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Endeavour / ISS?
by Patrick Wiggins 03 Dec '02

03 Dec '02

Anyone see Endeavour chasing ISS across the northern sky a few minutes ago? I don't think I've ever seen two piloted spacecraft that close together before. Patrick

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Endeavour / ISS?
by Kris Jones 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

I did; that was pretty neat! My kids made it out just in time to see them fade out of sight. A nice suprise for a Monday evening. Kris >>> paw(a)trilobyte.net 12/02/02 18:42 PM >>> Anyone see Endeavour chasing ISS across the northern sky a few minutes ago? I don't think I've ever seen two piloted spacecraft that close together before. Patrick _______________________________________________ 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] Re: Fwd: News, 29 NOV 2002
by Brent Watson 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

I, too thought of the re-entry. I read a bit about it this morning. You can go to this site for a bit more info: http://www.avweb.com/newswire/news0249a.html#3 Scroll down to "The Outer Limits". Brent --- Joe Borgione <jborgion(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > A buddy of mine saw it while visiting family in > Grand Junction Colorado. He heard rumors that it > might have been a booster motor casing doing the > re-entry thing; I'll ask him if he's heard any more. > Joe Borgione > Richard Tenney <retenney(a)yahoo.com> wrote:My > daughter (same one!) saw it too; said it was a > repeat of the other! I don't know how she manages to > do that...! > > Anyone else? > > -Rich > > --- Spencer Cottam wrote: > > Richard, > > One of my co-workers saw something interesting > > Thanksgiving evening while driving near Park City. > > It was very bright, fell behind the mountain line > > then produced 2 bright flashes (from ground > impact?) > > Details: > > Thursday, November 28, 2002 > > About 6:30 P.M. MST (give or take 10 minutes? > > fully dark) > > On I-80 between Jeremy Ranch and Park City > > exits, traveling roughly East. > > Seen slightly to the right of straight ahead > > (East to SouthEast?) > > Maybe as bright as the moon, more yellow with a > > white center. > > Had a tail of about thumb to finger at arms > > length (2-3 degrees?) > > Appeared low (possibly just visibility obscured > > by car roof?) falling straight down. > > Dropped below a distant ridge line and produced > > 2 flashes far less than a second apart > > Subjective judgements of questionable value: > > Ridge line distance was estimated at 10 > > miles by one viewer and 30 miles by another. > > (probably less in that area?) > > Object size estimated to be the size of 3 > > houses > > > > I would like to know if anyone else saw anything > > there that night, if there are any ideas of what > it > > was, and if anyone has tried to find an impact > site > > and/or debris. My co-worker would appreciate any > > information you can supply. > > Thanks, > > Spencer > > > > Spencer Cottam > > Senior Software Engineer > > NDPS Development Team > > Novell, Inc. - The Leading Provider of Net > Services > > Software > > MS PRV-H-244 > > 1800 South Novell Place > > Provo, UT 84606 > > > > > BEGIN:VCARD > > VERSION:2.1 > > X-GWTYPE:USER > > FN:Spencer Cottam > > TEL;WORK:801/861-5614 > > ORG:;NW Engineering > > TEL;PREF;FAX:801/861-4025 > > EMAIL;WORK;PREF;NGW:SCOTTAM@novell.com > > N:Cottam;Spencer > > ADR;DOM;WORK;PARCEL;POSTAL:;PRV:Provo,UT:1800 > South > > Novell Place > > > LABEL;DOM;WORK;PARCEL;POSTAL;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Spencer > > Cottam=0A= > > PRV:Provo,UT:1800 South Novell Place > > END:VCARD > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus Powerful. Affordable. Sign up > now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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Re: Fwd: News, 29 NOV 2002
by Richard Tenney 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

