Jean-Sylvain Bailly (15 September 1736 - 12 November 1793) was a French astronomer and orator, one of the leaders of the early part of the French Revolution. He was ultimately guillotined during the Reign of Terror. Read more
Zond 5, a formal member of the Soviet Zond program and unmanned version of Soyuz 7K-L1 manned moon-flyby spacecraft, was launched from a Tyazheliy Sputnik (68-076B) in Earth parking orbit to make scientific studies during a lunar flyby and to return to Earth. Zond-5 became the first spacecraft to c...
The Eleusinian Mysteries were initiation ceremonies held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at Eleusis in ancient Greece. Of all the mysteries celebrated in ancient times, these were held to be the ones of greatest importance. It is acknowledged that their basis was an old agra...
A new magnitude 11.8 cataclysmic variable star (possibly a WZ Sge-type variable) in the constellation Draco was discovery by H. Nishimura (Japan,) on the 5th September, 2011. Position (J2000): R.A. 18 42 27.92 | Dec. +48° 37' 42.5''
Orbital elements:
S/2010 J 1
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 81.14924 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.49700522 Peri. 225.36709 -0.13609793 +0.97470090
a 0.1554289 Node 322.11421 +0.97091072 +0.16681433
e 0.3202199 Incl. 163.21859 +0.19700183 -0.14876535
P 1.98 H 16.6 P/d 724.34
From 126...
Orbital elements:
2011 RV14 Earth MOID = 0.0134 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 31.13974 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.67877167 Peri. 75.66032 -0.00072144 +0.99978940
a 1.2822919 Node 194.34555 -0.94642704 -0.00730542
e 0.3330990 Incl. 4.74812 -0.32291692 +0.01917758
P 1.45 H 24.6 G 0...
The Areni-1 cave complex is a cave in the Areni village of southern Armenia along the Arpa River. In January 2011, the earliest known winery in the world was announced to be found in the cave. Read more
Sky-Watcher Long Eye Relief (LER) Eyepieces These multi-coated eyepieces provide a generous 20mm eye relief, and all focal lengths including the 2mm model feature particularly wide diameter eye lenses for maximum viewing comfort. These eyepieces are especially valuable for spectacle wearer...
Sky-Watcher 'SP Series' Super Plossl 17mm Eyepiece This 1.25" (31.7mm) medium magnification eyepiece is well made and will provide good views of deep sky objects and open clusters. As to be expected there is a edge to edge pinpoint images and a nice 52 degree field of view. The eye relief is gene...
The KOSMOS 2388 early warning (Oko) satellite that was launched on the 1st April, 2002, from the Plesetsk launch facility is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 12th September, 2011 @ 22:36 GMT ± 24 hours.KOSMOS 2388
1 27409U 02017A 11254.42645212 .90772453 -14588-4 19605-2 937...
A chance discovery by cosmologists searching for dark matter - the elusive stuff thought to make up most of the mass in the universe - could lead to the development of an ultra-sensitive probe that can spot cracks in materials opening up, even when they're only a few atoms long.
Dark matter detect...
Title: Regular frequency patterns in the classical delta Scuti star HD 144277 observed by the MOST satellite Authors: K. Zwintz, P. Lenz, M. Breger, A. A. Pamyatnykh, T. Zdravkov, R. Kuschnig, J. M. Matthews, D. B. Guenther, A. F. J. Moffat, J. F. Rowe, S. M. Rucinski, D. Sasselov, W. W. Weiss We prese...
Title: Close Binary System GO Cyg Authors: B. Ulas, B. Kalomeni, V. Keskin, O. Kose, K. Yakut In this study, we present long term photometric variations of the close binary system GO Cyg. Modelling of the system shows that the primary is filling Roche lobe and the secondary of the system is almost fill...
