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December Calendar by Dave Mitsky All times, unless otherwise noted, are UT (subtract 5 hours and, when appropriate, 1 calendar day for EST) 12/2 The Moon is...
December Calendar by Dave Mitsky All times, unless otherwise noted, are UT (subtract 5 hours and, when appropriate, 1 calendar day for EST) 12/2 The Moon is...
Using my Leica 10x32 binoculars i caught Venus this afternoon a few minutes before it set over the mtns west of me. After i found with the binoculars i could...
... with naked eye before it set behind the ridgeline at 4:16pm local time. ... That's a good find! What did you use, alt-az mode? I usually require the...
... I just noted where on the horizon the sun had set then went back about 30 minutes later and found Venus just a bit to the left of that point! ;-) .Florian...
Hi, I have a C8 and have been using the "Cambridge Star Atlas" for my star charts and "The Universe from Your Backyard" as a narrative to read about what are...
I've been very happy with the Pocket Sky Atlas. It's now by far my most used atlas. Convenient size, good level of detail, and relatively inexpensive. .Florian...
I have somehow lost my December issue of Sky & Telescope mag. Their web site says that it contains an article about viewing the asteroid Iris, presumably with...
... I've never found those day-by-day charts very helpful in finding asteroids. I long ago discovered I prefered the charts generated by a planetarium program...
I left a copy out overnight and, wouldn't you know, it rained, I mean it hardly ever rains here. Being a longtime subscriber I e-mailed S&T and asked if they...
On Monday at 13:38 Pacific Standard Time, there were a couple of witnesses that heard a somic boom. Interestingly, these witnesses were located a few hundred...
I have had very good luck with comets and The Sky that came with my Celestron telescope. However, for some reason it seems to be off on asteroids. It plots...
... I've got a Celestron scope on the way to me, so I'll be able to check it out. One thing I discovered when I first started observing asteroids years ago is ...
Thanks. When I subscribed to S&T this spring I should have received the April edition first, but May came instead. I called them, and they sent out an April...
With Thy Sky you have 100 preloaded asteroids, and you can enter the orbital data manually on any others you wish. You can also get semi-automatic updates...
Hi Dave et. al., I use both the S&T "Pocket Star Atlas" and Sue French's "Celestial Sampler." Both are great, IMHO. Sue's book have 5 articles and search...
... http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/MPEph/MPEph.html Despite appearances, this is really a very simple form to use. Enter the asteroid name or number in the...
Thanks. I put the new data into They Sky, and the plots for the last two times I was out were within 30' of where I put the asteroid, using the "star that...
I was hoping you'd get at least some response to this post since I find myself more and more interested in meteor observing these days. I, too, have heard a...
... Thank you *very much* for the kind words, Bill! I'm thrilled that you find Star Watch so useful! Hope you'll send in for the Star Watcher certificate...
Phil, I enjoyed your review of the Celestron Onyx refractor in the Jan Astronomy magazine. However, you mentioned Jupiter's Great Red Spot "hollow"....
... I'll pretty much parrot what Bill said. Since I bought my PSA, I've not pulled out my SA2K - having said that, I was ONLY looking for relatively bright...
... When the Red Spot is as faint as it's been for the last few years, it often isn't visible in small telescopes as a red spot. What _is_ visible is the ...
Thanks. BTW, any idea why Celestron didn't put a real spotting scope on the Onyx? Or at least a standard mount. Maybe they figured everyone would be using...
Thanks Geoff (and Phil). One of this year's goal was an effort to observe the GRS (and Red Spot Jr.), and I thought I had missed something. <G> -John ... ...
... on the Onyx? Or at least a standard mount. Maybe they figured everyone would be using Go-To. Or put on a Telrad/Rigel. ... Although I liked the scope...
... to observe the GRS (and Red Spot Jr.), and I thought I had missed something. <G> ... Maybe it's because I'm a deep-sky observer, but I think Red Jr was a ...
