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Programs & Speakers / Dr Antonucci Quasar paper
« on: May 26, 2023, 01:47:56 AM »
See attached paper in file to be read before the June 2nd, 2023 First Friday SBAU meeting

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Sold 6-16-19 to TomT
Hi Everyone:  i have a Celestron C11 11- inch Schmidt-Cassegrain tube assembly for sale.  It comes with illuminated 9 X 50 finder scope, 1-1/4" and 2' diagonals. and 40 mm eyepiece, and Bob's knobs for easy collimation.  It has a CGE type mounting dovetail.  All in fine condition, clean optics.  Weight is slightly less than 30 lb.  Also I can provide components for mounting this assembly on a Dobson-type base.   I'd like to get $800 for all of the above.  I don't want to ship this equipment.
Please contact me at        i can provide photos attached to return email 
Gail Massey

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You can download a Word Document showing how to make a tile tool for grinding a mirror

See Link below

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SBAU Calendar / See November’s Speedy Leonids
« on: November 07, 2014, 10:13:52 AM »
Like an old friend enticing you on a new adventure, the annual Leonid meteor shower returns this month with promises of fiery comet shards dashing across the night sky. Conditions are nearly ideal for viewing. The shower peaks between midnight and dawn on Monday and Tuesday mornings, November 17th and 18th. No worries about moonlight this time around — the demure lunar crescent won’t rise until 2 or 3 a.m.

Leonid meteors hail from periodic Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, which circles the Sun once every 33 years. Comets make the best meteor shower parents because they give till it hurts. Every time 55P/Tempel-Tuttle swings through the inner solar system, its dust-laden ices vaporize under the heat of the Sun, releasing gases and debris along its orbit.

Round and round the comet goes, spawning multiple ribbons of dust. When Earth’s orbit intersects the comet’s path, we slam into a tenuous interplanetary dust storm. Sand and gravel-sized bits strike the atmosphere 60 to 70 miles (100 to 115 km) overhead and vaporize in a fury of light called meteors — o,r as many refer to them, shooting stars
- Read More http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/see-novembers-speedy-leonids11052014/?et_mid=702320&rid=246437008#sthash.dIimwyfp.dpuf

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SBAU Calendar / Sbau Meeting
« on: November 07, 2014, 09:49:28 AM »
Laura Faye Tenenbaum,
 Her Presentation will be, Earth Right Now: NASA's Big Missions to Our Home Planet

"Of all the planets NASA has explored, none yet have matched the dynamic complexity of our own Earth. Earth teems with life and liquid water; massive storms rage over land and oceans; environments range from deserts to tropical forests to the icy poles. And amid all of that, seven billion people carve out a daily life. And our planet is changing. Through the gradual build-up of more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, Earth is warming. As Earth warms, ocean waters expand and ice melts to make sea levels rise. The cycle of rainfall and evaporation accelerates, leading to more severe droughts and more severe bouts of rainfall. Heat waves become more frequent and more intense.

Since the agency's inception in 1958, NASA has established itself as a world leader in Earth science and climate studies. NASA continues to explore this changing world so that societies can meet the challenges of the future. With the launch of five Earth-observing missions in 2014 -- more Earth-focused launches in a single year in more than a decade -- NASA will be able to deliver even more crucial data to scientists trying to understand our changing planet.

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SBAU Website / NEW MEMBERS PHOTO GALLERY !!!! PLEASE READ
« on: August 02, 2014, 07:51:59 AM »
I went ahead a purchased a Plugin for the SMF Forum that will give us a easer interface for members to post there own photos to the Forum. Each member that signs up for the forum will have there own personal gallery, were you can upload your own photos too. You can even create sub-catagories in your personal gallery.

