Space Forum / Amateur Astronomy / March 2007

Is there a software program available on the 'Net that allows me to
calculate things based on the Meeus algorithms?   Specifically, I
would like to know when the sunset and moonrise times would coincide
for a given location on Earth.

I have written a bunch of sci-fi short storys (some are loner ones) and a
few I've I've turned into plain text, if anyone would like to read one or
two, let me know and I'll send the file as an attachment. Then you could let
me know what you think of what ever you have read.

A friend called me to ask advice about getting a first telescope for
her 9 year old son.   I have casually been interested in astronomy for
30 years and have a C5.  I've been very happy with the C5 and haven't
looked at any equipment in over 10 years and don't really know

I thought this was a nice graphic...
 http://kokogiak.com/solarsystembodieslargerthan200miles.html
.Florian
Stargazing.com

Hi all,
Here are a couple of shots taken from the 26th March. The first is of
some dramatic alpine shadows together with the Vallis Alpes...
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/lunar/2007-03-26_21-28-46_Red-cropped-vallis_alpes.jpg

Sky & Telescope's weekly astronomy bulletin just came out and
Chris Peterson's work on the recent Pluto Occultation made the grade.
Here's the story:
http://skytonight.com/news

Detailed charts for asteroid 2006 VV2, currently less
than 3 million miles from Earth, are available at
http://skytonight.com/observing/home/2006VV2.html
   - Tony Flanders

Big Bertha Thing unified
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/pip.html

saturns rings are closing, in 2009 the rings will be edge on to us.
The top image shows saturn with the rings wide open the ower picture
shows an image taken last monday. www.jimsastro.com.
regards jim vincent.

We know electical Chips in computer uses electrons for computations.
Can that be replaced by Light.
Electrons flow only a few 100 m/s while light travels 100,000 times
faster than electron.

I picked up this item from an auction the other day and was hoping
someone would be able to help me identify the manufacturer and model
number. I was told that it was a CCD Cooler but that was all the
information they had on it. I have a number of pictures linked below.

Guys
(I hope this is the right NG, apologies if I'm off topic)
At the minute in the UK there is a star that appears to be the first star
that is visible at night and appears at around 45 deg above the horizon in

Had allot of luck last week end.
Wife is a real city girl (she grew up in Paris France), I'm a country boy,
she always said she will not live in the country. Having to live in cities I
put up with (like most of us) light polluted skies and driving out to dark

I'm charging up both power packs for my cordless dreamal tool, been slolow
cutting the stuff I'm going to put on B8. I cound run a code out there to
get it done, but after the storm yesterday and the cold today, I'm going to
wait for a power pack charge, only have about 1/4th of ...

Hi!  I am about to buy my first telescope and would very much
appreciate advice on the subject.  I don't want to spend a lot of
money (max. EUR200 or $260), but I want the system to have enough room
for expansion so that I can fit it with enough bells and whistles to