Space Forum / Astronomy / July 2005

Yesterday morning the seeing seemed to be good. The Sun
revealed a great number of details in the PST. There where
filaments, prominences, plage's, and active regions visible.
I shot some images with the Nikon Coolpix 4500, which I

I don't know who this Jeffrey F. Bell guy is or what his track record
is, but well make your own mind up.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-05zq.html

I've just ordered a Meade LX90 from a UK company (arrives tomorrow -
can't wait!) but I noticed that I'm paying almost twice the price of
the same scope bought in a US store. Obviously I would have needed to
pay expensive shipping costs if buying from the US but for a more

Clouds parted briefly to view big prom, many time the size of earth
coming around [classic] NE limb.  Coronado PST pic+earth to scale at
http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/pstnew.htm
Nytecam

Possibly a bit of a long shot but...
I'll be in Santiago, Chile next year for a few days. Some of the
observatories there offer tours (at night!) including the option to do some
viewing through 30" telescopes. This puts my lx90 to shame, and may be worth

The half Moon is facing off against Mars in the eastern sky tonight.  A
beautiful sight for those really here for astronomy!
Double-A

So much for all that testing then.....
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/orl-bk-shuttle072705,0,2267288.story?c
oll=orl-home-headlines

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/07/25/spaceenterprise.shtml
Russia to Unite 10 Space Enterprises Into Single Satellite Producer
Russia will create a single corporation for satellite production on the
premises of the Reshetnev Applied Mechanics Research and Production

I've seen quite a few postings on the group from beginners asking which
telescope is best to buy and quite a few have mentioned the Meade LX90.
Well, I just took delivery of one this morning :-) and I am a true
newcomer to astronomy (I bought my first telescope, a Meade DS-2114ATS,

With the light polution around these parts I'd like to try using a light
polution reduction filter when doing widefield imaging with the Canon EOS
lenses. Is there an adapter that I can use from 58mm to 2" so that I can use
standard 2" filters, or are there 58mm filters available ...

The white dwarf orbiting Sirius began its life as a blue star with five
times the Sun's mass, say astronomers in Arizona and New Mexico. If this
blue star still shone today, Sirius would be so bright it would cast shadows
on Earth.

On Jul 27, 2005, at 7:57 AM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:
I am sitting in Panofsky Auditorium at SLAC
http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/ssi/2005/program.htm
I should like to add to this. Woodward, Puthoff and everyone but me in

Listen live to the build up, very interesting!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4716463.stm#

What do you think?
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Rosamond Report 7/26/05
Set up by 7:50, by 8:15
Venus could be seen, within a short
time Jupiter joined it.