Space Forum / Astronomy / February 2005

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"And what if now I told you this, let's say
By telephone..."
~ J.D McClatchy,

does anybody know if any substancial traces of oxygen
where found on Titan?

If we assume expansion theory:
1) What unit of multiple galaxies are all moving away from each other?
   We believe The Andromeda galaxy is moving toward us. At what
   "cluster" stage are all "groups" moving apart in our visible universe?

These are bodies that are not massive enough to become a star.That means
gravity can not create pressures,and temperatures  at their cores to
cause nuclear action(fusion)   Now this creates lots of questions like
Is Jupiter a brown dwarf? Are there more brown dwarfs in our galaxy ...

I live in a city, and I would like to do some astronomy. However, I don't
know if it's possible to do astronomy in metropolitan Toronto. To make
things worst, I live in an appartment, and from my appartment windows "East
and West" I can see major satellites (Mars, Jupiter and ...

I bit the bullet at Astrofest and bought an LX-200SCT-UHTC-GPS etc. 10" from
Telescope House - having peered through other scopes off and on for 30 years
I decided it was time to buy my own and join the hobby. So, GREETINGS from
Camberley, Surrey!

I spent the day cobbling a wooden adaptor for my C5 to the CG5 mount, and
the finderscope to the C5; both a boodge, but have to start somewhere, it
won't be cloudy for ever.
Not a very clear night, Polaris invisible, so I pointed the big N on the

To what do we attribute the large magnetosphere of our Sun, given such
a low abundance of paramagnetic elements?

A date for your diary. The Forestry Commission and Sunderland Astronomical
Society are staging the 2005 Kielder Forest Star Camp from 8 - 11 September.
The venue remains the Kielder Campsite in the heart of Northumberland and
the main day will be on 10 September at Kielder Castle.  ...

I'm considering building my first 'scope. Not so sure about mirror grinding
so I'm looking for a source of finished mirrors, probably about 8". Where
might I obtain these in the UK. Any advise for a beginner gratefully
accepted.

We cannot account for some "Missing" mass in the universe.
We cannot find evidence of other beings in the universe.
Is it conceivable that the missing beings have consumed the missing mass?
And is it conceivable that the missing beings are simply inside dyson

I'm looking for a pic I remember seeing in what I believe was a
weather related text book. I know this doesn't sound like the right
place at first but it was a multi-exposure taken of the sky during
good-weather days at certain points of the sun's phases. At each

Could someone enlighten me regarding image formats.
I understand that jpeg is am more or less lossy format, and that the
output of my webcam has a limited dynamic range.  I also understand that
by stacking images (usually jpegs) from my webcam I can increase the

Scientists gathered in Aspen, Colorado USA have speculated that some
extrasolar planets may have carbon-based crusts leading to
many-kilometres deep diamond crusts:
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Chaps, Chappettes.
I have, tonight made my first attempt at stacking a captured AVI.
The subject is saturn and i plucked the best frames(30) from a
total of 171.