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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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The Sun
by Chuck Hards 09 Aug '12

09 Aug '12

Quite a few prominences visible today, as well as a few sunspot groups. The white-light view is fairly good, using a Baader visual filter. I'm amazed at how, apparently, the water vapor in the air can make some details in H-a less visible. Today is much better than other recent days. The view through "sucker holes" on mostly overcast days is never as good as a day with lower humidity, from my experience. If I had the time, I'd actually research the absorbtion factor of water vapor on the H-a wavelength. Maybe it's something else entirely? Call-out for nerds with lots of free time and the need to know! After a long, hard day at work in a 92-degree shop, I am headed for a bowl of my wife's home-made chicken-noodle soup and a cold beer, and have suddenly lost interest in physics- for now. ;-)

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Aurora + conjunction: Jul 16
by Dion Davidson 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

All my dreams came true last week in Montana! Ok, not all, but the one about seeing the northern lights did! The solar activity brought the lights down as far as Three Forks, MT in the southwest corner of the state. We were clouded in for the 13th, 14th, 15th... and I started getting anxious. The sky cleared perfectly the morning of the 16th and I got a few photos of the amazing sight: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22632727@N07/7673472190/in/photostream/ It was a beautiful thing along with the Moon+Venus+Jupiter+Pleiades+ conjunction http://www.flickr.com/photos/22632727@N07/7673474036/in/photostream/ I compiled the photos into a video where you can see the lights dance (as part of our family vacation video): http://youtu.be/V1aW0KaiGdA?t=54s Dion

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Curiosity vid.
by Daniel Holmes 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Saw this on the Bad Astronomer's page...another nice video on Curiosity. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/31/wil-wheaton-has-c… Dan -- Daniel Holmes, danielh(a)holmesonics.com "Laugh while you can, monkey boy!" -- Lord John Whorfin

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ATM session reminder
by Hutchings, Mat 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

Just a quick reminder that the next ATM session is this Saturday starting at 09:00. This should be a very active session with all manner of things going on including mirror grinding, testing with Josh's bath interferometer, equatorial platform building, etc. If you need directions to the location, please contact me off list and I'll give you driving directions. Mat This message and any attachments are solely for the use of intended recipients. The information contained herein may include trade secrets, protected health or personal information, privileged or otherwise confidential information. Unauthorized review, forwarding, printing, copying, distributing, or using such information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you received this email in error, and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this email and any attachment is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender and delete the message and any attachment from your system. Thank you for your cooperation

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OT: L&O
by Chuck Hards 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

Fellow L&O lovers, I'm going to have an all-too-rare "vacation" from work next month, August 10th through the 19th, inclusive. I'd sure like to meet with my fellow Liver & Onions afficionados during that time. I hope to do some long-overdue fishing, as well as perhaps going to SPOC at least one night. On another matter, my SLAS membership expires this month (July), but the budget says that it will be sometime in August before I can renew, so please keep me in the SLAS loop during that time. (Stay out of divorce court, kids, unless you get the whole enchilada in the settlement. I didn't. I got outrageous obligations until I'm in my early seventies, unless the ex dies first.) Hoping to see at least some of you soon, C.

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Aurora + conjunction
by nathan swenson 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

Dion - thanks for sending those pictures. They are awesome. Much better than the undersides of clouds I see outside now... > ________________________________ > From: Dion Davidson <diondavidson(a)yahoo.com> > To: "Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com" <Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 9:03 PM > Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Aurora + conjunction: Jul 16 > > All my dreams came true last week in Montana! ?Ok, not all, but the one about seeing the northern lights did! The solar activity brought the lights down as far as Three Forks, MT in the southwest corner of the state. We were clouded in for the 13th, 14th, 15th... and I started getting anxious. The sky cleared perfectly the morning of the 16th and I got a few photos of the amazing sight: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/22632727@N07/7673472190/in/photostream/? > > > It was a beautiful thing along with the Moon+Venus+Jupiter+Pleiades+ conjunction > http://www.flickr.com/photos/22632727@N07/7673474036/in/photostream/? > > > I compiled the photos into a video where you can see the lights dance (as part of our family vacation video): > > http://youtu.be/V1aW0KaiGdA?t=54s > > > Dion > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > > Send messages to the list to > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > > The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. > > To unsubscribe go to: > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options". > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > End of Utah-Astronomy Digest, Vol 113, Issue 90 > ***********************************************

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Today's Bill Say cartoon
by Patrick Wiggins 29 Jul '12

29 Jul '12

The guy usually leans to the left but I think most will agree with this from today's paper: http://www.cagle.com/2012/07/sally-ride-2/ patrick Sent from my iPad

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Perseids August 11th and 12th
by Jay Eads 29 Jul '12

29 Jul '12

The Perseids are right around the corner on the evening of August 11th and the early morning hours of August 12th. A few of us are heading out to Pit n Pole with my propane heater to just sit and watch for Perseids and enjoy each other's company. I am not planning on taking a scope to use that night, just a set of bino's. So if anyone here wants to join us, feel free to do so or make plans to go elsewhere. It is a waning crescent that night and it will rise shortly after 1:00a.m. Sunset is around 8:30pm so one could get some scope time in or photography in if they want. I just want to enjoy the night sky that night. Hope lots of people get out that night. To quote the following link: "On those August mornings, as an added treat, the moon will be sweeping past the brightest planets – Venus and Jupiter – in the eastern predawn sky. You can’t ask for more!" Link to EarthSky on meteror showers for this year: http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/earthskys-meteor-shower-guide If you haven't seen M45, Jupiter, Aldebaran and the Hyades and Venus in the early morning (after 4:00a.m.) feel free to go and see Jorge G.'s image he took at this link: http://astronomyinutah.forumer.com/4-am-trio-andromeda-widefield-ngc-7000-t… Venus was so brilliant it took me back when I watched it come up! Beautiful site in the morning sky. Jorge did a great job I feel. -- Thanks, Jay Eads

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Evening non LO?
by Patrick Wiggins 28 Jul '12

28 Jul '12

Just curious but "Advanced Training Sessions" (ATS) being so popular following SLAS events I'm just wondering if there might be interest in an occasional event, similar to ATS that would happen in the evening but not be associated with any event beforehand. Kind of like the L&O outings but in the evening (and with less smelly food <g>). Is there interest? ??? patrick

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