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Re: moony night link--Luddite Alert!
Would love one, Attilla. I too have only a dial-up connection.
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Frank ----- Original Message -----
From: Attilla Danko To: OAFs@... Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 2:34 PM Subject: Re: [OAFs] Re: moony night link--Luddite Alert! >If I were to supply the blank CD, could one of the OAFs with a > big pipe burn the download onto it for me? > > K. I can write the distro files for VirtualMoon to a CDr. Anyone else want a copy? -ad Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. |
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Re: Sunday Indian Buffet
Count me in too! Sorry not to reply earlier but I have a visitor and wasn't sure I could make it till now.
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From: Richard Harding To: OAFs@... Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [OAFs] Re: Sunday Indian Buffet So will Judith and I! Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: roland_prevost To: OAFs@... Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:21 PM Subject: [OAFs] Re: Sunday Indian Buffet --- In OAFs@y..., "attilladanko" <danko@c...> wrote: > However Little India Cafe (opposite Coleseum 12 or 66 Wylie > Ave) does serve sunday brunch. > > Anticipating the desires of the Tyrant, I have made a reservation > for 6 people at 12:30. Got it, thanks! Janice and I will be there. -rol Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. |
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What are those weird blue icons in the calendar.
attilla.danko@sympatico.ca
The ones next to the moohphase icons?
There little bits of a satellite picture from the future. The Canadian Meteological Center runs a big computer simulation that predicts cloud cover in canada for up to 48 hours in the future. The calendar on this group automatically links to the right CMC prediction page for the evening of the event date. The little blue icons mark which calendar items are within the 48 hour precdiction range of CMC. If you look closely you'll see that they are slightly different. They are actually little bit of the real forcast image. The wiggly black line is the ottawa river. If you click on the calendar event link, you'll goto a page with event details and a bigger cloud forcast map. The point is that we can use the CMC images to get an idea if its going to be clear on the night of a starparty. Seeing 48 hours into the future is pretty cool, I think. -ad |
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Visitors - Blue Icons Great!
r.prevost@home.com
Check it out!
If you visit the Home page for AMASOT and click on the next day or two, you get the calendar report AND a map of the weather in the future. Now "everyone" can have their very own time machines! Check the cloud cover for observing, without having to hit any seperate Environment Canada links. A nice bit of coding, for those in the know. And extremely useful too... Great feature Mr. Danko! Mr. Prevost |
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Local Girl Scout Session Cancelled
r.prevost@home.com
A local astronomy telescope viewing for girl scouts that Janice and I
were going to attend will be cancelled due to weather conditions. Snow and wind will make it impossible for us to give a sky tour to about 10 kids and their leaders, in our community. We were going to attend as Janice & Roland, gentle amateur astronomers. Maybe another time! Photons Rule! Roland |
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Re: Nice pics
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--- In amasot@y..., attilla.danko@s... wrote:
Nice pix you uploaded to the files section. Keep it up. We have 20OK, Attilla, I uploaded a few of my sketches to this Group in the directory at the following address: I'm hoping this might encourage 'some members' of AMASOT to attempt their own sketches eventually. It's just too much fun to pass up! You get Photons 4 Phree! Rol |
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Re: Local Girl Scout Session Cancelled
attilla.danko@sympatico.ca
--- In amasot@y..., r.prevost@h... wrote:
A local astronomy telescope viewing for girl scouts that Janice andI were going to attend will be cancelled due to weather conditions.Too bad about the weather. However, next time you and Jan are out volanteering as individual gentle astronomers, feel free to invite your gentle astronomer freinds along for company (if you feel like it). Or you can just borrow my green laser. I think it would be very cool if there was a place for astronomy volanteers, of all clubs or no clubs, to have a place to ask for each other's help. Could there be a mailing list or a website or something? ;) Clearer skies. -ad |
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Re: Why Crescent Moon Icon for March 7th?
attilla.danko@sympatico.ca
--- In amasot@y..., r.prevost@h... wrote:
To this group's coder...It seems the time machine used for predicting cloud cover has gotten mixed up with the time machine used for predicting moon phases. I shall have to pour cold water over both of them. Thanks for pointing that out. Feel free to find more bugs. -ad |
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Feb 26th - Belated Observing Report
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Monday Feb.26th/2001
Sess# 276 7:30 - 10:30 Farm Road lm=6.0 s=7 clear -11C Observing session, by myself, to test out Janice's f/5 80mm Short Tube Scope, at a darker site. I used the newly acquired 3x Barlow I got from Matt Weeks, to achieve higher magnification on the planets than previous tries, with this small scope. Venus - Just love venus when it's a very thin crescent like this. It's so much larger at such times. Could not detect any variations in shading on the lit part. Moon - Crescent shaped as well. Darker area showing much detail with earth shine. Small scope pushed to 96X yeilds a decent view after all. Saturn - 2 moons visible, in this small scope. Cassinni division visible, colour detected on sphere, shadow on rings. 120x was best for this one. Jupiter - caught it just when a moon was touching the surface edge on the way to dissapearing behing it, I think. Attractive view, though with much less fine detail in bands than what I'm used to. M81&82 - Ahh, this is where the wide field pays off. I can easily get a 2 or 3 degree field of view. These differing galaxies, one oval and one pencil-shaped, in this wider setting, are most attractive indeed. M65&66 - Same pleasure as the 2 galaxies above. Nice to be able to see them in a wider field of view, in context with stars all around. Could not detect the 3rd nearby, fainter NGC. Gamma Leo - Binary star. Wow, do refractors, even inexpensive ones, ever do a good job on binaries. Two bright little yellowish ball-bearings with much dark between them. NGC2903 - An excellent and bright galaxy in Leo that somehow did not make it onto the Messier list. Easy to find and quite distinct in the f/5 80mm Short Tube. Overall, I'm impressed by how much even a 3" scope can show you. It's finderscope is puny, so the strategy for finding things is completely different than with the SCT8". However, used with a 32mm ep, the short tube itself becomes a super 16x 3 degree F.O.V. findercope of it's own. Pleasant to be under dark skies again. Rol. |
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Re: And then there were 3!!!
