-------- Original Message -------- Subject: The geodynamo’s unique longevity Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:37:41 -0600 From: Sam Wormley...

Explaining our two-faced Moon http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/pt.5.7025 When the far side of the Moon was first...

Mag. 8-8.5 as I write this. What was initially speculated to be a possible daylight object. Given the magnitude at discovery, the known distance, the known...

This news item http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/14/hubble_peeks_back_11_beeelion_years_back_to_show_milky_way_as_it_formed/ directly presents research...

Clear night finally. This is a series of 64x20 second exposures taken with my 206EDF scope. I tried both median combine and Average. Average shows star...

The change in perspective which causes the moon to show more of one side than another across its orbital period is not noted in any meaningful way although...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82p-DYgGFjI -- Lord Androcles, Zeroth Earl of Medway

On Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:34:31 PM UTC-4, OG wrote: I'm thinking of getting one; does anyone have any comments about it, good or bad. Is this...

Gents, One of the most recognized and "volatile" variables is BL Cam in Camelopardalis and which goes through a complete cycle every 56 minutes. A few weeks...

Empiricists never understood their own system and especially the 'theory of gravitation', they only understood that it seemed to point in the direction that...

Comets Lovejoy (C/2013 R1) and ISON (C/2012 S1) Date: 12 Nov. 2013 Time: 12:00-12:30 UT (5:15am MST) Location: Southeastern Montana NELM: 6.5 (worse for...

Insomnia at 05:00 GMT gave me an opportunity to look for Comet Lovejoy from my back yard. The Beehive cluster was visible using averted vision. I found the...

Does anyone have any feedback on the quality of the Celestron Advanced VX equatorial mount with permanent PPEC? I have been offered a kit including that and...

As the current discussion is on analemmae, let me re-introduce my old web page on the subject with its reference to cepheid...

Dear group, Some results involving exoplanet transits captured during the past few weeks: ( 1) http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Photometry-HAT-P-16-20131107.htm...

It is not okay for the community to ignore the orbital day/night cycle and its cause,something that is experienced in isolation at the North/South poles and...

To my pal Potty, and I include clueless Kelleher, chachahanson, Quadiblockhead, palsied Bigot palsing, W S Nelloi, dozzie Wilson the chicken farmer, Mypal...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=comet-ison-sun-approach

On 01/11/2013 05:02, Sam Wormley wrote: On 10/31/13, 10:13 PM, RichA wrote: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/highlights/193909261.html ...

It's true that a lot of comets don't live up to their possible maximum brightness. However, that is normal; would you rather they said that the comets were...