Title: The Suzaku View of the Disk-Jet Connection in the Low Excitation Radio Galaxy NGC 6251 Authors: D. A. Evans (1, 2), A. C. Summers (2), M. J. Hardcastle (3), R. P. Kraft (1), P. Gandhi (4), J. H. Croston (5), J. C. Lee (1) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, (2) Elon U...
'First astro observatory' of Harappan Civilisation found in Kutch A group of scientists has identified two circular structures at Dholavira in Kutch district of Gujarat, which they say is the first identification of a structure used for observational astronomy during the Harappan Civilisatio...
Title: The astrometric recognition of the solar Clementine gnomon (1702) Authors: Costantino Sigismondi The Clementine gnomon has been built in 1702 to measure the Earth's obliquity variation. For this reason the pinhole was located in the walls of Diocletian's times (305 a. D.) in order to rema...
The CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings, and Gauge Theory is the analytic continuation of the yearly training school of the former EC-RTN string network "Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe". The 2012 edition of the school is supported and organi...
LROC Explores the West Wall of Aristarchus Crater NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), overseen by ASU professor Mark Robinson, has been busy taking high resolution photos of the Moon's surface. Most recently, LROC captu...
Crater Grimaldi (center bottom) and Oceanus Procellarum captured with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Baader contrast filter + IR-cut filter. + 2x Barlow lens. Crater Riccioti is on the limb next to Grimaldi. Grimaldi is a large ba...
Crater Aristoteles and Eudoxus and Mare Frigoris taken with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Baader contrast filter, IR-cut filter. 2X Barlow lens
Sir William Huggins, OM, KCB, FRS (7 February 1824 - 12 May 1910) was an English amateur astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy. Read more
Indian claims finding new cube root formula It has eluded experts for centuries, but now an Indian, following in the footsteps of Aryabhatt, one of the earliest Indian mathematicians, claims to have worked out a simple formula to find any number's cube root. Nirbhay Singh Nahar, a retired chemical...
The very short cycle-length dwarf nova AM Cassiopeia is in outburst. Date: 2008 11 16 Magnitude: 12.3 - 15.2 Period: 30 days Satellite period: 0.1652 days Type: UGSS Position(2000): RA=02h26m23.45s, Dec=+71°18'31.4"
The 12 day old Moon captured with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Baader contrast filter + IR-cut filter. + 2x Barlow lens. Expand (379kb, 1024 x 1583)
Title: The orbital and superhump periods of the dwarf nova SDSS J093249.57+472523.0 Authors: Jeremy Shears, Steve Brady, Shawn Dvorak, Enrique de Miguel, Etienne Morelle, Arto Oksanen, Richard Sabo We report unfiltered CCD photometry of the eclipsing dwarf nova SDSS J093249.57+472523.0 obt...
Russian Icebreaker Heads to Argentine Antarctic Russian icebreaker, the Vasiliy Golovnin, left the port of Buenos Aires on Monday morning and headed on a mission to take about 60 Argentine scientists to research stations in Antarctica. [url=http://en.rian.ru/world...
The Bresser 12-36 X 70 or ZENNOX 12-36 X 70 Binoculars boast a high zoom magnification and large aperture size and would seemingly be ideal for astronomy. The optics are coated and the one i tested was solidly built with very little play in the zoom and focus mechanism. But there are obvious drawbacks;...
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