My daughter (same one!) saw it too; said it was a repeat of the other! I don't know how she manages to do that...! Anyone else? -Rich --- Spencer Cottam <scottam(a)novell.com> wrote: > Richard, > One of my co-workers saw something interesting > Thanksgiving evening while driving near Park City. > It was very bright, fell behind the mountain line > then produced 2 bright flashes (from ground impact?) > Details: > Thursday, November 28, 2002 > About 6:30 P.M. MST (give or take 10 minutes? > fully dark) > On I-80 between Jeremy Ranch and Park City > exits, traveling roughly East. > Seen slightly to the right of straight ahead > (East to SouthEast?) > Maybe as bright as the moon, more yellow with a > white center. > Had a tail of about thumb to finger at arms > length (2-3 degrees?) > Appeared low (possibly just visibility obscured > by car roof?) falling straight down. > Dropped below a distant ridge line and produced > 2 flashes far less than a second apart > Subjective judgements of questionable value: > Ridge line distance was estimated at 10 > miles by one viewer and 30 miles by another. > (probably less in that area?) > Object size estimated to be the size of 3 > houses > > I would like to know if anyone else saw anything > there that night, if there are any ideas of what it > was, and if anyone has tried to find an impact site > and/or debris. My co-worker would appreciate any > information you can supply. > Thanks, > Spencer > > Spencer Cottam > Senior Software Engineer > NDPS Development Team > Novell, Inc. - The Leading Provider of Net Services > Software > MS PRV-H-244 > 1800 South Novell Place > Provo, UT 84606 > > > BEGIN:VCARD > VERSION:2.1 > X-GWTYPE:USER > FN:Spencer Cottam > TEL;WORK:801/861-5614 > ORG:;NW Engineering > TEL;PREF;FAX:801/861-4025 > EMAIL;WORK;PREF;NGW:SCOTTAM@novell.com > N:Cottam;Spencer > ADR;DOM;WORK;PARCEL;POSTAL:;PRV:Provo,UT:1800 South > Novell Place > LABEL;DOM;WORK;PARCEL;POSTAL;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Spencer > Cottam=0A= > PRV:Provo,UT:1800 South Novell Place > END:VCARD > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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Congrats to Jim Seargeant (long)
by Dale Hooper 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

The following is a message from the SBIG list on yahoogroups. Congrats to Jim Seargeant for having his CCD work published in the SBIG catalog! ---- Message: 5 Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 22:28:12 -0000 From: "Michael Barber" <barber(a)sbig.com> Subject: Thank You! TO ALL SBIGers: I just wanted to thank the following people whose images were selected for our recent publications. I recently completed a first pass at an updated 2002 SBIG Catalog in PDF format (now available at our web site) and an image sampler on CD-ROM with the images organized by camera type. We get asked for these things a lot. Naturally, we selected what we feel are among the best images for each camera model from our image gallery and from recent submissions for both the catalog and sample image sections of the CD. In reviewing the images two things jump out at you. First is the amazing quality of the work being turned out and second is the sheer number of extremely talented SBIG users there are. We aren't just talking about a few. The catalog and sampler contain the works of literally dozens of you and we had to leave some out just because there wasn't enough room! And these are just the ones that made the last cut - what we consider to be among the best of the best. If you are on this list you are in very special company. If you aren't on the list yet it should still give you pause to consider the many new faces that have made it this far. Call it an SBIG Imagers Hall of Fame if you will, but I just wanted to acknowledge the following 53 people for their contributions to the catalog and sample image section as well as their images in our monthly image calendar: (In alphabetical order) Chris Anderson Jeff Ball David Barmore Adam Block Mark & Shauna Bolton Paul Borchardt Randy Brewer Tom Carrico Adrian Catterall, M.D. Mike Chapa Pin Chin, M.D. Roland Christen Antonio Cidadao Brian Colville Nuno Costa Robert Dalby Brad Ehrhorn Bernd Flach-Wilken Mike Fleenor John Gleason Ed Grafton Ray Gralak Mike Halderman Tony Hallas David Hanon Gary Hug Richard Jacobs, M.D. Gil Jones A. Julian Al Kelly Tan Wei Leong Steve Mandel William McLaughlin Marko Moilanen Stan Moore Mototsugu Motoki, M.D. Jonathan Murray Kunihiko Okano Don Parker Damian Peach Jim Riffle Gerry Samoylk Benoit Schillings Robert Schulz Chris Schur Jim Seargeant Gary Stevens Shoji Suzuki Loke Tan Sean Walker Peter Ward Volker Wendel Ron Wodaski If I missed anyone, and I am sure I did, please forgive me - and let me know. I am updating our web site and will add the sample images from the CD-ROM as I go along. The catalog is already there. Thanks to all of you and congratulations on your achievements. Amateur astronomy has certainly changed in the past 10 years. Regards, Michael Barber SBIG

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Meeting tonight?
by Grahn Family 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

And the subject of my talk will be a sneak preview of my upcoming doctoral thesis "A Scientific Study of Strategies for Post Menopausal Men and Women living Hunter-Gatherer Lifestyles in the Large Eurasian Cities of the Australian Outback". (pre)Dr. Josephine At 02:52 PM 11/26/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Yes Josephine; I thought you were the scheduled speaker! > >Siegfried >

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Meeting tonight?
by Grahn Family 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Since there was no mention of it in Patrick's news, I thought I'd check. Do we have a meeting tonight?