Here are some of the features of the Gallery
•User Galleries - User's can create their own personal galleries with unlimited categories
•Subcategory's (Unlimited levels)
•Rating pictures on scale of 1 to 5 stars
•Gallery admin's can delete ratings and view who rated a picture
•Gallery stats page for keep track of most viewed images, top rated and more!
•EXIF image information support requires EXIF module in php
•Album/Category level permissions for viewing, adding picture, editing picture, deleting picture, and adding a comment
•Reporting of comments and editing own comments
•Bulk adding of images. Controlled by permissions and setting to allow the number of upload fields
•Thumbnail, medium, full size image sizes are supported
•Importing images from a folder on your server
•Category options for posting topics in a forum board when a picture is uploaded
•Comment approval listing which lists comments that need to be approved, and reported comment listing
•File Space Manager shows how much space a user is using and allows you to delete pictures
•Upload Quota limits for member groups
•Gallery navigation on view picture
•Unviewed image list allows users to keep track which images that they have not seen yet
•Slideshow of images at up to 50 images at a time inside a category
•Notify by email if comments posted user's image
•Watermarking of images uploaded by text or image
•Lightbox and highslide support built in!
•RSS support for image categories
•Picture area tagging like Facebook
•Multifile select upload option
•Simple picture favorite system
•XML support for recent images, getting a single picture, category listing, getting a single category
•New permissions: Rating Pictures, Edit own Comment, Auto Approve Comments, Personal Gallery, Bulk Uploads
•Tons of settings to customize your gallery: Images per page, Max thumbnail width, Max thumbnail height, Display newest comments first, Control blocks that appear on the gallery main page, image listing options, picture view options and many more!
•SMF Gallery Pro support forums with additional modifications and guides.
•And much more!

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WOW what a great turnout for the Eclipse last night. IT was fantastic I would say about 500 + People came for the Lunar Party. Lost of personal scopes, people taking photos with the Cell Phones and Cameras.

Here is a Composite of the Eclipse I put together today.

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Misc. Astronomy Items / Astronomy Bumper Stickers FUNNY
« on: April 09, 2014, 10:15:42 AM »
Here you Go a Must have for the Astronomer.
Astronomy Funny Bumper Stickers. Only $5.00 Each


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Misc. Astronomy Items / Astrolight RED Laptop Screen
« on: April 07, 2014, 07:54:27 AM »
This is a must have for the Astronomer that uses a laptop in the field.

This is for a RED Acrylic Laptop Screen & RED USB LIGHT & Screen Case
This listing is for 1 Laptop Screen, 1 RED USB LAPTOP LIGHT & Soft Case
Custom Sizes can be Ordered for LCD Monitors up to 32"

Prices start at only $22.95 for a 10" Laptop screen. A 17" laptop screen is only $38.99
If you do not want the USB Light It can be ordered that way. See Link at the bottom of the listing for orders.
When using a Laptop to control the telescope and other equipment the laptop screen will destroy your night vision and have others around you
getting pissed at you for the bright screen.
With the Red Acrylic Screen mounted on the front of your laptop screen you will not have this problem and with it being transparent, you will still be able to see the screen perfectly.

I custom cut the Acrylic to fit your size of your laptop screen.
Then attach Plastic Clips, it will stay attach to your laptop.

http://www.astrolights.net/store.htm

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Misc. Astronomy Items / Red LED Tripod or Telescope Flashers
« on: April 07, 2014, 07:42:52 AM »
THE ASTROFLASHER

This RED LED is the perfect item to place at the feet of your tripod.
Don't kick the tripod in the dark, let people know where your tripod feet are. The AstroFlasher can also be used for different applications, such as for the Astrophotographer.
Do you have wires running from your telescope to your laptop? Well place a couple of them next to the wires. That way you or anybody else will not step on them.
Do you have one of those Binocular Mount that has the big counterweight at the other end? Attach one of the Flashers on the counterweights so no one cracks there head on it - OUCH

The AstroFlaser is 2 3/4" x 1 1/4" x 3/4"
Runs on 2 AA Batteries ( Not Included )
Has a On/Off Switch built in to the side of it.

This listing is for 3 Flashers at $15.00 + Shipping. So Buy As many as you think your going to need.
I can meet in Santa Barbara or If shipped Priority Mail I can send up to 10 for a Flat Rate Cost of $6.00 in the USA
 

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SBAU Calendar / Meteor Storm Brewing for May 2014?
« on: April 03, 2014, 08:20:42 AM »
On May 24, 2014, Earth will plow through a dense stream of dust particles shed by Comet 209P/LINEAR. Dynamicists think the crossing could result in an intense meteor shower — maybe even a "storm" — and North Americans will have front-row seats.

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SBAU Calendar / The Opposition of Mars 2014
« on: April 03, 2014, 08:19:21 AM »
Mars and Earth will only be 92 million miles apart at closest encounter on April 14th 2014, called ‘opposition’. Mars will appear red-gold, glowing brighter than first magnitude stars.
Only Jupiter, the Moon and Venus before sunrise will be brighter.

