Space Forum / Astronomy / May 2005

I just heard a report that meteorologists are predicting a "furious"
hurricane season for Florida this year (worse than last year), and a
worsening trend over the next twenty years.
There's still time to move back to sunny California, Bert!

I know it has been mentioned before, but has anyone figured out the best
way of getting a Meade 'scope at US prices (without actually living in
the US)?
I normally read Astronomy Now, but WHSmith didn't have the recent

I have read, but been unable to verify, that Jupiter's largest moon
Ganymede also has a moon of its own.
Has anyone else seen anything on this?
I wonder if other moons in the solar system have moons?  Some argue

I'm crossposting this to uk.sci.astronomy and uk.rec.birdwatching since
these binoculars have been discussed on both groups, hope that is OK with
everyone.
I bought two pairs of these binoculars this morning and I have a slight

What gave me thoughts for this post is my reading that there are
galaxies out there that are off center. Off center means their black
hole is not where it should be.It is turning out of balance. Hard to
balance any object that has its gravitational center off  It wants to

We are trying to gauge the interest in the broader community as to a
business proposition of ours.
We are thinking of setting up an observatory on a dark sky site in
Australia which is remotely controlled over the internet. A live image

Dear Capsicum ~
We think you are so swell.
We sincerely hope you are swelled.
How about ~ Halved along a dotted line,

http://zapatopi.net/labs/geriatric_migration.html
Double-A

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I have just read the news, and I do not know if I am suppose to laugh or
cry.
I have checked, it is not the first of April.
FIRST they made a mistake, by wrong calculation of the rotation period -

I have just come back from a 3 day 2000 mile drive in Scotland checking out
all 250+ speed cameras (part of my job)
One thing I tried to do was to make sure I was in the highlands at night.
Dalwhinnie was my chosen place to stop at just after 1am and then to sit and

I've posted an animation of today's brief but big eruptive prom on th
west limb at
http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/pstnew.htm
Maurice Gavin@WPO-U

Directly over head last night at just gone 23:00, any ideas?
Checked heavens-above

For the most recent Hanwell Community Observatory update on Gamma
Virginis and in particular, further analysis of the historical
observations from the last periastron, see:
http://www.hanwellobservatory.org.uk/ and follow the links.