Posts Made By: Rod Mollise

Paul Knight said:

Starizona 12V DC w/ (2) 4.5 amp-hour batters

OR

Celestron 12V DC 7 amp-hour batter

Which is best? And does anyone know the dimensions of the Starizona power pack?

Jim Thommes said:

Here is an image of LBN 1022. Look at the cropped image on the page (link below) that points out a small nebula. I have looked on the DSS slides and this nebula is much dimmer. Is it a known brightening nebula? Anyone take any pictures of this area recently? I would appreciate any help or information anyone could provide to me.

The C8 optics let me down a bit on the image, but the image and exposure details are at:

http://www.jthommes.com/Astro/LBN1022.htm

The region of this 36 arc minute wide field is Equatorial 2000: RA: 06h 56m 52s Dec: -08°16'19"

Scope - C8 at f/4.2
Camera - Artemis285 Astronomik Ha, LRGB filters
Mount - G11/Gemini
Guiding - Megrez II at 555 mm FL, DSI Pro, PHD Guiding

Mark Kuba said:

My take is Global Warming is nearly completely theoretical, with enphasis on the Retorical.
Political Science rather than science. It belongs in the same unscientific catagory as the philosophy, not science, of "the many worlds theory" or any variations of string theory.

Dale Conrad said:

I was taking, or attempting to take a picture of the flaming star nebula Sunday night. After stacking an hours worth of exposures I detected what I assume is about a magnitude 14 to 15 asteroid. Its' position was really close to RA05:19:38 DEC+34:45:58 and was in that area at 05:38 Dec. 7, 09 GMT. It was moving from CE to slightly north of CW at a rate of about 47 arc sec/hour.

Since the object was well defined in the exposures I don't think is was a comet so I would think it was an asteroid.

Any info would be appreciated. Thanks

jess tauber said:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091210/lf_nm_life/us_usa_religion

Jess Tauber

Dale Conrad said:

Scott,

Generally a conservitive will hang a their goofballs out to dry at the same rate liberals offer their goofballs , praise, re-election, and idol status.

Dale

Mark Norby said:

I thoroughly enjoyed her Youtube clips. I think that it's wonderful that an unknown from humble background can get a "break". I purchased her debut CD, and have enjoyed it vry much. It's the first CD I've purchased in a couple of yrs. Now I hope to find a Barbara Padilla CD on the market.

Paul Maxson said:

Hi all,

I may have already posted my preliminary images from this day, I did the final processing and here is my result.

http://www.sunspot51.com/Mars/2009-12-02-PWM.jpg

Paul

Thomas Holst said:

I'm not much of a radio enthusiast but sometimes when I can't sleep I'll scan the frequencies on my little handheld SW radio. (This usually puts me to sleep.) The other night I ran across a broadcast consisting of a female voice reciting "random" numbers in Spanish for several minutes, then the transmission just stopped. Was this one of those "Numbers Stations" I've read about that is used for sending secret messages to spies?