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xelasnave · #21 31-01-2007, 02:46 PM

Welcome Tailwag hope you get some clear nights. Good luck
alex

erick (Eric) · #22 31-01-2007, 03:23 PM

Hi tailwag

To compliment your planisphere, try this site for some basic sky information:-

http://www.skyviewcafe.com/skyview.php

What you will find are animations of the moon locations for Jupiter and Saturn - the "Moons" tag (you just may need to flip the "North on top" and maybe "East on left" - I can never remember - until it is the way we observe from Australia)

What I like about this site is the ease with which you can wind time forward to your expected viewing time - or use it to find best viewing time/day for a chosen object- eg. just set it to 11pm, say, and step a day at a time and watch when your target object is suitably located and, if necessary, in a Moon-less sky.

DobDobDob (Ron) · #23 31-01-2007, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by neB

Mr Wag, I think you've got a big jump on the rest of us.

But the more you know, the more there is to learn.

Welcome (again),
neB

Thanks neB, kind of you to take the time to pen a few words, I love computers, I love talking (writing) and I love astronomy, so that makes this forum paradise for me

DobDobDob (Ron) · #24 31-01-2007, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by erick

Hi tailwag

To compliment your planisphere, try this site for some basic sky information:-

http://www.skyviewcafe.com/skyview.php

Thanks Eric, I have bookmarked the URL and will get to this and give you my feedback over the next couple of days/nights. I love your one liner about the Zenith hurting your neck, I can totally relate to what you are saying. Cheers.

DobDobDob (Ron) · #25 31-01-2007, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by xelasnave

Welcome Tailwag hope you get some clear nights. Good luck
alex

Thanks Alex, where the heck is Tabulam?

toetoe (Peter) · #26 31-01-2007, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by tailwag

I intend to be active in this forum, but I have much to learn first.

We all do tailwag, your not alone on that one.

Outbackmanyep · #27 31-01-2007, 04:59 PM

G'Day Tailwag!
And welcome.....im originally from Kingswood/Penrith area but now live in Walcha in Northern tablelands.....I used to be a member of WSAAG until i left in 2002....how long ago were you a member??
I was around right before they opened the Nepean Observatory, i think which was in 1995 or 96....i was still in highschool then.....John Jarman was president then and Peter Nakitch was secretary.....maybe i know you already!?

Cheers!

xstream (John) · #28 31-01-2007, 05:01 PM

Hi and welcome Tailwag.
If you want to know what moon you were looking at while viewing Joop D/load this program Jupiter2 and you'll always be able to know.

DobDobDob (Ron) · #29 31-01-2007, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by xstream

Hi and welcome Tailwag.
If you want to know what moon you were looking at while viewing Joop D/load this program Jupiter2 and you'll always be able to know.

Thanks xstream, I have bookmarked that URL and will get to it shortly, at the moment I am swamped with new resources and programs to work through. I am really keen to find out the name of that moon, so I'll bump that software up the list and do it first.

DobDobDob (Ron) · #30 31-01-2007, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Outbackmanyep

G'Day Tailwag!
And welcome.....im originally from Kingswood/Penrith area but now live in Walcha in Northern tablelands.....I used to be a member of WSAAG until i left in 2002....how long ago were you a member??
I was around right before they opened the Nepean Observatory, i think which was in 1995 or 96....i was still in highschool then.....John Jarman was president then and Peter Nakitch was secretary.....maybe i know you already!?

Cheers!

I remember Peter and I especially remember Brett White (I think his last name was white), he was accrediated with a supernova I believe, and there was Ted who was a mad CCD man and all round nice bloke, plus Dave an occultations man, plus a heap of others. They were all good blokes. I have my picture on this forum now, if you look at it you might recognise me, but hey it was always dark out at Linden.

DobDobDob (Ron) · #31 31-01-2007, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by tailwag

Thanks Eric, I have bookmarked the URL and will get to this and give you my feedback over the next couple of days/nights. I love your one liner about the Zenith hurting your neck, I can totally relate to what you are saying. Cheers.

Okay, I've got the Sky View Cafe working on my laptop, and it is an awesome program from my first impressions of it, thanks for the tip. I am not all that comfortable with the West being on the right hand side, but I understand what the author said about why they did it that way.

DobDobDob (Ron) · #32 31-01-2007, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by xstream

Hi and welcome Tailwag.
If you want to know what moon you were looking at while viewing Joop D/load this program Jupiter2 and you'll always be able to know.

