Henry Draper (March 7, 1837 - November 20, 1882) was an American doctor and amateur astronomer. He is best known today as a pioneer of astrophotography. The small crater Draper on the Moon is named in his honour. Read more
Forty-nine years ago, the United States successfully launched Orbiting Solar Observatory No. 1 (OSO-1) into Earth orbit. Launch from Cape Canaveral's LC-17A took place on Wednesday, 07 March 1962 at 16:04:00 UTC. A Thor-Delta 301/D8 launch vehicle placed the 458-lb OSO-1 satellite into a nea...
Title: DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Search at SNOLAB Authors: M.G. Boulay for the DEAP Collaboration The DEAP-3600 detector, currently under construction at SNOLAB, has been designed to achieve extremely low background rates from all sources, including 39Ar beta decays, neutron scatters (from inte...
Title: NOAO 4-m Telescopes for Future Surveys Authors: David Schlegel, Michael Sholl The NOAO currently operates the two most capable platforms in the world for optical surveys, the 4-m KPNO (Mayall) and 4-m CTIO (Blanco) telescopes. It was only discovered recently (in 2009) that a field of view o...
Title: A new model for the infrared emission of IRAS F10214+4724 Authors: Andreas Efstathiou, Natalie Christopher, Aprajita Verma, Ralf Siebenmorgen We present a new model for the infrared emission of the high redshift hyperluminous infrared galaxy IRAS F10214+4724 which takes into account r...
Galaxy Cluster Hidden in Plain View A team of astronomers has discovered the most distant cluster of red galaxies ever observed using FourStar, a new and powerful near-infrared camera on the 6.5m Magellan Baade Telescope. The galaxy cluster is located 10.5 billion light years away in the directio...
The Moon captured with a Hilkin 60mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Baader contrast filter + IR-cut filter. + 2x Barlow lens. The music is a computer generated simulation of a B96 house station transmission from the late 1990s, based on arc...
The North Harris Eagle Observatory will be opening later this month. Situated in a spectacular location in the heart of the Harris hills, the Observatory will provide some of the best opportunities in Scotland for viewing Golden Eagles. With a turf roof , timber cladding and large glazing panels fa...
Space Telescopes Find Trigger-Happy Star Formation A new study from two of NASA's Great Observatories provides fresh insight into how some stars are born, along with a beautiful new image of a stellar nursery in our Milky Way galaxy. The research shows that radiation from massive stars may trigger...
Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr. (March 6, 1927 - October 4, 2004), also known as Gordon Cooper, was an American aeronautical engineer, test pilot and NASA astronaut. Cooper was one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first ma...
Title: Gemini/GMOS Spectroscopy of EXO 0748-676 (=UY Vol) in Outburst Authors: Valerie J. Mikles, Robert I. Hynes (Louisiana State Univ.) We present a phase-resolved, optical, spectroscopic study of the eclipsing low-mass X-ray binary, EXO 0748-676 = UY Vol. The sensitivity of Gemini combine...
Title: Chandra and Suzaku observations of the Be/X-ray star HD110432 Authors: Jose M. Torrejon, Norbert S. Schulz, Michael A. Nowak We present an analysis of a pointed 141 ks Chandra high resolution transmission gratings observation of the Be X-ray emitting star HD110432, a prominent member of t...
Orbital elements:
2012 EL1 Earth MOID = 0.0374 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 31.56017 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.63121781 Peri. 138.15264 -0.54402390 -0.80563536
a 1.3459117 Node 340.51610 +0.45174283 -0.04571055
e 0.2779173 Incl. 44.67274 +0.70708303 -0.59064559
P 1.56 H 24.1 G...
A Chang Zheng-3B rocket body that was launched on the 20th June, 2011, from the Xichang Satellite Launch site, for the Zhongxing-10 satellite mission re-entered the Earths atmosphere on the 4th March, 2012 @ 15:48 GMT ± 1 minute.CZ-3B RB
1 37678U 11026B 12063.15203394 .92920661 10665-6 77729-2...
