Space Forum / Astronomy / February 2005

Planet Venus is moving faster.
It has moved higher in its orbit.
Soon it will be in the same orbit
as planet Earth.  WHEN this happens,

Machholz is getting quite close to the North Celestial Pole now if
anyone's interested...
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/comets/Machholz/polarq2.html

Could we see our future looking more and more like the star trek movie?
What is your thinking on this? thank you Alice
One of my favorite places to shop online :
www.yesterdayprices.FSCstore.com

I was wondering if anyone could give me some tips about radio astronomy. I'm the
chairperson  of an astronomy society in Dublin and we're considering building a small
radio scope for members' use. We plan to do observations of the Sun, Jupiter, strong
pulsars and maybe galactic ...

The Minotaur,
The Music from his walls ...
Song of exile ~
The expensive earth of you, a goodbye of the sea!

I've realized a mosaïc of an almost full moon (only 6 hours before).
Low turbulence and good seeing for snapshot.
65 individual frames, taken with a Toucam Pro at the focus of a C8.
Processing by Registax, final assembly with Photoshop.

Since I got my 10" LX200, I've not really felt at one with it.  My
major gripe was with the focusser which was one of the most awful
focussers I've ever come across and extremely difficult to use.  I had
no tactile connection with it whatsoever.

"Riain Y. Barton" <rfarton@gmail.com> writes:

That is why they have those giant mining operations
on the Moon's surface.

Ok chaps.  We've all had a bit of fun with this pathetic troll but as
Tonkers correctly points out we should really ignore him.  It's been
cloudy/moony and I suspect that we've all got a little bored.
Let's now show the troll how we have power over him and ignore any

http://stardrive.org
The Axes of Evil are East of Eden
A physicist in Flinders, Australia named Reg Cahill claims he detects
the absolute velocity of the Earth when a Michelson-Morley

As the Moon's now ruining the view :(
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/lunar/mjs2005-02-28.html

How does it feel to realise that English cataloguers can't figure out
what the basic rotation rate of the Earth through 360 degrees is
!,fault me for profanity but considering the utter stupidity in not
correcting a mistake it is the least I can do.

I found this fascinating.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/02/24/dark.galaxy/index.html
Astronomers: 'Dark' galaxy discovered
(SPACE.com) -- Astronomers have discovered an invisible galaxy that

I have accidently knocked the mirror of my newtonian reflector telescope out
of alignment. Is there any easy way to get it back in alignment? At the
moment I cannot focus in on anything with any fine detail.
Cheers

Can anyone help? I am trying to purchase a Milburn Wedge (see
http://www.milburnwedge.com/ ) but have had no reply to my email, and
I have failed to get through the online purchase system at
http://www.buytelescopes.com/ the only reseller that I have found -