Space Forum / Astronomy / June 2005

Hello Group,
'Purchased the Orion XT10 two weeks ago.  Then followed the expected two
weeks of cloudy nights. :(  Finally last night we had breaks in the clouds.
'Took XT10 out while still light to let it cool.  'Caught Jupiter and 4

After several successful forays buy to astro gear mail order from the
USA my last couple of consignments have both been intercepted by
Customs, so I'm doing a little research before I buy in future :O(
My main question is an equatorial platform (for a Dob) taxable, if it

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I was asked to help out with the BT record sleepover attempt at the
local primary school on Saturday night so I decided to take a
telescope along and show the kids the delights of the moon.  Very
satisfying to see their reactions and it seems that they had a whale

I don't believe it and I don't think Art believed it either, but on his show
tonight Art Bell said that he read an article somewhere claiming that
beginning in August, Mars would become as big as the full moon to the naked
eye, and this wouldn't happen again within any ...

nightbat wrote
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With our extended brain we have a much better idea what just our eyes
are seeing when lying on our back and looking at about 8,000 stars.  We
know why they twinkle.We can use the doppler effect if some are red,and
also we know about red giants. Still I see a green star,and don't ...

The astro research newsgroup seems to have gone into
hybernation, which is restricting my right to reply.
Thus I'm complelled to broaden my horizons. This is one
of two unpresentable submissions to the above subject.

Almost four-hundred years ago he shouted...
"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not
worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."
His name shall be withheld to protect the young and the

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ArXiv has posted an interesting paper about the Pioneer Anomoly.
Not surprisingly the main conclusion is that we should send another
mission to the outer Solar System.  If nothing else this would give us
a second data point.

Halton C. Arp -- The World's Greatest Astronomer?
http://www.haltonarp.com/
happy days and...
  starry starry nights!

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