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Old April 7th 08, 07:48 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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The Messier Ten Minute Challenge

M13 - Globular Cluster in Hercules

Discovered by Halley in 1714, M13 (NGC 6205) is one of the most
prominent and best known globulars in the northern hemisphere. At a
distance of 25,100 light years it is 145 light years across.

http://www.martin-nicholson.info/ten...llenge/m13.htm

Martin Nicholson, Daventry, England.

My website is at http://www.martin-nicholson.info/1/1a.htm
My informal Astronomical Blog is at http://ukastronomy.livejournal.com/
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Old April 7th 08, 06:57 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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On Apr 7, 2:48 am, ukastronomy
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The Messier Ten Minute Challenge

M13 - Globular Cluster in Hercules

Discovered by Halley in 1714, M13 (NGC 6205) is one of the most
prominent and best known globulars in the northern hemisphere. At a
distance of 25,100 light years it is 145 light years across.

http://www.martin-nicholson.info/ten...llenge/m13.htm

Martin Nicholson, Daventry, England.

My website is athttp://www.martin-nicholson.info/1/1a.htm
My informal Astronomical Blog is athttp://ukastronomy.livejournal.com/


Hey, moron, you ever tried actually looking at these? They're
impressive sights even in small finderscopes some of them, and even
easier to find, although as you're incapable of doing anything
yourself you can find them with most goto mounts or hooking up
computer based planetaria packages to your telescope.

In fact most Galactic globular clusters are quite crap in either
photographs or electronic images in comparison to their visual
delight.

M13 is especially rewarding as switching between averted and direct
vision at low powers reveal two quite different seeming objects.

Always one of the easiest beginner ones, along with not too very
distant M57, when teaching beginners the earliest rudiments of
starhopping.

Starhopping is probably illegal nowadays though, in favour of helping
fools with too much money pointing rentascopes and pretending they
know something in order to think they look good and are clever.
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Old April 8th 08, 12:24 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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On Apr 7, 2:48 am, ukastronomy
wrote:
The Messier Ten Minute Challenge

M13 - Globular Cluster in Hercules

Discovered by Halley in 1714, M13 (NGC 6205) is one of the most
prominent and best known globulars in the northern hemisphere. At a
distance of 25,100 light years it is 145 light years across.

http://www.martin-nicholson.info/ten...llenge/m13.htm

Martin Nicholson, Daventry, England.

My website is athttp://www.martin-nicholson.info/1/1a.htm
My informal Astronomical Blog is athttp://ukastronomy.livejournal.com/


Hey, moron, you ever tried actually looking at these? They're
impressive sights even in small finderscopes some of them, and even
easier to find, although as you're incapable of doing anything
yourself you can find them with most goto mounts or hooking up
computer based planetaria packages to your telescope.

In fact most Galactic globular clusters are quite crap in either
photographs or electronic images in comparison to their visual
delight.

M13 is especially rewarding as switching between averted and direct
vision at low powers reveal two quite different seeming objects.

Always one of the easiest beginner ones, along with not too very
distant M57, when teaching beginners the earliest rudiments of
starhopping.

Starhopping is probably illegal nowadays though, in favour of helping
fools with too much money pointing rentascopes and pretending they
know something in order to think they look good and are clever.


Why not contribute something positive for a change.


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Old April 11th 08, 03:16 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Default M13 - Globular Cluster in Hercules

On Apr 7, 11:24 pm, "OG" wrote:
"advicegiven" wrote in message

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On Apr 7, 2:48 am, ukastronomy
wrote:
The Messier Ten Minute Challenge


M13 - Globular Cluster in Hercules


Discovered by Halley in 1714, M13 (NGC 6205) is one of the most
prominent and best known globulars in the northern hemisphere. At a
distance of 25,100 light years it is 145 light years across.


http://www.martin-nicholson.info/ten...llenge/m13.htm


Martin Nicholson, Daventry, England.


My website is athttp://www.martin-nicholson.info/1/1a.htm
My informal Astronomical Blog is athttp://ukastronomy.livejournal.com/


Hey, moron, you ever tried actually looking at these? They're
impressive sights even in small finderscopes some of them, and even
easier to find, although as you're incapable of doing anything
yourself you can find them with most goto mounts or hooking up
computer based planetaria packages to your telescope.


In fact most Galactic globular clusters are quite crap in either
photographs or electronic images in comparison to their visual
delight.


M13 is especially rewarding as switching between averted and direct
vision at low powers reveal two quite different seeming objects.


Always one of the easiest beginner ones, along with not too very
distant M57, when teaching beginners the earliest rudiments of
starhopping.


Starhopping is probably illegal nowadays though, in favour of helping
fools with too much money pointing rentascopes and pretending they
know something in order to think they look good and are clever.


Why not contribute something positive for a change.


Because a lot of people have had lies and half truths told about them
by Nicholson on his blogs and in these groups, quietly and cowardly,
behind their backs, for a long time.

So some of use have decided to do similar for a short while. Except
we don't have to lie or make up friends or use tricks and false
statements.

And what we are doing is very positive, as this charlatan has been
lying and cheating and deceiving for a long time. And attacking
innocent people who have tried to help him.

Now, if you want something positive, this is how a blog is done, and
how a rent-a-scope can be used for fun, without trying to show off and
claim marvellous things or to being clever

http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/2008/...in-cygnus.html

See how those people do it. Simple and effective and not spammed
throughout the known usenet universe, with details of where they
obtained the information, what it is about, and full details of
equiptment used, without pretending they had done anything
particularly glorious or clever, just a simple report from someone
using the same rental scopes nutterson uses.

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Old April 11th 08, 10:29 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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advicegiven wrote in
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particularly glorious or clever, just a simple report from someone
using the same rental scopes nutterson uses.


Is it really necessary to shoot the ambulance? :-)
 




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