Earth and Mars are converging for a close encounter. As March gives way to April, the distance between the two planets is shrinking by about 300 km every minute.  When the convergence ends in mid-April, the gulf between Earth and Mars will have narrowed to only 92 million km--a small number on the vast scale of the solar system.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/28mar_opposition/

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Lastest Astronomy News / The Opposition of Mars April 2014
« on: April 03, 2014, 08:14:43 AM »
Mars and Earth will only be 92 million miles apart at closest encounter on April 14th 2014, called ‘opposition’. Mars will appear red-gold, glowing brighter than first magnitude stars.
Only Jupiter, the Moon and Venus before sunrise will be brighter.

Earth and Mars are converging for a close encounter. As March gives way to April, the distance between the two planets is shrinking by about 300 km every minute.  When the convergence ends in mid-April, the gulf between Earth and Mars will have narrowed to only 92 million km--a small number on the vast scale of the solar system.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/28mar_opposition/

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Lastest Astronomy News / Total Lunar Eclipse April 14th/15th
« on: April 03, 2014, 08:04:31 AM »
The first of four consecutive total lunar eclipses takes place on the night of April 14–15, with excellent viewing prospects all across the U.S. and Canada.

North America hasn't had a total eclipse of the Moon since 2011. But this long dry spell will break early on April 15th (beginning late on April 14th for the West Coast), when the full Moon passes through the umbra — the dark inner core of Earth's shadow.

The eclipse will also be visible from South America and much of the Pacific. In eastern Australia the Moon doesn't rise until the total eclipse is already underway on the evening of the 15th.

The SBAU will have Telescopes and Binoculars setup at Westmont Collage Observatory for a Eclipse Viewing Party starting at Monday/Tuesday, April 14/15, 10:30 PM to 2 AM

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/highlights/April-2014-Total-Lunar-Eclipse-252931091.html

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Lastest Astronomy News / Meteor Storm Brewing for May 2014?
« on: April 03, 2014, 07:57:39 AM »
On May 24, 2014, Earth will plow through a dense stream of dust particles shed by Comet 209P/LINEAR. Dynamicists think the crossing could result in an intense meteor shower — maybe even a "storm" — and North Americans will have front-row seats.



Over the past two decades, celestial dynamicists have gotten very good at divining when meteoric activity will spike. Their computer models can track how dust ejected by a comet near each perihelion pass gets distributed into strands of particles over time. Their calculations show that dust tends to stay concentrated close to the nucleus, and that the strands themselves often converge in space close to the orbit's perihelion.

Now these number-crunchers are telling us make sure May 24, 2014, is circled on our skywatching calendars. On that date, we might experience the most dramatic display of "shooting stars" in more than a decade.


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Lastest Astronomy News / Rosetta Spots Its Comet
« on: April 02, 2014, 04:30:34 PM »
The European Space Agency’s comet-chasing spacecraft has imaged its destination for the first time since waking up from 957 days of hibernation.



In this narrow-angle view, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko looks like one more bright dot in a field of stars, but that’s because Rosetta is still months away from reaching it. This is the first image take since Rosetta woke up from electronic hibernation back in January 2014.

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/Rosetta-Spots-Its-Comet-252717881.html

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Lastest Astronomy News / Celebrate the Night Sky This Month
« on: April 02, 2014, 04:28:32 PM »
Join the world’s largest celebration of astronomy — Global Astronomy Month — throughout April.


On the darkest of nights, thousands of stars compose the celestial sphere above us. The vast cosmic arena — with its unimaginable vistas of time and space — is laid out in those small specks of light, rendering any observer awe-stricken and humbled. We live in an incredible universe. Why not celebrate it?

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/celebrate-the-night-sky-this-month/

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Lastest Astronomy News / A New Galactic Yardstick
« on: April 02, 2014, 04:26:43 PM »
Astronomers have developed a new method to measure distances to bright but faraway galaxies, a tool which will help better constrain the expansion rate of the universe.

The nature of the universe lies within a single constant. Measuring this one number — known as the Hubble constant — tells us the universe’s expansion rate, its age, and ultimately, its fate. Now a team of astronomers led by Yuzuru Yoshii (University of Tokyo) has developed an entirely new method to measure this crucial number.

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/A-New-Galactic-Yardstick-252950301.html

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Our little corner of the universe just got a little more crowded.

Scientists at the Carnegie Carnegie Institution for Science announced Wednesday the discovery of a new cosmic neighbor -- a distant dwarf planet named 2012 VP113 that was found spinning in the depths of space well past Pluto. Its existence suggests there may be another actual planet out there, they said, a rogue giant ten times bigger than Earth orbiting in the distant blackness.

Newly found VP 2113’s closest approach to the sun is about 80 astronomical units and its greatest distance is 452 astronomical units. The small world is roughly 280 miles (450 kilometers) wide, less than half the estimated diameter of Sedna.

More on the story http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140326153725.htm

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Forum Rules / FORUM RULES MUST READ
« on: March 22, 2014, 07:18:33 PM »
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Member Websites / SBAU MEMBERS WEBSITES
« on: March 21, 2014, 09:09:13 AM »
Check These AU Members' Websites:

Tony Galván, Birdman to the Stars unveils his fantastic Astrophotos.
http://www.dosgatos.com/astro.html

Dean Mars Sculptor and Video Photographer Electronic images.
http://www.deanmars.com

Chuck and Pat McPartlin share stories about their family, house, and cats.
If you look hard enough, you'll find some astrophotos there!
http://www.west.net/~macpuzl/

Paul Winn has a great page full of his excellent astrophotos, as well as other useful astronomical information.
http://www.astrolights.net

Bob Richard now has an Astrophoto Site.
http://www.imagesfromthecosmos.net

Tom Totton
My Astronomy and SBAU related Photos on Flickr.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27241501@N03/collections/72157623730631261/
 
Dale Lowdermilk
http://www.speak.com/page.cfm?go2=profile&ID=3138
http://www.desertusa.com/mag99/aug/stories/deserttrs.html
http://www.cs.sbcc.net/%7Ephysics/DiscoveryCamp03/meteors/index.html

Bruce Murdock's Astrophotography site.
http://www.sbtos.com/astrophotography



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SBAU Calendar / Lyrids Meteor Shower
« on: March 14, 2014, 11:27:50 AM »
Lyrids Meteor Shower 8pm – all night

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SBAU Calendar / Westmont Telescope Night
« on: March 14, 2014, 11:06:44 AM »
Westmont Telescope Night. observatory next to baseball field, 24-inch scope; 565-6272 info line
From 7pm to 8:30pm

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SBAU Calendar / Public Star Party at SBMNH
« on: March 14, 2014, 11:05:21 AM »
Public Star Party at SBMNH. Bring a scope and have fun showing goodies in the sky outside Palmer Observatory, or just show up and enjoy looking at them.
Starts at 7pm and ends at 10pm

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SBAU Calendar / Monthly AU Planning Meeting
« on: March 14, 2014, 11:03:43 AM »
Monthly AU planning meeting in the classroom outside Javier's office. 
All members are welcome - Free Pizza
Starts at 5PM

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SBAU Calendar / Telescope Tuesdays Camino Real Market Place
« on: March 14, 2014, 11:01:00 AM »
Telescope Tuesday now second Tuesdays
We set up in the plaza by the theater
Where: Camino Real Market Place, Goleta 7PM

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SBAU Calendar / Telescope Workshop
« on: March 14, 2014, 10:57:57 AM »
7:30pm – 8:30pm
 
Where SBMNH Broder Building
 
Description grinding, polishing, testing, oh, my!
http://sbautw.blogspot.com/
www.sbau.org

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SBAU Calendar / Telescope Workshop
« on: March 14, 2014, 10:57:11 AM »
7:30pm – 8:30pm
 
Where SBMNH Broder Building
 
Description grinding, polishing, testing, oh, my!
http://sbautw.blogspot.com/
www.sbau.org

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SBAU Calendar / Telescope Workshop
« on: March 14, 2014, 10:56:10 AM »
7:30pm – 8:30pm
 
Where SBMNH Broder
 
Description grinding, polishing, testing, oh, my!
http://sbautw.blogspot.com/
www.sbau.org


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SBAU Calendar / SBAU Telescope Workshop
« on: March 14, 2014, 10:51:05 AM »
7:30pm – 8:30pm
 
Where SBMNH Broder
 
Description grinding, polishing, testing, oh, my!
http://sbautw.blogspot.com/
www.sbau.org

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