Please excuse my ignorance as this may be old news but I read this article http://unews.utah.edu/p/?r=070506-1 a while back and I have not heard anything mentioned since. Does anyone know if plans for this are still going forward and if so, has there been a location selected? Thanks Daren Campbell Tri-Co Realty & Investment Co. Ph. 801-571-8833 Fax 801-571-9888 -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of utah-astronomy-request@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:27 AM To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Utah-Astronomy Digest, Vol 63, Issue 15 Send Utah-Astronomy mailing list submissions to utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to utah-astronomy-request@mailman.xmission.com You can reach the person managing the list at utah-astronomy-owner@mailman.xmission.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Utah-Astronomy digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Aristarchus plateau 2008-05-17 (Canopus56) 2. 16% of US science teachers are creationists (Patrick Wiggins) 3. Look familiar? (Chuck Hards) 4. Re: Look familiar? (Chuck Hards) 5. Re: 2 new pics and a plea for imaging help! (Canopus56) 6. Re: Look familiar? (Chuck Hards) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:16:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Aristarchus plateau 2008-05-17 To: Utah Astronomy List Serv <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Message-ID: <626560.4810.qm@web32608.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Thanks, Tyler. It's a primitive beginning but at least it is progress in the forward direction. I figure I'll have to use negative or positive projection to get the image scale up to 300 meters / pixel - or an effective focal length (EFL) of around 6000 mm - what most of the master lunar imagers seem to use. I was also working on the terminator with Sun angles of less than 15 degrees with a low altitude Moon. By increasing the EFL and moving to targets at a higher Sun angle I expect the next batch of images will be something closer to a current prevailing amateur imaging standard instead of what could be done in 2001. Too bad the Moon will stay low to the horizon through September. - Kurt ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 00:38:44 -0600 From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] 16% of US science teachers are creationists To: utah astronomy listserve utah astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Message-ID: <D50C75D1-C56E-4C40-9D0D-72B04568DED6@wirelessbeehive.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 16% of US science teachers are creationists http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13930-16-of-us-science-teachers-are-cr eationists.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news1_head_dn13930 Sigh... patrick ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 10:06:04 -0600 From: "Chuck Hards" <chuck.hards@gmail.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Look familiar? To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Message-ID: <2541d8030805200906i2cbda88eod9c013d1285f8dd9@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.648278,-112.297893&spn=0.001437,0.0025 &t=h&z=19 ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 10:16:49 -0600 From: "Chuck Hards" <chuck.hards@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Look familiar? To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Message-ID: <2541d8030805200916g52bacdaq24a1d4458af5a163@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Here's another one. Can you identify the structure in the center of the image? http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.766213,-111.849999&spn=0.001434,0.0025 &t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=40.773835,-111.851107&panoid=-7aT6AmETMOl2vvkwGgFnQ ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 09:20:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] 2 new pics and a plea for imaging help! To: Utah Astronomy List Serv <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Message-ID: <525539.55216.qm@web32606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Howard, I forgot to mention the all important "Quality estimator - Lowest Quality" [percent] filter on the "Align" tab. This controls the number of rejected vs. accepted images-for-stacking based on an abstract scalar. So, for an avi movie file of a planet or a larger number of fits or jpg images saved from a short exposure time on a bright planet, you might want to try 95% first. If the resulting filtered and stacked image looks bad, ramp the "lowest quality" value back to 90%. Repeat going down to atleast 75% until you get the best image with the highest quality filter percentage. There is no reset button on the Align tab, but you can run it multiple times reseting the "lowest quality" percentage until you get the best result. - Kurt ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 10:26:25 -0600 From: "Chuck Hards" <chuck.hards@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Look familiar? To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Message-ID: <2541d8030805200926s7cf268c3p73f16bb3fb60ae4c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 One more that some old-timers might recognize. http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.774533,-111.719193&spn=0.002868,0.005& t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.765722,-111.694908&panoid=x3jN4YOBlMgUgcK5TiccpA No cheating, now! ;o) ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com End of Utah-Astronomy Digest, Vol 63, Issue 15 **********************************************