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*~ ! Love me or leave me ...**	22 Apr 2005 23:29 GMT	4
!BEWARE! Sign Says ~ ~ * Sing ~ *
Celestron NexImage	22 Apr 2005 21:36 GMT	3
Any experiences with this or reviews? http://www.celestron.com/neximage/ Jim Horn
Declination of a star	22 Apr 2005 19:55 GMT	1
If the declination of a given star is equilvalent to my latitude at what local time will the star be in the zenith; i.e. directly overhead on my latitude?
help me name what i saw in the sky	22 Apr 2005 16:56 GMT	2
i am in sydney and it is friday night. i was checking out the sky and above the moon pretty close to it was a star, is that mars? or venus? because i thought that stars can't be seen that close to the moon. am i wrong or can u see stuff in the night sky close to the moon?
Something is very wrong for who is Dr.Yubiwan Ph.D. and how come the Strange Dr. has access to Darla's and the Commander's net comm address?	22 Apr 2005 06:12 GMT	529
nightbat wrote Something is rotten in the State of Denmark because Darla hasn't made it back or called home and now Dr. Strange is using the purported aliens net address. Hmmmmmmm, could the world wide UFO
New to Astronomy ,, Looking for some good software	22 Apr 2005 03:43 GMT	1

Where's Twittering?	21 Apr 2005 23:21 GMT	14
Where's Twittering? Double-A
Conversion of Longitude to time	21 Apr 2005 21:17 GMT	3
Is the following formula correct? Is it precise? To find the "local time" of a place (as opposed to its time according to Time Zone standards)add 4 minutes of time for each degree of longitude. Thanks in advance.
BREAKING NEWS: The Outer Milky Way's Exotic Origin	21 Apr 2005 21:14 GMT	1
The Outer Milky Way's Exotic Origin By Ken Croswell, author of The Alchemy of the Heavens *EXCLUSIVE* A collision between another galaxy and our own 5 billion years ago may have
*~ A Morning Wood Golden Quill ...**	21 Apr 2005 15:11 GMT	18
"................. Allo? Is this the NASW? Hey ~ ! My name's Folly. We have a teensey
New Discovery Brings 80 Year Old Expanding Universe to a Halt	21 Apr 2005 13:43 GMT	16
http://www.send2press.com/newswire/2005-04-0405-003.shtml About the Cosmos... a new universe only happens once in a lifetime SANTA ANA, Calif. -- (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- A major scientific discovery made by a small team of researchers has revealed patterns in
Power of the frown	21 Apr 2005 11:40 GMT	2
Here you go Night Bat :-) //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Power of Frown M Wallace August 2004
hacking a digital camera	21 Apr 2005 11:18 GMT	2
Has anyone oh the list tried hacking an old digital camera for use with Astrophotography? I was thinking about getting an old point and shoot camera on eBay and removing the lens for use on my Meade ETX-90. Any experience in doing something like this? Would the camera work if the ...
misunderstanding concerning CCDs	21 Apr 2005 11:09 GMT	1
There's something I think I have wrong concerning CCDs and I wanted to find out the correct answers. Say I have a webcam, which has an ICX098 CCD and another camera with an ICX424 CCD. I want to image Jupiter with a C8 and 3x barlow ahead of the webcam and other camera. When the ...
misunderstanding concerning CCDs: correction, sorry!	21 Apr 2005 10:58 GMT	1
> There's something I think I have wrong concerning CCDs and I wanted to find > out the correct answers. Say I have a webcam, which has an ICX098 CCD and > another camera with an ICX424 CCD. I want to image Jupiter with a C8 and