Space Forum / Amateur Astronomy / January 2007

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Coincidently, I'm Daniel from Ohio, Columbus. Back in the day,
I wore out a few guitfiddles myself. My fav was the old Strat.
I even had a '68 Black Beauty, which I didn't really care for,

who are the "famous" astronomers of the 21st century. i havent heard
of many well known astronomers or astrophysicists.........yet.

With the JWT, I have read that scientist will be able to see back
closer to the big bang than with any modern telescope; targeting IR.
I understand that when we look at a DSO (or any object), that we are
looking at the DSO the way it looked at some time(t) in the past. In

I bought this little polar scope to align with polaris but it's so
much effort to do that I think that it's not worth it. Besides, the
scope is supposed to have an illuminated reticle but it apparently
does not so I can't see the crosshairs in the dark anyway.

Does anyone produce a reasonably-priced mounting, with the ability
both to pan to desired altitude and azimuth, and to track the motion
of the stars accurately enough to keep star images as points at say
200mm focal length, on which you could mount a normal camera (say 3kg

Half Moon
http://www.comsketch.com/moon2january2507
I blew out the limb on this next one but the mid-terminator looks
nice

Whats the difference between the two?

All,
IC443 - A Supernova Remnant in Gemini. 6 x 30 Minute Subs in Ha.
253mm f/6 Newtonian, STL11000M and 6nm Ha Filter.
http://www.celestial-images.com/Images/IC443-6x1800s-Ha.html

Do you have a copy of the Constitution?  Read it then burn it.  It's gone.
We now officially live in a dictatorship.
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Bush Raises His Sway at U.S. Agencies

This is really a multi part post.
According to Spaceweather.com a new active region is just behind the
Sun and will rotate to us
soon because it has been firing off CME's.

This may be the last post for a few days, right now my life looks like
something that Godzilla has steped on. My car is home, but I've been unab;e
to find my dreamal tool so I can get the metal cut so I can fix it kind of
so I can start it. Spent sunday looking all threw my ...

Last night I made observations of deep sky objects using hand-held,
20x80 binoculars.  My limiting magnitude was 6.5 or better (same as on
a typical 'good' night).  A look at M31 and M45 was enough to convince
me that this would be a good night to try for the California Nebula.

How can an astronomer know the difference between light that's red
shifted due to Doppler, as opposed to light red shifted due to gravity,
Compton effect, etc..., ?
Errol

Many of you who have been here awhile and thus on the Internet probably have
come across some interesting astronomy sites - not the Top 20 that we all
generally know about, but lesser known but good sites. If so, would you be
willing to share some of them here for us?