Space Forum / Astronomy / April 2005

Old Astronomy Books... Trade For Short Tube Refractor 3 or 4 inch
on EQ mount.
http://www.memorybankinc.com/moodies/Book.htm

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6906
"He adds that dusty discs have been seen around other stars and tend to
be big, with diameters of up to 3000 AU. "It's rare to find a compact
disc like the Kuiper Belt," he told New Scientist. "Instead of trying

- i have not posted much cosmology related material here lately but i
thought some people might find this interesting.
http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/dark_accelerators.html?2832005
Survey Finds Dark Accelerators

This thing passed closer than halfway to the moon on March 19th. How come I
didn't hear anything on the media on this close encounter? Is this a
predictable orbit or did they find out about it after it passed?

Does angular separation of stars correspond with the FOV of binoculars?
Orions belt spans 2 degrees and 44 mins, but just fits into the FOV of my
binoculars which are rated at 3.5 degrees.
This info would be useful in helping me to decide which of the bins I shall

   There is one thing I don't understand about he raisin bread and the "put
the dots on balloons and pretend they are galaxies and blow the balloon up
and watch the dots furthest away move away faster" theory.  Why do the
galaxies further away move away from us faster than the ones ...

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That'll be the headline soon enough. I pity his girlfriend            
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I should make some first comments with respect to the morning fog
images.
1) The simultaneously measured (by PFS of Formisano) temperatures
across the valley are directly above the fog and above the fog-free

During closest approach of Mars to Earth - 29/8/2003.
I set up an 18 element aerial with 4 sec Integration and
captured results on my chart recorder. Refer webpage:
http://www.staff.brad.ac.uk/gtholmes

You know by imaging the depth-scale (thickness of  a layer to make the
background invisible, i.e. of km). Then, you can estimate the optical
depth (depending on droplet sizes and number densities), then you have
the droplets number densities and an estimate of the amount of water

OK, I'm not an astronomer but I do enjoy P. Lawrence's photos (they are the
main reason I lurk here). I do hope that the Selsey Cloud Removal Machine is
his and not Sir Patrick's!

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