Thanks again xstream, I have that program now also, and still need to fine tune it's use, however I am reasonably certain that it was Io, and I can't begin to tell you how happy I was when I saw it and now that I have some reasonable evidence of the name.

okiscopey (Mike) · #33 31-01-2007, 08:41 PM

Stuff I gleaned from the 'net:

"Ophiuchus is pronounced off ee oo' kus, or OFF-ee-YOO-kuss ... it means Serpent Bearer." I hope I never have to say it in public, like THAT planet.

"Ophiuchus is an equatorial constellation. It also crosses the ecliptic, the line which defines the zodiac constellations."

"What happens in astrology is that the sun travels through the traditional 12 signs of the zodiac over the course of the year. Whatever sign the sun is in when you're born is the sign you "are". However, over the past 2,600 years (since the charts were drawn up), the precession of the earth has shifted the ecliptic westwards and now the sun visits the newly-included constellation of Ophiuchus during November/December."

"If you were born between November 30th and December 17th, you're actually "an Ophiuchus". You are unlikley to find a horoscope that takes this into account."

Stuff I vaguely recall from books read 30 years ago:

Jupiter's flattening: Jupiter's rotation is very rapid for its size (just under 10 hours?) which does produce noticeable geometrical flattening or oblateness. I think also there is a dimming at the edges of the disk due to the increased thickness of the Jovian atmosphere as seen by the observer.

No doubt the IIS Jupiter experts will fill in the details!

P.S. Just trying to keep up with your posting rate ... looks like I'm fighting a losing battle.

GrahamL · #34 31-01-2007, 08:51 PM

welcome

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I spent more than 30 minutes on this

the jewelbox (ngc 4755) will do that

and is probably what you where
looking at .. very pretty object thats hard to look away from.
enjoy your stay .
http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/ngc/n4755.html

erick (Eric) · #35 31-01-2007, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by tailwag

.....I am not all that comfortable with the West being on the right hand side........

Lie on your back and look at the sky, hold a printout of a skymap up, or a print of the Sky View Cafe page (easily done to fill an A4 sheet), and all will become clear.

DobDobDob (Ron) · #36 01-02-2007, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by nightstalker

welcome

the jewelbox (ngc 4755) will do that

and is probably what you where
looking at .. very pretty object thats hard to look away from.
enjoy your stay .
http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/ngc/n4755.html

Bingo!!! and the winner is....nightstalker. Absolutely as I saw it, I only wish I would have sketeched it so that I could have a physical comparison. Thanks heaps

DobDobDob (Ron) · #37 01-02-2007, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by okiscopey

"Ophiuchus is pronounced off ee oo' kus, or OFF-ee-YOO-kuss ...

P.S. Just trying to keep up with your posting rate ... looks like I'm fighting a losing battle.

I found this URL very interesting:
http://members.aol.com/nlpjp/procon.htm

As for keeping up with me, forget it, I have over 30 years experience and spend on average 16 hours per day seven days a week on computers, one young wag once said that I could type underwater

I must say however, that it is my firm intention to get off the computers a bit and go outside and observe weather permitting. So my daily computer hours will hopefully decline.

DobDobDob (Ron) · #38 01-02-2007, 12:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by erick

Lie on your back and look at the sky, hold a printout of a skymap up, or a print of the Sky View Cafe page (easily done to fill an A4 sheet), and all will become clear.

Yep, just waiting for a clear sky, my wife tells me it is going to be cloudy till the end of this week. Please don't ask me how she knows this, but if you like a bet, bet on her, she gets it right more than she gets it wrong

okiscopey (Mike) · #39 01-02-2007, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by tailwag

As for keeping up with me, forget it, I have over 30 years experience and spend on average 16 hours per day seven days a week on computers, one young wag once said that I could type underwater

Hmmm! I've just ordered a liquid nitrogen cooled keyboard, so there.

Anyway, looks like there's a glitch in the system - your last three posts (12:21pm, 12:27pm and 12:30 pm) all say "Posts:22"!

erick (Eric) · #40 01-02-2007, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by okiscopey

.... your last three posts (12:21pm, 12:27pm and 12:30 pm) all say "Posts:22"!

Okiscopey, the system shows total number of posts to date for that member. Every post from them on the forum that you look at will have the same number there (until they post one more, that it

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