August 2012 - Utah-Astronomy - mailman.xmission.com

Star-B-Que
by Dale Wilson 24 Aug '12

24 Aug '12

For any who may be interested, I am a semi-pro meat smoking competitor. I will be smoking a rack of St. Louis cut pork spare ribs. I smoke them for about 5 hours, using cherry and/or hickory woods. For those who would like to participate, R.S.V.P. me by Friday afternoon. I will buy, prepare, smoke and bring the ribs to the Star-B-Que. It would work out to be $8.00 for a half rack, $15.00 for a full rack. Thanks, Dale Wilson 801-518-7859

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next ATM session
by Hutchings, Mat 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

The next ATM session will be on 9/1/12 starting at 9:00AM at the Hutchings' optical shop (my garage). Please come and join in on the fun of making telescope and parts for telescopes, etc. I realize that this is on the Labor Day weekend, but it works out the best for me. Also, by having the sessions on a Saturday near full moon, we minimize shop tool accidents caused by sleepy astronomers, as sleep deprivation happens around new moon. :) Take care, 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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NASA to Hold Televised Curiosity Rover Briefing Tomorrow
by Patrick Wiggins 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

First one of these they've had for the public in a week or so: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-255&rn=news.xml&rst=3485 I'm especially hoping they release the high resolution descent "movie". patrick

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Need ride to Star-B Que
by D P Pierce 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Hi, I am looking for a ride to rhe Star-B-Q Saturday. I want to be there by 6:00 but 2 or 3 hours earlier would be okay also. I am bringing a macaroni salad and some swap meet items. Deloy

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New way to get to remote observing sites
by Patrick Wiggins 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

I wonder if this though could make it up Frisco Peak. http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/08/20/new-hover-vehicle-recalls-tar-wars-b… patrick

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Wolf creek
by Mark Shelton 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Hi, reporting from high up in the mountains. The sky cleared off and a nice night for viewing went on. At 1am we were looking at the Vail without filters. Seeing was good to the north, east and west. The south was washed out. Wind was fair, not calm there was 6 telescopes set up.2 neutonians, 2 dobs, and 2 meade lx 200 and 90. Was a very good night. good comradely and fun Mark Mark

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Curiosity wiggles it's toes.
by Daniel Holmes 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Everyone needs a stretch in the morning, right? http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16087.html Note the sundial in the upper right. There's multiple of them on MSL, IIRC. Heard on a podcast a few weeks ago that Bill Nye the Science Guy lobbied to get sundials on MSL as a way of calibrating time and as color calibrating the cameras. http://www.planetary.org/blogs/bill-nye/20120813-curiositys-marsdial-is-on.… Dan -- Daniel Holmes, danielh(a)holmesonics.com "Laugh while you can, monkey boy!" -- Lord John Whorfin

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August L&O
by Ray Druian 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

If I can drag myself out of bed in time, I'll be there. -- Thanx, *Ray *

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Kepler
by Joe Bauman 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Kepler catches 41 more! http://news.yahoo.com/alien-planet-haul-nasa-space-telescope-spots-41-01172… -- Joe

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MSL landing from one of the engineer's POV.
by Daniel Holmes 20 Aug '12

20 Aug '12

Mark Rober spent 7 years of his life working on the rover. Here he is during the 7 minutes of terror. Great video: http://boingboing.net/2012/08/16/about-mars-curiosity-rovers.html?utm_sourc… Dan -- Daniel Holmes, danielh(a)holmesonics.com "Laugh while you can, monkey boy!" -- Lord John Whorfin

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