NASA engineers successfully suppressed the blinding light of three stars, including the well-known Vega, by 100 times using the Keck Observatory in Mauna Kea, Hawaii. This breakthrough will enable scientists to detect the dim dust disks around stars, where planets might be forming. Normally th...
Orbital elements: 2011 CA7 Earth MOID = 0.0003 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 292.23302 (2000.0) P Q n 0.94781318 Peri. 280.36075 -0.50683497 +0.86198933 a 1.0264100 Node 319.18138 -0.78503348 -0.46614334 e 0.2856152 Incl. 0.84402 -0.35614709 -0.19921042 P 1.04 H 30.3 G 0.15 U 9 MP...
Etienne-Louis Malus (23 July 1775 - 24 February 1812) was a French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician. His mathematical work was almost entirely concerned with the study of light. He studied geometric systems called ray systems, closely connected to Julius Plücker's line geometr...
Major-General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet GCH, GCB, FRS, FRSE (23 July 1773 - 27 January 1860) was Governor of New South Wales (1821-25), as recommended by the Duke of Wellington, with whom he had seen military service. Brisbane was born at Brisbane House in Noddsdale, near Largs in...
Walter Hermann Schottky (23 July 1886, Zürich, Switzerland - 4 March 1976, Pretzfeld, West Germany) was a German physicist who played a major early role in developing the theory of electron and ion emission phenomena. Read more
Orbital elements:
2011 SR5 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0010 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 297.35080 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.77414369 Peri. 305.79207 -0.58747755 -0.80923842
a 1.1746856 Node 180.21339 +0.80499237 -0.58462215
e 0.7072278 Incl. 29.23715 -0.08280950 +0.05788027
P 1.27 H...
Orbital elements:
2012 OE1 Earth MOID = 0.2984 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 15.92330 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.30846071 Peri. 59.16133 +0.81702921 +0.56673643
a 2.1693826 Node 266.11349 -0.55867820 +0.73255388
e 0.4039238 Incl. 6.10896 -0.14262522 +0.37706051
P 3.20 H 20.2 G 0...
A Team from the 'Coast' BBC TV series visited Aberdeen yesterday to help locals learn more about the north-east's shore-line. A discussion chaired by presenter Hermione Cóckburn was held in the Maritime Museum last night as part of a series of events at the venue. These continue today, with people i...
Over the centuries many observations have been conducted from University grounds, windows and rooftops but the University has built three observatories in the past two-and-a-half centuries. Only one survives, that on the roof of the Cromwell Tower of King's College. The first observatory wa...
Meteor passes though Aurora I was photographing the Aurora Borealis (northern Lights) and 11 seconds into a 25 second exposure when the sky lit up around me as a meteor passed though my field of view. Read more
Power Supplies
After years of endless diatribes from tech sites of all stripes, it would seem that the Power Supply has finally begun to receive its proper due as a key core component to any computer system. With the dawn of the Dual Core, Dual Video Card (or quad even) CPU, users basically ha...
Dezik and Tsygan ("Roma") were the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight on July 22, 1951. Both dogs were recovered unharmed after travelling to a maximum altitude of 110 km. Read more
German TET-1 small satellite launched On 22 July 2012 at 08:41:39 CEST, the first small German satellite in the 'On-Orbit-Verification' (OOV) programme was carried into orbit from the Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan by a Russian Soyuz launch vehicle. TET-1 is a technology testbed with 11 exp...
Front mounted v Rear mounted filters for small telescopes. The benefits of a front mounted colour filter system on your telescope are seemingly minor, but important. Expand (362kb, 1025 x 768) Colour filters can help to bring out planetary, solar and lunar detail. But, all filters, no matter how we...
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