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Ewww... too esoteric of me...


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Onya bike

Gerry

 

I have considered a trailer to be honest, that would certainly give me
enough space


G-S

 

<applause>


G-S

 

Not easy too see Gerry?

 

fixed... just for you George



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[applause] I was expecting Yackety Sax (the Benny Hill theme)

 

OK - the most likely candidate is Jupiter if it was recent - the moon
moves pretty quickly through the sky so date/time would be handy - other
wise it could be almost anything.

 

George... I was clearly being too esoteric for _you_.

Clue[1] Goto http://216.92.113.163/item.php?item_id=240 this
relates to a Meade 1060-Research Series (10 inch Newtonian-Equatorial)
telescope.

Clue[2] On that page, under the heading "Why I obtained this
Scope", you will find the following words: "I was introduced to the
world of catadioptrics and esoteric telescope systems".

hth


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Onya bike

Gerry

 

In aus.motorcycles on Sat, 23 May 2009 16:04:01 +1000

The towbar's the same as the Breva, Classic Industries fitted mine and
they had it in stock.

You have to cut slots in the tailpiece for the bars that go from the
rear subframe to the towbar. I fitted LED lights to the trailer,
seemed to work better than normal ones.

I suspect the 4' x 3.5' trailer frame from easytrailer.com.au would work
well as a general purpose bike trailer with a bit of homework as to
box/platform.



Zebee

 

3 weeks ago and close to the moon the most likely candidate would be
Saturn, both low in the northern sky around 7:00pm. Saturn can appear to
be bluish-white; Jupiter is more orange-white. Jupiter has not been
visible close to the moon for a long time.

 

Okay, make you own mind up with these

http://s278.photobucket.com/albums/kk91/georgewfrost/Planet 2009/
three photos, one of the moon and the whateveritis
the others are the moon and the thingamyjig

 

I'd be a bit concerned about the wheel bearings in those running loaded
at speed to be honest.

I'm sort of leaning towards an ali-lite.


G-S

 

You missed it Gerry, right over the top
I was referring to the bike, the Newton Commando

or for you, a Norton Commando
so I asked: ""Not easy too see Gerry? ""

Norton ESII ( an Easy 2 Gerry )
Gerry, you must get back on your medications

 

Buggered if I know, but I can assure you that apart from very close
comets and maybe a nova in our own galaxy, no night-sky object is
going to be brighter than the full moon. If it was near the horizon
just after sunset it might have been Venus.

This link shows some events like that which have happened or will
happen this year:

http://home.mira.net/~reynella/skywatch/ssky.htm#update

As far as seeing Mercury, to my knowledge from an earth-bound vantage
point it will never be more than 1 or 2 degrees away from the sun (and
1 degree is approximately the width of the solar or lunar disk). I've
been wrong before, though.


BTH

 

Touche! Well done, sir! ;-)


BTH

 

Eh? There was me thinking that the Earth and Venus were about the
same diameter (~12,000km)?

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/venusfact.html

I'm no astronomer, mind you... ;-)


BTH

 

Don't you already own an outfit? How big is this bloody telescope of
yours anyway?


BTH

 

I've taken the liberty of running a few filters over the 3rd photo,
and enhanced it a bit. I think iy makes it pretty obvious what you're
looking at there.

http://www.humbletown.org/temp/georgephoto.htm


BTH

 

So how did you keep the shutter going?
remote or did you sit there snapping each frame under continuous shooting?

 

Amazing!! Who would have thought it could be that!

 

I think he meant Mercury is roughly 3000kms in diameter...


G-S