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11-05-2007, 09:46 AM
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Attention all planets of the Solar Federation:
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comet Holmes
Comet Holmes is visible to the naked eye, better if you have binoculars or better yet, at telescope. Here is how you find it... Image Display |
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11-05-2007, 09:49 AM
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Livin Life Down A Long Dirt Road
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Is that the bright light just left of the moon each morning? As seen from the northern coast.
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11-05-2007, 09:53 AM
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I think that is Jupiter. Like it says, make a line from Cassiopeia to the southeast and it'll be the brightest orange/yellow dot in the sky.
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11-05-2007, 10:18 AM
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Stupid clouds moved in again, had a clear view of the sky earlier.
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11-05-2007, 10:28 AM
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Like I'm gonna know where this cassiopea thingy is! Can you just say if it's in the north/east/south/or western sky? 
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11-05-2007, 10:31 AM
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Attention all planets of the Solar Federation:
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look for the big W in the sky south of the big dipper(ursa major) and make a line to the south east from that.
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11-05-2007, 11:33 AM
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I'll try that when I get home. It's been cloudy and snowy for the last 12 days here in Kuparuk.
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11-05-2007, 01:45 PM
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Quote:
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look for the big W in the sky south of the big dipper(ursa major) and make a line to the south east from that.
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Perspective, I suppose, is 90% of reality, I would have said that Casseopeia is the "M" (depending on time of year, and time of night it is also a "W" that has one leg stepping out, the last star on the stepping out leg super nova-ed a few years ago and is in the process of dying out (yeah, I know, it really nova-ed a couple of hundred years ago, but, the light from said event made it here just recently) (that perspective thing again) actually it is not there anymore at all, but, we still see it. I know the math of several hundred light years away, makes it farther away than Boston (Go Red Sox) dang near. It still boggles my easily perplexed mind. |
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11-05-2007, 11:52 PM
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Life is Short...PRAY Long
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Wow....cool! Spent several minutes trying to find the big "W", then after that had no problem locating the comet below it. Looks like a big fuzzy yellow "jelly-fish" to me. No tail on it, just a round fuzzy ball that you can see quite well with binoculars. It's visible to the naked eye...but not well enough to make out any features.
The big "W" is in the north-east sky here in Seward, roughly 45 degrees above the horizon, standing "sideways on one end", about 9PM.
Bud
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11-06-2007, 12:33 AM
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"Live with Intention"
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All this sciency talk is making my head spin. 
Saw a couple of meteors (er... shooting stars) tonight, that was pretty cool. When I was little (okay not so little, 14 or 15) I wanted to be a theoretical physicist- you know, strings, chaos, the whole nine yards. I still think it would be awesome, but I don't have the mathematical skills.
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