Space Forum / Amateur Astronomy / September 2007

Has anyone been able to locate Starlord? Is there any news?

102nd  Birthday of  E=mc2 (  27 Sep 1905- 27 Sep.2007)  Complete
tribute  in  book Einstein's E=mc2 generalized , www.ajayonline.us
                    E=mc2 was derived by given by Einstein on 27 Sep
1905 in Ann. der Physik

Tony Hallas has a spectacular Hercules cluster
image published in Oct. S&T. p.15.
S&T describes the image as Hubble Quality. Amazing
for a 14.5inch ground based amateur telescope.

I looked at an article about the machine underneath Switzerland -
"The prospect of discovery, Dr. Virdee said, is what sustained him and
his colleagues over the 16 years it took to develop their machine.
Without such detectors, he said, "this field which began with Newton

Space Weather Message Code: ALTK05
Serial Number: 595
Issue Time: 2007 Sep 29 0359 UTC
ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 5

WO Zenithstar 66 went from $299 a couple months ago to $368!!!!!
http://www.williamoptics.com/wo_shop/catalog/index.php?cPath=21_23

And they were right! But I came closer than anyone might think was
possible...
I happened to be looking at the Wikipedia page on calendar reform
earlier today.

Apologies to Margo for posting a response as a seperate
thread,something up with posting through the Google newsreader
On Sep 23, 10:33 pm, Margo Schulter <mschul...@web1.calweb.com> wrote:

After 27+ year of privatisation of everything including the US
Government it should come as no surprise that soccor grandmom
fund rasier and her retired engineer husband - who never did any
astronomy ever and dont knbow a star from a meatball - should

Well, I'm certainly excited! After 15 years or so, I'm getting back to the
eyepiece.
I grew up with telescopes in the house--my dad had an old Tasco refractor
(on a rubber-legged mount of course), and a fairly decent 4" reflector. As

Did anyone see the news segment yesterday evening about sending a Gerbil to
Mars? This post is not a joke, this subject was presented on CNN yesterday
evening. I had company over at my house last night and no matter how hard I
tried, I couldn't hear the television. I do remember ...

It's none of your business.

With a reflector, 36x or 90x, which Moon object is located furthest
south and more or less center? It looks like a nub on a melon.
Bruce

I've been doing some web searches about different types of telescopes.
As many of you know, the popular Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope design
was made by only three American companies - Celestron, Meade, and
Bausch and Lomb - and was beset by patent and trade secret litigation.

The common trait of all great works,and especially the astronomical
insights and methods,is in the effect it has on the viewer,reader or
listener.These incredible experiences are present in astronomy to a
high degree and especially Copernican reasoning  which is  now easy to