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Meeting tonight?
by ELyrae＠aol.com 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Yes Josephine; I thought you were the scheduled speaker! Siegfried

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Re: Mirror grinding, anyone?
by Comabereni＠aol.com 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Hi Siegfried.: Sorry you couldn't reach me--I don't know what happened, but am glad to hear from you now. We've met in the dark a couple times over a Clave eyepiece in your beautiful Clark refractor, but I stay pretty low key so you probably don't remember (but how could I forget?) A presentation from me on telescope making would mostly highlight the concepts I've taken from others... I do think my telescopes are pretty and they do function very nicely, but they are a fusion of ideas from our own Chuck Hards (open structure), Phyllis Lang (rotating, balancing tube), Richard Berry (back plate, tube rings), Barry Peckham (minimalist groundboards), Bob Cook (velvet baffling), Dave Kriege (tube laminate concept), Bob Royce (cell design, thermal management), etc. My own small contributions (as far as I know) include an understanding of how to use lesser known commercial grades of countertop laminate to make a durable and colorful tube quickly, mounting a tube clamp ring on the front of the bearing box rather than inside the cradle, the use of acrylic craft paints to colorize the plywood edges to match the face veneers (and that was my wife's brilliant idea, actually ;^), my unique aesthetic approach, and an awareness of some of the techniques common to those who work and finish wood. The rest is just a lot of patience, hard work, and fussy attention to detail ;^). I do know from a lot of trial and error about dimensional requirements for balancing weight and damping time (at least with my own design), alternate bearing ideas, how to make effective use of a router (you could almost build an entire telescope with a router and a handful of shopmade jigs), and how different woods behave when being finished. And I'm still learning all the time ;^). Besides this discussion on the pending telescope making/glass grinding class, I am planning to build some EQ platforms pretty soon. Perhaps after everyone has a mirror and a dob, everyone can get together again and make some platforms for their creations later next year? Just a thought. Kind regards, Paul Stock

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Re: Mirror grinding, anyone?
by Comabereni＠aol.com 24 Nov '02

24 Nov '02

First off, please forgive if this message is HTML encoded--I'm crippled by AOL... I don't know if the mount designs for this mirror grinding class have been decided on already, but I previously decided that if this class was held again, I'd offer to any who might be interested use of my patterns, jigs and experience to assist in the construction of telescope mounts similar to those I make: http://blackknighttelescopes.com/BK_Black_Walnut_frames.htm I will say up front that making a wooden mount like this is a lot of work (easily dozens of hours, depending on how nice you want it), but I think it would be very rewarding to those willing to brave it. I can provide the following: - patterns to quickly and accurately route all the mount parts - training working with hardwood veneers (unless you want a maple or baltic birch mount, which is available pre-veneered) - instruction and assistance in finishing various types of wood - instruction on how to quickly make a very nice tube - helpful, friendly advice and access to some tools to help you with your own design - etc. I work from a smaller shop, so if invited, I would probably need to come to the hangar or to another location with more space for tools and room to work. It would also be good if I didn't need to bring every useful power tool, though I can certainly bring some of the more portable tools. It would be helpful if the cost of required bits, blades, etc. could be covered by those participating. I don't mean to crowd in on what might already be a well laid plan, so feel free to tell me if there is no interest. My personal schedule is pretty tight this winter, but if there is any interest at all in what I have to share, I'd love to squeeze in where I could. Finally, my design is best suited for 8" f/5 through f/7, 10" f/5 and f/6, and perhaps a 12.5" f/4.5 or f/5. You can probably go a bit longer for each aperture listed, but you lose the ability to shift the tube in the cradle to balance eyepieces, etc. and might need to make the mount a bit heavier to keep damping times low. Kind regards, Paul Stock

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