We are going to give it a go twice per month. I made a little site for it here:
http://sites.google.com/site/astrohamnet/
Please stop by!
Michael Koppelman
KD0GQX
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- Thu May 13, 2010 12:59 am
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: Astronomy for Ham Radio Dorks
- Replies: 4
- Views: 644
- Wed May 05, 2010 10:49 pm
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: Astronomy for Ham Radio Dorks
- Replies: 4
- Views: 644
Astronomy for Ham Radio Dorks
D'oh. I totally forgot to post this here. Who would have come? Who will come next time? Are you an amateur radio operator (aka ham)? Are you familiar with EchoLink? And/or are you in the Minneapolis area? We are having our first ever amateur astronomy ham radio net on 5/5/10 at 03:00UT. The late tim...
- Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:37 pm
- Forum: Forum Help, Comments
- Topic: NEW Message Board
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9453
Re: NEW Message Board
Nice work!
- Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:50 pm
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: Great show on PBS tonight
- Replies: 5
- Views: 650
- Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:30 am
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: Starhouse Star Party
- Replies: 5
- Views: 750
Re: Starhouse star party
Whichever is convenient for you. A 15" scope would be a lot of fun!egage wrote:Sounds interesting. I'll see if I can make it. Which would be more helpful to bring, a 15" Obsession or an NP127?
M.
- Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:50 am
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: Starhouse Star Party
- Replies: 5
- Views: 750
Re: Starhouse Star Party
It's that time of year again. The party is on September 8th this year, otherwise identical to the previous description. Let me know if you think you might come. Cheers, Michael Koppelman My annual Starhouse Star Party will be held on September <strike>9th</strike>8th starting at 6pm. For those unfam...
- Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:32 am
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: Starhouse Star Party
- Replies: 5
- Views: 750
Starhouse Star Party
My annual Starhouse Star Party will be held on September 9th starting at 6pm. For those unfamiliar with this, it is more "party" than "star party". We have a keg of beer and BBQ and bonfire. I open up my observatory and show people stuff. Generally 3 or 4 other people set up scop...
- Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:49 pm
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: What's new in Linux astronomy programs?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 479
Most of these:
http://www.eso.org/science/scisoft/Scis ... tents.html
...can probably be run under Ubuntu. I only really use ds9, IRAF and Xephem in the GUI and cfitsio, wcstools and other command-line stuff.
http://www.eso.org/science/scisoft/Scis ... tents.html
...can probably be run under Ubuntu. I only really use ds9, IRAF and Xephem in the GUI and cfitsio, wcstools and other command-line stuff.
- Sun Mar 26, 2006 10:00 am
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: Absolute Magnitude
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1434
According to http://user.bahnhof.se/~davidgr/browndwf/bd_def.html a brown dwarf has an absolute magnitude of about +17, about 1/100,0000 of the luminosity of the Sun.
- Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:35 am
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: Slacker Astronomy
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1650
Those guys are friends of mine. I interviewed them on my podcast here:
http://www.lolife.com/blog/archives/000087.html
Cheers,
Michael
http://www.lolife.com/blog/archives/000087.html
Cheers,
Michael
- Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:35 am
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: Cosmology heretics - Lots of 'em!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2853
- Sun Jun 19, 2005 4:45 pm
- Forum: Beginners SIG
- Topic: Astronomical Twilight?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1075
Re: Astronomical Twilight?
When I see the following information related to star parties what does it mean: Astronomical Twilight End: 23:36 Astronomical Twilight Begin: 2:56 It means that in the evening astronomical twilight (when the sky is as dark as it is going to get) ends (meaning its finally dark) at 11:36PM the night ...
- Fri May 20, 2005 4:00 pm
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: no es bueno
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1223
Ok, time to put my meteorology degree to work... Russ Thanks, Russ, that's what I was thinking must be happening. The air temp was about 58 degrees so the clouds were indistinguishable from the ground. It cost me a night, dab nabit. I always ignore the visible (non-infrared) stuff but perhaps if I ...
- Fri May 20, 2005 9:53 am
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: no es bueno
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1223
- Fri May 20, 2005 1:04 am
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: no es bueno
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1223
no es bueno
Looked like it was gonna clear up tonight. Drove out under clear sky. Satellite looked good. Got one image done and the clouds moved in. When back in and checked the satellite and it looked perfectly clear still. Yet overhead was clouds. Thick clouds.
no comprende.
no comprende.
- Thu Mar 24, 2005 2:54 pm
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: John Dobson Talk
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2248
So in essence, he isn't questioning what we see (the evidence) he is questioning the explanation for what we see. He seems to feel that his theory explains the observed in a simpler manor that does not need to resort to things like dark matter. I asked a physics professor at the U about dark matter...
- Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:00 am
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: John Dobson Talk
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2248
- Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:20 pm
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: Cosmology heretics - Lots of 'em!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2853
I think that your summary is fair, Michael. I don't think the Big Bang theory is dogmatic. That does not mean it is correct, necessarily, only that it seems to be the best theory going right now. We should continue to explore alternate theories, which seems to be the bitch of the open letter folks, ...
- Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:31 pm
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: Cosmology heretics - Lots of 'em!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2853
Hey, Michael, disagreement is fun! Yes, perhaps people are wedded to the theory but my argument is that it is for scientific reasons. Read Ryden's <i>Introduction to Cosmology</i> and then talk to me about the lack of science in the big bang theory. There is no lack of science, it's real, observatio...
- Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:19 am
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: Orbit your own satellite
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1537
- Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:09 am
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: Cosmology heretics - Lots of 'em!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2853
This is very interesting. It seems to me somewhat similar to the creation vs. evolution debate in that the complaint of these people seems to be that most scientists agree with the big bang theory. The accusation is that science is biased towards some theory even though that theory is not complete. ...
- Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:20 pm
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: John Dobson Talk
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2248
Few would deny that Dobson's observations include metaphysical and philosophical elements. Surely they do. But he also examines a lot of fundamental physics and raises some serious questions about whether orthodox cosmologists today are drinking their own Kool-Aid, rather than applying the most rig...
- Sun Mar 13, 2005 9:05 pm
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: Favorite beginner's book
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6435
- Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:53 pm
- Forum: General Astronomy
- Topic: John Dobson Talk
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2248