Space Forum / Amateur Astronomy / July 2008

I went out tonight (July 5) with some members of my astronomy club to our
dark sky site.  A couple of us were talking, when, around 12:20 AM we heard
a loud BOOM!, saw a flash, and wondered what the HELL was that?!? Then we
saw an enormous plume of black smoke to the northeast, ...

space com proudly displays an ad for
http://2012comet.com/
on its home page :-(

I've recently acquired an Orion 8" reflector w/ equatorial on tripod,
motors, and two eyepieces, all made in China (of course).  I'm aware
that this setup is not the best, but better than what one gets in a
department store.  But I don't know just what to expect from it in terms

I am a newbie in astronomy.
I started to read some books around astronomy lately.  Wow, so much to
learn!
I observed the sky during the last two weeks and noticed a bright star in

Is there a way to calculate a star's maximum altitude using a star
atlas?
Thanks.
Bruce

Comet C/2007 W1 (Boattini) 7-17-2008 10:35UT, mag. 7.0+-0.5,  Dia.
12', DC=0 to 3, no tail or coma detail seen under poor Moon washed sky
I went to Little Mtn. (111W long, 40N lat) Utah east of Salt Lake City
last night (7-17-2008 4:25 MDT | 10:25 UT) to try to catch a glimpse

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Fig. 1 shows a labeled skull remains (NASA now nicknames the rock
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Good day all,
This morning at about 0345 PDT I saw a very bright object, probably in
low Earth orbit, traveling from west to east some degrees north of my
location at about 48 degrees north, -122 west.  The apparent brightness

1.How many asteroids(in the asteroid belt) are heavy iron?
2.(If you could) move them to a mars an obit and slowly run them in mars
could you get enough mass to A. hold onto a atmosphere and B. get a magnetic
field started?

Dear group ... and oriel,
A few nights ago I sat down to pursue the Pelican nebula in Cygnus. I
was debating between the widefield version (IC 5070) using my Tak FSQ
and the narrowfield version (IC 5067) using my AP160.

NASA is trapped by evolution and vested interest in the face of
mounting evidence for fossils on Mars
Over 40 definite evidences of Martian fossils are listed here:
http://www.wretch.cc/album/album.php?id=lin440315&book=20

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