Space Forum / Astronomy / January 2006

Michael Baldwin Bruce, who for so long has passed himself off as a
kookologist, has just been awarded two notorious Kook Awards for
December 2005 in the most recent AUK election.
COWARD OF THE MONTH

Probably a dumb question but I can't find the info anywhere.  When using the
smartfinder is the target star & red dot supposed to be centered in the
glass?  Thanks.

It use to be back when they let your local post office handle such
things that I could order stamps by mail and receive my stamps the next
day!
Then they began referring such requests to the main post offices in the

Baez and his chronies have bullshitted long enough.
 http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/TwinParadox/doppler.gif
Baez writes:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/TwinParadox/twin_vase.html

V2.42 of LunarPhase Pro has just been released. Full details of the
software can be found at: http://lunarphasepro.nightskyobserver.com
If you already own LunarPhase Pro and you've changed your email address
in the last few months, you'll have missed the above announcement.

There's now a version of the Astronomy Toolbar available for Firefox
(following requests!)
The Firefox version is available directly from:
http://www.nightskyobserver.com/AstronomyToolbar/install.html

Anyone live near Fareham Hampshire and interested in Astronomy? Newbie
looking for astronomy club/advice etc..
Thanks
Dan

Interesting that it is generally presumed that the Earth's rotation has
slowed down over the years due to tidal drag but right now there is not a
variation in the Earth's speed to within a millisecond.   When we go back to
the time of Ramses II we find the length of the year was ...

Which magazine would you recommend for a beginner?
For example, I am into computers.  For beginners I would recommend "PC
World" and for those that know something, I would recommend "PC World" and
"PC Magazine."  People would probably disagree with me, but that is okay.

Carnegie Institution of Washington
Washington, D.C.
Contact:
Edo Berger, Carnegie Observatories

Well it's official this board is dead, was declared so just 7 hours
ago by the no. 1 web clearing house.
I'm sure many of us would give anything to go back to the old days,
even if it ment endless posts about the wonders of 2" $5,000 peeping

"Moazelh tof ~ !"
~ Folly
"... a sparrow
On your roof ~ !"

    Many rational people accept the existence of things they cannot
see. In January 1997, Discover magazine reported that astronomers
detected what they concluded were about a dozen planets orbiting
distant stars.

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BECAUSE ATHEISM IS properly defined as a "belief", e.g.,
quoting from Webster's New World Dictionary & Thesaurus:
 "Atheism -

I have a Celestron Nexstar 11 and a SBIG 2000 with color wheel.  I am
currently using CCDSoft and Sky 6 for controlling and tracking.
-My first problem is a lack of patience which I am working on.
- Second when I take multiple exposures over a short period of time, I