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Saturn eclipses Cassini by RobVG December 10, 2011 2:03 pm

I believe Cassini is able to see the dark side of Saturn by reflected light off the rings. The ... by ER 2012-01-06 10:37:38
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The Darkside by RobVG 2012-01-06 10:03:25
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- The post above addresses your question about how the dark side of Saturn's disk could be illuminated by reflection off ... by ER 2012-01-06 13:20:43
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  - Interesting effect isn't it? n/t by RobVG 2012-01-06 18:31:44
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    - It's glorious. by ER 2012-01-06 21:35:55
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What is it about astronomical photography that we find so captivating? It's not just color or form, like in ... by ER 2011-12-11 13:59:24
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- Sometimes it is the viewport effect. by Robert 2011-12-11 14:35:05
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Beautiful. by Robert 2011-12-10 22:26:55
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- It is. And Raoul size to boot. n/t by RobVG 2011-12-11 13:22:32
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The Way We Will Be ... by podrock January 4, 2012 10:14 pm

Thanks, podrock... by Robert 2012-01-05 19:46:44
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Cleaning Optics by RobVG January 2, 2012 2:19 pm

That's the first proof of water on Saturn I've seen. by bowser 2012-01-03 22:10:50
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"Arkansas Sky Observatory" and "Celestron Knowledge Base" are links n/t by RobVG 2012-01-02 15:53:05
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- Well yeah, they're underlined. ;-) n/t by Robert 2012-01-03 09:46:00
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  - Indeed n/t by RobVG 2012-01-03 10:28:08
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Cool 'Scope. by ER 2012-01-02 15:23:52
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- Very Punny n/t by RobVG 2012-01-02 15:50:33
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  - It looks like a really ice instrument. by ER 2012-01-02 18:46:30
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    - It's an 11" SCT by RobVG 2012-01-02 20:12:28
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      - I used to have one on my 3" rich-field refractor, which I now use for birding, and it was a ... by ER 2012-01-02 20:43:39
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Why doesn't distilled water cost more? by ER January 1, 2012 10:27 pm

I have a refractor, and once I even had to take the objective apart, there was a fungus growing between ... by ER 2012-01-02 06:39:28
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Corrector plates, oculars and primaries I assume. by RobVG 2012-01-02 00:25:19
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- And a vacuum. One site I don't feel like researching again says it takes about 20 watts of power ... by bowser 2012-01-02 02:28:18
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Gypsum Vein = water by podrock December 31, 2011 12:27 pm

test by FrankC 2011-12-31 23:45:31
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cool, way cool by Rita Book 2011-12-31 21:38:49
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Another Russian Failure by RobVG December 25, 2011 10:53 am

That's getting serious. You're right, it's the only access the US has to ISS. When Ronnie Reagan wanted the biggest ... by bowser 2011-12-26 09:48:23
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- On the other hand, the U.S. launch system has killed fourteen people. Soyuz has killed four since the 1960s. ... by TB 2011-12-26 10:52:38
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  - The SpaceX Dragon capsule to the ISS in February. "The U.S. has not opted out of the LEO manned arena. “U.S.” ... by bowser 2011-12-26 11:38:52
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    - The customer. by TB 2011-12-26 12:04:51
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      - Good answer. by bowser 2011-12-26 14:30:08
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Discovery Powers Down by RobVG December 19, 2011 10:06 pm

Soyuz launches with 6 satellites in French Guiana by bowser December 17, 2011 4:47 pm

Why the British were doomed to lose the race to the South Pole by TB December 15, 2011 4:17 pm

Factoid as to why Hillary and Norgay were the first to the top of Everest. There had been a Swiss expedition ... by bowser 2011-12-16 11:57:16
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- Reading this, the little Calvin in my mind is wondering if they ever took the opportunity to piss off a ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-12-19 18:15:45
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  - You are aware, of course, that the wind tends to blow up a cliff. by bowser 2011-12-19 20:11:04
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    - And not off it? LAME. Still, it'd probably be pretty funny to piss uphill. Long as none ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-12-19 22:44:00
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Paul Allen announces new space venture by TB December 13, 2011 3:03 pm

Sweet, did you save a copy? Maybe we could upload it here. by VelociraptorBlade 2011-12-18 22:49:14
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Does anyone understand the Higgs Boson and Higgs field? by bowser December 13, 2011 12:41 pm

Some videos by RobVG 2011-12-14 22:03:55
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Pass me the aether... by Robert 2011-12-13 14:18:49
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- Re: The water analogy. The presenter was standing in front of a blackboard. The word "Higgs Boson" was ... by bowser 2011-12-13 18:54:09
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I gave up a long time ago trying to understand any physics formulated after the end of the nineteenth century. ... by ER 2011-12-13 13:55:03
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- When it get really hard just add another dimension and mumble something about dark matter. by FrankC 2011-12-13 15:18:34
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  - We used to call those "epicycles." by TB 2011-12-13 15:21:05
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    - It's epicycles all the way down. by ER 2011-12-13 15:51:47
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      - My god -It's full of cycles! Seriously though, the Higgs Field makes as much sense to me as Dark Matter - ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-12-18 23:07:45
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        If the Higgs Boson is the God Particle, is the Higgs antiparticle the "AntiChrist"? by ER 2011-12-19 17:57:54
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        Would the discovery of the Higgs be the Second Coming? Now what if an atheist snuck onto the payroll. He ... by bowser 2011-12-19 20:21:15
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        ...*Highfives ER for epic win* by VelociraptorBlade 2011-12-19 18:16:30
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Scientific literacy test by TB December 10, 2011 4:03 pm

13 missed, a couple were just dumb errors. The rest would have been lucky guesses if I tried a dozen ... by FrankC 2011-12-11 15:12:49
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- I got them all right!!!!!!!!!!! ...and I have some swamp land to sell in Arizona. by Jody 2011-12-11 16:06:55
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Fun, I missed 11 by RobVG 2011-12-11 13:21:31
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Spoilers! by ER 2011-12-10 20:38:22
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- As with you, there were some of them I wasn't sure about, but was able to nail down from various ... by TB 2011-12-10 21:31:40
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  - All you need from memory is the boiling and freezing pts in both F and C. We know there are 100 ... by ER 2011-12-10 23:04:29
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    - It's a little ironic that you and the test writer used a fractional coefficient. n/t by RobVG 2011-12-13 13:07:21
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      - By fractional coefficient, do you mean '9/5'? There can be no other choice. I don't understand what you ... by ER 2011-12-13 16:17:15
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        I don’t remember ever seeing the conversion formula written with “9/5”. by RobVG 2011-12-13 17:15:11
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        I don't think the use of fractions was made obsolete by the metric system at all. The metric system certainly ... by ER 2011-12-13 17:48:06
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        Still say it was easier to remember "-40." by TB 2011-12-13 16:52:14
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        I've never been in below 0 F temperature in my life. Even when I was N of the Arctic ... by ER 2011-12-13 17:50:11
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        What? by bowser 2011-12-14 23:40:09
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        I was briefly N of the Arctic Circle in October, '68, in maneuvers with the Nato fleet in "Operation Silvertower" ... by ER 2011-12-17 13:38:12
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What I whiffed (spoilers) by TB 2011-12-10 17:48:55
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That's very, very good. I missed 10, and about half of those I should have picked up. by bowser 2011-12-10 16:20:50
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