Hi Again Robin
Please put your next meeting dates here.
Regards Mike
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- Thu May 29, 2008 3:07 pm
- Forum: General chat
- Topic: New Astronomy Club.
- Replies: 31
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- Thu May 29, 2008 2:33 pm
- Forum: General chat
- Topic: New Astronomy Club.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8969
Hi Robin It is good to hear that you are off to a good start, membership-wise. Experimenting with images is obvious a possibilty during cloudy spells but of course you need clear spells to capture the photons to start with. As I am basically a binocular/monocular astronomer, imaging is not 'my thing...
- Thu May 29, 2008 1:02 pm
- Forum: General chat
- Topic: New Astronomy Club.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8969
I attended the Adur Astronomical Society opening meeting with 6 members of the FTAG. I have already written privately to Robin ,himself an ex-FTAG member, about the meeting and the group generally and I will not go into that here. However there is a particular point I would mention here from the exp...
- Wed May 14, 2008 2:42 pm
- Forum: Observing
- Topic: Crescent Moon and Mercury - May 6th 2008
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2723
- Sun May 11, 2008 1:13 pm
- Forum: Observing
- Topic: DAYLIGHT LUNAR OCCULTATION OF MARS, Saturday MAY 10, 2008
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3274
- Thu May 08, 2008 3:55 pm
- Forum: General chat
- Topic: the stars make me happy
- Replies: 10
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Of all branches of science, astronomy makes the widest appeal to most minds - scientific and lay- possibly because of the greatness of the conceptions with which it is concerned, but more probably on account of a spiritial instinct which turns the thoughts of man to the skies for relief from the we...
- Thu May 08, 2008 3:53 pm
- Forum: General chat
- Topic: the stars make me happy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2752
- Wed May 07, 2008 2:19 pm
- Forum: General chat
- Topic: Sky at Night 666
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1873
- Wed May 07, 2008 1:59 pm
- Forum: Observing
- Topic: Crescent Moon and Mercury - May 6th 2008
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2723
- Sun May 04, 2008 9:51 am
- Forum: Observing
- Topic: Daylight Occultation Sat Mars 10th 2008
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1670
Re hour problem. Is one UT and the other BST? I have even had problems with some planetarium computer programmes as one is often uncertain of times given in summer. At least the clock on my microwave over is still set at UT (nearlyall the other house clocks are radio controll;ed and change automatic...
- Fri May 02, 2008 8:37 am
- Forum: General chat
- Topic: The Next Clear Night
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3357
I awoke at 2amBST the morning to find a clear sky so ventured outsde with 8 x 30 binoculars and located M81, M3 , M5 etc and then popped in for a moment to look at a star atlas to confirm seeing NGC6633 only to go back outsde to find the sky completely overcast! A nasty word echoed around the outerw...
- Thu May 01, 2008 10:57 am
- Forum: Light pollution
- Topic: Black Night
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6758
- Thu May 01, 2008 8:45 am
- Forum: General chat
- Topic: The Next Clear Night
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3357
Cloudy at club meetings eh!? It is now never clear at the FTAG (Foredown Tower Astro Group) evenings, and has not been so for ages. Over the years one has been lucky to get one in six even partially clear. I expect the next one in June will be clear though because, of course, it will be too light th...
- Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:36 am
- Forum: Absolute beginners
- Topic: Turn Left at Orion
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3161
- Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:30 am
- Forum: Absolute beginners
- Topic: Chromatics
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1486