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Re: (meteorobs) Re: meteorobs-digest V3 #261
Thank you Bob! This one appears to serve the purpose of those that have
inquired!! Clear Skies and Many Meteors to All - Felix
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: YoungBob2@aol.com
Reply-To: meteorobs@jovian.com
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 22:57:25 EST
>In a message dated 1/7/2000 10:19:05 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>owner-meteorobs-digest@jovian.com writes:
>
><< Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 17:29:39 EST
> From: LARGEEYES@aol.com
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Buying A Star for Someone- off topic!!
>
> I also noticed that they register with the Copyright office, not any
> meteorolgical or astrnomical source of any kind. It is most definitely not
> money well spent. >>
>
>Actually, some years ago the U.S. Copyright Office informed one of these
>companies, I cannot remember which one now, that they would not
>accept their copyright notice because it would be only a list of names and
>they had improperly suggested that they had an affiliation with the
>Smithsonian Institution because they gave out stars listed in the SAO
>Star Catalog.
>
>I took a close look at two of these maps last year given to two different
>people for their $35. The two maps both showed a star printed at the
>same location! It's a scam. There is a very informative website which
>answers many questions about this at:
><http://www.perkins-observatory.org/star.faq.html>
>
>Clear skies,
>Bob Young
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