Space Forum / Amateur Astronomy / August 2007

I know this is going to upset some people.  But remember, this is an
unmoderated forum here so I will speak my mind.  I won't be the first
and I certainly won't be the last to stray into taboo OT.
The following was posted today in Moderated sci.astro.amateur by a

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/stars/index.html
The generalised dynamics which cause a star to deviate from a perfect
sphere may also be applied to the Earth's molten,flexible and rotating
interior.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20500188/
Too bad the rovers weren't equipped with a blower to
do away with dust. But then, they weren't expected to have to endure a dust
storm either.

Space Weather News for Aug. 30, 2007
http://spaceweather.com
WEEKEND METEORS:  On Saturday morning, September 1st, a flurry of bright and colorful meteors might come streaming out
of the constellation Auriga.  The source of the shower is ancient Comet Kiess, which has laid down a ...

...well good evening from us Brit's :-)
Well it's been a while since I dropped in here and I see the old
newsgroup has been hit by a few problems? Nothing it can't manage by the
way.

I'm wanting to build an optical spectrometer like this one.
http://ii.uwb.edu.pl/astas/spektrometr/index-en.html
Here is a discussion that went on elsewhere.
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.astro/browse_thread/thread/c59376ae3ec265c5/#

As the Earth overtakes Jupiter in our respective orbit around the
Sun,the shadow cast by Io will alter its position as we approach
Jupiter and leave it behind insofar as our orbital motion is faster.
Guess which images indicates our approach to Jupiter and which one

A few days ago the President signed legislation which, among
other things, amended existing law to define the U.S. time zones in
terms of UTC instead of mean solar time.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-2272

So are gonna get up early? I slept in late like until 3pm or 1500. So I can
stay up all night long...
But clouds might ruin it for me...

Folks,
Does anyone know what happended to the NGC/IC project website? I visit
their page on a regular basis and I see today that it is no longer
there. It was a very good website and I would be very sorry to learn

i have been doing some research on dark energy and dark matter and
general news says that all the information scientists have found and
discovered have already been posted on every astronomical and
astrophysical website, magazine, etc.. possible. although i doubt that

All the latest updates and suggestions from colleagues have been
included.
http://www.martin-nicholson.info/index.htm

The weather even at midnight was not promising- it was raining lightly
and there was just a slight glow through the clouds to suggest they
might not be too thick. Figured the eclipse would be a washout and went
to bed without setting the alarm. But I woke up at 3:30 and the

I made a little movie of what I saw...
http://www.wkateam.com/astronomy/lunareclispeaug2007.wmv

This my the first time posting to this group, but I am an amateur astronomer
and have recently decided that I should really have a telrad finder on my 8"
dobsonian. I am wondering if anyone has any recommendations on from where I
should purchase one. Does it matter? They all ...