RE: Urgent request.

1999-05-17 Thread Arthur Carlson
For the benefit of Tony Moss, a search on http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible in KJV for every thing beautiful yielded: He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the

Re: a better eclipse filter

1999-05-17 Thread Dave Bell
On Mon, 17 May 1999, John Carmichael wrote: Hi Ross: Getting a small, very long focal length lens (or mirror) to replace the pinhole can solve the problem, at the risk of introducing some image aberrations, including chromatic, visible at the edges of the solar disk. This was of course

Re: a better eclipse filter

1999-05-17 Thread Fernando Cabral
John Carmichael wrote: Hi Ross: A little, off-the-wall, query. The larger the distance from the pinhole to the white sheet image of the sun, the larger the sun, but also the dimmer too. This is correct. The sun's image becomes quite dim at the long distance needed to see sunspots.

Multiple sunsets

1999-05-17 Thread Frank Evans
Regarding Fernando Cabral's multiple observation of sunsets at one setting I recently wrote to the Marine Observer (British Met. Office) concerning a meteorologist who claimed to have seen the sunset green flash three times at one setting by climbing to successive decks of an ocean weather ship

Re: Sundial for downed pilots

1999-05-17 Thread Jim_Cobb
Art Carlson wrote: That's exactly what I had in mind. This is a rule that can be easily understood and remembered, as opposed to remember to ADD nine hours to the clock time for a three-quarter moon, if it is WANING. What I would like to figure out is the errors involved in both methods,

Re: Urgent request.

1999-05-17 Thread Jim_Cobb
http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible?language=Englishversion=KJVpassage=Ecclesiastes+3:11matchno=7 Ecclesiastes 3:11 (English-KJV) He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God

Re: a better eclipse filter

1999-05-17 Thread John Carmichael
Hi Ross: A little, off-the-wall, query. The larger the distance from the pinhole to the white sheet image of the sun, the larger the sun, but also the dimmer too. This is correct. The sun's image becomes quite dim at the long distance needed to see sunspots. This can be corrected by lowering

Re: viewing an eclipse

1999-05-17 Thread John Schilke
Hello, All! Several years ago we were able to see a partial solar eclipse not too far away from local noon. Knowing the principal, I asked him whether he'd not like me to set up a viewing scheme for the grade school my children attended. He agreed, and I covered all the south-facing

Re: Urgent request.

1999-05-17 Thread John Schilke
ECCLESIASTES 3:11. John On Mon, 17 May 1999, Tony Moss wrote: Fellow Shadow Watchers, This is 100% on topic and somewhat urgent for me. The large bronze dial plate which I am about to engrave must bear the biblical inscription He hath made

RE a better eclipse filter

1999-05-17 Thread John Shepherd
My favorite way to show eclipses and sunspots is with a reflective pin hole camera. A small mirror, preferably front surface, about .25 to .5 inches in diameter mounted on a camera tripod. The light from the sun is reflected through a window into a darkened room onto a white wall or screen. Its

Re: Multiple sunsets

1999-05-17 Thread mblackwell
One can get a similar effect riding a large ferris wheel right at sunset. While not giving a full sunrise/sunset, it's still fun to watch the upper limb disappear and reappear :-) -Original Message- From: William P Thayer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I also thought something I would like

Re: Urgent request.

1999-05-17 Thread Richard Langley
Ecclesiastes. Chapter 3. Verse 11. The online versions I checked did not capilalise his. On Mon, 17 May 1999, Tony Moss wrote: Fellow Shadow Watchers, This is 100% on topic and somewhat urgent for me. The large bronze dial plate which I am about to engrave must bear

solar filter sources

1999-05-17 Thread Richard M. Koolish
A page of solar filter sources is: http://umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/970309/text/filter-sources.html

books on atmospheric phonomena

1999-05-17 Thread Richard M. Koolish
There's a page of books on atmospheric phonomena at: http://www.treasure-troves.com/astro/AtmosphericPhenomena.html One book that I like is: Greenler, R., Rainbows, Halos, and Glories, Cambridge University Press, 1980.

Re: Urgent request.

1999-05-17 Thread The Shaws
Tony Moss asked (Snip) He hath made every thing beautiful in his time Can anyone give me 'chapter verse' for this please as I must be certain (Snip) King James version of Ecclesiastes Chapter 3 Verse 11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their

To those who needed info

1999-05-17 Thread Tinkler
Several months ago I volunteered to send out some jpg's of the inside covers of a book that I have. the pages are intitled Pocket Navigator and is a form of sundial, several asked for the pictures but for some unknowen reason I never sent them and I have lost the list of those that wanted

Urgent request.

1999-05-17 Thread Tony Moss
Fellow Shadow Watchers, This is 100% on topic and somewhat urgent for me. The large bronze dial plate which I am about to engrave must bear the biblical inscription He hath made every thing beautiful in his time Can anyone give me 'chapter verse' for this

Re: Multiple sunset

1999-05-17 Thread William P Thayer
I also thought something I would like to ask the airplane pilots we have among us. Have any of you ever tried to take off immediately after the sunset, flying straight to the sun's azimuth, trying to see several sunsets in a raw? One of the most famous pilots in the world included a version of