Rotary club to hold charity balloon race The Rotary Club of Droitwich Spa is organising a balloon race during this weekends Water Festival to celebrate the opening of the town's canal network. Balloons will be released from the gazebo in Vines Park from 2pm on Friday (July 1) until the close of the eve...
Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore is to publish his first poetry collection, a selection for children called Within the Glade, through publisher SMH Books. Read more
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Title: Absolute properties of the neglected eclipsing B-type binary HD 194495 Authors: Omür Cakirli, Esin Sipahi, Cafer banoglu We present the results of the high-resolution spectroscopic observations of the neglected binary system HD 194495 (B3\,IV-V+B4\,V). A combined analysis of three d...
Title: Herschel observations of the Herbig-Haro objects HH52-54 Authors: P. Bjerkeli, R. Liseau, B. Nisini, M. Tafalla, M. Benedettini, P. Bergman, O. Dionatos, T. Giannini, G. Herczeg, K. Justtanont, B. Larsson, C. McCoey, M. Olberg, A.O.H Olofsson We are aiming at the observational estimati...
Title: A giant glitch in PSR J1718-3718 Authors: Richard N Manchester G Hobbs Radio timing observations of the high-magnetic-field pulsar PSR J1718-3718 have shown that it suffered a large glitch with Dnu_g/nu = (33.25 ±0.01) x 10^{-6} between 2007 September (MJD 54336) and 2009 January (MJD 548...
Unitron Model 114 - 2.4" (60mm) Achromatic Telescope The UNITRON was among the better telescopes sold in the USA that were manufactured in Japan and distributed in the Americas from 1951 to about 1992. These telescopes were geared for the amateur astronomer and school science class markets....
The Grosnaja (CV3 chondrite) meteorite fell in Chechenskaya Respublika, Russia, on the 28th June, 1861. A total mass of 3.5 kg was recovered. 43° 40'N, 45° 23'E A shower of stones fell after sonic booms at 7:00 P.M. in Grosnaja, Mekensk, USSR. Only one stone of about 3.5 kg was recovered, the remaind...
SS Norge was a Danish passenger liner sailing from Copenhagen, Oslo and Kristiansand to New York, mainly with emigrants, which sank off Rockall in 1904 in the biggest civilian maritime disaster in the Atlantic Ocean up to that time. On 28 June 1904 Norge ran aground on Hasselwood Rock, close to Rocka...
