With all that's been going on the last few months, my bp has been a bit on the high side, but now that the worrys have gone, so has that, today at the doc's my...

Good morning...... I am looking to pick up a first scope soon, and had settled on a 8 or 10 inch Skywatcher Newtonian, with the EQ6 mount. Actually...

Object: AAVSO1811-30N Sgr 05 #2 Date: 2005.07 6:58 UTC JD 2453563.7903 Az-Alt: Meridian approx. 18=B0 Position: J181750.77-302631.2 w/i 1.5=B0 southwest of...

On saturday, July 9 2005 I managed to visually observe supernova SN2005cs in M51. Actually, we may have observed SN2005cs without knowing it a week before...

Hello, Does anyone know where I can find the landing ground track for the shuttle mission. Thanks Jeff

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/extremely_large_telescope_step.html -- The Lone Sidewalk Astronomer of Rosamond Telescope Buyers...

I just started a new Yahoo Group dedicated to the Members-at-Large of the Astronomical League. I felt we MALs needed a place to ask questions, compare notes,...

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/22jun_spectacular.htm Spectacular Conjunction NASA Science News June 22, 005 Mercury, Venus and Saturn are converging...

Maybe it's just me, but I still get a kick out of seeing things in the morning that I hadn't seen since they ducked behind the sun in the evening. My latest...

Space Weather Message Code: WARK05 Serial Number: 510 Issue Time: 2005 Jul 13 1449 UTC EXTENDED WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of 5 expected Extension to Serial...

For the Tuesday Rosamond report in awhile after I've had coffee and put the scope under cover, what a strange day. -- The Lone Sidewalk Astronomer of...

Space Weather Message Code: SUMXM5 Serial Number: 59 Issue Time: 2005 Jul 13 1541 UTC SUMMARY: X-ray Event exceeded M5 Begin Time: 2005 Jul 13 1401...

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Environment Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY BULLETIN #05- 3 2005 July 13 at 10:14...

Its so cool to get a clean split of the double double under mag 5 skies in the backyard with average seeing and good transparency under less than dark skies. ...

John Steinberg wrote: In related news, mission controllers at The Kennedy Space Center have been forced to request an emergency congressional funding...

"The space shuttle program exists to build the space station. American taxpayers have spent $35 billion in space station hardware and many billions more for...

Is a clean separation of the double double considered a good test for resolving power of a refractor like the ED 80?

I would say that the E star should be resolvable with an 80mm refractor of good quality. At Mag 10 and even better separated than the Epsilon Lyrae stars, the...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8569277/ This is a real gremlin story. As it is decribed, I fear the worse case whereby the source is in the shuttle...

tonight, first image with a Canon Rebel 300D at the focus of an 80*500 refractor http://images.ciel.free.fr/test/IMG_0108R.jpg 1/100sec exposure...