Space Forum / Amateur Astronomy / July 2005

Nasa has grounded the shuttle fleet because of problems with tank foam
debris on the launch of discovery.
< http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050727/D8BK18H00.html >

Anyone observe with either of these new apo refractors?  Opinion as to
optical quality?
Thank you!

While doing my normal "Window" shopping on ebay, I alway check out the
Dobsonian Telescope search just to see what's going on.
Today they range from a old clestron 8in star hopper with a bid of $32.00 so
far, shipping would be a killer to the west cost.

A forum http://www.sunsigns.org i just happened to bump into a few days
back. here you can discuss HOROSCOPE  from Astrology to Divination,
Numerology, Palmistry and everything in between including Psychic &
Chinese Astrology more...

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.societ.Science.WASWnAstro.MoonSolSys.Planet-ten.145e11km
-date: Sat. 31.07.05  16:49 sent.
planet-10 distance 145e11 metres, not equal to #exact feet.

Hi to all. Today there isn't the usual image of mars, but an image of his
moon Deimos. It wasn't easy to image it but at the end I won!
I used my webcam philips toucam pro II and C9,25+reducer f6,3. Mean of 1600
frames at 5fps. Phobos is unfortunately too close to the planet and ...

Any one tried to use a DSLR camera with a Faststar telescope? I mean
mounting a Canon 300D in F/2 mode in front of the SCT OTA?
I know it will increas the COB a lot, but is it possiable?
I have C-8 FastStar SCT now, but sold my CCD HX-516 a month ago.

Carolina Martinez (818) 354-9382
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Erica Hupp/Dolores Beasley (202/358-1237/1753)
NASA Headquarters, Washington

It's a serious state of affairs when a larger piece of foam can fall off the
tank after so much work to stop this
problem.  I can't understand why they don't have a robotic dummy craft off
similar weight as the shuttle to do test flights

I added some new Hires lunar and planetary images to my web site, it's
a very plain web site, I plan on improving it later.
If anyone wants to take a look here is the link
http://higginsandsons.com/astro/

Introduction
I'm still learning the ropes of proper postings here on SAA.  If anyone
has some suggestions on how to better my posting form, please let me
know here or in private email.  The # in the posting title allows me to

Had been set up about 30 mins, had a lady with two kids stop and view
Jupiter, then just as it was getting dark a  car pulled in by the public
phones and a guy came around and said he'd just recorded a UFO in flight!
Pulled out his camcorder and flipped open the preview sceen and ...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050729.html
Congrats Anthony!
Ed T.

Does anyone know what it is?
I wear eyeglasses and ideally would need a 15-20mm of eye relief.
thanks,
Terence

Anyone catch today's APOD?  Nice job Anthony.