Speaking of planes: who was doing the touch-and-gos-and-flips at Wendover? -- best, Joe --- On Sat, 3/28/09, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] USNO-B1.0 To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 11:25 PM Hi Joe, On 28 Mar 2009, at 23:12, Joe Bauman wrote:
Patrick, That sounds exciting. I guess we could put it on an external hard drive -- is that right?
Yes. You take him your drive and he'll copy it at no charge. Or he'll sell you a 500 GB drive with the catalog already on it for $100 if you pick it up.
What is used to see the images? Is there a special viewer?
It's not a picture type catalogue. Rather it's used in conjunction with planetarium software and the software plots the stars on the virtual sky.
(PS: I gather no telescope class tomorrow!)
I've been holding off making the announcement but now that you ask I guess I'll make it official: Class postponed. Of course the bad weather is all because I just got word that my plane (complete with its new, more powerful engine) is ready to fly again after weeks of being down. So now the weather closes in so I can not look at or fly in the sky... _______________________________________________ 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.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com
Yeah, it's a 1964 Cessna 180. It's register back east so it may not have been a local flying it. I hate to see any airplane get bent but 180s are special. And now it's back to processing last night's film. patrick On 28 Mar 2009, at 23:56, Joe Bauman wrote:
Speaking of planes: who was doing the touch-and-gos-and-flips at Wendover? -- best, Joe
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