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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Live broadcast
by Joe Bauman 06 May '14

06 May '14

I agree with Eric re. Crimea. It was part of Russia until Khrushchev "gave" it to Ukraine administratively, back when they were both in the USSR. ------------------------------ On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 10:08 AM MDT Erik Hansen wrote: >Sounds like we are on schedule to have our own spacecraft for that. It was >a mistake not have a replacement for the shuttle, instead we got the >overly ambitious and costly Orion. I do have a hard time getting worked up >over Crimea, true it probably was not 90% of the population that voted for >it but nobody disputes that E Ukraine and Crimea consist of mostly ethnic >Russians. > > >> With the situation in Crimea/Ukraine I'm starting to wonder how much >> longer we are going to be able send replacement astronauts to the ISS. >> It's looking pretty dicey. I think we are still several years away from >> any new private (or government) manned launch capability to orbit. >> >> I hope we don't end up with a repeat of Skylab. >> >> Clear skies, >> Dale. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: utah-astronomy-bounces(a)mailman.xmission.com >> [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of >> BWFlowers >> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 5:33 PM >> To: 'Utah Astronomy' >> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Live broadcast >> >> http://www.apolo11.com/spacenews.php?titulo=Veja_com_seus_proprios_olhos_apr >> oximacao_Soyuz-Estacao_Espacial&posic=dat_20140326-113631.inc\ >> >> Live broadcast of the ISS docking going on now.... >> -Barrett >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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". >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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". >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >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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Neil DeGrasse Tyson Tanner Lecture
by CenturyLink Customer 12 Apr '14

12 Apr '14

Sorry, it was Ian who had to leave at 8:30. And IMHO, most of the point he was trying to make about M uslim society was not specifically spelled out by him. He presented the example and left the listerner to figure out the implications and apply them. During th e golden age of Islam, Muslims named most of the stars in the sky, nam es we still use today. During the golden age of Islam , Muslims created a numeric system we use in America today. During the golden age of Islam, Muslims created Algebra, a mathematical system we still use today. Then the Muslim faith was codified and scientific and mathematical progress came to a scree ching halt. Muslins today are going to engineering, medical and business school. W hat they are doing with that knowledge? Are they taking their education back to the Muslim world and moving it forward? There are many places throughout the 1.4 billion Muslims where there never have been, to this day, electricity or running water. The majority of the 1.4 billion Muslims are living on a poverty level . There is a wealthy ruling class, a knowledgeable class, but they aren't sharing the knowledge for everyone's benefit. T hey aren't engineering aquiducts or water systems to reach the impoverished . They aren't stringing electrical wire, or advancing solar energy to move their society forward . Nine hundred years later, the Muslim world is still standing still. And the rest of world quakes in fear of jihadists . At least that's the implication I took away from that one example.

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NOAH: daytime stars
by Dion Davidson 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

I liked the movie. I also like the daytime sky in the pre-flood version of Earth, where stars are visible during the day. What would be the scientific reasons for such a thing: * earth much closer to other bright stars, so their light is visible during the day? * different composition of the atmosphere? * dimmer sun? I liked the effect. Dion

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24 May Camelopardalids viewing?
by Wiggins Patrick 30 Mar '14

30 Mar '14

The new issue of S&T carries a lot of information on May's possible Camelopardalids meteor shower. Anyone here have any plans for watching for it? For those who may not have heard, the shower is predicted to peak on the 24th of May between 0629 and 0740 UT. The article notes that "...the first noticeable meteoroids will occur around 5:40 UT and the last ones by 8:50 UT. There is a public star party in SLC the evening before which is scheduled to end about 1.5 hours before the shower's predicted start time. That should give those of us at the star party plenty of time to drive to dark skies. The radiant is to be near Polaris to we'd need a dark northern sky which has me thinking that site (name escapes me) north of I-80, west of the Great Salt Lake might work. Thoughts? patrick

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] New Orion SkyQuest XT8 Classic Dobsonian Telescope ?????
by nathan swenson 30 Mar '14

