I saw the same cloud last night around 8am (I am in RI). It looked alot like a bolide train or something that wouldn't fade. But the fact that it persisted for...
Hello , I am a little behind in reading summer emails and missed seeing the posting for an alert the Centaur rocket would be dumping fuel after East...
On October 18, 2000 I was using a 4" refractor, slewed my scope to Lyra and saw a very thin, long, nebulous object that looked similar to a comet but was ...
... orbit. Is ... The dump occurs after the satellite is released from the atlas centaur stage. It's standard with the centaur upper stage. They vent the...
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Hi Susan, I missed it myself. I belong to telescopes@yahoogroups and LX200@yahoogroups and there were quite a few (well over 20) posts in refrence to last...
... renderings of the ... That is a beautiful rendering! I think the word is getting out that this object was the Centaur upper stage of a freshly launched...
... wrote: I guess the flashing ... Just before satellite seperation, the atlas centaur's computer commands the centaur's thrusters to fire. This causes the...
Thanks for the feedback. Yes that is the one. Because I have a chance to pick one up at cost, I might give it a try anyway, and try it out for visual and...
Hey all, I'm a newcomer to astronomy (and this group). I have an Orion XT8 and recently picked up a Palm to run Planetarium. I'd like to install some manual...
Hi, Last Sunday before last I was lent 2 nebula filters made by DGM Optical. What follows would probably be better suited for posting in another group. They...
... Hi Pete, This is a question about hardware, and so belongs properly in our hardware group, Talking Telescopes: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/telescopes/ ...
Thanks Geoff, I posted this and then realized I wasn't in the telescopes group. Oops. Too many groups to keep up with! Thanks for the lead on the skyquest...
Hello, I was wondering what was considered "good" for splitting Mizar. (not to be confused with the naked eye visible Mizar/Alcor split, but the relatively...
Hi Keith, May I ask what type of telescope your 60mm is? I have absolutely no problem splitting Mizar; but then again I have an XT10. ;-) Happy Skies, Mike...
Greetings: The Wall Street Journal had an article about John Dobson in their "D" (kind of the "light news" section) section earlier this week. I snagged a copy...
I also need help finding stuff. Please tell me more about "palms running a planetarium programs" it sound like it maybe very useful to me. I have been...
A&F Co Model 330AF 20-60x60mm Safari Zoom. Made in Japan, fully coated optics. Has to be from the early 80's or earlier. It has put up with alot of abuse over...
Hi All, iCCD is a image collection and image processing program for Mac OS X. It is freely available from: http://www.iccd.us Apple computer has accepted the...
... (not ... the ... Mizar and its 4th magnitude visual binary are separated by about 14.5 arcseconds. That's should be doable in just about any aperture with ...
... 14.5 ... make ... But going all the way back to 20x, in a 60mm and still seeing the split.... would that be considered a fairly low magnification for such...
Keith, You got me curious, so I took my Pentax spotting scope with 80 mm objective and found I couldn't split Mizar at 20x, either with the supplied 8-24 mm...
Hi Keith I have been able to see both of Mizar's two stars in Celestron SkyMaster 15x70 binoculars. It wasn't a clean split but I was able to see it wasn't a ...
in my 15x70, its pretty much an elongated star, you can tell its a double, but you cant see the space between. So maybe thats the same view it gave you. From...
I wish I could use different eps in my scope, but its all integrated. Of course after taking off the back, and holding a standard ep behind it to see where it...
... running a ... This is also a topic best discussed in another forum. Check out the PalmAstro group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Palmastro Michael Portuesi...
