Space Forum / Amateur Astronomy / May 2004

From the Contest Chair...
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Good Morning CAT lovers:

A full report tomorrow, but I thought I'd give some feedback on
information that people have given me:
1.  Lens Flare and Dirty Optics - I decided to just use air and
nothing else.  It was the right move.  Slight lens flare early but it

Even the movie, Day After Tomorrow couldn't find a good use for the orbiting
white elephant, the ISS.  Aside from confirming what people on the ground
already knew.
-Rich

I've posted at
http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/ogspec.htm
some new spectra of stars in Cygnus and Lyra via small prism before a
camera lens coupled to CCD.  Surprisingly despite the very low

Is there any digital camera that can be attached to a Telescope?
If so, what brands?
Thanks.

Location:  San Diego, CA
Time:  2005-2335 PDT (0305-0635 UT)
Seeing:  7
Transparency: 5

Hey, guys.  I feel stupid at not being able to remember these formulas, but
math is not my strength.  Can someone give me the formula (again) for
converting latitude/longitude coordinates from 00.0000 degrees to 00 degrees
00 minutes 00 seconds, and vice-versa!  I've actually asked ...

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The Paradigm Shift Revolution of Physics
Stephen Mooney
In 1798 Henry Cavendish published a paper in Philosophical
Transactions reporting the

Heres one for the HNSKY gurus,
      I am having a problem getting the FITS images to appear when I zoom
in on them, I downloaded the FITS files, unzipped them and placed them in
the FITS folder then went to Screen on the HNSKY program and selected insert

Anyone have the pinouts for a Celestron PC port on the Nexstar so I can make
a cable ?
rbabb@roadrunner.nf.net

Back on April 5, 2004 when the tax increase was voted down, the one to
help pay for more street lighting, it was the first battle of the on
going war. I just came back from the RCSD public meeting and now they
har formatting a letter which will be sent out to all regested votes

If I am using a 26mm eyepiece say in an 8" SCT and I have the position of
the North Celestial Pole relative to Polaris from a program such as polar
finder or Starry night, about how far offset from center in the eyepiece
should Polaris be?

Dear Friends,
     Thanks to pristine skies today here in Greece, it was possible to
view and image today's lunar occultation of our sister planet in early
afternoon. For a time series collage of the disappearance of the

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05990
Julius