Space Forum / Astronomy / December 2004

I a new DS1114 AATE I got for Christmas. I have been going through the auto align sequence but it keeps failing for some reason. Since I am new to amateur astronomy and my knowledge of the stars is pretty milited right now, I am using the 2 star method, spcifying a couple of ...

First think of superfluid helium. The "circulation" vector field v is a
"connection" like the EM vector potential A. The vorticity curl v is
like magnetic field curlA. Curlv is zero outside of the vortex core in
the irrotational superflow. The quantized circulation vortices are

I was having a ponder the other day about the Big Bang theory and it's links
with Dark Matter and Dark Energy.
What if the Big Bang were still actually happening. Imagine an explosion.
Something blows up and flings things out into the universe. After the

According to Lenny, the universe now has Hawking-Bekenstein entropy S
4S/kB ~ (c/H(now)^2Lp^-2 ~ 10^56/10^-66 ~ 10^122 bits.
Each bit if erased in a quantum cosmic computer is worth ~ kBT(CMB) ~ kB
2.7 deg Kelvin.

Starlight wrote on the screen---
[In defining Ahad's constant]
There are two things that one has to get right :: (i) brightness of
Milky Way glow and (ii) adgregate of individual stars in solar neighbor

Anyone know where i can get a decent set of RA/DEC control knobs the plastic
ones for my CG5 are really bugging me!!
Cheers
Damian

For those of you who go out observing and have equipment that runs of
12volts (LX-90 etc) you may be interested in this:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=37385&TabID=1&source=1&doy=30m12
Its a 'portable power station' with a 17Ah battery at the bargain price of

uksa
I've setup a website with the aim of raising £100 for the victims of the  
tsunami in SE Asia.
Please try to help in any way you can.

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Can I call on someone out there for some advice?
I was observing the other night when it was cold a very damp, I noticed when
got all the kit back inside that a heavy layer of dew had formed on my
eyepieces. I left the eyepieces exposed overnight in the house but some of

Or
Just a great grande
Niece,
Or the Devil’s Dictionary.

Any chance the recent near-miss asteroid had any influence on the
recent indian ocean quake?

GO DEBBIE GO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ps:  thousands and thousands of whales were beached and killed by a low
frequency elf wave [in the range of HAARP transmissions] that seemed to

There was a blurb on the TV news today asserting that at some point the
level 9 earthquake in southeast Asia even affected the Earth's
rotation!
Does anybody know what was meant by that?