Space Forum / Astronomy / June 2005

I've never had much success using binoculars because I can't hold them
steady enough.  But tonight I tried using Minolta 8x40 binoculars on a
tripod and was pleased to be able to see two of Jupiter's moons
(Europa and Io) and an occasional hint of a third (Ganymede).  I

In the post copied below I discussed tying together nanotubes to get
arbitrarily long nanotubes. If simply tied together, the longer
nanotube would be weaker but note even if many short segments were tied
together the resulting decrease in strength would still be only the

I'm sure that bird *is* stuffed - it never seems to move!
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/20050627/2005-06-27.html
No sign of Saturn in the horizon hugging murk.

Nature creates in pairs,and for every action taking place there is a
time lapse and that means one of the pair came to be before the other.
Treb keeps reminding me that his positron universe came before my
electron universe(I think he is right) He is a trillionth of a

 Took me 60 years to figure out not to lift the twin blade shaver of my
face(skin) Go up and down. Can't cut yourself going up,and it helps
keeping the right pressure on the down direction that does the cutting.
I use to raise the razor off my skin,and when putting it back I could

Pierre Wrote:

Could anyone interpret the deep blue halo I can see around Jupiter due
entirely to the characteristics of the OG on a C 102-HD
Around stars, the out-focus image is green with a blue set of
concentric circles within. The in-focus image is totally green.

Can be seen at:
http://astro.clan-potter.co.uk/index.php?n=Astronomy.BAAExhibition2005
Callum

Sun acquires tiny spot [#781] coming around east limb but otherwise ver
bland in white light. Different story in H-alpha with numerou
prominences around the limb with today's sample via Coronado PST at
http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/pstnew.htm

nightbat wrote
             More troubling World news about Yellowstone high rating
for eruption. Officer Double-A reported of dorment volcanos possibly
coming back to life and now reports of Yellowstone on detected verge of

I theorize neutron stars are more common. For every black hole in the
universe there are 3 neutron stars. Reason is black holes are harder to
make.  Bert

The answer is---------------- Neutron time lapse decay   Bert

I was driving home a few minutes ago and saw 4 or 5 rays of light
emanating from a point opposite to the position of the Sun.
The Sun set here at 2214BST at azimuth 318deg. At 2210BST I was driving
along at a bearing of 160deg. (From an OS map)

Here is a post to a space discussion list regarding a
curious observation of A. C. Clarke about the
constellation Aquila and an apparently unrelated
observation decades later about the same

The most active time before the BB was in the area of Planck time. It
was the micro QM time when gravity compressed the Planck energy of inner
space into a critical state.Gravities great compression compressed a
complete universe into an area the size of a Planck length. This was