Hey Pierre Don't remember if you have the 40 mm Pentax in your goodie bag. IF you do, would you mind very much bringing it along ? Really would like to take a...
Pierre, I believe the 8" Skywatcher has a 1200mm focal length. That would make it 460X magnification you were using. Awesome the way we were able to push the...
Well that was quite a week! Can't make the gabfest (again). A friend got 4th row seats at the Sens game tonight (a belated birthday present). When the cloud...
Wow, that was a good night and just what I needed. I had been out on Thursday night in my backyard doing some observing and thinking that it had been quite a...
Ah, the envy... LOL. Actually Peter is quite correct in saying that the dobs do setup much quicker than the more complex scopes...each has their own merit. I...
Hi all, Just picked up a copy of the April S&T and, lo & behold, there is a hugh article about Environment Canada and specifically the CMC. The article is...
Hi all, Looks like the weather will be a little better this weekend for the Stetson Flyers annual winter event at the Boundary Rd. airfield ( see map at...
Hello all, Just spoke to Brian Martin who's on his way, and was delayed slightly. We'll be at the Walkley road/Lancaster Tim Horton's today at 4pm. See you...
Pierre Martin
dob14.5@...
Mar 1, 2003 7:05 pm
11420
In the beginning Rock created the OAOG to view heaven and the Cosmos. And the observatory was without walls, and void of telescopes, and darkness was upon the...
... I never thought of the fact that the planet's photons are delayed a bit like that. I checked the distances of the planets and got the following Earth to...
Hello everyone, I enjoyed going to Chapters last night and looking through all the different scopes. Since I enjoyed it so much I was wondering if anyone else...
Math is a bit off. 10 times 8 minutes for the sun rays to get to Saturn, then 9 times 8 minutes to get from Saturn to Earth 19 x 8 =152 = a bit over 2.5...
Hello all, I was viewing Jupiter and Saturn at 6:05 tonight at 120X with my 8" f/6. Seeing was rock steady again tonight. Detail with a capital D. Gary ... ...
... Hi Cindy, François and Joe (the 3 musketeers...?) Even if one wants to focus only on the distance from earth to Saturn, shouldn't we be keeping in mind...
... from us, we are closer to 11 A.U.'s from the planet rather than just 9 A.U.'s.... OOPS. Should have read ..."when Saturn is on the other side of the ...
========= From Spaceweather.com ========= BIG SUNSPOT: The face of the Sun has been mostly blank for some weeks, but now a large sunspot is emerging near the...
Pierre Martin
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Mar 2, 2003 2:12 am
11433
Hello Claude, Sounds good in theory (smile), however it's unlikely that the correct answer of 11 AU's and 88min for the light to reach us from Saturn could be...
Geez, What I SHOULD have typed in my original message, was this " a couple last year asked how long it would ROUGHLY take, travelling at the speed of light to...
Correction - that would be closer to 7.5 times around the earth in a second. Our circumference is 40,100 km. Gary ... ADVERTISEMENT ... [Non-text portions of...
Hi all, I think that with the amount of snow on the ground and the threat of rain, I am not going to attempt heading out to the Boundary Road airfield. I AM...
If it goes around 7.5 times, that means it's gone around 7 times... ; ) Jean" In need of photons yet again!" Dorais ... a ... take ... the ... Service....
You pulled me out of my lurking mode... Confusion results when people have the same name, doesn't it? You guys do seem to have a pretty active club up there...
... Sataurn and back, then Jupiter and back... Hey Jean, Hehehe! So Joe Silverman had guessed accurately what you really meant.... aaaah! :-) This is fun... ...
Hello all, Part of it may be my fault, as I was telling people on Friday night that the light from Saturn was 5 hours old. I thought I was sure of that fact...
And it's also good practice for the upcoming International Astronomy Day. For those that have never come out observing with us, I strongly urge you to make a...
