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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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A big thanks to SuperTopian SOWR and the many other climbers at JPL who are involved in the exploration of Mars!
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Dos XX
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 8, 2012 - 06:20pm PT
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An excellent video showing the reactions of scientists & engineers at JPL as the Mars Science Laboratory lands on Mars.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
A remarkable comment left on the YouTube web site for this video:
I'm a woman from Pakistan & I know how it feels to belong to a country where superstition is sacred & curiosity is non-existent.
Thank you, NASA. Thank you, science.
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Astronomics has 10 of the Astro Tech 6 inch Ritchy Chretians in stock for less than 500 bucks. Those suckers are supposed to be sweet.
They have a new showroom in Norman that I visited yesterday and I saw some incredibly pricey stuff. Some good normal stuff as well.
Astrophotography with a webcam or nigh any digital camera is easy now. You can even just mount a camera on an equatorial mount and take really good deep sky images. Info is on the web.
I might need somebody from out of state to order some gear for me. If I go down the street to Astronomics I pay 8 1/4% sales tax...
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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You know...you can actually buy space on one of the ESA's rockets and put your own satellite up for relatively cheap.
Some ham radio guys or something got together and put a coffee can sized satellite in orbit.
I say we send Fish's brain into orbit when he croaks.
Locker. Please provide the graphics.
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Dos XX
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 15, 2012 - 04:10pm PT
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Just posted today on YouTube: guaranteed to make you smile & bob your head.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Sagebrusher
Sport climber
Iowa
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Aug 15, 2012 - 05:06pm PT
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This is a large mountain on the edge of Olympus Mons. The summit of OM is beyond the horizon!!!
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Aug 22, 2012 - 11:20am PT
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This Summer hasn't been very conducive to astronomical observing; way too much smoke. Last night seemed kinda decent, so I took my tripod mounted binoculars out on the deck for a while. I managed to track down M22. the brightest Globular cluster visible from Northern latitudes. I was pretty disappointed, and there was still some obscuration by residual atmospheric smoke making my view of this cluster pretty lame. The binos are 18X 80 mm Schneider Optik that I had rebuilt for astronomy; originally they were W.W. II antiaircraft fire control glasses at 10X. At 18X, there was nothing but a smudge; in the past I've been able to pick out a few dim outlying stars belonging to the cluster. So...I packed it in early.
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Dos XX
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 22, 2012 - 01:42pm PT
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@brokendown -- sorry to hear about your smoke-clouded skies this Summer.
Wow -- 80mm binocs! That sounds like a dream set-up to me, and it's impressive that you can see ANY globular cluster through them. When I look through my 90mm refractor from here in So.Cal, globular clusters are for all intents and purposes, invisible.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Aug 29, 2012 - 01:04am PT
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Dec 30, 2012 - 06:23pm PT
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Supertopians in space, or
SUPERTOPIANS SPACED!!!!!
hee hee hee. . .
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 30, 2012 - 11:43pm PT
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And to think I never clicked on this thread because I thought it would be
about spaced-out Tacoheads. Well, I guess it is, sort of.
Mike, nice shot! I presume that is also cropped some? I can't wait for
my Nikon 800mm to come - after I win the Lotto. :-(
Brokedown, if your ranchito isn't dark enough then what is? I thought your
nearest neighbor was like a mile away? Where's the light coming from?
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Dickbob
climber
Westminster Colorado
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Comet Panstarr will be visable in the northern hemisphere begining tomorrow. Anyone else following this?
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
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I saw the moon pic there so I had to post my moon shot that is also over on the Canon SX50 thread. This is with just the camera on a tripod. Not bad for $400.00. Also, I was surprised when I learned that even with the Hubble Telescope, individual stars cannot be seen in Andromeda.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Nice shot of the moon MN, but this:
"Also, I was surprised when I learned that even with the Hubble Telescope, individual stars cannot be seen in Andromeda."
is not correct. Can identify individual stars in the Andromeda Galaxy with even a modest-sized telescope on the ground.
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
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ok - thanks. I should have checked on that sooner. Maybe the person that told me that meant with his 15" or so scope. I just found this Andromeda link;
http://www.universetoday.com/87692/shedding-new-starlight-on-the-andromeda-galaxy/
Just for the fun of it here is the 8" mirror from the telescope I had as a young teenager. We got the scope from a telescopr builder in Chatsworth California in the early 60s. I still have the paperwork, telescope tube and mount. M13 in Hercules was one of my favorite objects to view.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Mar 12, 2013 - 11:26pm PT
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Nice^^^^
The coating appears to be in decent shape.
Do you know the focal length or aperature?
Anybody see the comet/moon combo tonight?
Spectacular here in Tucson!
..and a perfect way to top off an after work boulder circuit.
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Mar 13, 2013 - 12:02am PT
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Is the comet bright enough to see well with the naked eye?
All of you young farts totally missed out on Hale Bopp. That comet was huge and lingered for a long time. I'm lucky that I have seen a comet that fantastic in my lifetime.
Look at that rover pic at the start of this thread. Look how dirty that solar panel is.
The webpage on those things is pretty cool.
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