Re: [Utah-astronomy] Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON)
Thanks for fessing up. I am happy to share the blame with others. Does anyone else want to step up? Tyler Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Larry Holmes <larry@kijoda.com> wrote:
Tyler, I have to share some of the blame. I had Starzonia install their Hyperstar system in my Celestron 8" OTA, taking it from f8 to f2.1, and it has not been out of the case since I got back from Tucson. 73
On 12/28/2012 8:31 AM, Tyler Allred wrote:
I apologize to everyone. This bad weather is all my fault. My carbon fiber sandwich tube finally arrived from Germany and the fully-assembled scope is sitting uselessly atop the Paramount in my observatory. I expect the bad weather to continue indefinitely. Tyler
On 27 Dec 2012, at 10:39, Dave Gary wrote:
By the way, who purchased or received astronomic equipment for Christmas? The weather down here in St. George has been quite nasty for observation. I know one of you guys screwed it up. Tyler, did your new equipment come in?
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Let's blame it on the comet. It just does not want to be seen. Frustrating that the clouds are not that thick and don't go up that high. I got this shot over Utah Lake this afternoon showing we just need to put a remotely operated observatory on top of Mt. Timp: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/timpclouds.jpg Well, remote operated for most of us. Joe would probably prefer to take his images while sitting on the peak. :) patrick On 28 Dec 2012, at 12:58, Tyler Allred wrote:
Thanks for fessing up. I am happy to share the blame with others. Does anyone else want to step up? Tyler
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Larry Holmes <larry@kijoda.com> wrote:
Tyler, I have to share some of the blame. I had Starzonia install their Hyperstar system in my Celestron 8" OTA, taking it from f8 to f2.1, and it has not been out of the case since I got back from Tucson. 73
On 12/28/2012 8:31 AM, Tyler Allred wrote:
I apologize to everyone. This bad weather is all my fault. My carbon fiber sandwich tube finally arrived from Germany and the fully-assembled scope is sitting uselessly atop the Paramount in my observatory. I expect the bad weather to continue indefinitely. Tyler
On 27 Dec 2012, at 10:39, Dave Gary wrote:
By the way, who purchased or received astronomic equipment for Christmas? The weather down here in St. George has been quite nasty for observation. I know one of you guys screwed it up. Tyler, did your new equipment come in?
Nice pic Patrick - as usual. I've long wanted to make a winter ascent of Timp but my arthritic hips, slipped disk and bad knees will probably not allow it in this lifetime. For some reason all of the hype about comets has reminded me of H.G. Wells' "In the Days of the Comet". Has anyone else read this? Not his best work, and it has been years since I read it, but it is an interesting novel. Kim -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Wiggins Patrick Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 7:54 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) Let's blame it on the comet. It just does not want to be seen. Frustrating that the clouds are not that thick and don't go up that high. I got this shot over Utah Lake this afternoon showing we just need to put a remotely operated observatory on top of Mt. Timp: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/timpclouds.jpg Well, remote operated for most of us. Joe would probably prefer to take his images while sitting on the peak. :) patrick
Thanks Kim. I've never been to the top but I understand there's some sort of building up there. Not visible today though. Must be buried by snow. As for the comet hype, the February issue of S&T is hyping a couple of comets for next year, with one coming up in March. Could be an interesting year. But could also be a Kohoutek x 2. Fingers crossed. And speaking of the February S&T, there's a piece in there about a guy's backyard observatory in California containing 8 refractors (Siegfried, are you listening?). That might just beat the observatory in Orem that's been written about here oft times before. patrick On 29 Dec 2012, at 00:27, Kim wrote:
Nice pic Patrick - as usual. I've long wanted to make a winter ascent of Timp but my arthritic hips, slipped disk and bad knees will probably not allow it in this lifetime.
For some reason all of the hype about comets has reminded me of H.G. Wells' "In the Days of the Comet". Has anyone else read this? Not his best work, and it has been years since I read it, but it is an interesting novel.
Kim
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