http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/ Amateur Astronomy Mailing List Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:17:27 GMT timokarhula http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22812 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22812 Outbursts of 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 are quite common. I have seen three of them in the years 1996, 2005 and 2008. On October 12, 2008, I could even Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:11:16 GMT Charles Bell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22811 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22811 Look at the light curves for 29P bing maintained by Seiichi Yoshida http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/0029P/2004.html especially the graph at: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:20:25 GMT Brian Skiff http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22810 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22810 It has been reported that the Centaur-type comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 is currently bright. It is normally mag 15 or fainter, but is presently about mag Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:52:38 GMT Brian Skiff http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22809 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22809 In tonight's astro-ph preprint listings is a paper reporting two new objects: a ridiculously faint nearby galaxy and a similarly ridiculous star cluster in Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:04:09 GMT Howard Banich http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22808 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22808 Roger is welcome to come to the Oregon Star Party this August 11-15 and we can find 878 Mildred in my 28 inch scope. Howard Banich Portland, Oregon ... Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:44:53 GMT Brian Skiff http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22807 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22807 Asteroid Fred Pilcher has passed along this request to the MPML (Minor Planet Mailing List). Seems like someone with a 16-inch telescope or larger somewhere Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:27:52 GMT Randy http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22806 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22806 Likely most are aware of this, but Jose R Torres has a free down-loadable atlas - Tri-Atlas, that is roughly equivalent to the Millennium Star Atlas with ~560 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:19:03 GMT Roger N. Clark http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22805 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22805 ... Christopher, Here is the way I would look at the situation. The cost of paper publication is too high for most to ever purchase it. And even if you did Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:05:24 GMT Christopher Watson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22804 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22804 Hi Gary, Yes, I agree with your description of the piracy landscape, and where an astronomical atlas might land within it. Thank you very much for the link, Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:03:50 GMT Gary Finley http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22803 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22803 In the context of publishing a sky atlas on CD/DVD, Christopher Watson said: " In an electronic form, it would be very easy for the entire world to end up with Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:45:22 GMT Jimmy Ray http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22802 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22802 I find a DVD version of interest as well. As for printing, I?m fairly certain any of the big print shops in any major metropolitan area could run any given Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:42:33 GMT Christopher Watson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22801 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22801 First things first. I'd like to apologize for my misunderstanding of what Chris Lord was saying regarding magnitude limits. I erroneously attributed his Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:40:58 GMT Gary Finley http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22800 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22800 ... IMO it doesn't even have to be a computer application. Why not just sell the charts in .pdf form on a DVD? That eliminates the need for a publisher and Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:45:27 GMT Chris Lord http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22799 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22799 Atlas Coeli Novus 2000.0 is also a work of art. Its loose sheets in a stout cardboard folder, colour coded for spectral type. It is still available, I checked Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:44:17 GMT Chris Lord http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22798 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amastro/message/22798 Well Atlas Coeli Novus 2000.0, although only down to mag 8.3 is a colour star atlas. Google it up and take a look for yourself. ... [Non-text portions of this