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Whoa! There's a War (OT) :-)
by Patrick Wiggins 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

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RE: [Utah-astronomy] SETI positive hit
by Dale Hooper 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

Rich, You're way ahead of me, I'm at 7205. But, on a more serious "positive hit" note; you're probably aware but most others aren't, that the SETI@Home people had some time at Arecibo about a week ago to "revisit" 166 of the most promising signal sites. They will be analyzing the data to see if anything continues to remain promising. Here is a link: http://planetary.org/stellarcountdown/reobservations_8.html When I originally built my radio telescope, I planned on using it at least part-time for setileague.org stuff. So far, I haven't done that - partially because I've been too busy to write any good data analysis software. But, I'm still getting good 1420 MHz data that is piling up. <g> > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Tenney [mailto:retenney@yahoo.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 1:45 PM > To: Astronomy in Utah > Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] SETI positive hit > > > I'm a fool a lot longer than April 1; I've been at > this thing since '99 and have processed 10,768 work > units as I write this. Can you believe that? (Patting > myself on the back...). I figured even if nobody > (whatever the race color or creed, romulan or vulcuan > or ferengi) is out there listening or sending, it's > still a cool distributed processing concept that has > put a lot of idle cpu cycles to good use; think of it > as yet another very successful Pro/Am collaboration. > > Come join the Utah Astronomers team if you want your > PC's screensaver to actually DO something (shameless > promotion here, sorry): > > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_89516.html > > > -Rich > > --- Joe Bauman <bau(a)desnews.com> wrote: > > Hey, Did you guys hear the news out of Project > > SETI?? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > (April fool) > > > > Joe Bauman > > science & military reporter > > Deseret News > > bau(a)desnews.com > > (801) 237-2169 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > > > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more > http://platinum.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy >

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RE: [Utah-astronomy] OT Fencing
by Kim Hyatt 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

I believe that's the club in Foothill? (I live about four blocks from there.) -----Original Message----- From: Greg Taylor [mailto:astronomus_maximus@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 3:40 PM To: Astronomy in Utah Subject: [Utah-astronomy] OT Fencing What club? The salt lake femcing club seems to be rather expensive for a year. (maby if you have your own equipment it would cost lest) Also, they meet at really obtuse hours. (8 or 9 pm) Greg --- Kim Hyatt <khyatt(a)smithlayton.com> wrote: > Yeah, I fenced foil and epee, but it was years ago. > I've been tempted to > take it up again - there's even a fencing club near > my home. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Taylor > [mailto:astronomus_maximus@yahoo.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 8:45 PM > To: Astronomy in Utah > Subject: RE: [Utah-astronomy] SLAS meeting? > > > > Kim, > > Do you do any fencing yourself? I dabbled in it a > bit > several years ago and I wouldn't mind taking it up > again. (I preferred the Epee) > > Greg > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, > live on your desktop! > http://platinum.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy

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RE: [Utah-astronomy] SETI positive hit
by Dale Hooper 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

I heard it on the internet, so its gotta be true. > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Bauman [mailto:bau@desnews.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:21 AM > To: Astronomy in Utah > Subject: [Utah-astronomy] SETI positive hit > > > Hey, Did you guys hear the news out of Project SETI?? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > (April fool) > > Joe Bauman > science & military reporter > Deseret News > bau(a)desnews.com > (801) 237-2169 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy >

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] NGC5139
by Karen Pierce 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

At 04:53 PM 3/28/03 EST, you wrote: >At that latitude, Omega Centauri is only 3 degrees above the horizon. At my >37 degree latitude, it is 6 degrees above the horizon. I'll bet it looks good >at the Grand Canyon. I like to go as far south as possible to get a good >view. > >Debbie > >__________________ We do see it at the Grand Canyon North Rim when we do our annual Grand Canyon Star Parties in June. We can often see it before it gets completely dark with binoculars and then the telescopes. We have fun showing it from the porch at the Grand Canyon Lodge. Deloy and Karen Pierce

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Learning the sky
by UTAHDEB＠aol.com 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Jim, I loved your report too. I found some optimal times to view Omega Centauri on the Sky and Telescope interactive chart. For April 1st it would be around 1:05 am and May 1st it woud be around 11:05 pm MST. I'll have to find out when we go back to daylight savings time so I can adjust the times in May. Debbie

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RE: [Utah-astronomy] Dropping a ball in the desert
by Kim Hyatt 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

I'm not even going to get into this... -----Original Message----- From: RStmarie(a)aol.com [mailto:RStmarie@aol.com] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 8:29 AM To: utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Dropping a ball in the desert I saw the rubber band ball dropped on the cable tv show "Real TV" with Ahmad Rahshad. It was about a 5' ball of rubber. It went splat. It left about a 4' crater. I'm sure the show will be on reruns. I think they used private land out by Mahave airfield California City, CA. for a drop zone. That particular drop zone is famous for dropping guys in cars, motorcycles, boats, nearly anything you can think of.

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Dropping a ball in the desert
by RStmarie＠aol.com 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

I saw the rubber band ball dropped on the cable tv show "Real TV" with Ahmad Rahshad. It was about a 5' ball of rubber. It went splat. It left about a 4' crater. I'm sure the show will be on reruns. I think they used private land out by Mahave airfield California City, CA. for a drop zone. That particular drop zone is famous for dropping guys in cars, motorcycles, boats, nearly anything you can think of.

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RE: [Utah-astronomy] OT Fencing
by Kim Hyatt 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

The foil fencer must establish the right of way by displacing the opponent's weapon and pointing his/her weapon directly at the opponent's torso before attacking. Only by parrying the attack can the opponent retake the right-of-way. Unless the fencer has clearly obtained the right of way, a hit made without it halts the action but no points are scored. -----Original Message----- From: RStmarie(a)aol.com [mailto:RStmarie@aol.com] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:34 AM To: utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] OT Fencing What is right of way?

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Messier Marathon
by Greg Taylor 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hi all, I went to SPOC last night and attempted the Messier Marthon. I was even later than I expected (it was around 11pm by the time I had gotten set up). By 4am (after 60 or 70 objects and a while after everyone else had gone) I was so hammered that I decided to look at Mars for a while (I was having a much harder time than I should have finding globulars in Ophiuchus). Then my confounded cheap k-mart folding chair gave way. I was so tired and ticked off that I just packed up and went home. I might have stuck it out if there had been someone else there to chat with (I always mutter to myself when I do any viewing, but it's not the same). Part of the reason that I was so tired is that I got lost in Virgo and had to back track quite a bit (I whish that I had brought Uranometria with me, I was just using Sky and Telescope's Messier card). Also, I knew that I was in trouble when I was having a hard time finding M81 and M82 (turns out that I was trying to star hop from the wrong star). All in all, I had a good time. Greg __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com

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