[Chaos-l] Young Girl Discovers A Supernova

[Robert Nielsen]

Ned,

That Thierry Legault guy is seriously famous for taking pictures of the ISS.   Just amazing!  But yes, it does look like we need to man the X-wing fighters!

Robert

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On Jan 5, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Ned Light <ned.light at gmail.com> wrote:

> Very Cool Robert,
> 
> Did anyone see the APOD today?  Looks like the Empire is attacking our sun.  Sure you could call it a lunar eclipse, but I know a TIE fighter when I see one ...
> 
> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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> 
> Ned
> 
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> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Robert Nielsen <robertnielsen at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Did anyone see this: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/04/girl-10-becomes-youngest-to-discover-supernova/?hpt=T2 ?   Makes me want to get out and observe (more)!
> 
> Robert
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Jan 4, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Jayme Hanzak <jhanzak at unctv.org> wrote:
> 
>> Happy New Year everyone. Here we are now in the second decade of the 21st century. We must
>> 
>> be having fun because it seems like we were worried about Y2K just yesterday. (although it showed up
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>> 11 years later if you have an iphone.) ;-)
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>>  
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>> Next week, January 11th is our first CHAOS meeting for 2011. Our speaker is Tony Rice and he
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>> is going to be talking about the "Earth Observing Satellite Fleet".
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>>  
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>> We meet every second Tuesday of the Month at Carol Woods retirement community.
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>> Meetings begin at 7pm and go until 8:30pm. Carol Woods is located at 750 Weaver Dairy Rd.
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>> in Chapel Hill.
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>>  
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>> As Walter Fowler pointed out, last month's meeting was so good that Sky and Telescope decided to
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>> feature February's magazine about the subject of our meeting. Is it coincidence? I think not. I think that we are
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>> not only ahead of the curve, but WE ARE THE CURVE!
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>>  
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>> So come on out and enjoy the fellowship of your fellow astronomy club members. We'll see you there.
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>>  
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>> Jayme Hanzak
>> CHAOS President
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