Space Forum / Amateur Astronomy / November 2004

What do our UK experts reckon for the possibilities for the counties to the
south of London?

Since it's cloudy here and the aurora probably couldn't be seen this
far down anyway even if it were clear, I passed some time demonstrating,
somewhat less than rigorously, the inverse-square law of gravity using
only geometrical methods--without analysis, in other words.  If you ...

I wonder how many of you who post and lurk here started with a 60mm refractor
or something similar?  I would like to see a show of hands, lurkers can Email
me privately...
Here's the story of my first scope....  ( a repost)

Space Weather Message Code: ALTK07
Serial Number: 65
Issue Time: 2004 Nov 10 0259 UTC
ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 7

Please visit this web page and see the exciting new documentary in
production about George Ellery Hale, the man who built Mt. Wilson
Observatory and Palomar
http://www.journeytopalomar.org/

A friend and I have been pushing around the idea of a large richfield
refractor. We have been looking but have yet to find a 8+ inch richfield
refractor. For cost reasons we are not interested in an APO. Does anybody
know of a company that sells big acromats?

Message forward :
Hello,
I am pleased to announce a new version 2.1 of the Virtual Moon Atlas.
News functions include:

Question:
I am thinking of buying a telescope. What scope should I get?
Rites Of Passage/Non-Elitist Answer:
Your local department store should have a few to choose from

"I can teach anyone how to get what they want out of life.
The problem is I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want." -- Mark Twain "Today people in America can become whatever they want. Trouble is most don't know what they want." -- Earl Nightingale What do you want? ...

V2.13 of LunarPhase Pro has just been released. Full details of the
software can be found at:
http://www.lunarphasepro.com
LunarPhase Pro (for Win 98/Me/NT/2000/XP) is a software toolkit for

One and a half hours after local sunrise and it is interesting to see Jupiter
just 1 degree from the moon's southeast limb using hand-held 10x50B. Less than
four hours to go to occultation. I have personally seen Venus, Saturn, and Mars
do this routine over the years a couple of ...

Here's a couple of pics from tonight's aurora taken from near North Bay,
Ontario.
Facing due south!
http://members.aol.com/tdcarls/nov7-2.jpg

My 12 year old son Tim has been experimenting with a Philips TouCam Pro II
webcam, and pulled this frame out of some video he took last night:
http://www.buytelescopes.com/gallery/view_photo.asp?pid=3753
This frame is unprocessed.  The video is 640x480, 5fps.  The scope is a

See: http://spaceweather.com/
AURORA ALERT: If it's dark where you live, look
for auroras now. A geomagnetic storm, sparked by
two coronal mass ejections hitting Earth's magnetic

We were just notified (by postcard!) that the Georgia Tech library
is hosting Barnard's "Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the
Milky Way" as a web exhibit. This includes scans of the photgraphs,
charts, and catalog of dark nebulae (an ever-popular query hereabouts).