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Astronomy in the UK
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BBC NEWS | Wales | Partial street lights switch-off
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A third of a county's street lighting could be switched off for up five hours per night to say money. Carmarthenshire council is looking at plans to turn off one-in-three lights in residential areas and two-in-three on highways from 1230 GMT to 0530 GMT. A report says turning off 6,000 out of 18,337 lights could save... more »
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Energy of the Sun
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I read an article that the moon's force on the mantle might give us magma and magma is not chemical. In the same way some of the larger planets may have a pull on our sun's mantle giving us solar radiation. Since the sun spins every 6 days the spin travels through the pull on the sun's mantle, energy, huge amounts of it, is given... more »
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OT Who Controls the "British" Media?
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The mass media form for us our image of the world and then tell us what to think about that image. Essentially everything we know—or think we know—about events outside our own neighborhood or circle of acquaintances comes to us via our daily newspaper, our weekly news magazine, our radio, or our television.... more »
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Heads up - BBC Radio 4 - Leading Edge 21:02 Thurs 5 Nov
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SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTARY: Leading Edge On: BBC Radio Four ...Time: 21:00 to 21:30 (30 minutes long) Geoff Watts hears from meteorite hunters who scour the deserts of Arizona and Australia and the ice of Canada and Antarctica to seek out extra-terrestrial rocks. He meets those who analyse them, using traces... more »
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From Gamma to Eta Cygnus in H-Alpha: big mosaic
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I hope you will appreciate the enclosed picture taken out from a mosaic of 20 images in Hydrogen-Alpha of the heart of Cygnus: from gamma to eta Cygnus: : The 20 images for mosaic have been composed with a program of graphic elaboration. These the technical data of resumption: Coordinates of the center mosaic AR: 20h 12m 03s e Dec: +37° 47' 20"... more »
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Skysensor 2000pc
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Hello to the group. To my shame some 8yrs back I purchase a Skysensor 2000pc and never go into using it. I have a 10 inch Orion F5 ? reflector,field trypod,Orion 570mm pier and a C102 Celestron refractor (approx 12 years old and I believe at the time made by Vixen) (I could be wrong). A lot of the reason for all staying well covered in the outside brick... more »
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Alt.binaries.pictures.astro
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Hi group, On the above mentioned newsgroup, there are a large number of messages by "G" to Richard Crisp, a contributor, detailing Hubble Telescope pictures. As I have a slow dial-up connection these downloads are causing a major bottleneck in collecting news. Is this peculiar to me, or is everyone experiencing this behaviour? And, is there anything I can... more »
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