June 2009 - Utah-Astronomy - mailman.xmission.com

Re: [Utah-astronomy] Anyone up and watching?
by Joe Bauman 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Sorry, Patrick, I must have missed it -- pretty groggy right now. I still have "News" so will be able to see it. Thanks, Joe --- On Tue, 6/23/09, Patrick Wiggins <paw(a)wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: From: Patrick Wiggins <paw(a)wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Anyone up and watching? To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 10:46 PM Hi Joe, On 23 Jun 2009, at 18:22, Joe Bauman wrote: > PS: Has anyone made a little video of the last moments of the Japanese lunar orbiter? I'd love to see one. Thanks, Joe I put a link to a rather "disturbing" video (assembled from stills taken by the craft during its last moments) in News (either yesterday's or last Friday's). Let me know if you can't find the links there and I'll try digging them up when I get home. patrick _______________________________________________ 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.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com

1 0

Re: [Utah-astronomy] Anyone up and watching?
by Joe Bauman 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

At 3 a.m. I was up and struggling through a most unsuccessful astrophotography session at the Wedge, complete with mosquitoes. Then today I managed to get a little sunburned while taking my stuff down. Oh well. PS: Has anyone made a little video of the last moments of the Japanese lunar orbiter? I'd love to see one. Thanks, Joe --- On Tue, 6/23/09, Patrick Wiggins <paw(a)wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: From: Patrick Wiggins <paw(a)wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Anyone up and watching? To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 3:09 AM It's just after 3. Anyone up and watching the NASA coverage? patrick On 22 Jun 2009, at 16:02, Canopus56 wrote: > > Patrick wrote: >> Thanks for the heads up Kurt. In addition to the webcast the event will also be covered live on NASA- >> TV (Dish Network channel 213): >> http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Breaking.html > > > Although this is all way past my bedtime, the NASA TV schedule lists beginning at 5am EDT (3am MDT) to 6:30am EDT (4:30am MDT) the LRO lunar orbit _insertion_ - which, if the cameras are on - should be pretty spectacular. The broadcast I listed is for the LCROSS gravity assist lunar _flyby_ beginning at 5:20 PDT (4:20am MDT). I don't see the LCROSS flyby on the NASA-TV schedule. > > For you true insomnic TV-techno junkies on the list, you can have your dish HD-TV playing the LRO orbital insertion on one screen and the LCROSS lunar flyby on your hi-speed internet connection. > > Way-too complicated for me and way too early - but it is a once-in-a-lifetime broadcast. Now if we can just bring back Walter Cronkite one last time to call the play-by-play before he passes on. -:) > > - Kurt _______________________________________________ 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.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com

2 1

Re: [Utah-astronomy] Anyone up and watching?
by Canopus56 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Also of interest for future reference: LRO Camera main website at LROC http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/index.html - Kurt

1 0

Bino collimation
by Kim 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Does anyone know how to collimate binoculars? I have a pair of 7x50's that must have been dropped and is badly in need of serious collimation. For years I've taken my binos to Gallenson's, but the cost is steep and now that I live in Mt. Pleasant it isn't very convenient. If it's something that one can do without special equipment, I would like to know - I would be willing to try. Alternately, if anyone on the list can do it for a reasonable fee, I'd much rather trust my equipment to one of you than to Gallenson's. On another topic, I seem to have lost my green laser pointer. If anyone has a cheap 5mw laser that they would like to part with, let me know, especially if you will be going to Bryce Cyn this week. Thanks, Kim

4 8

Re: [Utah-astronomy] Anyone up and watching?
by Canopus56 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

LRO LOI archive video broadcasts #1 http://www.youtube.com/profile?v=zY1vN_DgD0o&user=NASAtelevision #2 http://www.youtube.com/profile?v=iYwJuyxrqa8&user=NASAtelevision YouTube Video archive - LCROSS swingby http://www.youtube.com/profile?v=fe8gMRfLRVU&user=NASAtelevision - Kurt

1 0

Re: [Utah-astronomy] Anyone up and watching?
by Canopus56 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

LCROSS summary swingby online archive video is up at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/lunarswingby/index.html - Clear Skies - Kurt

1 0

Re: [Utah-astronomy] Anyone up and watching?
by Canopus56 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

I heard the LRO coverage wasn't very good - in that it wasn't live, but a bunch of public affair video replays. For those who want to watch the replay for LRO on NASA TV: June 23, Tuesday 8 - 9:10 p.m. [6pm MDT] - Replay of Coverage of the LRO Spacecraft Entering the Lunar Orbit - HQ (Public and Media Channels) 11 p.m. [9pm MDT] - Replay of Coverage of the LRO Spacecraft Entering the Lunar Orbit - HQ (Public and Media Channels) Times are EDT. LCROSS is still working on posting their video of the swingby to an online archive. - Clear Skies - Kurt

1 0

Re: [Utah-astronomy] LCROSS Lunar Flyby Video to be Streamed
by Canopus56 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Patrick wrote: > Thanks for the heads up Kurt. In addition to the webcast the event will also be covered live on NASA- > TV (Dish Network channel 213): > http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Breaking.html Although this is all way past my bedtime, the NASA TV schedule lists beginning at 5am EDT (3am MDT) to 6:30am EDT (4:30am MDT) the LRO lunar orbit _insertion_ - which, if the cameras are on - should be pretty spectacular. The broadcast I listed is for the LCROSS gravity assist lunar _flyby_ beginning at 5:20 PDT (4:20am MDT). I don't see the LCROSS flyby on the NASA-TV schedule. For you true insomnic TV-techno junkies on the list, you can have your dish HD-TV playing the LRO orbital insertion on one screen and the LCROSS lunar flyby on your hi-speed internet connection. Way-too complicated for me and way too early - but it is a once-in-a-lifetime broadcast. Now if we can just bring back Walter Cronkite one last time to call the play-by-play before he passes on. -:) - Kurt

3 2

Locating impact crater sites
by Chuck Hards 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

On pages 265-266 of the 2009 Observer's Handbook is a table listing impact crater sites in North America. I used Google maps to locate satellite imagery of many of them tonight. Very interesting, easy project. Not all are apparent in these views; many are submerged or buried features and are known purely by the physical samples the sites have yielded- sometimes from deeply-drilled cores. But many still bear obvious impact crater features even after millions of years of erosion. In particular, the crown jewel of impact craters, number 3, Barringer Crater; numbers 11 and 12, the Clearwater lakes in Quebec; number 49, the Slate Islands; and even the central feature of Upheval Dome in Utah, number 52 on the list. Hunt some down if you are so inclined.

1 0

Buoyancy aside...
by Patrick Wiggins 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

The buoyancy of Meade scopes aside <g> I've been looking at David's astroimages and was surprised to see they were not taken with some fancy, giga-cost CCD imager but rather with a DSLR mounted inside a homemade cooler box. I especially like his Horsehead and Rosette images: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=2060 http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=2078 Looks like he's going to give the other photographers on the gallery a fun run for their money. patrick

1 0