November 2011 - Utah-Astronomy - mailman.xmission.com

Jupiter's Parade Continues
by erikhansen＠thebluezone.net 21 Nov '11

21 Nov '11

Europa passes in front of Jupiter on Friday, Nov 25 beginning at 7:45 PM, the shadow follows at 9:08

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globular clusters
by Gary Vardon 21 Nov '11

21 Nov '11

I attended a lecture by a U of Utah professor about globular clusters. The prof noted that there may well be interaction of the stars in a globular cluster causing them to change their chemistry and physical properties. Sincerely, Gary Vardon The book DO It Right will help you understand vital ideas leading to your greater success. GO to PublishAmerica.com Consulting For Profit is also available. Learn how to make money as a consultant.

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Prospects of life on Europa
by Joe Bauman 21 Nov '11

21 Nov '11

Thanks to our son Sky for the idea of this blog: http://tinyurl.com/7mzh7fa

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Natural History Museum
by Gary Vardon 21 Nov '11

21 Nov '11

I am a member of the UMNH. I got invited to the opening. I would recommend joining. The museum is spectacular and it is good to know about special events at the museum. Sincerely, Gary Vardon The book DO It Right will help you understand vital ideas leading to your greater success. GO to PublishAmerica.com Consulting For Profit is also available. Learn how to make money as a consultant.

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Jay's Blog
by Joe Bauman 20 Nov '11

20 Nov '11

Jay is just too darn reticent to do it, so I will. You've got to read his blog. I was touched by one of his latest, talking about observing, death and philosophy: http://tinyurl.com/6we6mxg -- Joe

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Fw: A possibility of exterrestrial life
by Joe Bauman 20 Nov '11

20 Nov '11

My b-in-law Tony Wilcox forwarded this quote: "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE." -- HAL9000

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Natural History Museum
by Steve Fisher 19 Nov '11

19 Nov '11

I was fortunate enough to be one of the very first (from the public) to spend the day at the new Natural History Museum of Utah today. I took my 14 year old granddaughter and her friend. They were great! I simply could go on forever about what a great museum this is and is going to be. Everything was open, all the labs and storage areas that will not be open most days. Everything worked as it should on the first day except the Heliostat and solar telescope that was formerly at the Hansen Planetarium. The total overcast prevented it from doing it's thing. This brought about the funniest part of the day. So many things in the museum are "interactive" and at the Heliostat people were waving their hands over the table and pushing buttons and trying to get a display. I informed them that it needed sunlight to work. (can you imagine that) After a few laughs we moved on to talking about the Venus Transit in 2012 and I found a fairly large audience that was very receptive to hearing about the plans that SLAS is working on. I think we will have a crowd from the msueum that will be very interested in Astronomy either solar or night time. Here is a teaser, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXrug5MjuEw A small astronomy area but it is there! Check out the new museum, I think you will be glad you did.Steve

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Numbers question
by Patrick 19 Nov '11

19 Nov '11

Hi all, Thanks to all who are trying to assist. I'm not sure if y'all don't quite understand what I'm trying to do or if I'm not understanding the replies. So here's an example using real numbers from a recent night's data runs. Early in the evening I had my software come up with a list of NGC objects to image based on the type, size, brightness and if they are above my local horizon. After taking data on those objects I waited a few hours and ran a second list of targets based on the same specifications. As always happens there are objects on the second run's list that were on the first run's list. When that happens I do not want to work the duplicates so I'm trying to come up with some way of deleting the duplicates so all I work are the new objects. What follows is a text version I assembled manually showing what I'm hoping a spreadsheet could do automatically. In the first column I'd enter the NGC numbers of the objects in the first run. In the second column I'd enter the NGC numbers of the objects in the second run. The spreadsheet would then examine both columns and list the duplicates in the third column and the new objects in the forth column. I'd then feed the numbers from the 4th column into the software that controls the telescope mount and camera and away it would go taking data only on the objects that only appeared in the second run's list. So, NGC 1560 only shows up in column 2 so it survives through to the 4th column for further study while NGC 1530 was in the first column so it is moved to column 3 indicating no further study is needed and it will not be imaged during the 2nd run. I hope this all makes sense... :) patrick Run1 . Run2 . Dup . New 1530 . 1560 . 147 . 1265 6503 . 1530 . 185 . 1272 6643 . 1573 . 205 . 1275 6340 . 2146 . 221 . 1560 6412 . 2258 . 278 . 1569 6654 . 2441 . 812 . 1573 6395 . 2314 . 846 . 1961 6689 . 2655 . 891 . 2146 6434 . 2715 . 910 . 2253 6411 . 2748 . 1003 . 2258 6521 . 2634 . 1123 . 2273 6946 . 2523 . 1129 . 2314 6952 . 2732 . 1161 . 2320 6869 . 2633 . 1169 . 2337 6701 . 2646 . 1174 . 2340 6764 . 2591 . 1530 . 2344 6824 . 2551 . 7640 . 2347 205 . 2629 . . 2366 221 . 1569 . . 2403 185 . 2403 . . 2441 147 . 2366 . . 2460 278 . 1961 . . 2500 891 . 2273 . . 2523 1003 . 2460 . . 2537 812 . 2347 . . 2541 1129 . 2253 . . 2549 1123 . 2340 . . 2551 910 . 2320 . . 2552 846 . 2549 . . 2591 1161 . 2500 . . 2629 1169 . 2552 . . 2633 1174 . 205 . . 2634 6703 . 221 . . 2646 6702 . 185 . . 2655 6997 . 147 . . 2715 7640 . 278 . . 2732 . 891 . . 2748 . 1003 . 812 . 1129 . 1123 . 910 . 846 . 1161 . 1169 . 1174 . 1275 . 1272 . 1265 . 2344 . 2337 . 2541 . 2537 . 7640

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MSL Prelaunch Events /NASA budget (JWST off life suport)
by Patrick Wiggins 19 Nov '11

19 Nov '11

NASA Announces Prelaunch Events for Mars Science Lab Mission http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/nov/HQ_M11-237_MSL_Events.html NASA's Budget for 2012 Is Set--Worry About 2013 Budget Begins http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00003269/ patrick

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Numbers question
by Patrick Wiggins 19 Nov '11

19 Nov '11

I'd like to be able to open an Excel spread sheet and put a list of numbers in the first column and another list of numbers in the second column and Excel would then have any numbers that are in both columns appear in the 3rd column and the numbers that appear only in the 2nd column appear in the 4th column. Anyone here know how to make Excel do that? Or barring that, some other way to get the same result? Many thanks, patrick

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