February 2007 - Utah-Astronomy - mailman.xmission.com

Green Laser Sale is on again
by Michael Carnes 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Got one of these several weeks ago. Seems fine. Looks great through the inversion. http://www.luckyduck.com/basement/

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OFF LIST-- Global warming on mars?
by Michael Carnes 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

>>I went up after the lecture and asked him if there was >>evidence for global warming on Mars. "No" was the >>response. I'll bet Don shops around and finds some evidence provided by Exxon... Doggone it Rich, we're sitting in the same place and STILL haven't had a chance to meet face to face. Michael

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] OFF LIST-- Global warming on mars?
by Michael Carnes 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

Shoot. Sorry about that guys. That really wasn't supposed to turn up on the list. Gotta fix my email. >Doggone it Rich, we're sitting in the same place and STILL haven't had a chance to meet face to face. >

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Global warming on mars?
by Michael Carnes 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

>> I will be out of town but if you go to the lecture >> ask him about his >> opinion of global warming on Mars. >I went up after the lecture and asked him if there was >evidence for global warming on Mars. "No" was the >response. During the lecture, the he was asked about Martian climate change. The only thing he mentioned at that point was that Mars got a heck of a lot colder when its magnetic field died down and the solar wind blew away most of its atmosphere.

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Fwd: Frontiers of Science Jan. 31 is tomorrow, WEDNESDAY January 31st.
by Richard Tenney 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

I thought I got a posting from someone at SLAS about this with the incorrect date -- please take note that this lecture is TOMORROW (Wednesday), and not on Thursday. --- James DeGooyer <jdegooyer(a)science.utah.edu> wrote: > Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:09:25 -0700 > To: office(a)science.utah.edu > From: James DeGooyer <jdegooyer(a)science.utah.edu> > Subject: Frontiers of Science Jan. 31 > CC: jdegooyer(a)science.utah.edu > > Dear Frontiers of Science Patron: > > The next Frontiers of Science lecture is Wed, Jan. > 31, 7:30 PM in the > Aline Wilmot Skaggs Biology auditorium. This event > is free and open > to the public! > > Dr. Matthew P. Golombek, senior research scientist > at NASA Jet > Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, will discuss "Martian > Climate Change: From > Wet to Dry." He will present the latest scientific > evidence and > extensive photographs from Mars. > > Golombek will give a live radio interview Wed, Jan. > 31, 9:10 a.m. on > KCPW public radio, 88.3 FM or 105.3 FM. Tune in! > > See http://www.map.utah.edu/index.jsp?find=82 for a > campus map to the event. > > See http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=011807-1 for the > official U. of U. > press release about this event. > > > We hope to see you there! > -- > James R. DeGooyer > Public Relations Specialist > College of Science > 1430 E. Presidents Cir. Rm. 220 > Salt Lake City, UT 84112 > Ph. (801) 581-3124 > Fax (801) 585-3169 ____________________________________________________________________________________ TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/

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Zodiacal light observing season -CONTEST-
by Chuck Hards 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

As soon as the moon is out of the picture for early evening (next week), it will mark the beginning of the prime season for looking for the Zodiacal light in the western sky as soon as it's dark enough. Absolutely pristine skies are not essential. I have seen it plainly from the Grantsville area, just off I-80 a few hundred yards. It's probably visible from SPOC if not too many local lights are on at the time. I'll award a prize of my choosing for the best Zodiacal light photo posted to the Gallery. Deadline will be March 30, so everyone has 8 weeks to pull something together. The image must be made during the contest period. Film or digital, both methods encouraged, digital processing or classic darkroom enhancement methods are allowed. In fact, to make it fair, we'll have a professional category and an amateur category, so folks like Rob don't blow the rest of us out of the water. The prizes will be some modest piece of astro hardware or literature from my "archives". Emphasis on "modest". Winners will be determined by jury votes, jurists to be chosen by me. Jurists may enter but may not vote for themselves. Entries will be judged from the posted Gallery submissions, no private submissions to the judges. If you don't want to set up a Gallery page just for your contest entry, I'm sure some of us already there will stick your photo up in one of our sections. Maybe we can have a dedicated page just for this, we'll see. Good luck to everyone! ____________________________________________________________________________________ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097

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