... This must be an example of what Chris Watson was referring to: http://www.perezmedia.net/beltofvenus/archives/images/2005/img20051119_4154_640.jpg ...which...
Brian Skiff
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May 1, 2007 7:47 am
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Yes, agree Brian is top's, a wonderful friend. Thanks Brian for all the help off line you are always there to return my mail when I observed these little faint...
Magda Streicher
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May 1, 2007 3:15 pm
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Brian was the brainchild behind verifying my one and only astronomical anti-discovery. Thanks to Brian, my faint fuzzy which was NOT visible in my 36"...
Bob, I, too, wish Sue a successful recovery in her problem eye. Opthamology has come a long way and many problems can now be mitigated. Everyone who regularly...
I'm right-handed, and left-eyed. I find it as easy observing with my opposite eye as writing left-handed! I surely hope nothing happens to my observing eye. ...
15480 Empire Rd. Benson, AZ 85602 hm ph: 520-586-2244 Unfortunately, life is not fair and it is good to be prepared. I notice as I'm getting older (I'm...
Ladies and Gents, This is a bit of a simmering question I've had in my head since last August. I figured if there's any group of people that might be able to...
... IMHO, certainly! And I can report a rather similar observation, on August 18-19, 2001, from the Bumpas Hell parking lot, over 8000 feet up on the south...
The dimmer and yellower seems to be common. Does anyone have any idea why? "Wayne (aka Mr. Galaxy)" <mrgalaxy@...> wrote: 15480 Empire Rd. Benson, AZ...
Sundries viewed from Esperance NY 5/05/07. Excerpts from observing report to local group. Seeing was 8-9 out of 10; transparency 8-9/10 and sometimes, we...
What do you think the future of amateur astronomy will be like? I'm giving a presentation this summer at ALCON07 and wish very much to supplant my ideas with...
Mel; I think that visual deep sky astronomy will be in big trouble in 25 or 30 years. Only those who are lucky enough to live far from city lights will have...
Well, with global warming it will likely be a bit warmer -- though probably a lot rainier -- and after we run our of oil, the sky will probably be a lot darker...
Future of amateur astronomy.... Hmm, there are so many aspects to amateur astronomy so it's hard to tell what part of it you're thinking of. Here is what I...
Mel - Let me offer up a prognosticastion based not on simple speculation but rather from personal observation of the hobby's evolution over the past 50 years...
Wow. I would humbly disagree. Someone earlier thought fuel prices would force cars to be too small, yet everyone sees LP getting worse at the same time. One...
Mention that I predict the construction of dark sky arenas ; http://www.astronomyblogs.com/member/saberscorpx/?xjMsgID=27978 But hopefully we'll be controlling...
--The waiting at AP will be 6000 years long. --High end refractors will cost $6 billion per inch of aperture. --People with go-to mounts and ccd equipment will...
Rainbow optics offers a spectrum type eyepiece which costs about what any other eyepiece costs (less by some standards). I was wondering whether something like...
I agree with Bob. Although light pollution does continue to gradually increase, and although I'd guess that visual astronomy will become a smaller and smaller...
There are a lot of directions to take Mel's question, so I'll just offer my two cents on age and light pollution, both of which are increasing. Dire...
I see several trends because I work in a store selling telescopes and binoculars: 1) the hobby is graying. The number of new youngsters entering the hobby is...
... Go for it, Greg ! I have one, hope to be a dedicated observer and have had wonderful experiments with it on the following objects : -stellar planetary...
Greg, Bob has a spectrscope. Have you ever tried it? Clear skies, Sue ... From: amastro@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amastro@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ...
I've been following this thread quite closely, in part because as coincidence would have it - I too have been asked to speak on the current and future states...
... Well thank you Mr. Sunshine! ;-) I believe the changes in how the western industrialized world approaches pollution (in general, including light) will...
