Sunspots 11731, 11728, 11730, 11729 and 11727, plus a new sunspot captured with a 10mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam + solar filter. Music via an Amiga 1200.
Title: Exoplanet Characterisation by Proxy: a Transiting 2.15 Earth Radii Planet Near the Habitable Zone of the Late K dwarf Kepler-61 Authors: Sarah Ballard, David Charbonneau, Francois Fressin, Guillermo Torres, Jonathan Irwin, Jean-Michel Desert, Elisabeth Newton, Andrew W. Mann, David...
Title: Parabolic Strip Telescope Authors: Goce Chadzitaskos We present a proposal of a new type of telescopes using a rotating parabolic strip as the primary mirror. It is the most principal modification of the design of telescopes from the times of Galileo and Newton. In order to demonstrate the b...
The 100 - 230 metre wide asteroid 2000 UY33 will make a close pass (58.0 lunar distances, 0.1490 AU), travelling at 13.08 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th April, 2013 @ 22:05 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...
Hanging above the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - one of our closest galaxies - in what some describe as a frightening sight, the Tarantula nebula is worth looking at in detail. Also designated 30 Doradus or NGC 2070, the nebula owes its name to the arrangement of its brightest patches...
Sheila Scott OBE (27 April 1922 - 20 October 1988), was an English aviatrix. She became the first person to fly over the North Pole in a small aircraft in 1971. Scott's records breaking aircraft was a single-engined Piper Comanche registered G-ATOY and named Myth Too. The aircraft was bought by Scott...
Philip Hauge Abelson (April 27, 1913 - August 1, 2004) was an American physicist, a scientific editor, and a science writer. Read more Leading nuclear physicist Philip Abelson (1913--2004) turned his attention under the guidance of Ros...
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 - April 2, 1872) was an American inventor. He contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, was a co-inventor of the Morse code, and also an accomplished painter. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samu...
In July 2003, Gene Killinen was practicing with his new metal detector at his familys hunting cabin near Burns, Colorado. Gene found a strong signal in the area immediately in front of the cabin. He and his father excavated a mass from a depth of roughly 60-90 cm. They surmised that the large, heavy obj...
Orbital elements:
C/2013 F1 (Boattini)
T 2012 Dec. 8.01552 TT MPC
q 1.9337690 (2000.0) P Q
Peri. 96.22417 -0.17497451 -0.85565087
Node 29.59041 -0.30879204 -0.42205834
e 1.0 Incl. 80.53828 +0.93489646 -0.29954691
From 47 observations 2013 Mar. 23-24. MPEC 2013 - R07 Key to Orbital ele...
China successfully sends "Gaofen-1" into space China successfully sent high-definition earth observation satellite "Gaofen-1" into space at 12:13 p.m. Beijing time on Friday, announced the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defen...
Sky Watcher 1.25" anti-light-pollution nebula filter (LPR) These contrast-enhancing anodised aluminium, optical glass filters are designed to block out the wavelengths of light emitted by mercury-vapour light and other common causes of light pollution, whilst providing higher trans...
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