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--- In amasot@y..., mwirths@s... wrote:
-Ni!Welcome, Oh Knight, to this extremely small, but enthusiastic enclave of observing buffs! Be most welcome, Mike of Wirths, for thine good reputation preceedes thee... MINI OBSERVING REPORT: Ricardo of Harding was over here for dinner tonight, and we shared a pleasant evening. Even though we spent most of the evening chatting, and only looked at the sky for 60 seconds, I still have this short observing report to post: We looked at the sky when Richard was leaving, just after 11pm, and noticed a very prominent and quite large ice haze cicle around the moon. Best one I've seen thus far. We are talking about 50 to 60 degrees in diameter. The band of this circle was perhaps 10 degrees wide. To top it all off, while we were looking up, a magnitude -5(?) meteor zoomed across the circle, under the moon, to end in a bright white ball at the opposite side of the circle, near the edge. Very bright, many times brighter than Jupiter. Nice co-incidence that we were looking up at that time & from that angle, to see such a diamond ring effect. You never know what you'll see when you look up! Let Photons Rule! ;-) Roland PS- Ni! Ni! Ni! |
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Re: And then there were 3!!!
attilla.danko@sympatico.ca
--- In amasot@y..., r.prevost@h... wrote:
> We looked at the sky when Richard was leaving, just after 11pm, and noticed a very prominent and quite large ice haze cicle around thedegrees wide.Indeed. Halos are neat. They come in many varieties. The coolest one I've seen was during the day. It was a cold winter day. It was nominally clear but there was thin fog all over the sky. Actually, it was an ice fog. There was a beautiful ring around the sun perhaps 50 degrees in diamater. However, the cool part was another ring that didnt center on the sun at tall. It was paralell to the horizon and went right around the sky at the same altitude as the sun. The two rings intersecting each other made for very cool sight. Apparantly the horizontal ring requires ice crystals suspended in the air to be growing in a particular habit (crystallographers lingo) that is quite rare. It was very cool. And a lot closer than 8.5G ly Roland Attilla of Smeg. Oops, wrong british-absurdist-humor-reference. ... (sounds of search engine flipping web pages...) .... Attilla PS- "Ekky-ekky-ekky-ekky-z'Bang, zoom-Boing, z'nourrrwringnmmm". |
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All kinds of sky events...
r.prevost@home.com
In response to the Knight who up until recently said "Ni!":
When you saw that amazing halo in the daytime, too bad you didn't have one of those chrome hubcaps that people use to take all-sky photos. Given that this rare ring configuration went all the way around the sky, it would have made an amazing photo. Still, I imagine you're not in any danger of forgetting it either. Since I started observing, four years ago, it's interesting to note all the sky events I had never noticed before. Ice fog haloes, fireballs, sundogs, Venus' belt, Zodiacal light, etc... And, on a simpler level, I'll bet that Janice & I have seen 5X more stunning sunsets per year than we had previously. I guess these are just some of the peripheral bonuses that come with regular observing. Almost Any Skies! Rol |
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Re: Free at last...
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--- In amasot@y..., "Richard Harding" <richard.harding@s...> wrote:
Hi to All!!!!!!So good to see you here, Ricardo of Harding. Well met! And so, with Janice online as well ( welcomed her locally ) , now we are 5! Heck, with numbers like that, we might just be able to muster up an asteroid detection line or something. The sky is not the limit! Rol |
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Re: [amasot] Re: And then there were 3!!!
Mike Wirths
Hey Richard,
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With all that booze you'd be a Knight who said Hic.........right then on to business.......I would like a ....SHRUBBERY!!! Wow a -5 meteor cool I wish I would have stayed up longer, I did however get some pretty good views of Jupiter, which had a really cool dark barge on its NEB, the seeing was'nt good enough to take more than about 300X. Hey Attilla can I upload a whole whack of shrubbery pics??? I think this is a great tonic for all the bs lately ie lots of silliness!! ---Ni ecky ecky vetang -----Original Message-----
From: Richard Harding <richard.harding@...> To: amasot@... <amasot@...> Date: Thursday, March 08, 2001 7:12 PM Subject: [amasot] Re: And then there were 3!!! As for the meteor, Janice and Roland had plied me with prodigious |
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Re: [amasot] Re: And then there were 3!!!
Mike Wirths
Yes Yes you give these people an inch they take the whole bloody lot! ;)
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Now you think I could find a halfway decent shrubbery pic? NO! useless internet, virtual trees I found, vast libraries of phylogenetic monographs and was there a picture of shubbery? NO! BUT, I did find a file that was both Astronomy related and QUITE silly! Check out the new sillyfiles folder!!! -NI! -----Original Message-----
From: Attilla Danko <attilla.danko@...> To: amasot@... <amasot@...> Date: Thursday, March 08, 2001 9:47 PM Subject: Re: [amasot] Re: And then there were 3!!! montyHey Attilla can I upload a whole whack of shrubbery pics??? python is the only acceptable off-topic content. Upload away.to onbusiness.......I would like a ....SHRUBBERY!!! silliness!!its NEB, the seeing was'nt good enough to take more than about 300X.
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Click it!
r.prevost@home.com
In a similar vein as Mike's MP3, but for persons who might be away
from their computers, and might still wish to use their own voices to sing an irreverant Monty tune. R. PS - Is this really an amateur astronomy group, or is it: "The Amateur Monty Afficionados Seeking Outrageous Truth?" |
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