Space Forum / Astronomy / June 2006

If given a planet's mass, radius, and density, how can I find out the
minimum rotation period, or maximum rotation speed, assuming the planet is
rotating around it's own axis and is a perfect sphere?
Wikipedia only give a hint that for celestial bodies, the body's tensile

Would anyone be interested in buying the first 4 issues, complete with CD's
before I try on Ebay?
Steve

I am in the lucky position of owning a holiday home in the British
Virgin Islands, and I'm thinking of buying a telescope to use there.
I have an LX90 at home in the UK, which is a little bulky for taking on
aeroplanes and such, so I was thinking of something smaller like an

Earth's Currently  Erupting Volcanos - 6-17-6
Lokon Empung Sulawesi Erupting
Ambrym S.pacific Erupting
Anatahan Mariana Is. Erupting

Europeans don't like gays much. They look down on them. But don't
arrest them like in
Texas, Bush's homeland of the world's securing seccuring securing,
marketing, capitalizing, with police. Google is now securing their

Reasonable seeing just after sunset. Captured this shot showing Io in
transit. Seeing started to deteriorate slowly after this, but I think
there may be a few reasonable captures yet to process.
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/jupiter/Jupiter_20060616_2042.jpg

From what I' ve read I don't think anyone posting knows anything about
scientific method, or thinking.

I just spent $100 on a used meade telescope (114EQ-DH4 4.5") which I had
no idea was a dept store telescope. I spend about an hour searching for
reviews, and came only found a few that said I will need to buy some
better eye pieces for it. It was not till later that I found out it ...

Shuttle launch to go ahead despite risk of 'catastrophe'
JACQUI GODDARD
AT CAPE CANAVERAL
NASA managers have rejected last-ditch pleas from their top safety

 Here's an idea!  Could NASA or some other org paint a laser image of the
US flag on the moon ever 9/11?
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18-JUN-2006
In the context of a Lorentz boost in the x,x' dimension, and in
dimensionless terms where the velocity of light is given as c = 1, I've
found for parameter 0 < v < 1, a solution that uniquely satisfies the

He's posting now in alt.recovery.aa just in case anyone misses him. It
appears he has had a breakdown and is ready to give up his life of sin
for that of teetotaler.
~@o@~

Hi gang, major newbie here ... hope this is on-topic:
I collimated by new orion 8" dob with apparent success ... the images
through the eyepiece (with the collimation ring) look right according
to the illustrations, and the scope squared up jupiter nicely for me

In April I began my search on info for the "Airborne Lightweight Optical
Tracking System" (ALOTS). It was for tracking and observing rocket launches
and reentries developed for Apollo. I got new interesting info on it.
The telescope was a 508 mm aperture / 5080 mm focal lenght ...

Is  anyone out there who was successful using eyepiece projection to
increase FOV of digital surveillance camera. It seems that eyepiece
projection is used only to capture images of planets or moon. My setup
is Meade ETX-80 scope ,  MaxView 40 eyepiece  and KPC-650BH