Space Forum / Astronomy / August 2004

* Has anyone noticed how the slew command on this scope can be delayed?  Any
way of making it more responsive?
*  How does the tracking mechanism change to account for different x
magnification?

Two questions before:
When was the exact vernal equinox 2000 aD., that is:
does You know the Greenwich Mean Time of the moment, where the
axis of earth were at right angle with

In 1972 our probing Mars soil,and rocks did not show one molecule of
water.(not one part in a billion. Our last probes did not do any better.
We are being told "once upon a time" like a billion years ago things
could have been different,and Mars surface had lots of running water.

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British 'Steady-State' Astronomer Fred Hoyle Dies
By SPACE.com staff and wire reports
posted: 08:26 am ET

Hi to all,
this is my first contribute (i hope) for the list,
my name is Fabio Acquarone and are almost three
years that i am interested in amatorial Astronomy...

I am soon to be in the market for a new mount and tripod.  I currently have
a GEM1 mount that came with my Orion Optics Europa 200 f6.  The mount is
nowhere near strong enough for the scope.  I am after a mount that will give
me excellent visual stability and long exposure ...

I have been shopping for a good digital camera for astrophotography. I have
found that in general CCD is the way to go over CMOS because CCD produces
less noise for the longer shutter speeds needed for deep-sky photography.
Can anyone recommend a good, reasonably priced, CCD Digital ...

¿What is the time to travel(speed of light) through the solar sistem,
starting for the sun to the outers planets?
Example From the sun to earth, thetime is aprox 8 minutes.

Is there please anyone local to Tamworth that can meet up with myself to
teach me how to get started I have brought a laptop a toucam and a celestron
nexstar 114 I want to get it all set up for photography but I don't have a
clue where to start.

For sale: Skywatcher Explorer 8" Newt. Reflector & EQ5 Mount.
Hardly used, as new.
£300. Location Bristol.
email: simon at lexton dot me dot uk

Here's another dull one. But please, help me choose my first telescope.
Suppose you're back to buying your first telescope (but without losing any
precious accumulated experience). Your budget is (very) tight but,
nevertheless, you drive to your favourite telescope store.

In a message dated 8/29/2004 1:24:31 PM Central Daylight Time,
sarfatti@pacbell.net writes:
Hal's Type II model is Rube Goldberg. He takes a short-wavelength cutoff
at h/mc which is adhoc.

The following is a very interesting story, no matter how untrue it is.
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"From a galaxy so remote it is unknown to us, a light brighter than a
billion suns is guided through the shaft of a wormhole, fading in

http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/news/MajorPlanet.html
Now if Darla could give us all the details BEFORE the news gets leaked, that
would be neat.  Of course it won't happen.
Anway, looks like it will be an important discovery.

alt.astronomy:
News item:
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Thursday, August 26, 2004 Posted: 9:43 AM EDT (1343 GMT)