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Thank you very much for the reply, and the photos! Yes, light pollution is making Kitt Peak almost useless, compared to the skies back in the 1950's. Growing populations, developments, etc.,....they call it progress. I don't! :cry: Gates Pass looks about the same. I had heard rumors that development...

Just wondered offhand if anyone here lives in the Tucson Arizona area? I went to college out there (years ago), visited Kitt Peak observatory frequently, and have an interest in the desert area west of Tucson, in the Gates Pass area. I sure would appreciate anyone who lives in the area contacting me...

Well, I"m not going to complain, even if I don't care too much for the Solaris style. I do switch the background, so unless I clean out cookies or log out, I'm fine and don't have to bother with it.

I appreciate this forum, and figure that whatever design the creator chooses, I can live with.

Emailed them several days ago. No reply. Thanks for the help anyway

Thanks. I will look into it

Hopefully, someone out here who's been experienced with various astronomy forums and groups, may have known Chris Frangoff. I met him on MSN Astronomy Forum in the late 1990's, and the last instant messenger chat I had with him was in the fall of 2001. At that time, his homeland in Australia was sur...

I'm still a dial-up guy

Takes me a while to get upgraded, and haven't found a way to plug broadband into my Commodore 64 yet. I'll get there someday.

Anyway, congrats to you!

As for the sequence, I'm not sure beyond possibly repeating itself once every ten seconds or so.

Back in the early 1970's, we used to carry a portable AM radio during our star gazing nights, as a crude method of monitoring approaching storms by static/lightning crashes. Oddly enough, on keeping the radio on a fairly blank frequency (then), about 530Kh, we started picking up a repeating signal (...

Oh, there's no question or dispute about the fine people who are trying to do their job, and it's true that the fact that they can speak english as well as their own language is to their credit. I'm purely calling attention to the fact that when a customer has a question, problem, or issue with a pr...

I'm sure a lot of you know that if you call up customer service for most any company, chances are the rep will have an "accent" :lol: Well, get this: I called customer service for a company. The rep who answered me had an accent of course........but actually had the nerve to tell me that they couldn...

Your enthusiasm is great, and you obviously have put a lot of thought into your design. Perhaps someday you might get to help place your flag on Mars!

The screenshot was probably done excluding Celestia, but it was a neat idea, and neat to see Celestia mentioned on the show.

Hope that someday space explorers don't arrive at a system that has a bunch of text floating

Not sure. NCIS found Celestia running on a dead man's PC, and said there was a system located within Celestia that wasn't supposed to be there. It looked like they zoomed to this add-on, and it was a text diary floating around a star system. They didn't explain it, but I thought it was neat to see C...

If anyone saw the NCIS episode on CBS last Tuesday night, Celestia was mentioned, as one character used Celestia on his computer to hide his daily activity log entries around a star system. Nifty!

I was born in the 1950's, and remember my first starry sky at the age of 4. But some 50 years later, will a star packed sky be just as impressive to you now? We visit places where we grew up, and of course everything seems smaller than we remembered them being. Life's changes, adulthood, and a varie...

Hummm... M5..... kinda like Windows Vista eh?[/quote]

Well, hopefully Windows Vista won't try to kill you if you try to disconnect it, like the M5 tended to

Wheras Kirk usually crawled around the galaxy at warp 1 (in which case, his five year mission should have gotten him maybe as far as Tau Ceti and back again, w00t!), and Decker liked crashing his ship into things (seems to be something with the older Captains, Picard for example (ST: Nemesis)), the...

Ha-ha! I remember that episode! So, who was the better driver? Decker? Kirk? Or the M5 ! :lol: Aye, Captain Dunsel ! Hmmmmm. Well, the M5"must survive", according to Dr Daystrom. Kirk simply gave orders where to drive. But Decker, had qualities besides piloting. If earth ever got hit by a major ast...

Anyone remember the epsisode "The Doomsday machine", with Commodore Decker? If so, would you ever consider letting Commodore Decker drive your car???? :o :P Haha. Wrecking one starship wasn't good enough, so he had to try and wreck another, then wreck a shuttlecraft. :O Insurance company will not l...