Space Forum / Amateur Astronomy / April 2008

Here's a big mosaic of the Sun taken through a Solarscope SF-70 filter
on the 24th April 2008. The file is approximately 1.5Mb in size...
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/solar/2008/2008-04-24_11-33-26_SVF70ss-flat15-final.jpg

Hi –
I am looking for planetarium software for making 8.5 by 11 inch plots
on my ink jet printer so stars, DSOs etc will match exactly (or almost
exactly) data on a star atlas (for example, SkyAtlas 2000).  With this

Scientific American Magazine -  June 18, 2002
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense
Opponents of evolution want to make a place for creationism by tearing
down real science, but their arguments don't hold up

I believe that my topic is useful and I would like to share my
thoughts. THANK YOU
Sultan
http://www.sultan.org/

Someone gave our museum a C-8 8" SCT. I thought I'd set it up, but
immediately found a bolt extending from the tripod top without any apparent
way to place the wedge on it. I noticed a long vertical shaft under the
platform, and discovered one can raise a center pole up through ...

Yep...Uncle Al just announced a new Ethos eyepiece, an 8mm this time.

I am trying to connect my new laptop to my LX200. I have an original
10" Lx200 (1998) and The Sky version 4 level 2. This works perfectly
on my old laptop with a serial port. My new laptop only has usb ports
so i have bought a serial port to usb adapter which seems to work ok.I

Mars has made late winter a real treat trekking backwards thru Gem.

May you read my article please? I know it has nothing to do with this
group but it may open your mind about something that you don’t know.
PURPOSE OF LIFE
Have you ever asked yourself these questions?

With the latest Photoshop's ability to work somewhat with 32 bit images, as
an experiment, I decided to convert all planetary 8 and 16 bit images I had
from the past to 32 bit, apply unsharp masking and see what would happen.
To my surprise, these converted images seem to be able ...

Thought you find this of interest.
Note the design difficulties...just like our robots. ;<)
TMT
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2008-04-13-mars_N.htm?csp=1

What you are about to read might sound unusual but it could be very
enlightened.
New Muslim Brother From San Francisco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miw1nt-vNAU

So I was looking through my new (used) 10 inch dobs last night.
Saturn  looked great I could even see a band. (or maybe it was the Cassini
space craft--- Grin)
I also look at Sirius and it looked -- well --umm--- grainy.

What do you people think of this little point?  I always thought that
our planet is named simply, "Earth."  So, when I hear something is
good for "the" Earth, I am given to wonder what might be good for
"the" Jupiter, or "the" Venus.  Am I getting all worked up over

over on the ASTRO:  Alt.binaries.pictures.astro
I put up a photo of my new, used BABY.
Mark  F.