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Cynthia
by James Colwell 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

My apologies to everyone for this post...I need to get in contact with Cynthia Blue. Please, contact me at this email address in regard to the Utah Astronomy Photo Gallery and my album. Thanks. James.

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Kaboom
by William Biesele 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4278005.stm

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New Canon EOS 20Da for astrophotography
by Naz & David 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

Debbie, Translation attempt - nice camera :) * As for this product it is the camera which we recommend to the method which is done real celestial photographing. * After this product receiving because it becomes incoming order production, order, it becomes the delivered item after approximately 3 months. Beforehand acknowledgement. EOS 20Da body...... open price *1 (incoming order production item *2) type turn: EOS20D-A product code: 0639B001/JAN cord/code: The commodity of 4960999278773 *1 open price has not decided desired retail price. After *2 order receiving, it becomes the delivered item after approximately 3 months. * The CANON plaza S (Shinagawa)/at digital house Zero-One Ginza & Shinjuku Umeda you can view EOS 20Da. Reproduce the starry sky in high picture quality e.g., it improves in approximately 2.5 times that transmissivity EOS of effective pixel several approximately 820 ten thousand pixel large-sized CMOS sensor H α bright lines which 20D, is suited for celestial photographing at the time of actualization long second even with exposure and high sensitivity photographing low actualizes noise the focus adjusting can do the optical quality which with the second generation on-chip noise removal circuit liquid crystal monitor which "live view mode" on-board Kousei detail do color reappearance processing at super high speed the abundant accessory of the image engine "DIGIC II" all EF lens and the EOS camera which enabled Cheers David

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] SPOC on channel 4
by Canopus56 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

If someone recorded this, maybe they could bring it in for a replay at the next SLAS meeting. It might be worth a laugh. - Canopus56 (Kurt) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] WOW!!!
by Canopus56 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

Canopus56 wrote: > [H]opefully it will speed up the funding process . . . Jim replied: >Ah, we have motive for the announcement...I am largely skeptical. No, I don't think there is funding stumping by NASA going on. It's probably just a researcher who feels they are onto something significant enough - confirmation of life on another planet - to issue a teaser. I share your skepticism and also keep a watchful waiting-outlook based on some of the experiences you mentioned. My skepticism is also based on a saying, often attributed to Carl Sagan that, "I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." (I have never been able to find the exact source of the quote. I assume it was somewhere in Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark" (1997).) If this researcher's claim is that there is a unique biological gas marker in the methane gas mix seen in spectrographs of Mars, analogus to a unique biological marker coming from anaerobic life forms in an iron-polluted stream on Earth - well it had better be a darned unique gas marker and not something explainable by other non-biological geologic processes. - Peace, Canopus56 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] WOW!!!
by Canopus56 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

I'm not getting up any hopes from these pre-release teasers. (Well, at least I trying to restrain myself. -:) Few of the general public realize that over 1/2 the biomass on the continents is located below ground and consists of Archean anaerobic life forms driven there by the caustic (to them) oxygen in Earth's atmosphere. The implication of this is that if life exists on Mars or Jovian moons, it's subsurface, driven there by changes early in their planetary or moon's atmosphere. Going there and drilling is going to be the only way to find out. If this teaser does prove out, hopefully it will speed up the funding process for NASA's Deep-Drill Lander. At present, the Deep Drill Lander is only an idea on JPL's drawing boards. http://mars3.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/future/futureMissions.html\ http://mars3.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/images/deep-drill-lander.jpg - Peace Canopus56 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Re: [Utah-astronomy] New Canon EOS 20Da for astrophotography
by astrodeb＠charter.net 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

They need to put a warning label on the camera that reads "Warning. Astrophotography may be addictive!" Debbie > > From: Patrick Wiggins <paw(a)trilobyte.net> > Date: 2005/02/15 Tue PM 07:24:57 MST > To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] New Canon EOS 20Da for astrophotography > > Here's a page that will translate the text. Not a perfect translation > but it is readable. > > http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn > > Patrick > > astrodeb(a)charter.net wrote: > > > I found this on the digital-astro group. I wish Canon would put the pages in English. > > > > Debbie > > > > "It appears Canon has done something few of us would have expected > > and will soon produce a 20D made specifically for A-P work. Here > > are some links to provide some info, although the pages are in > > Japanese: > > > > http://cweb.canon.jp/camera/eosd/20da/special/index.html > > > > http://cweb.canon.jp/camera/eosd/20da/index.html > > > > http://cweb.canon.jp/camera/eosd/20da/attention/index.html > > > > It will be quite interesting to see how this camera performs and how > > much of a market it will draw." > > _______________________________________________ > 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.utahastronomy.com >

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Re: Question on focus
by Canopus56 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Joe asked, > What I can't understand is why Jupiter is > in sharp focus while the moonscape is slightly fuzzy. They both equally fuzzy - the result of the telescope pushing its diffraction limit near its limit of useful magnification per inch of aperature. The mind is better able to interpret the Moon mountains in the "foreground" as blurred since mountainous terrain has terresterial analogues that the mind is used to seeing. Conversely, there is less resolvable detail in Jupiter's bands that can que the mind into the level of imaging blurring. The mind is not used to perceiving cloud bands from above. The same blurry level is less bothersome to view. Try grabbing a copy of the image and view a group of pixels from the Moon and Jupiter image on a highly magnified zoom. The pixelization should show similar levels of detail. - Canopus56 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] the Pluto controversy continues
by Canopus56 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

A planet is a non-nuclear fusing object that has accreted more than 50% of the mass in its orbital track, that orbits an object that is a nuclear fusor. A planetoid is a non-nuclear fusing object that has accreted less than 50% of the mass in its orbital track, that orbits an object that is a nuclear fusor. A moon is is a non-nuclear fusing object that has accreted more than 50% of the mass in its orbital track, that orbits an object that is not a nuclear fusor. These articles may also be of interest - http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/planet_confusion_001101-1… http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/sedna/#planets - Peace - Canopus56 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com

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Re: Re: [Utah-astronomy] New Canon EOS 20Da for astrophotography
by astrodeb＠charter.net 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Patrick, That translation didn't work but I like the picture of the Orion Nebula on the webpage where you click. The Rosette is also more contrasty compared to the stock 20D. I clicked on the Orion Nebula below and scrolled down to see the Rosette. A picture is truly worth thousand words. Debbie > > From: Patrick Wiggins <paw(a)trilobyte.net> > Date: 2005/02/15 Tue PM 07:24:57 MST > To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] New Canon EOS 20Da for astrophotography > > Here's a page that will translate the text. Not a perfect translation > but it is readable. > > http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn > > Patrick > > astrodeb(a)charter.net wrote: > > > I found this on the digital-astro group. I wish Canon would put the pages in English. > > > > Debbie > > > > "It appears Canon has done something few of us would have expected > > and will soon produce a 20D made specifically for A-P work. Here > > are some links to provide some info, although the pages are in > > Japanese: > > > > http://cweb.canon.jp/camera/eosd/20da/special/index.html > > > > http://cweb.canon.jp/camera/eosd/20da/index.html > > > > http://cweb.canon.jp/camera/eosd/20da/attention/index.html > > > > It will be quite interesting to see how this camera performs and how > > much of a market it will draw." > > _______________________________________________ > 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.utahastronomy.com >

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