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RE: Speaking of diamonds...
September 4, 2011 at 2:07 am
Been there. I was a student at EKU when they were raising funds to build the planetarium.
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RE: Speaking of diamonds...
September 4, 2011 at 2:42 pm
(September 4, 2011 at 2:07 am)orogenicman Wrote: Been there. I was a student at EKU when they were raising funds to build the planetarium.
There isn't really much up there, or at least what I've seen.
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RE: Speaking of diamonds...
September 4, 2011 at 4:28 pm
(September 4, 2011 at 2:42 pm)MilesTailsPrower Wrote: (September 4, 2011 at 2:07 am)orogenicman Wrote: Been there. I was a student at EKU when they were raising funds to build the planetarium.
There isn't really much up there, or at least what I've seen.
Depends on what you are looking for. It's a university and has typical university stuff.
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RE: Speaking of diamonds...
September 4, 2011 at 4:42 pm
The only thing I've seen is the show they have there. That's about it.
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RE: Speaking of diamonds...
September 14, 2011 at 10:47 pm
Here is a picture of the harvest moon I took last night. The focus was a little softer than I wanted.
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RE: Speaking of diamonds...
September 14, 2011 at 11:20 pm
That photo is gorgeous. I love the moon.
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RE: Speaking of diamonds...
September 14, 2011 at 11:35 pm
(September 14, 2011 at 11:20 pm)Epimethean Wrote: That photo is gorgeous. I love the moon.
x2. Very nice.
The moon has always been one of my favorite things to observe. Even after seeing many far more exotic things, I can go back to the moon night after night and still be amazed.
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RE: Speaking of diamonds...
September 14, 2011 at 11:42 pm
What is more exotic? Mars?
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RE: Speaking of diamonds...
September 15, 2011 at 12:43 am
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(September 14, 2011 at 11:42 pm)Epimethean Wrote: What is more exotic? Mars?
It might be, but my scope is actually better suited for deep sky astrophotography instead of planetary work. The Moon is close enough that I can get decent (but not supurb) images of it.
Here is a false color photo I took of took of the harvest Moon in 2006 with the same scope but a different camera:
The false colors show the various mineral compositions of the Moon. Bluish-gray represents titanium-rich lavas, while the reds represent iron-rich lavas (which is a relative term, since the Moon is deficient in iron relative to the Earth). The pinkish regions are the silicate-dominated lunar highlands, and contain the oldest rocks on the surface of the Moon. I like to think of this photo as a poor man's geologic map of the moon.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
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- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
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RE: Speaking of diamonds...
September 15, 2011 at 1:12 am
Kickass pic of a kickass celestial body for which I have a deep and abiding affection.
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