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Randy
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USA
1990 Posts |
 Posted - 08/21/2003 : 17:35:20
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Just posted this over at the BABB...
Hey, this was great listening to today at work.
Go to the below link and click on the top link marked "Morning Edition Audio". Great little astronomy short story.
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1401486
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
Edited by - Randy on 08/21/2003 17:35:41
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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 Posted - 08/29/2003 : 01:05:50 [Permalink]
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I was out watching the sky for stooting stars 12th of August,
and took a peek at Mars through a 5,5" telescope.
I could barely, but indeed, see the white of the polar ice.
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ljbrs
SFN Regular
USA
842 Posts |
Posted - 08/29/2003 : 18:31:30 [Permalink]
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Randy:
Thanks.
Others:
If you have not looked at Mars yet you have missed the main event (its closest position to Earth in 60,000 years). Even if you cannot stand science (DUH!) and may be a flat earther, it is really something to see. Right now, where I live, it is cloudy (as usual), but this past Wednesday it was at its closest point since before recorded history and earlier (60,000 years ago).
While you have a chance, get off your butt and go out and look. It will be almost as close for a few weeks and then, pretty soon, it will be gone. You will not be around for a return engagement (when it is as close as it is now).
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"Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve about these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds."
Giordano Bruno
(Burned at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church Inquisition in 1600) |
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 08/29/2003 : 23:13:03 [Permalink]
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Well, ljbrs, Dr., I struck gold tonight with heading out to join the "Dam Astronmers". It's a local group here in Austin, Tx. that travels a bit out of town to the near-by resevoir dam friday nights for a sky view.
The Mars/media events this past week brought out a couple hundred spectators, to view thru a dizzying array of scopes. Largest was a whopper 20" newt. on a dobsonian mount. Quite impressive number of cassegrains, number of refractors.
Brought along my little trusty 8" Celestron newtonian. Had waves of kids and parents pass thru; curious on-lookers to sneek-a-peek at our next door planetary neighbor, Mars. Got a good look at Andromeda, the Butterfly Nebula, Ring Nebula....
Fun stuff, under the Texas sky.
Tomorrow looks to have a cruddy forecast.
Tonight was great. It will do just fine. |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
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ljbrs
SFN Regular
USA
842 Posts |
Posted - 09/11/2003 : 18:07:44 [Permalink]
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Look, Randy, if you live where I live, a clear sky is a great luxury. All during the summer it has been completely clouded over on every one of the nights for my astronomy club's public open houses. They held some just for Mars and waited until the clouds partially cleared in order to view it.
You will enjoy astronomy clubs. However, there are few women, because so many of the women are married. If their husbands are astronomy nuts, when their husbands come to observatory nights, the women have to stay home with their children. Bummer.
My late husband liked sailing and had a 26-foot sailboat which slept 6 and had "facilities" of all kinds. I had sailed most of my life with my father, so that was not a problem. Also, out in the middle of our wonderful Great Lakes at night, the sky is crystal clear sometimes.
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"Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve about these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds."
Giordano Bruno
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Mahaad_Mana
New Member
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Posted - 09/20/2003 : 22:36:47 [Permalink]
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Yay! I have no idea why but after two weeks, mars was still up the sky where I live. Maybe i'm the closes country to it? Yep, it's the cute really really bright star that shines red. I see it every night outside my bedroom window. I haven't checked these past few days (maybe like a week) if mars was still up but I sure hope it is. |
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