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Get a beacon
by Wiggins Patrick 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

I don't mean this to be a commercial for any one company but knowing that many of us on this list sometimes find ourselves in remote areas far from cell service (Joe comes to mind) I thought I'd pass along this story: http://www.acrartex.com/survivors/stories/jill-clendon-nelson-new-zealand/?… Yeah, long URL but an educational read. Now go get a beacon! patrick Sent from my iPad

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L&O reminder
by Chuck Hards 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

The next Liver & Onions subcommittee lunch is this Saturday at noon, at the Left Fork Grill in Salt Lake. 68 W 3900 S. Plenty of on-site parking. Bring something for show-and-tell, if desired. Hope to see you there!

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] 1.8-meter Mike
by Joe Bauman 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

I did drop the subscription but one of our friends sent the magazine to me. Thanks! ------------------------------ On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 5:38 AM MDT Chuck Hards wrote: >Praise from Caesar! > >Thanks, Joe. I thought you dropped your subscription. Did you pick up a >copy from a local bookstore? > >I had lunch with Mike on Sunday. He's having trouble with the telescope >drives, the motors are too small to move the scope's enormous mass, but he >is working on a fix. The maker of the drive system seems disinterested in >any troubleshooting. He also reports that the scope will not be at >Riverside this year, though he himself is planning to attend. With only 4 >or 5 days off per month, there just isn't enough time to pull it all >together by then. He still does not have a trailer suitable for the big >scope. > > >On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Fine article and photos, Chuck! Congratulations to you as well as Mike. -- >> Joe >> >_______________________________________________ >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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Cosmos
by jcarman6＠q.com 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

If they are sticking to the original, there should be about 13 episodes. I'm not sure they have ever mentioned a number of episodes for Tyson's Cosmos. Did you notice in the opening credits "Executive Producer: Ann Druyan"? Ann is Sagan's wife/widow. Pretty sure she worked on the first generation Cosmos. Is that what we call it now Cosmos First Generation, Cosmos Second Generation? lol

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Sunspot numbers going down
by Wiggins Patrick 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

Doesn't look great for solar observing. http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/images/Cycle22Cycle23Cycle24big.gif patrick

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1.8-meter Mike
by Joe Bauman 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

Fine article and photos, Chuck! Congratulations to you as well as Mike. -- Joe

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Cosmos
by jcarman6＠q.com 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

Ahh, now for the criticisms. And good points well made. Regarding the ads, yes, they were poorly placed. E xcept for the Noah ad, that was just very funny . A 13.5 billion year old Cosmos is in the mind and then confronted by the b iblical, i.e. six day/six thousand year Cosmos. Wonder if Fox did that on purpose - a little cya with their native audience. Or the advertisers were sauvy enough to realize the potential audience for the program and so bought time . Thank you Noah for supporting Cosmos 2G :) Regarding the computer graphics - point well made. But the main audience is Generation X , most raised on computer graphics. Eight year old kids have iphones, pads and tablets. Twenty-somethings have been raised on the Simpsons, Southpark and the Family Guy and computer generated movies like Star Wars 1, 2 and 3 . That's all they know. T hose images of the planets weren't originally computer generated . The images of Uranus and Neptune had to be from Voyager and the sun images were perhaps from SOHO. All the planetary images had to originally come from explorer spacecraft, but they were woven into a seamless 6 minute travel log through the solar system by way of the computer. The Bruno cartoon was weak, our generation would have insisted on hiring actors to portray the characters. I would certainly have enjoyed it more , but think of the cost. At least the cartoon got the story right and that's the important point. Nitpicking criticisms: Regarding the formation of the earth/moon. There are those who believe one of those early collisions created the Pacific Ocean and the piece that was early Earth was the foundation of the moon, not mentioned. Does that mean the theory is discounted? Yeah, that's a real nit to pick When Tyson stood by the medieval cell - was that really Bruno's cell? Would have been nice if Tyson had said it specifically. Sagan walked into the actual catacomb remains of the Alexandria library. I never forgot that moment. Made it so real.

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Organic Matter and the Moon, by Carl Sagan 1961
by Dave Gary 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

The pdf files are free for download. An old paper by Carl. http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18476&utm_medium=etmail&utm_source… National Academies Press&utm_campaign=Cosmos+Premiere+2014.03.08&utm_content=&utm_term=

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Cosmos
by Joe Bauman 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

I thought it was halirous when Tyson was whacking away at religious b.s. and then the ad comes on about the ludicrous Noah movie. ------------------------------ On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 8:39 AM MDT Seth Jarvis wrote: >Agreed. Whoever was placing ad breaks seemed to not care a whit about what it did to the segment they were breaking up to hawk Samsung. > >Otherwise, I thought it was a very promising first episode and I'm looking forward to the next dozen segments. This is definitely a DVD set I'll be buying when it's released. > >Seth > >-----Original Message----- >From: utah-astronomy-bounces(a)mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of M Wilson >Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 8:30 AM >To: Utah Astronomy >Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Cosmos > >According the this Salt Lake Tribune story > >>snip< > >My only objection to the series is the placement of ads, or should I say the timing. They were always interupting an important thought line with those ads instead of waiting for a transition between thoughts. It was particularly irritating when the ads at one point were only 5 minutes apart. > > > >_______________________________________________ >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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Orion Nebula 3/8/2014
by Dave Gary 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

Quick and dirty B/W photo from last night. Blown out, but I had to move fast. I waited a little too long to set up and Orion was starting to set behind my house. One big disadvantage to a driveway observatory. http://www.flickr.com/photos/78046474@N06/13039423895/ Dave

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