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Apr 1, 2004 10:34 am
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Welcome to Starrynights! Jump right in and post any observing related topics, questions, observations any time! We have lots of resources available on the...
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Apr 1, 2004 10:34 am
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... past day or so. ... Is anyone else having this problem? Hi Geoff, These sites work fine from Portland. Has Canada criticised NASA recently? : ) (Just...
... Apparently one of the nameservers at my ISP is down, so some of their customers are unable to access certain sites, notably US government sites. -- Geoff...
On another Yahoo discussion group an observer with an Alvin Clark & Sons 25cm f/22 refractor says that when the atmosphere is steady he can see eruption plumes...
... Io has an apparent angular size between 0".8 and 1".3, the mean being about 1". A 25-cm (10-inch) aperture will theoretically resolve features as small as...
This is for those who are experienced in variable star observing. When estimating and comparing brightness to other stars, you find defocusing useful? What...
Just a reminder that Venus will be passing very close to the Pleadies star cluster tonight and tomorrow night. Will be a very pretty binocular sight. -Florian...
... By and large I follow the instructions in the AAVSO Manual. I never defocus. The only real precaution I take is when the variable is obviously strongly...
... defocusing useful? ... experiance, which ... I am not an experienced observer, so take my advice with a grain of salt, but if I am working with a...
... When ... defocusing useful? ... experiance, which ... Yes, John, defocusing is a useful method to employ in certain instances. This is particularly true if...
... I've been observing 4 variables for about a year now--still getting the feel for it. Why do you only take "quick glimpes" of the variable when it is ...
... Thank you, everyone! I started perusing the AAVSO manual today. John, your cautions about brightness brings this question to mind: When the target star IS ...
... them ... My "first" was recently...Sept. 11, 2001 to be exact. My wife and I stepped outside to see a sky with no air traffic (never to be repeated) and we...
Tonight we had the first clear night in a LONG time. Jupiter was positioned close to the gibbous moon, and it looked great in the C8 at 226x. Around 8 PM two...
... There is something called the Purkinje Effect which causes red stars to appear to get brighter the longer you stare at them. So, the best technique is to...
Jupiter was only 5 degrees from the moon at sunset here in British Columbia, affording a chance to view it with the unaided eye in daylight. Found Jupiter...
... target star IS ... any filtering or ... change the ... equipment, like ... John, in the days when I followed a great many Mira stars through their cycles...
Hi John, I'm currently a deep sky visual observer but interested in VSO.Sherrods' book " A Complete Manual of Amateur Astronomy" offers very nice introductions...
... I mainly observe with an 11" Dobsonian and 10x50 binoculars. These leave a hole in the middle where the stars are too bright in the 11" and too faint (or...
With much whining and gnashing of teeth I report that an impenetrable heavy low overcast produced by a weeklong cutoff low has again robbed me of the...
... Paul, to be quite frank, I've always been troubled by the use of laptops in the field. No matter what the brightness/color setting these machines throw off...
We were lucky enough to have a brief respite from the clouds and rain of the past few days on Saturday, April the 3rd. During a break in a meeting of...
hi John Of course, William Herschel had one asset that most of us amateurs don't have - his ever-loyal sister Caroline who, if I understand correctly, spent...
... impenetrable ... robbed ... the ... Sure thing Mike, I'll pop it into the files section and have a notice sent out.. glad to be able to share. ... Carol ...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the starrynights group. File : /Venus and...
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Apr 5, 2004 3:06 am
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Hi folks, Last night I did something I normally don't do, I pointed my telescope at the moon. As a matter of routine I try to shield my eyes from the thing and...
