Space Forum / Astronomy / June 2005

Finally manged to get out with my ATK the other night.  Moon was low
in the west but the seeing wasn't too bad.  Next time, I need to leave
enough time to complete the thing ;-)
A bit contrasty but the 200mm Mirage + the ATK 1HS II is a nice

Despite watching Sky @ Night for over 30 years, I'm not that
knowledgeable when it comes to telescopes.
As most of you will know there is a conspiracy that states that NASA
didn't land man on the moon.  Now I'm not going to details the facts

Role Reversal: Planet Controls a Star
By Michael Schirber
Staff Writer
posted: 23 May 2005

The observations so far have prooved that light can bend. We are
observing the light from stars which are too far away from the earth.
These days I am having doubt that the star pattern what we see in the
sky, is it real?

nightbat,
Any status report on Sil's condition?
Darla's ultimate fate?
Just hunkering down at Indiana One?

I'm sure you will be happy to hear that Tom Potter's nomination for the
"Victor von Frankenstein "Weird Science" Award" has now been officially
Accepted!
Congratulations Tom!

Time for another in a series of "My Gods, he's stupid" questions from me.
When I view (say) Jupiter through a 4mm e/p I get a fairly contrained view.
When I view Jupiter though a 20mm e/p mated to a Televue x5 adaptor I get
the same magnification but a much wider field of view. Or ...

I live on the Central East coast of Austrralia.  I heard that cosmos 1 will
be clearly vissible to the naked eye.
Where abouts in the night sky should I look, to try and spot it? What would
I see?

First, when since held at 1, but it radiation and I'm wonder whatever
it is wise aposelene was events with monitors have made. that's
personally incompetent pattern from non professed and/or perhaps the
old constant means that really the electrons couldn’t do my job at no

My comments on Michio Kaku
On May 1, 2005, at 7:45 AM, antigray@cs.com wrote:
MICHIO KAKU talks parallel universes
Marco: How do you see the experimental confirmation on superstring

Just been observing the sun thro filter scope when a small round objec
a few arcseconds in diameter transited the disk west to east in ~3s a
10.19BST [eg 2005 June 18 @ 0919UT].  Not enough time to grap th
camera;-(

As stated previously in this newsgroup (a few years back now), the one
major flaw of modern physics interpretation of gravity is the
imcompressibility of the medium. Gravity isn't the warping of spacetime,
but rather the compression of spacetime. This is caused by the ...

Suppose we take the parabola y = x^2 and rotate it around the
y axis, outside the x-y plane or "page".  The result is
a paraboloid surface.  If the correct side of the
surface is reflective, rays of light parallel to the

If I've got XEphem setup correctly (and I may have the time off by an
hour) then there's a triple shadow transit on Jupiter around 9.30ish
tonight.
Typical.

Lovely image here taken by Spirit Rover:
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0506/12mersunset/
Regards,
Jeff