April 2013 - Utah-Astronomy - mailman.xmission.com

Betelgeuse Blows . . .
by Jay Eads 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

A lot of gas as reported by Phil Plait over at Bad Astronomy as it blows out its outer levels as it continues to evolve towards its end. The size is from our Sun to Neptune's orbit and is gasous materials about 2/3 the mass of the Earth. Perhaps in my life I'll get to witness a visual SN in our galaxy, probably from a white dwarf I would guess. This is a fun article to read. Here is the link: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/04/25/betelgeuse_red_supergia…

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Attention rocket scientists
by Patrick Wiggins 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

From today's funnies: http://www.gocomics.com/bc/2013/04/25 Not hard to relate. Grins, patrick

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Light Pollution Stories on Fox 13
by D P Pierce 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

Last night and this morning Fox 13 first ran a story on light pollution and also a story about how good the night sky is at Natural Bridges NM because of the lack of light pollution. http://fox13now.com/?s=light+pollution&search_submit= Deloy

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Lunar Real Estate
by Joe Bauman 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Yes indeed, Thad Robets. He went to prison and, the last I heard, was back at the U. ------------------------------ On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 1:30 PM MDT jcarman6(a)q.com wrote: > > >Dennis Hope (further down the article) claims he has owned the moon since 1980 and on a recent TV appearance claimed he has now sold $11.2 Million worth of lunar deeds. Fortunately, he is not from Utah. Didn't a Uof U student actually steal lunar material and try to sell it? > > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_real_estate >_______________________________________________ >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".

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ISON tonight, 2013 APR 26
by Patrick Wiggins 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Moon + Haze = Very poor view of the comet. http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/ison/C_2012_S1.2013APR26.JPG This is the first image I've done of the comet where I'm virtually certain it's there but I can't find it. patrick

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APOD: 2013 April 24 - Wringing a Wet Towel in Orbit
by Dave Gary 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

This was cool. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130424.html

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light pollution in the popular imagination
by Ian Glenn 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Just wanted to share with the list that right now on the main BBC news site, the most read article is titled "LED lamp aims to improve star views" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22292129 Whenever I have talked to non-astronomy locals here in SLC, they usually seem completely oblivious to the light pollution issue. It's interesting and nice to see an article like this at the top of the most read list, even if it is just at the top for right now, I hope many new people are being "turned on" to the concepts of intelligent lighting today. Ian

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Lunar Real Estate
by jcarman6＠q.com 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Dennis Hope (further down the article) claims he has owned the moon since 1980 and on a recent TV appearance claimed he has now sold $11.2 Million worth of lunar deeds. Fortunately, he is not from Utah. Didn't a Uof U student actually steal lunar material and try to sell it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_real_estate

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OT: Shuttlecraft Galileo restoration
by Chuck Hards 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

This is too cool. http://www.space.com/20791-star-trek-galileo-shuttlecraft-photos.html

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Sun Party reminder
by Chuck Hards 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

The first Winchester Park Sun Party of the year is this coming Saturday, and the weather promises to be perfect. 9:00 AM to Noon. 1200 W. Winchester St. (6400 S.) On the Jordan River Parkway The SLAS Website lists the address as 6400 South 1100 West, but it's the same site. Setup is on the south end of the parking lot, on the adjacent grass. It's a nice site located about mid-valley. I'll have my white-light/PST DS tandem-mounted scopes there, and Bill Cowles has said that he'll bring his own PST etalon so we can try a triple-stack on the PST. If I remember, I'll bring the parallelogram and Baader-equipped 70mm bino, as well. I'll set up next to Nate's sign that says "NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN WITH BINOCULARS". ;-) Maybe we can talk Siegfried into bringing his top-of-the-line solar setup.

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