30 Mar '14

I have this telescope with the goto system. I've been very happy with it - light enough to move easily, and the views are pretty good. I was pleasantly suprised the first time I looked through it. I am clearly an amateur who is mostly interested in the pretty pictures I see through through the glass, and this scope serves me very well. If you want to try it before you buy, and you are ever in Utah County, you are welcome to look through mine. Nate S. > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 13:15:56 -0600 > From: "BWFlowers" <BWFlowers(a)comcast.net> > To: "'Utah Astronomy'" <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Subject: [Utah-astronomy] New Orion SkyQuest XT8 Classic Dobsonian > Telescope ????? > Message-ID: <02ce01cf4aba$25fcf120$71f6d360$@net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > New Orion SkyQuest XT8 Classic Dobsonian Telescope > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Orion-SkyQuest-XT8-Classic-Dobsonian-Telescope/1 > 51237511604?_trksid=p1.m2287&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D > 1%26asc%3D156%26meid%3D5810121119440237327%26pid%3D100070%26prg%3D1087%26rk% > 3D1%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D251483119223%26%26clkid%3D5810127017972437886&_qi=RTM13 > 27406 > > > Is this worth the price? Suggestions and comments please!! > > Thanks, > Barrett > http://www.barrettscustomleather.com/physics.html >

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50 years ago today (OT)
by Wiggins Patrick 29 Mar '14

29 Mar '14

It's been 50 years since 27 March 1964 but I'll bet Siegfried remembers it like it was yesterday. http://www.livescience.com/44412-1964-alaska-earthquake-facts.html patrick Sent from my iPad

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Tanner Lecture
by Ed 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

An important 5-minute segment of Dr. Tyson's Tanner lecture has been posted on YouTube: Neil deGrasse Tyson Reads from the Book of Carl (Sagan) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPFsEKGl1GM

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Neil DeheGrasse Tyson Tanner Lecture
by CenturyLink Customer 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Ed, really sorry you had to leave at 8:30. You missed some of his best moments. No one expected him to go 3 hours, even Dr. Goldberg (the Humanities Chair). Towards the end of his lecture, h e said he did not want "you" (the audience) to say "Tyson taught me this." He wanted you to take it from him and make it your own, a part of yourself. For the entire lecture I thought he was using darts and missing the bulls eye. After thinking about that one short statement, I realized he was spot on for the lecture subject . He presented his case, how integral science is to our civilization and American society and how American society is turning away from it. T hen left it to the audience to take on the implications and apply them. A humanities theme indeed. His last story was about a kid wearing a Harvard tie. Th e kid was going to sta rt Harvard in the fall and he wanted everyone to know it. Tyson told the kid it is not where you go to school , what your background is, it is what you accomplish that mat ters. Your accomplishments set you apart and then no one cares about where you wemt to school or what your background is . His final slide was Cassini's "pale blue dot" from 2013. He got very serious about its implications . Several serious moments amid his entertaining presentation. I laughed a lot throughout his presentation, but when you think about the examples he presented, seemingly from hither and yon, you realize he made his point a dozen times over. Am also glad more people attended.

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"SLAS Announcements"
by Joe Bauman 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Non-SLASers on the list don't need to read this. For those of us who are members, I have a question: How did two requests for school parties get sent out as official SLAS announcements, apparently from our server, when the authors are not board members? My understanding is that only board people may use that feature. I'm not judging the worthiness (or otherwise) of these plans, but I do think such star party proposals should not masquerade as club propositions. If they are worthy of consideration, an officer should pass them along. Our internal email system shouldn't be accessible by anyone and everyone. -- Joe

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New to Astronomy
by CenturyLink Customer 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Ryan The suggestions so far are excellent and haven't hit your pocket book very hard :) Re: the binoculars. I have 10X50s, purchased about 30 years ago and still use them. BUT they are big and heavy and would prob ably be the death knell of your daughter's interest . It's even hard for me to hold them still over time . You probably already know this but the 10 refers to number of times the binos magnify and 50 refers to the diameter of the lenses in millimeters. For astronomical viewing, 35 is really too small and 50 is the low end . Binos are a good place to start, but really are not necessary. Learning the night sky is really the place to start. I suggest you get a planetarium program for your phone. They are inexpensive and you can take it with you to places away from city lights where you can really see the sky. Better to go to the free public star parties. All manner of telescopes and you can look through them and see the wonders of the universe. You might find a fun father/daughter project is building your own scope, in which case there are a number of people on this board to help you and keep the cost down. There is a monthly ATM session (Amateur Telescope Makers) you can go to IF you go that route. Please watch Cosmos on Fox, Sunday night at 8:00 MST (Mountain silly time). You will learn ALOT!!!. The series has already started, but you don't need to have watched from the beginning. You daughter should watch too. Welcome - good luck :)

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