Space Forum / Astronomy / November 2004

Wondered what the large bino`s are like such as the 25x100 from
Celestron. Don`t seem to be a bad price approx £300 any one tried them?.
Cheers
Steve

I have a couple questions, they all related to the future of spece
telescopes:
1. Hubble's Telescope has < 0.1 arcsec resolution in visible and
ultraviolet ranges. What is the next resolution level that can bring

Can a Raytracing software program also evaluate Contrast on (telescope)
images?
What are the existing softwares that can evaluate Contrast?
How good are these softwares?

You may have seen this already, some Tesla links,
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/tesla/tesla.html

Evening gentlemen & ladies,
I notice that PC-Pro have given us an early Xmas present and put Starry
night 4.5 on the cover disc.
Use at your leisure.

For Michele W., who died in October 2002, 10 days before her 26th
birthday.
She was a Caltech graduate with a scientific degree & a broad
knowledge of many subjects.

From http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002102807_comet28.html
Sunday, November 28, 2004 - Page updated at 12:00 A.M.
By Frank D. Roylance
The Baltimore Sun

Hi! Some days when the sky goes up or down the sky is very very red so the
air around us looks red to. Why is this happening?
Guess there must be something special with the air those days that changes
the frequency of sunlight that we observe.

I did not participate in this thread. Someone must have faked my email
address and my name.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0411/14galaxyform/
What comes first the black hole or the bulge in the center of a galaxy?

Can anyone offer advice on a decent beginners scope.  Don`t want to spend
much (around 200quid).
Theres so much to choose from!
Cheers

Hi
Please can someone help.
Why is it that when the mean molecular weight is quoted for a planet
it ONLY refers the the planet's atmosphere. Why is it that the actual

I bet you get this sort of thing all the time. But anyway i am interested in
buying a telescope and don't really want to spend any more than £250. I am
only interested in space objects so I will not be using it terrestrially.
What do people recommend?

I am fortunate to have on loan to me two StarlightXpress cameras, the
SXV-H9 and SXV-H9C.  They are identical except that the H9 is
monochrome and the H9C is one-shot color.  I have been experimenting
with both on the same scope/piggyback camera lens and targets.

People,
Do any other Europa owners suffer from that peculiar knock when
they rotate thier scopes about the DEC axis. It seems to eminate
from the mirror cell???