Space Forum / Amateur Astronomy / April 2006

What is your favorite object that Messier missed that would have made
the Marathon impossible (from circa 40° N)?  In other words, things
roughly between M30 and M74 that are fairly easy to see.  And why did
he miss it?

at 10pm today (april 30), I setup my william optics Z80 in my backyard, to photograph
earthshine, it was cloudy, but the moon was visible at that time. The Z80 delivered beautiful
images, in fact I saw a star disappear behind the moon at 10.09pm CET (my location is Utrecht,
the ...

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Anyone know how I can get in touch with Joe. I've emailed his address
at Mercury Systems Suppport for months now and have had no luck in
contacting him.
Thanks

Spot group AR 10875 has been undergoing some amazing changes today,
culminating in flare activity...
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/solar/ha-20060426.html

http://webpages.charter.net/asteroid/

OK, so I started with a Celestron 90eq Firstscope and then quickly
added an Orion XT8i.  Both actually great in their own way (that 90eq
with the little 9VDC drive holds a planet for I don't know how long in
the couple of spots where I have polar alignment dialed in).

As the last time I was up there was 2001 and that's when a fellow user gave
me a ride there, I had planned on trying to make it this year, I had planned
on living on as little as I could, putting most of the money into gas and
the entry fee. This was when gas was still down ...

I'm on the way to buy a cheap used Meade ETX 90.
One that I found appears it's an old model one, bought in '99, and has
no autostar #497.
Only the manual 4 ways, 4 speeds controller.

I've recently added a couple of interesting books to
my library.
One is the new printing of Millenium Star Atlas. Three
heavy volumes, zillions of stars, globulars in M31. It

I need a 1.25" eyepiece adapter for an older Meade. It's plastic and screws
on the focuser. I bought one a few years ago from an eBay store, but now I
can't find it any more. Anybody know where I can get one?

What I am looking for is a neat software that would give me a little
more than a static Mars map would. I prefer it to be downloadable
rather than Java and to show the landing sites of all spacecraft. Some
zoomability or search features would also be nice. I am quite sure

Where did <http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/> go?
         Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
             (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
              Obz Site:  39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

Amazing what flights the truly deranged imagination can take when it
doesn't want to
face the fact there are only a couple TRUE solutions to possible space
travel.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/26/washington/26nasa.html
"WASHINGTON, April 25 - The ability to send humans into space after
retiring the space shuttle is such a high priority for NASA that some
space science must be sacrificed to help pay for it, the agency's