Archives for the 'Equipments' Category
EPOXI Mission to Comet Hartley 2
Published on 4 Nov 2010 at 00:00.
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Thursday 4th November 2010
This artist’s concept shows us the first time Deep Impact encountered a comet – Tempel 1 in July 2005.
Deep Impact, now in an extended mission called EPOXI, have flown to Comet Hartley 2, today at 02:00 / 2pm.
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How are spacecraft launched?
Published on 20 Oct 2010 at 00:00.
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Wednesday 20th October 2010
How does a rocket work?
If a balloon is filled with air and then released, it speeds along – a rocket works in the same way but it’s a mixture of hydrogen gas and oxygen fuel explodes all the time to push hot gas out of the back of the rocket and propelling [...]
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Eyepieces for planetary
Published on 29 Sep 2010 at 00:00.
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Wednesday 29th September 2010
Plossls
Your telescope may have come with one or two of these. Perfectly acceptable for planets and the moon, with great contrast. Not a bad all-around eyepiece. But the eye relief is not very good at short focal lengths, so beware if you must wear glasses at the telescope. Plossls are made by [...]
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Sky Camp @ North Norfolk
Published on 10 Sep 2010 at 08:20.
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Friday 10th September 2010
Last night it was an ever-better condition skies that I was observed some showpieces – Deep Sky Objects in the constellation of Perseus (The Hero).
Perseus lies in the Milky Way, therefore is rich typical Milky Way objects as Open Clusters and Diffuse Nebulae.
Justifiably famous Perseus Double Cluster (NGC869 & NGC884) – one [...]
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Sky Camp @ North Norfolk
Published on 8 Sep 2010 at 10:18.
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Wednesday 8th September 2010
Some of our deaf members (British Deaf Astronomical Association) will arrive here later today – I am sure we will catch up with lots of talk about what we have observed during the summertime.
Anyway last night till this morning 3am stayed up to observe some Open & Globular Clusters. Also looked at [...]
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The Gaia Satellite from the UK.
Published on 21 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Wednesday 21st July 2010
The Gaia Satellite from the UK to be launched in 2012 that the new mission to create the largest and most precise three dimensional (3D) chart of our Galaxy by providing unprecedented positional and radial velocity measurements for about one billion stars in our Galaxy and throughout the Local Group.
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Computers
Published on 15 Mar 2010 at 00:00.
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Monday 15th March 2010
Computers have made a major impact on every walk of life, and astronomy is no exception. Professional scientists use them extensively to process and analyze data, and to control telescopes that may be far away that all researcher’s work greatly when they are studying such things as how stars or planets form.
Digital [...]
Telescope or Binocular ?
Published on 6 Mar 2010 at 00:00.
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Saturday 6th March 2010
If you are being to consider planing to buy a telescope for your first time observation, I do recommend that you should start with binocular because the mostly binoculars are not expensive but also it is portable, so you need to use with the night sky by a binocular before purchasing a [...]
