August 2008 - Utah-Astronomy - mailman.xmission.com

A Perfect PEC solution (PPEC)?
by Naz & David 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Anyone seen anything like this in action or know of a domestically available equiv? Seems like the perfect solution to PEC for any GEM. http://www.mda-telescoop.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&I… That encoder must be something like 10Mtics/rev, and that's a metric M, not your North American Ancient Roman Empire M! Cheers David

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Scope for sale
by Patrick Wiggins 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

For Sale: Meade 2120 10" optical tube (multicoated) on an LX3 quartz driven mount (not the computerized GOTO mount). It has a Lumicon 2" visual back and Lumicon mirror diagonal, and would include Meade 2" 56mm plossl , Meade 1.25" 26 mm plossl, and Televue 10.5mm plossl eyepieces. It has a Celestron 8x50 convertible RA/straight finder (not illuminated, not a polar finder), sliding counterweight system, and piggyback mount. The optical tube, drive, and eyepieces are in great condition. Also included are the hand controller, AC power supply and DC cord, Meade equatorial wedge, heavy duty field tripod, and dew shield. Wedge is in good shape. The tripod has/needs a little repair, but could very easily be made serviceable. The dew shield is scuffed, but still serviceable. I was hoping to get $800 for the bundle. Dave Gard, gard(a)biology.utah.edu, 801.581.7365

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Martian soil
by diveboss＠xmission.com 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,397522,00.html

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something to do with your laser
by daniel turner 03 Aug '08

03 Aug '08

This video shows how to entertain yourself while exercising your dog or cat. DT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRWHIQoHAmk

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by Naz & David 03 Aug '08

03 Aug '08

Anyone seen anything like this in action or know of a domestically available equiv? Seems like the perfect solution to PEC for any GEM. http://www.mda-telescoop.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&I… That encoder must be something like 10Mtics/rev, and that's a metric M, not your North American Ancient Roman Empire M! Cheers David

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Archimedes laptop
by William Biesele 03 Aug '08

03 Aug '08

from Nature http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/antikythera/

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Turn up the sound and enjoy!
by diveboss＠xmission.com 03 Aug '08

03 Aug '08

http://www.greatdanepro.com/Blue%20Bueaty/index.htm

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A New Weather WebCam resource page
by Canopus56 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

Ran across this page in the Utah NWS MesoNet that provides good weather web cam access across Utah. http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/slc/datamap/mesonet.php?map=ut&cameraonly=on The page displays icons for all Utah weather cameras overlain on a Utah map. Mouse however on a camera icon and the last image displays as a floating image. - Kurt

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OT - Ice
by diveboss＠xmission.com 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,395585,00.html

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