Twelfth Night is a festival in some branches of Christianity marking the coming of the Epiphany and concluding the Twelve Days of Christmas. It is defined by the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as "the evening of the fifth of January, preceding Twelfth Day, the eve of the Epiphany, formerly...
Title: NSVS07394765: A new low-mass eclipsing binary below 0.6 solar masses Authors: O. Cakirli The multi-colour photometric and spectroscopic (based on observations obtained with the TUBTAK National Observatory 1.5-meter telescope, which is owned and operated by the TUBTAK observatio...
Orbital elements:
2012 QO10 Earth MOID = 0.0677 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 320.00672 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.45987501 Peri. 188.35138 -0.01196705 -0.99499845
a 1.6623004 Node 262.37569 +0.92310013 +0.02713104
e 0.4822823 Incl. 5.74237 +0.38437343 -0.09613531
P 2.14 H 18....
The Queen of Shebah was a monarch of the ancient kingdom of Sheba and is referred to in Habeshan history, the Bible, the Qur'an, Yoruba customary tradition, and Josephus. She is thought to have been born on January 5, sometime in the 10th century BC. Read more [spoiler][video=http://www.youtube...
Julio Garavito Armero (January 5, 1865 - March 11, 1920) was a Colombian astronomer. Born in Bogotá, he was a child prodigy in science and mathematics. A crater on the Moon's far side is named Garavito after him. Read more
Amy Johnson achieved worldwide recognition when, in 1930, she became the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia. Flying her "Jason" Gipsy Moth, she left Croydon, south of London, on 5 May of that year and landed in Darwin, Australia on 24 May after flying 18,000 km. Read more [vi...
La Befana....the Witch of Christmas
Never mind Santa Claus......time to return to the more ancient present giver of Christmas, La Befana, who brings modest presents of cakes etc on Old Christmas Eve (aka Twelfth Night) January 5. She is being celebrated in Carlton on Old Christmas Day (aka Epiph...
Orbital elements:
2012 YE8
Epoch 2012 Dec. 19.0 TT = JDT 2456280.5 MPC
M 347.50874 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.05075279 Peri. 35.10042 -0.29290887 +0.81730493
a 7.2248603 Node 135.20251 +0.63360759 -0.22273921
e 0.4699922 Incl. 135.23264 +0.71606272 +0.53141311
P 19.4 H 15.0 G 0.15
From 20 observ...
Title: Doppler imaging of stellar surface structure - XXIV. The lithium-rich single K-giants DP Canum Venaticorum and DI Piscium Authors: Zs. Kovari, H. Korhonen, K. G. Strassmeier, M. Weber, L. Kriskovics, I. Savanov We present the first Doppler imaging study of the two rapidly rotating, singl...
TX Piscium (19 Psc) is a variable carbon star in the constellation Pisces. It is amongst the reddest stars known, with a lovely reddish hue when seen in binoculars. Read more Position(2000): RA 23 46 23.5165, Dec +03 29 12.519
Title: Wind Variability in BZ Camelopardalis Authors: Kent Honeycutt, Stella Kafka, Jeff Robertson Sequences of spectra of the nova-like cataclysmic variable (CV) BZ Cam were acquired on 9 nights in 2005-2006 in order to study the time development of episodes of wind activity known to occur freq...
Title: Casimir force for cosmological domain walls Authors: Tomohiro Matsud We calculate the vacuum fluctuations that may affect the evolution of cosmological domain walls. Considering domain walls, which are classically stable and have interaction with a scalar field, we show that explicit...
The Moomins (Polish: Opowiadania Muminków, German: Die Mumins) is a stop motion animated children's television series based on the Tove Jansson's Moomin series of books which was produced by Se-ma-for and Jupiter Film between 1977-1982 for Polish, Austrian and German television. The series wa...