Hi All

I am new to astronomy but I agree with pat I am getting my own observatory
to gather up here in North Dakota . I live out in the boonies also . I have
a very slow inter net hookup , Iam lucky to get 24bps. Iam planning on doing
MP work also. I think we should be able to get the B1.0 catalogue because
of our situation with the Internet. I know that my phone company is not
going to replace my phone lines just for me! And be sides it will be faster
if we had the B1.0 installed in our own computers.

Ray N.D.
its could up here.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fr. Pat Madden" <pmadden@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 4:54 PM
Subject: RE: [guide-user] Catalogue B1.0


> Thank you for your kind words, Andrea. I'll probably wait a year or two
before I seriously consider burning so many CDs!
> Clear skies,
> Pat
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrea Pelloni [mailto:mc3657@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 4:29 PM
> To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [guide-user] Catalogue B1.0
>
>
> Pat, I'm sure that David Monet will assign to Bill one USNO-B.1.
> So it will be our interest to ask him if he could make the same thing he
> did with GSC-ACT.
> I'm involved mainly in MP work and I don't agree at all with David about
> the fact that it is not so useful for "normal" work.
> I have actually 1 120 Gb HD on my PC, where I have ALL USNO-A.2, GUIDE8,
> GSC-ACT, The Sky 4 and RealSky permanently loaded. I'm ready to buy a
> second HD of 80 Gb or more, in order to have the USNO-B.1 constantly
available.
> At 157 Frasso Sabino Observatory we are in your same situation, without
> high speed connection to the web, so such a solution could be very
pleasant.
> I hope that there will be enough people, as non professional Observatories
> involved in MP work, asking for such a facility.
> I'm sure that like me everyone would be ready to pay at least the expenses
> and postage to USNO or Bill, whoever.
> Who agrees with me?
> I think many people, so, Pat, wait a minute before burning 160 or 100 CDs,
> may be this will be useless.
> Clear skies
>
> Andrea Pelloni
> 157 Frasso Sabino
> RHP SpaceGuard Team
>
> At 14.19 14/01/03 -0600, you wrote:
> > Bill wrote:
> > **************************
> >I bet in 5 or 10 years 80 GB will not seem that big at all. I remember
> >spending over $1700 for a 200 megabyte hard drive. I think that was in
> >the late 80's. The only reason I got such a "bargain" was that the owner
> >of the computer store liked me. Full retail would have been about $2000
> >at that time. I'll bet within a decade not only could the data be
> >distributed on DVDs, but that many people will be able to find room for
80
> >GB on their hard drives.
> >As far as "usefulness," my observatory is in a rural setting, and the
> >phone connection is not that great. There is no "cable" out there, so
> >forget high speed modems. Maybe one day I will be able to afford a
> >satellite system that will enable me to access the net at a reasonable
> >speed. For people in my situation, distribution on 9 DVD-Rs would
> >definitely be "useful."
> >I have a high-speed connection here at work, and a CD-burner on my
> >computer. I am starting to wonder how big a piece of sky I could put on
a
> >CD. I.e., how much sky can you get, say, in 500 megabytes. Nobody uses
> >our system at night, so downloading some chunks of data at night would
not
> >harm the business effectiveness of the computer network. I could
probably
> >get the whole data set onto 160 CDs. Maybe even 100 CDs, if I decide I
> >really don't care about anything within 35 degrees of the south celestial
> >pole. Am I the only one to think such devious thoughts? Or are others
> >figuring out ways to get their hands on USNO-B.1?
> > Pat
>
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