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Re: No Observing Tonite ( Saturday PM )
If it is clear I'm up for it, now if I could just find that multi
terawatt laser I had in the scrap pile.... BTW I am Pythonically challenged (in case you had not noticed)in terms of being able to quote the old shows. But I make up for it with Technology. Just check out the Files area in about 10 minutes. Mike Z --- In OAFs@y..., r.prevost@h... wrote: Just got off the phone with Richard about 15 minutes ago and thelocated on the HOME page of this group - (plug). ) |
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Re: No Observing Tonite ( Saturday PM )
Attilla Danko
Photon man did quoth:
Perhaps something will get set up for tomorrow night? the cloud forcasts for sunday night look reasonably good with the best clearing early in the evening. Could be a good night to get a little deepsky observing in. Please post if people feel like organizing some communal observing. Clearing skies. -ad "No, repeat after me: Waaaaaaah!" |
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No Observing Tonite ( Saturday PM )
Just got off the phone with Richard about 15 minutes ago and the
session tonite is NOT ON. Clouds may clear, but probaly only after midnight ( at least according to the simulations conveniently located on the HOME page of this group - (plug). ) Perhaps something will get set up for tomorrow night? Photonically Repressed, ;-) Roland |
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Re: Mar 15 Observing report
Matt Weeks
Hello Mike,
Thank you for inviting me to this place (OAFs). I am very glad to see everyone is still very eager to star-gaze. I am one to sit in the background and not take much forward action so I'm glad you thought of me when deciding to go "public". About observing, it would be very rare that I would be able to make it out to your place on week nights, a fri or sat night would be best. But I will contemplate each and every invitation though, you never know, I may surprise you one week night! (Besides the more times I take you up on your kind offers, the greater the chance I will get to meet Terence eh!) Now a BBQ and a Hitchhiker's or a Monty Python 'fest I would definatly be in for!!! That would be awesome! PS: I can't bring you a shrubbery, but I'll bring you the largest tree in the forest, if I can find...........a herring!!! oh no! I said IT, oh I said IT again............ |
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Re: why do I get a message from amasot I thought I joined OAFs
--- In OAFs@y..., zeidler@n... wrote:
This is what I got in the mail!Mike -- Ah-ha! You've stumbled upon our true identity! "OAFs" is actually a false front for a secret society called "AMASOT", bankrolled through a numbered Swiss bank account, and moderated by a shifty guy who operates from our head office on the Caymen Islands. It is equipped with a remote-controlled observatory so all us poor schlumps up north here can catch an occasional glimpse of the nebulosity in the Southern Cross region. (I wish!) Janice |
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Re: why do I get a message from amasot I thought I joined OAFs
Attilla Danko
Ah. Thats my fault. This email list was previously called amasot (AMatuer
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AStronomer in OTttawa) but we changed it to oafs because a popular vote.) I forgot to change the welcome messages. I will do that now. Sorry about the the confusion. And welcome fellow OAF. -ad ----- Original Message -----
From: <zeidler@...> To: <OAFs@...> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 1:22 PM Subject: [OAFs] why do I get a message from amasot I thought I joined OAFs This is what I got in the mail! |
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Re: Anything "Green" Up There?!?
Attilla Danko
Stars, because they are effectively backbody radiators,would be shades of
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pink yellow and blue, but never green. Thats becaue if a body is hot enough to emit at 500nm (green) it will also be emitting lots at 600nm (red) which would make it yellow. To glow green they'd have to be out of thermal equilibrium. A cold body could be green too, buy reflectance spectrum. Hmm. The onely green cold stuff I rememver seeing is probably the blue-green festoons on Jupiter. That leaves emission nebulae. They can glow at individual spectral lines (a very non-thermal process) and there are tons of then that emit at the OIII line. But you'd need a really bright one to percieve as green. So I think observing M42 with a 16 inch or larger aperture is the best bet. How anyowe know any chartreuse objects to observe? -a d ----- Original Message -----
From: <r.prevost@...> To: <OAFs@...> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 11:25 AM Subject: [OAFs] Anything "Green" Up There?!? As my calendar states it is March 17th, St-Pat's Day, I was wondering |
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Re: Hello out there
Richard Harding
So yo're the one who ordered the N-11!!! OOOOh OOOh!! I have chosen my friends wisely again!! Welcome aboard!! (BTW, what is your 8" SCT?). We are going to FLO tonight to do some Virgo galaxy hunting...interested??
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Richard Return-Path: <sentto-2911285-129-984853097-rharding=iosphere.net@...> |
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why do I get a message from amasot I thought I joined OAFs
This is what I got in the mail!
" Welcome to the amasot group at Yahoo! Groups, a free, easy-to-use email group service. Please take a moment to review this message. To start sending messages to members of this group, simply send email to amasot@... ...." Mike Z confused as ever. |
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Re: Hello out there
Thanks for the welcome, yes ST80/8"SCT/11"SCT owner. Late in April
the 11" GPS goto enabled bundle of joy will be ready to come home at which point I'll have to decide what happens to the 8. Maybe if I put them together in the observatory I'll get a baby MCT. Have any decisions been made about tonight? --- In OAFs@y..., jtokar@s... wrote: owner!) Looking forward to comparing wide-field views, and also gettingsome advice re: tripods for small refractors. |
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Re: Hello out there
Hello Mike!
Good to hear from you (as I recall, a fellow 80mm short tube owner!) Looking forward to comparing wide-field views, and also getting some advice re: tripods for small refractors. Hope to see you soon -- maybe tonight. (I'll be searching for objects in a nice shade of planetary-nebular green! :) Janice |
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Observing?!? I'm IN!
--- In OAFs@y..., Richard Harding <rharding@i...> wrote:
I ABSOLUTELY must go observing tonight!!!Hi Richard! Observing!?! I'm in! Between Carp Airport and FLO, the latter would be the darker of the two sites ( by 0.5 to 1.0 magnitudes). We'd need to check road conditions for their entrance. ALso, if other dark site options become available, let me know, and we'll adapt. My Main Targets: Hubble's Variable Nebula. Thor's Hammer, but with OIII filter. Tons of Virgo Galaxies, of course. Time to hit the Photon Trail, Buckaroos!! ;-) Rol |
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Re: Mar 15 Observing report
Attilla Danko
Nice report.
From: Matt Weeks <mweeks@...> 3) NGC 2438: Planetary Nebula in M46.Yup, this is one of the coolest sights in the sky. I really enjoy such object pairing. Some other cools double views are: - M35 and NGC2158 - M15 and Pease1 - M57 and IC1296 - M13 and NGC6702 - M96 and M95 The all time classic is probably M81 and M82. Clear skies and double vision. -ad |
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Re: Rumours of the fall of Camelot
Richard Harding
Rumours of our demise is vastly overestimated!!!
Anon I ABSOLUTELY must go observing tonight!!! It looks like tonight will be better than last night (crummy!). I am leaning towards either the Carp site (never been) or the FLO. Any other suggestions Starry Knights? Richard |
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Re: Rumours of the fall of Camelot
Richard Harding
Rumours of our demise is vastly overestimated!!!
Anon I ABSOLUTELY must go observing tonight!!! It looks like tonight will be better than last night (crummy!). I am leaning towards either the Carp site (never been) or the FLO. Any other suggestions Starry Knights? Richard |
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