Space Forum / Amateur Astronomy / July 2008

Anybody going to Stellafane? My sons and I will be there, and are looking
forward to another great weekend of amateur astronomy. It has been
rain,rain,rain here in Vermont, but we are hopeful that we will have gotten
the rain out of our system and that 8/1-8/3 will be wonderfully ...

An Alien, visiting Earth, has confirmed that NASA astronauts actually
visited the moon.
"Their equipment was fairly primitive," he  said in an interview, "but
sufficient to get to the moon and back. The technology needed to fake a moon

The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae in Orion
Before I had the facility to image over the Internet I used to do my
astronomy in the light polluted skies of England. It was only once I
had a 12" reflector that I managed to see the famous dark nebula

The Intertwined Passions of Alan Lightman
  http://www.aip.org/isns/reports/2008/019.html
Once a highly-regarded physicist, now a critically acclaimed novelist, MIT's Alan Lightman
explores the world with an unusual blend of creativity and imagination.

I am on the road often and many times when I stop I have such an
encredible view of the night-time sky, especially in the California
and Nevada desert.
Is there such a thing as a decent compact telescope that packs up

Sticky blood remains stick to the scoop of Phoenix
Fig. 1 shows a lmyph node remains on Mars. Lymph nodes go in parallel
with veins, which contain sticky blood. In Fig. 1, there are also some
black lymphatic vessel remains and invisible blood vessel remains,

Why can't NASA turn a few more rocks on Mars to see if they are
fossils or not?
Mars Lander Phoenix turned a rock nicknamed “Alice” in
“Wonderland”(Ref. 1).

That a group like this has to have the quality and quantity of spam messages
that it has received. I check back on this group from time to time to see
what I have missed in the Astronomy world and am always shocked at the spam
that is here.

I don't want any fake Gucci or Prada made in Shanghai.

Big Images from Small Telescopes (2)
IC 1805 a bright nebula in Cassiopeia
IC1805 is unusual in that even the usually mega reliable SkyMap Pro
doesn't really give a good impression of what the nebula will look

Why look for water on Mars when the pussy grew a big skull?
A pussycat on Mars (Ref. 1) had a skull that was 9 cm in diameter. The
pussy surely had water on Mars. Why is NASA still looking for water on
Mars? No wonder Winkie, a real Martian nicknamed by NASA (Ref. 2),

first, apologies if this is the wrong forum for this.
I have been asked by a niece of mine if there is proof of the
heliocentric model for the solar system . She was told in class  that
the geocentric model works equally well.

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Just saw this post by Dave Jurasevich:
Here's an 8-pane h-alpha mosaic of the IC 1318 region in Cygnus taken
with my AP 160 refractor at f/5.7 and an STL-11000M camera. This
work comprises a total exposure time of 32 hours and covers an area

High cloud and smoke have ruined a good observing season so far.