February 2012 - Utah-Astronomy - mailman.xmission.com

NHMU in today's paper
by Patrick Wiggins 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

Nice piece about the new museum in today's Tribune: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53586233-78/museum-dinosaurs-history-slee… patrick Sent from my iPad

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Way way OT again
by Joe Bauman 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

Dear Friends who downloaded my book about Revolutionary War veterans and their daguerreotypes: I found some pretty bad typos in it (like calling someone "a celebrated with" instead of "a celebrated wit" and have fixed them. I am hoping you can download the corrected versions, which are at the same place as the originals were, without any charge. I checked my own account on amazon.com for the Kindle store, and found that if you go to "manage my account" it will list all your Kindle books. You can then have any of your books delivered to your device. I think if you do that with my book it will deliver the better version. If there is a problem please let me know. Probably the same opportunity is available for Nook. Thanks, Joe

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SPOC Cleanup
by jcarman6＠q.com 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

Larry is right. You should be caulking from the outside in. Rain or snow will run off rather than penetrate and remove the repair from the inside. That just makes sense. I VOLUNTEER to hold the hose while Patrick and (hopefully) Chuck are on the outside of the dome. They are all wet figuratively they might as well be all wet literally (lmao) I will Hoot (ers) my behind off during the process. :)

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tonight's conjunction
by Joe Bauman 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

Hi All, Here's a pic I took of tonight's conjunction, and the same one with labels. It should be good the next two nights also, but the moon won't line up as nicely. Thanks, Joe http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=4863 http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=4866

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Cool UFO silliness
by Joe Bauman 25 Feb '12

25 Feb '12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux7UtPLCw3A

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eBay alert- large mirror blank cheap
by Chuck Hards 25 Feb '12

25 Feb '12

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-porthole-glass-16-diameter-3-4-thick-Nautic… In the style of John Dobson, for a hundred bucks and free shipping, this could be a steal. It has some substantial edge chips, but you could probably have it reduced in diameter locally for not a lot of money, and get a clean 15" blank. There are some local outfits with water-jet capability that would make the job a snap. If the chips are on one side only, you could just ignore them and grind the good side.

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Would like a ride to SPOC meeting tomorrow
by D P Pierce 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

I would like a ride to the SPOC meeting tomorrow at Denny's although Hooters would be an easier location for me to reach. If I haven't been called by 12:00 I will head for the bus stop and do the UTA/TRAX thing. The Courthouse stop is only about 3 blocks away from Denny's.. I hope the weather holds until I can get there. Deloy Pierce

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Mars
by Chuck Hards 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

With Mars just about at opposition, I noticed how much brighter it is this morning, compared to the last few months. I'm hoping SPOC opens up soon, in time to get some good views of the Red Planet while it's at it's closest.

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Horsehead nebula
by D P Pierce 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

With all the recent comments about observing the HN, I'm reminded of the cartoon I saw on the wall of the observatory at the UNA in Flagstaff many yeas ago. In the cartoon 2 astronomers are whispering to each other as they are looking across the room at another angry looking astronomer in an observatory. The caption is "If the other end of the Horsehead Nebula is ever found I know who it will be named after." Deloy Pierce

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Faster than light
by Daniel Holmes 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

I think you and I had a conversation about it that morning, I said it was a measurement error. I didn't know where, but my first guess it they had been Heisenberged. However, I do still think that as we get deeper down into quanta, and further, that Einsteinian physics won't be able to apply. Much like Newtonian physics don't when we are looking at relativistic stuff. Not that anything is proven wrong, but a different set of circumstances call for a different set of rules. Such as quantum entanglement...would such things work over enough distance that relativistic effects give a delay? I don't think there have been lab tests able to do such things yet. And the above is just my uneducated opinion. Not wanting to start any sort of war over this... Dan -- Sent from my phone, please excuse any mispelings or errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Chuck Hards" <chuck.hards(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Feb 23, 2012 9:47 am Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Faster than light To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> Gotta give Dan credit on this one, he was the first to call "B.S." on the FTL results, as I recall. On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:36 AM, daniel turner <outwest112(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Oh I expected it. I believe my words were "most likely a calibration > error". This qualifies as such an error. The original claim was wrong and > is now discredited. But some will never admit it. They are beyond > reason. They have their "beliefs" > > _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".

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