Space Forum / Amateur Astronomy / August 2006

I visited Mauna Kea (Hawai'i) this week with my family. It's an amazing place. I made this video on Friday, 8/18/2006...
 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2727870779412605872
The night before i made the video i did a bit of stargazing from the visitor center with 10x42 ...

I'm going to Hawaii in August and wanted to check for some darksky sites.
My first thought was to find a Hawaiian Clear Sky Clock location and use
the light pollution map link. Then i realized CSC doesn't cover Hawaii.
I tried downloading a light pollution map from ...

Following the logic applied by the IAU, Linguists Noah Chomsky and
Jeffrey Nunn have pointed out the word Planet starts with 'p'. So does
'Pluto' !
They contend Pluto must be reduced further in status and remaned. "You

My wife & I were driving home & we were admiring what appeared to be
the Sun behind a cloud giving off a multi-color appearance.  Then we
noticed this wasn't the Sun; the Sun was about 15 degrees further south
of this rainbowish ball in the cloud.  The Sun was covered with light

To create renderings of stars I need to know their spectral color to
represent them the best I can using a calibrated screen.
For example, I try to render Pollux and its exoplanet.
http://www.astrosurf.org/lombry/alienworlds-renderings.htm (close to mid of

I have two Canon film cameras -- EOS 630 and EOS Rebel-G.  When the shutter
trips, the mirror flips up and down and the film advances all of which is
LOUD and noisy.
What happens when you trip the shutter in a digital SLR??  Obviously the

The Ernesto Nebula!  Don't need a filter on this one.  Florida skies are
hangin' lowww...       Alright, who got the new equipment?  Fess up.
RJ

I observed this comet Saturday night (Aug 27 UT) in a Celestron GPS-11,
in a 38mm wide-field eyepiece (80x). It was quite high up in the sky,
near Mu Draconis. No tail was seen, and no details, just a faint fuzzy.
Still, it was not difficult to see, from a reasonably dark site about ...

Subject: THE CLINTONS
Bill Clinton registers for the draft on September 08, 1964, accepting
all contractual conditions of registering for the draft. Given

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PERHAPS *YOU* COULD convince our Republican-controlled United
States Federal Government to bankroll & oversee an experiment.
You & your fellow Liberal conspiracy nuts can control it, but

SAVE PLUTO SIGN MY PETITION
http://www.petitiononline.com/PP896/petition.html
THANKS
JACOCA

I'm interested in measuring the alignment of an object relative to a
fixed plane.
As it happens, it's my saw blade relative to the saw table, but that
shouldn't matter much.

Ceres is definitely dwarfish, but pluto is just smallish, more
plutoish.
Both planets nevertheless. Lane clearing my a.s.
http://cosmic.lifeform.org/?p=166

I write and sell and give away free versions of my optical design
software called KDP. See my signature line. The free version at my web
site is more that capable of designing and analysing any and all
optical systems of interest to any amateur astronomer so I'm not

Fellow amateurs,
As a (frequently rank) amateur I'm hoping someone might advise me - what
should I now call Pluto please?
UB2006-001 ?