Friday, April 18, 2025

The Whirlpool and Pinwheel Galaxies (all night)

On evenings during mid-April, the Big Dipper is positioned nearly overhead
with its handle pointed down to the east. On this week's moonless nights, two impressive galaxies can be seen in binoculars and backyard telescopes by using the bright star Alkaid at the tip of the dipper's handle to find them. The Pinwheel Galaxy, or Messier 101, is a spectacular, large, face-on spiral
galaxy positioned a slim palm's width to the lower left (or 5.5 degrees north) of Alkaid, forming an equilateral triangle with Mizar, the double star at the bend of the dipper's handle. This relatively close galaxy (21 million light- years away) is nearly as large as the full moon in the sky. Since the galaxy's light is spread over such a large area, its overall brightness is lowered. Aim your binoculars several finger widths to the upper right (or 3.7 degrees to
the southwest) of Alkaid to discover the iconic Whirlpool Galaxy, aka Messier 51. This spiral galaxy's angular size is smaller, but it will look somewhat brighter in your binoculars and telescope. A secondary galaxy core designated NGC 5195 close beside M51 is linked by a bridge of material.

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CJ wrote to All <=-

Friday, April 18, 2025

The Whirlpool and Pinwheel Galaxies (all night)

On evenings during mid-April, the Big Dipper is positioned nearly
overhead with its handle pointed down to the east. On this week's

<SNIP>

Aren't these supposed to be going in the SPACE echo now?



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On 4/16/2025 4:07 PM, Gamgee wrote to Cj:

CJ wrote to All <=-

Friday, April 18, 2025

The Whirlpool and Pinwheel Galaxies (all night)

On evenings during mid-April, the Big Dipper is positioned nearly overhead with its handle pointed down to the east. On this week's

<SNIP>

Aren't these supposed to be going in the SPACE echo now?

Chris's uplink isn't carrying it yet, but I have been manually moving them over.

Mike Dippel

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Re: Re: Stargazing News - April 17th, 2025
By: Gamgee to CJ on Wed Apr 16 2025 04:02 pm

Aren't these supposed to be going in the SPACE echo now?

Yep. And they would be if my hub had an updated .na file. I did an areafix a few days ago, got an "* Area HNET_SPACE not found." message. I netmailed him about it. Tried again this morning...got the same message.

I did have to send an email to his non-bbs account to let him know that I was also getting an "All aka's busy" when trying to connect. He took care of that right away. Since I know he's monitoring his regular email account, I'll shoot him over a message there.


Chris (CJ)
SysOp - CJ's Place BBS


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Mike Dippel wrote to Gamgee <=-

On evenings during mid-April, the Big Dipper is positioned nearly overhead with its handle pointed down to the east. On this week's

<SNIP>

Aren't these supposed to be going in the SPACE echo now?

Chris's uplink isn't carrying it yet, but I have been manually moving
them over.

Ahhh, OK, gotcha.



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CJ wrote to Gamgee <=-

Re: Re: Stargazing News - April 17th, 2025
By: Gamgee to CJ on Wed Apr 16 2025 04:02 pm

Aren't these supposed to be going in the SPACE echo now?

Yep. And they would be if my hub had an updated .na file. I did an areafix a few days ago, got an "* Area HNET_SPACE not found." message.
I netmailed him about it. Tried again this morning...got the same message.

I did have to send an email to his non-bbs account to let him know that
I was also getting an "All aka's busy" when trying to connect. He took care of that right away. Since I know he's monitoring his regular
email account, I'll shoot him over a message there.

OK, cool, wasn't trying to give you a hard time there... :-)

Cheers.



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