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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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Webcast of Moon occults Venus 12-1-2008 8:45 MDT
by Canopus56 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

At 12/1/2008 15:45 UT (12/1/2008 8:45 MDT) the Moon will occult Venus. Although not visible from the U.S., the following is a post from a newsgroup about a live webcast of the event from England at www.lunarobservers.com - Kurt =========== LIVE WEBCAST OF OCCULTATION OF VENUS 2008 DECEMBER 1 By Peter Grego Director, SPA Lunar Section (UK) Topographical Coordinator, BAA Lunar Section (UK) I'm conducting a live webcast of the occultation of Venus on the evening of December 1 on my website www.lunarobservers.com The first webcast is from 15:15-45 UT (immersion is at 15:40 UT), the second is from 17:00-17:30 UT (emergence is at 17:13 UT). Location: St Dennis, Cornwall, UK. The instrument will be a 102-mm achromat(Celestron NexStar 102 SLT), imaged afocally with a ToUcam PCVC740K. If the events are clouded out a real-time computer simulation of the occultation will be substituted. Best wishes, Peter

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Upheaval Dome - Nov. 29 2008 LPOD
by Canopus56 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

Rodger, Glad you enjoyed it. The closing step in determining Upheaval's origin as a meteor impact would be independent confirmation of Kenkmann's PDF quartz crystals in the outer ring. If you are ever up to go down and take a small core sample (with NPS permission of course), I'm happy to lug your gear for the 2 kilometers to get to Kenkmann's sample site. -:) Merry Christmas. - Kurt

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Light Pollution in S L Tribune
by zaurak＠digis.net 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

Hi Kurt and Joe... Guess you misread her name it is Sheena not Sheila, I understand she will write more astronomy related articles for the trib. --- josephmbauman(a)yahoo.com wrote: From: Joe Bauman <josephmbauman(a)yahoo.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Light Pollution in S L Tribune Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:12:50 -0800 (PST) Ditto from me -- didn't know you subscribed to this newsgroup, Sheila. I think we who care about the night sky should campaign, again, for decent light pollution standards. The argument should be made on two grounds: light pollution is a terrible scourge, destroying nighttime access to the views that should be our natural heritage, and it wastes resources when people beam energy into the sky. The last few times made astronomy expeditions to the Wedge, I was annoyed by the big arc of light pollution off toward Moab. Best wishes, Joe --- On Fri, 11/28/08, Canopus56 <canopus56(a)yahoo.com> wrote: From: Canopus56 <canopus56(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Light Pollution in S L Tribune To: "Utah Astronomy List Serv" <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> Date: Friday, November 28, 2008, 7:23 PM Wonderful article, Shelia. Thanks. - Kurt P.S. - There was an article last year about a small city just north of Brighman City that adopted a light pollution control ordinance. I cannot find the article link. Does anyone remember the city or article? _______________________________________________ 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://gallery.utahastronomy.com Visit the Wiki: 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://gallery.utahastronomy.com Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com

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Upheaval Dome - Nov. 29 2008 LPOD
by Canopus56 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

A couple of months ago, I asked for help on processing an Upheaval Dome panorama. Many thanks to Howard Jackman for the help. The final panorama has been published as the November 29, 2008 Lunar Picture of the Day: Upheaval Dome: Confirmation of Impact Origin http://lpod.wikispaces.com/November+29%2C+2008 Please also note Akkana and David Peck's phototours in the "Related Links" section of the LPOD, which includes phototour pictures hiking up into the central uplift of the Dome. A couple of my favorites from the Pecks' images are: http://timocharis.com/honeymoon/thursday/thur07.html http://www.shallowsky.com/images/southpark/upheaval/showpix.cgi?pic=pict021… http://timocharis.com/honeymoon/thursday/thur08.html I have turned my literature reading on the Dome into a Power Point presentation. I've mailed this off the Rodger Fry and Dave Bernson for consideration as a SLAS monthly meeting presentation for April of next year. Shelia, this may be a good topic for a Salt Lake Tribune article. The last Trib article was in 1995. Clear Skies. - Kurt P.S. - For those of you interested in more background reading, see my hyperlinked bibliography on the Dome at: http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/observed/Upheaval/Bibliogr…

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Light Pollution in S L Tribune
by Canopus56 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Wonderful article, Shelia. Thanks. - Kurt P.S. - There was an article last year about a small city just north of Brighman City that adopted a light pollution control ordinance. I cannot find the article link. Does anyone remember the city or article?

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] telescope for 11 year old
by Jay Eads 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

On 2008-11-28 00:54, Darin Christensen wrote: > My son would like a telescope for Christmas. I would like to get one that > is not too expensive and yet still good enough to be worth buying. A > reflector type; perhaps with a software system to find objects. There are a > lot of assorted scopes on amazon.com in the $200 to $300 range. Would > anyone have any opinions or recommendations on telescopes in this range? or > a recommendation of another range if it would be more appropriate...... > > > A suggestions. I would look at the XT6 or XT8. The XT6 is lighter and easier to carry but the XT8 would allow both planetary and deep sky objects for quite some time. If your a member of SLASS you could borrow a scope and see how he does with an eight inch. Jay

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resend of filtered message
by Richard Tenney 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Not sure why the filter caught this... From: zaurak(a)digis.net To: utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com Hi All, For all of you who may not subscribe to the SL Tribune. SLAS friend, Sheena McFarland, wrote a very good article about light pollution for the front page. http://www.sltrib.com/ci_11082326 Erik

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Light Pollution in S L Tribune
by Patrick Wiggins 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

For some reason Erik's post got bounced by the list. Not sure why (maybe YESCO has bought controlling interest in the list? <g>). Hopefully it will go through this time. patrick From: <zaurak(a)digis.net> Date: 28 November 2008 13:31:54 MST To: <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Light Pollution Hi All, For all of you who may not subscribe to the SL Tribune. SLAS friend, Sheena McFarland, wrote a very good article about light pollution for the front page. http://www.sltrib.com/ci_11082326 Erik

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Free Baker-Nunn telescopes
by Patrick Wiggins 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

I thought I'd pass this on in case anyone here might be interested. I spoke to the guy a few minutes ago to make sure the offer is real. patrick ------ Hello- I am a new member to the group, and represent one of the newest space museums; the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon. While the air museum side has been open for a number of years (we're home to Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose), we opened our 120,000 sq. ft. space museum this last June. We do not have a planetarium (yet) but do have a lot of artifacts from the entire history of the space program. The reason I am posting is to let the group know that Evergreen has a pair of Baker-Nunn Satellite Tracking Cameras available to any planetarium, space museum or science museum that would like them. We were originally given three of them by a donor in Corvallis, Oregon. We restored one and have it on display, but we have two more in an off- site storage building. Unfortunately, we are being evicted from that building and have to get rid of the cameras quickly. I'd hate to see them scrapped, thus the offer... For those not familiar, the B-N cameras were 20" Schmitt telescope/ cameras used to photograph satellites (primarily Soviet), and track their orbits in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory used a number of them at locations around the world. They are big, weighing approximately 3.5 tons each. I understand that some enterprising amateur astronomers have modified them for comet watching. The cameras we have are available "as is, where is." They will need to be re-assembled and restored. We have an excellent set of manuals that our restoration team worked from, and we will be happy to provide copies. You will have to move them from McMinnville (approximately 45 miles southwest of Portland, OR) at your expense, although we do have a fork lift to help load them. I can provide digital pictures; just email me at stewart.bailey(a)sprucegoose.org, and I will be happy to send pictures of the cameras and of our restored copy. Thanks for your consideration! Sincerely, Stewart W. Bailey Curator Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum

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