 42 26.20 +42 36 11.2 12.37 2008-Jan-31 05:08 11 42 27.06 +42 35 49.7 12.37 2008-Jan-31 05:09 11 42 27.92 +42 35 28.2 12.37 2008-Jan-31 05:10 11 42 28.78 +42 35 06.7 12.37 2008-Jan-31 05:11 11 42 29.64 +42 34 45.3 12.37 2008-Jan-31 05:12 11 42 30.49 +42 34 23.9 12.37 2008-Jan-31 05:13 11 42 31.35 +42 34 02.4 12.37 2008-Jan-31 05:14 11 42 32.20 +42 33 41.0 12.38 2008-Jan-31 05:15 11 42 33.05 +42 33 19.6 12.38 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Moonbeam?
by Rob Ratkowski Photography 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Aloha Tom you saw a moonbow, something that I have seen a few times and I even have a photo of one on the gallery page. http://gallery.utahastronomy.com/main.php?g2_itemId=5857 You did get an unexpected surprise and are among a small group that has seen this night time vision. Did you photograph it??, capturing the colors is luck but it does happen. Aloha Rob

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2007 TU24, 2008 JAN 29, 0649 - 0653 UT pictures
by Canopus56 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Patrick, > And for those who want to make their own movie, > here's all 25 FITs > files in an 8 meg ZIP file: I have created the following condensed, gamma adjusted, north-east flipped, animated gif. http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/observed/2007TU24/20080130… (30.4 kb). - and a gamma adjusted jpeg of your larger jpeg, flipped to correspond to the animation and north-up, east-right: http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/observed/2007TU24/2007U24-… (114 kb) Since I doubt very many people caught this, you images look APOD and Spaceweather worthy to me. - Kurt P.S. Spaceweather submittal: http://spaceweather.com/submissions/index.php APOD submittal instructions: If so, we would enjoy hearing from you. Images are most often submitted by email or by posting to a web site. Please write to Robert Nemiroff at nemiroff(a)mtu.edu or Jerry Bonnell at bonnell(a)grossc.gsfc.nasa.gov regarding image submissions. P.P.S. - Couldn't match up the image with any identifable star field. Data in the label frame of the animated gif are from the starting fits header. TFOV on the label is estimated from the speed of the asteriod. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

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Fri. 2-1-2008 7AM - Jupiter and Venus in single e.p. view
by Canopus56 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

On Feb. 1, 2008 at 07:00 MST (2-1-2008 14:00UT), Venus and Jupiter will be low in the southeast at alt 11 degs, az 133 deg in the southeast sky, and in conjunction at only 35' separation in a single e.p. view. This conjunction event will occur with the Sun about 6 degs below the horizon in nautical twilight. Jupiter and Venus will be above the "spout" of Sgr on a line from the top of the teapot - gam Sgr, through M22 and on to khi Sgr. This event will repeat on the following day, Sat. Feb. 2, 2008 at 07:00 MST, when Venus and Jupiter will be 1 deg 14 arcmin apart - still within one e.p. view. As for all events during this time of year, cloud out is probable. - Kurt ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Re: 2007 TU24, 2008 JAN 29, 0649 - 0653 UT pictures
by Canopus56 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Patrick also wrote: > BTW, someone on the IOTA list put my video on > You Tube: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iL9NIPNUVE Glad you got the well deserved good press. - Kurt P.S. - Silly me, I was happily oblivous that there was some internet controversey raging that 2007 TU24 was going to ram into the Earth or cause floods and mayhem by its mere passage! Special YouTube appearances by _Bad Astronomer_ Phil Plait and a JPL scientist to quell the rumor - what a hoot! ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Re: 2007 TU24, 2008 JAN 29, 0649 - 0653 UT pictures
by Canopus56 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Patrick wrote, >Also nice. FWIW, the droid should be moving from the >lower right to upper left. It was moving in that direction in the apparent view as you saw it. Stylistically, the best presentation for public distribution of amateur astronomical images is to flip them to a common reference orientiation where celestial north is at the top of the screen and celestial east is to the right. In that reference orientation, the droid runs from the lower left to the upper right - from eta Per towards beta UMa - where it will be in a few hours. I took the artistic liberty of flipping the image to that reference orientiation. See the "N is up" and "East is right" marker in the title frame at the end of the condensed animation. - Kurt ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

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2007 TU24 0649 TO 0653 UT
by Patrick Wiggins 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

I managed to get 3 series of 2007 TU24 while it was visible through haze in a sucker hole. Despite the haze I was lucky to get what I did considering it was snowing earlier and is supposed to resume this morning. Images in this series were taken between 2007 JAN 29 06:49:15 and 06:52:35 UT. 25 two second exposures through C-14 @ f/11, ST-10, binned 3x3, -25°. FOV is 13' x 9'. I'll eventually get it and the other two posted to the UA gallery but for now it's temporarily at: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/2007TU24-001.JPG Anyone know how to combine the 25 individual images into a "movie"? patrick

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2007 TU24, 2008 JAN 29, 0649 - 0653 UT pictures
by Patrick Wiggins 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Regarding this morning's 2007 TU24 flyby: A small (56 kb) version of the time lapse still image: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/2007TU24-001.JPG A larger (244 kb) version of the time lapse still image: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/2007TU24-002.JPG 4.4 meg "movie" of all 26 images (my first attempt ever at making a movie from stills): http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/2007TU24-001.GIF And for those who want to make their own movie, here's all 25 FITs files in an 8 meg ZIP file: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/2007TU24ANIMATE.ZIP patrick

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