Space Forum / Amateur Astronomy / October 2006

APOD: Crescent Venus and Moon
  http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061030.html

Laser broad band fiber optic communications system think of using a
laser the same way as fiber optic cable but through the air I'm
thinking line of site let's move at light speed shell we think of it.
Say good by to cable TV and say hello to laser optic communications say

I have a new type of coal miner face mask.
This face mask is a organic carbon monoxide coal miner face mask, which
will consume carbon monoxide gases in return create oxygen, for the
coal miner's to breath. This could be a US patent for me, please tell

Or you can kiss your career goodbye.  Otherwise titled, "Don't f---
with the livelihood of pro-global warmers."
Climate of Fear
Publié par Richard Lindzen le 28/10/2006 (90 lus)

I'm planning on buying a 12" Meade Lightbridge and am considering these
two places. Anyone have any experience dealing with them? Are there any
other mail-order places you recommend?
Thanks,

wrote >>>..........
throughout the World Series -- the Sun, Mercury, Mars, Venus, and
Jupiter are all in compelling Scorpio
The World Series begins on Saturday, Oct. 21, as the New Moon in Libra

You know about the face on Mars??  Well here's
the face of Drumhelller AB with an ipod
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=medicine%2Bhat,%2Balberta&ie=UTF8&z=16&l
l=50.010083,-110.113006&spn=0.009432,0.026951&t=k&om=1%20

When attaching our new Canon 350D SLR to the prime focus
of our little C5, we cannot obtain the sharpness that the
camera viewfinder (SLR) shows us.
Even though using lock-mirror, 2-10 sec. (remote) self-timer

Some products from China do indeed have significant value for the $.
As a matter of fact, compared to the low cost items out of Japan in
the 50's, the Chinese stuff can be down right nice.
Then there are the power tools at Harbor Freight but I won't go there.

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/8869/swancometmz6.jpg
;-)
.Florian

Comet C/2006 M4 (SWAN) from a dark (moonlit) Montana sky at 1:30 to
2:20 U.T. on 29 October, 2006:
Faintest star visible to naked eye near Polaris: magnitude 5.9.  This
translates to a zenithal NELM of 6.0; but the sky was *a little*

As posted slightly earlier, Bill (nuckdaily@gmail.com) and I both report
seeing some "pieces" breaking off comet Swan. I observed one tiny bright
nucleus part still within the coma in (I think, 'cause I'm looking through
a newtonian) SW of the main nucleus. For clarity, the "piece" ...

Can anyone confirm?
I just came in from a quick look at Comet SWAN.  My sky was somewhat
engulfed in thin clouds but:
I started looking at SWAN with 20x80 binoculars, compared SWAN with

I was camping at Lake Chabot in California. At about 8pm on Thursday,
Oct 26, 2006 I was star-gazing when I observed a fast moving object
with my naked eye. I object looked exactly like the other stars in the
southern sky. It had the same apparent luminosity and same apparent

Just curious if I am ever going to get the chance to see a grand naked
eye comet with a telescope any time soon.