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Lenses, pasted from the email I got: TELE VUE EYEPIECES & LASER COLLIMATORS We are often asked "What eyepieces should I use"? Tele Vue Nagler and Panoptic eyepieces are simply the best for fast reflecting telescopes like the Obsession. As an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) we off...

Sorry, I don't have anything on what you asked for nor am I too familiar with it. However I thought it best to at least explain how it's possible.

Ok this is taken directly from the excellent An Introduction to Modern Cosmology by Andrew Liddle: "...inflation is defined as a period in the evolution of the Universe during which the scale factor was accelerating: INFLATION <==> ä(t) > 0 Typically this corresponds to a very rapid expansion o...

Looks like big, long scars on the surface of the moons to me. Other than that I'm not really sure. I'll point RJN toward this thread tomorrow at lunch, perhaps he can shed some light on this.

Does that mean that everything including the earth is moving away from one point in space or everything is moving at an equal rate away from eachother? Sorta your second idea but not quite. On a macroscopic level, everything in the universe is moving away from everything else. However on a galactic...

I'll dig up my cosmology textbook and make a more detailed post.

But, in short, yes due to expansion objects can move faster than light. However this only happened during the inflationary period of our universe.

It would be a mistake to think there is a "center" or a place where there is no dipole, as there most likely is not. Keep in mind that there is "stuff" beyond the CMB, which is at the limit of how far we can see due to the age of the universe (~12-15gigalightyears). Thus differen...

The Siding Spring camera has been displaying the "temporarily down for maintainence" message for ages now.... and it shows the last capture of the 13 march... any idea on what is going on and how long it will take to fix? Right now all the CONCAM 3's are down to fix some software problems...

We're moving so fast due to large-scale cosmic expansion. As groups of galaxies collapse, the groups themselves are still moving rather quickly in reference to the rest of the universe.

I had trouble deciding between the top three, but I chose solar system objects simply because I love picture of Mars.

It's an enhanced-color image, so probably not, although it's possible. I'd have take a look at the non-enhanced version to draw any sort of conclusion.

BMAONE23 wrote:It may be just an optical illusion caused by the ring shadow.

Correct.

We've done just that... there's not much chance it's a cosmic ray hit, the point-spread function is just too star-like. Cosmic ray hits have much sharper edges.

Personally I think it's a head-on meteor, but it's still under investigation.

We're looking into it.

Not sure what it is yet, it might be a burst star or something but we're really not sure yet.

Note there is also a third group, absorption.

In the image posted above:

The dark areas are masses of dust absorbing light.

I'm inclined to agree with the moth theory.

We usually recommend that domes are not used with the CONCAMs, because we have as of yet (that I am aware of) been unable to prevent dew forming on the domes.

Noctuas_Universe wrote:This looks like it may be a sporadic meteor....
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That very well might be.

Kinda hard to tell since it's not a great image but it looks like a meteor.

Probably a satellite or possibly an airplane.

Not all satellites are listed on Heavens Above, and that streak looks very much like a satellite.

However it is a rather long streak so it might just be an airplane.

khagol wrote:Moon at 73.8% fades away most of the stars limiting the visible magnitude to 3.0. The screen seems to be oval in shape. Don't know why.

Looks like a combination of the moon and possibly dew on the lens.

It should clear up when the moon goes away.

Stars are routinely ejected from our galaxy (and all other galaxies) due to gravitational slingshot effects.

The more times a star orbits its host galaxy, the more erratic its orbit becomes, and some stars end up being ejected.

I'll figure it out later today. I should be able to calculate an approximate number.

My main question is: What constitutes a conspiracy theory? It is difficult to define. While this is not the place to discuss such a thing, I will say that, for the purposes of how I moderate things, a "conspiracy theory" is going to generally be any wild claim that presents either no proo...

In this thread discussion on the Voynich manuscript may continue. Please observe the forum rules while posting. What is the strange astronomical Voynich manuscript? This manuscript was discussed on the 2002 August 26 APOD and the 2005 January 22 APOD respectively found here: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa....