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> OT: Mars Observation Party, at the Chabot Space Center
SirAndy
post Aug 5 2003, 11:08 PM
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for all you hobby astronomers (like myself),
there's a Mars Observation Party at the Chabot Space Center here in Oakland on August 26 from 9 pm - 1 am ...

you'll get a chance for a closer look at Mars through their 36" Telescope. plus, you'll get to chat with me for free!

$11 ducks to get in.

Party like a Martian ...

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post Aug 5 2003, 11:09 PM
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Will they be checking out Uranus too? (HA HA) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bootyshake.gif)
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post Aug 5 2003, 11:09 PM
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QUOTE(cavwpguy @ Aug 5 2003, 10:09 PM)
Will they be checking out Uranus too? (HA HA) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bootyshake.gif)

more likely Uranus ...
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post Aug 5 2003, 11:10 PM
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My wife and I are cracking up over here! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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post Aug 5 2003, 11:12 PM
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How about YOU (Andy) show up for FREE to my shop and WORK On your car that night instead ?? Just a thought...

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post Aug 5 2003, 11:14 PM
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QUOTE(Brad Roberts @ Aug 5 2003, 10:12 PM)
How about YOU (Andy) show up for FREE to my shop and WORK On your car that night instead ?? Just a thought...

naaa, working on my car is fun, but it's even more fun to look at Uranus ...
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post Aug 5 2003, 11:49 PM
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Nah, they both stink
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post Aug 6 2003, 12:05 AM
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how did this topic go from

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/boldblue.gif) having a fun night watching Mars while it is as close as it'll get in our lifetime (unless you plan on lurking around for the next 60000 years)

to

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon8.gif) Brad's Asshole ???

huh? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)
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post Aug 26 2003, 03:02 PM
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bump!

tonight's the night. 9 pm to 1 am ...

see you there ...
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post Aug 26 2003, 03:11 PM
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I am too far away to see Brad's ass from here.

We need an eclipse joke.



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post Aug 26 2003, 03:13 PM
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I'll be looking at it tommorrow night, through a friends 4 inch scope. Before we are going to watch Mars Attacks!

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post Aug 26 2003, 04:04 PM
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Here.
(IMG:http://www.expatcorner.ca/chocolate/images/35209.JPG)Get a good look.

Happy now?

Good!
Now go and work on your car.
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post Aug 26 2003, 05:35 PM
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QUOTE(VegasRacer @ Aug 26 2003, 03:04 PM)
Good!
Now go and work on your car.

Brad. is that you? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)
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post Aug 26 2003, 06:20 PM
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lol too frickin funny.....

good one
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post Aug 27 2003, 05:11 PM
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"Mars seen by Hubble around 5:51 a.m. ET on Aug. 27, during Mars closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years."

pretty, huh?


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post Aug 27 2003, 05:14 PM
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Thats a trip. I was looking at it last night through my naked eye(IMG:http://burns.thefinaldimension.org/ups/dvx_rune/eye.gif), and I was thinking about how far away it was. Nice picture.
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post Aug 27 2003, 05:18 PM
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Brian and I tried to look thru his mead telescope over the weekend. Didn't have it configured correctly, so I didn't see much. Thanks for sharing Andy!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)

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post Aug 27 2003, 05:24 PM
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and here's another one they shot this morning ...


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post Aug 27 2003, 05:26 PM
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(IMG:http://burns.thefinaldimension.org/contrib/edoom/spacecraft.gif)
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post Aug 27 2003, 07:18 PM
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Yup...that's about how it looked in my 6" reflector a few nights ago, of course not that BIG and CLEAR.

You could clearly see the southern ice cap and the dark regions to the south. It is also ALOT brighter, than what that photo shows, looking through my scope. To me, it looks like it loses its color. Almost like an over-exposed image. If I was more of an astronomy buff...I would know if this was normal.

I thought I read somewhere that this, being the closest Mars has been to Earth in 60,000 years, is actually within 1% of the distance it reached back in 1971....(does that make sense....?)
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