[meteorite-list] 2002 NY40

From: Rosemary Hackney <ltcrose_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:52:17 2004
Message-ID: <000c01c2461d$b73820a0$aa75d6d1_at_default>

Had a telescope as a kid.. I looked at every thing with it.. But I used it
so much it broke. I do not know how many times I have wished for that old
fellow through the years. I need to get another...But here near Nashville,
is a lot of light clutter. But in the haven of my garden I still can see the
stars.

Rosie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernd Pauli HD" <bernd.pauli_at_lehrer.uni-karlsruhe.de>
To: "meteorite-list" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 5:58 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] 2002 NY40


> OK, Folks,
>
> My Celestron C-8 is set up for tonight's encounter with 2002 NY40.
> Time and weather permitting, I'll also have rendez-vous with some
> of my favorite globular clusters (M13, M92, M3), some open clusters
> (h+chi Persei), the Andromeda galaxy, and, of course, some beautiful
> double stars, especially beta Cygni (Albireo) which 2002 NY40 will be
> close to in the course of the night and which my daughter used to call
> little brother and little sister when she was a young girl, etc., etc.
>
> I've just experienced some "wows!" when I looked at Dave's sunspot. No
> way were his comments a British understatement ... it is a truly awesome
> sunspot with several insulae and peninsulae attached to it, a clear,
> pitch-black umbra surrounded by a penumbra several times (3x - 4x) as
> large. The main sunspot is presently almost in the middle of the sun's
> disk so that you can conveniently view it without noticeable distortion.
>
> See ya' later,
>
> Bernd
>
> P.S.: Tom, don't sell your scope - you will regret that step some day!
> I also wanted to sell mine in the late eighties because of a beautiful
> 5-kg chunk of Toluca with deformed Widmannstätten lamellae. Looking
> back,
> I am glad I didn't sell it. Enjoy both the starry wonders in the sky AND
> your growing meteorite collection!
>
> My two Eurocents,
>
> Bernd
>
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Received on Sat 17 Aug 2002 02:41:34 PM PDT