[Texascavers] FW: NASA news: Fantastic Monday Morning Sky Show

2007-11-04 Thread Darla
This link includes sky maps. Subject: NASA news: Fantastic Monday Morning Sky Show > NASA Science News for November 2, 2007 > > On Monday morning, Nov. 5th, space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to > undock from the ISS while the pair are gliding over many US towns and > cities. The two spaceshi

Re: [Texascavers] Comet Warning

2007-11-04 Thread Don Cooper
Could anyone post what direction and elevation to look for it around midnight? I'm not familiar with Perseus. -WV On Nov 4, 2007 7:57 AM, Gregg wrote: > There's definitely a comet. It's about magnitude 3 or so just north of > the main bright stars in Perseus. I mistook it for one of them for a

[Texascavers] Comet Warning

2007-11-04 Thread Gregg
There's definitely a comet. It's about magnitude 3 or so just north of the main bright stars in Perseus. I mistook it for one of them for a minute or so before I actually got the binoculars out. It looks like a giant globular cluster. It is visible all night long, though I'm up bloody early

[Texascavers] FW: Comet Pics

2007-11-04 Thread gille
-- Forwarded Message: -- From: REC To: siv...@listserv.vt.edu Subject: Comet Pics List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 04:02:46 + > > I hooked up the camera to the telescope tonight. Here's two exposures > of the comet: > > http://wind-d