ITYM M1. HTH, HAND.

You mean that North Dakota has pristine dark skies with exceptional seeing?

I'm jealous. Why did you want to leave?

It is a fallacy that Hawking radiation comes from an event horizon. It comes from curved spacetime.

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unruh_e... where the temperature of the vacuum at the Earth's surface is given as 4e-20 K.

Both Germany and the UK have had leaders with degrees in chemistry

Angela Merkel has a PhD in quantum chemistry.

Margaret Thatcher had an Oxford BA (Oxford has idiosyncratic nomenclature) which included 9 months of research experience.

Questions:

1) Will a complete list be posted on-line?
2) Will international shipping be a possibility?
3) How will payment be made?

I ask 2) because I live in Europe. If PayPal is a possibility that will make life much easier for non-US customers.

Thanks,
Paul

Behind a paywall 8-(

As always, I forgot the 🔭 again. Doh!

Not sure a telescope is ideal for watching a meteor shower ...

Looking at the moon, star clusters, planets, double stars, sure.

I think he meant to write "Vega".

That may be true but here in Europe at least virtually all credit card transactions are made with chip&PIN and I don't believe they are especially sensitive to magnetic fields.

Computer disks on the other hand ...

No reason why we can't do both. Or all three if you regard orbital and Martian colonies as separate.

What is OU in this context? Open University? Oxford University? Something else?

I was a long-term member of OUAS --- Oxford University Astronomical Society --- but that was decades ago and it may have changed its name since then.

Behind a paywall. Is it available elsewhere?