Title: Giant irregular pockmark craters in the Palaeogene of the Outer Moray Firth Basin, UK North Sea Authors: D. Colea, S. A. Stewartb and J. A. Cartwright A cluster of irregular pockmark craters of Palaeogene age in block 15/18 in the Outer Moray Firth, UK North Sea have been mapped on 3D seismic da...
A suspected impact crater, measuring 50 metres in depth and 100 metres wide, has been located by Greek oceanographers off the coast of the island of Evia in the Aegean Sea. The crater was dated as forming during the iceage when the sea level was 150 metres lower than present day. The exact location o...
Bright light streaks across Puget Sound skies Several people called KOMO Thursday evening to report they had just witnessed a brilliant light streak across the southern skies. Read more
The dwarf nova UV Persei is in outburst. Date: 2008 11 13 Magnitude: 11 - 17.5 V Period: 320 days Satellite period: 0.0649 days Type: UGSSPosition(2000): RA=02 10 08.32, Dec=+57°11'21.2"
South Mountain Community College Unveils New Campus Observatory South Mountain Community College invites the public to come and view the celestial heavens through the lens of its new Desert Skies Observatory telescope on Thursday evening, November 20 at 7:30 p.m. SMCC students and faculty will...
Remote Control Astronomy with the RAPTOR Telescope This next article is for those who are scopers and understand the painstaking work required to map out stars, chart the skies, and all the other unsung work that comes with astronomy. Apparently, some of the work that most astronomers did before ca...
The dwarf nova V632 Cygnus is in outburst. Date: 11 November, 2008 Magnitude: 12.6 - 17.5 Period: unknown Satellite period: days Type: UGSS Position(2000): RA 21 36 04.20, Dec +40 26 19.0
Scientists reported Wednesday that in 10,000 years a massive, worldwide freeze could overcome the planet, more deadly than the Ice Age. British and Canadian researchers said greenhouse gases could prove beneficial in the future to battle a chill that could cover Canada and the United States, Eur...
A replica of the oldest known shipwreck, Uluburun II, built by the 360 Degree Historical Research Association in Urla, Izmir, arrived in Bodrum for display as part of activities marking the 80th anniversary of Cabotage Day. Previously the ship had anchored in Istanbul, Marmaris, Cyprus and Kas re...
WinUAE (Windows Universal Amiga Emulator) has released version 1.0 of their emulator software.
It requires a Kickstart 3.0/3.1 ROM, a Workbench 3.0/3.1 ADF (the amiga OS) and a reasonably high-spec PC.
Check it out at http://www.winuae.net/
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iObservatory set to open in Sai Kung Hong Kong's largest professional telescope is about to go into service at the newly completed Space Museum Sai Kung iObservatory. Situated in Lady MacLehose Holiday Village the facility is the first of its kind in Hong Kong. It houses a 60cm Cassegrain telescope...
India joins the undersea nuclear capable ballistic missile club. America, Russia, China, France and UK have that capability. DRDO developed indigenous missile K-15, with a range of 650 miles, was test fired from a pontoon immersed in the sea. [url=http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/19129...
A magnitude 16.2, Type II supernova, 2008gz, was discovered on the 5th November, 2008, by Koichi Itagaki (Perth Observatory) in the spiral galaxy NGC 3672 in the constellation Crater. The supernova is located 13" east, 7" south, from the nucleus of the galaxy. Another magnitude 14.5...
A U.S. space agency team led by a blind engineer built a system to receive data from a Soyuz spacecraft just days after Russia asked for assistance. National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials said the request from the Russian Federal Space Agency was to devise a way to capture telemetr...
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