March 2006 - Utah-Astronomy - mailman.xmission.com

Re: [Utah-astronomy] Eclipse pictures
by Michael Carnes 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

>I am currently in Libya on the Sky & Tel cruise. Hey Dave, is Tal Mentall on that cruise? He's a longstanding editor at S&T. If so, tell him hi for me. Michael Carnes

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Gallery Error Message
by Cynthia Blue 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Hi all... there is an error message at the top of the gallery now. I'm aware of it... it shouldn't affect picture upload or anything. I changed some server permissions yesterday and must have changed something wrongly. I hope to get it removed in the next couple of days. Email me directly if you have problems. Thanks! Cynthia -- http://www.hexwitch.com CH Pembroke Faded Glory CGC NAP NJP NAC OJC Elsinore Lucilla Aurelius CGC RN Angel Pumpkin Spice Lady CGC DPP Spirit Chasers Spice CGC WVN

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Re: New Meade Product
by Chuck Hards 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

I guess guarding the Pope isn't as easy as it used to be... > From: Michael Carnes <michaelcarnes(a)earthlink.net> > > The ad copy says "Built like a tank crafted by Swiss > watchmakers". I'm trying to get my head around the > idea of a Swiss tank. ...and it probably has a corkscrew, nail-file, and tiny scissor attached... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Eclipse - animation shots from space European weather sat
by Canopus56 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

This site has a series of animated gifs showing yesterday's eclipse traversing the globe. It's pretty impressive. - Canopus56 http://www.eumetsat.int/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&ssDocName=005559&l=en… __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Going North
by Cynthia Blue 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

I am going to Boise tomorrow morning, won't be back until Friday April 7th. So ya'll take care and have fun. I'm going to do some herding and agility with my collie. The photo gallery should be fixed, no longer producing errors. And I think Rich can still get into the admin panel if anything needs to be done. I'm going no-mail so I don't get any mails while I'm gone. See ya'll. Cyn -- http://www.hexwitch.com CH Pembroke Faded Glory CGC NAP NJP NAC OJC Elsinore Lucilla Aurelius CGC RN Angel Pumpkin Spice Lady CGC DPP Spirit Chasers Spice CGC WVN

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] New Meade Product
by Michael Carnes 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

The ad copy says "Built like a tank crafted by Swiss watchmakers". I'm trying to get my head around the idea of a Swiss tank. Self-winding, perhaps? >http://www.meade.com/maxmount/index.html > >Goto anyone? >

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RE: [Utah-astronomy] Sunday Night at SPOC
by daniel turner 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

After the Messier Marathon was clouded out on Friday and snowed out on Saturday, it looked like the weekend was lost until Sunday afternoon came up clear, dry and calm. Rob Taylor called an impromptu star party at Stansbury Park and a few showed up to take advantage of the weather. Transparency was fair at twilight but deteriorated later as the temperature fell close to the dew point. Seeing was good with the wind being down and so planets, planetaries, and star clusters were better targets than the galaxies. Saturn was the main attraction being high in elevation and later Jupiter was visible low over the mountains to the east. I saw M46 and M47 unaided above the back of Canis Major. M46 has a nice planetary nebula NGC2438 embedded in it. M93 and M41 were also nice views. Of course everyone had to try for Sirius B and the Horsehead Nebula but without success at their low elevation. M42 and the Trapezium were good but both are getting to be low in the west by full darkness. Also looked at planetaries NGC3242 in Hydra and NGC2392 in Gemini. Ended up with M3 and M51 as they later climbed out of the eastern skyglow. The hardware attraction was Rob's 34mm series 5000 Meade Superwide eyepiece. In his 80mm APO refractor we say the sword of Orion...all of it, in my 17.5 inch dobsonian it held the entire bowl of the Pleiades but not the handle, and in the 32 inch Grimm telescope it just barely held the M51 and NGC5194 at 286x. It was nice to get out and I hope we catch some good weather next weekend. DT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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RE: [Utah-astronomy] Gallery Error Message
by Tyler Allred 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hi Cynthia, I just deleted the problem files and uploaded new images. I think most things are working now. I don't know why some things wouldn't load. Go figure. Thanks for looking into it. Tyler ___________________________

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Sunday Night at SPOC
by Robert Taylor 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

I'm going to brave a few hours out at SPOC tonight (Sunday 26 March) if anyone is interested. It'll be cold but it looks fairly clear. Bob Taylor

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News?
by Patrick 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

I've heard from a couple of folks that they have not received the past few issues of News. This despite the fact their email addresses are on the distribution list. If there is anyone here that has missed the last few issues (I just sent one out a few minutes ago) please let me know. Thanks, Patrick

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