... The Round Earth . ... Aristarchus around 270 BC derived the Moon's distance from the duration of a lunar eclipse (Hipparchus later found an independent method). ... Let R be the radius of that circle and T the time it takes the Moon to go around once, about one month. ... Viewed from Earth, a "new Moon" (occuring between the time a thin crescent is last seen before sunrise and the time one is seen shortly after sunset) happens when the Moon in its apparent motion around the sky overtakes the Sun. ...

Replica of the flagship of Columbus, . ... When Christopher Columbus proposed to reach India by sailing west from Spain, he too knew that the Earth was round. ... The Greek philosopher Erathosthenes went one step further and actually estimated how large the Earth was. ... Erathosthenes established that the direction of the noon Sun differed from the zenith by an angle that was 1/50 of the circle, that is, 7. 2 degrees, and from that he estimated the circumference of the Earth to be 250,000 stadia. ...

... Posts tagged ?distance estimation? ... Since I began to subscribe arxiv/astro-ph abstracts, from an astrostatistical point of view, one of the most frequent topics has been photometric redshifts . ... Tags: cosmology , distance estimation , Lutz-Kelker bias , machine learning , Malmquist bias , Photometric Redshift , spectrum , survey , VO . ... Comment . ... Entries RSS . Comments RSS . ... General comments . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

... Stars Forming in Serpens . ... At that estimated distance, this sharp, near-infrared close-up of the active Serpens star-forming region spans about 2 arcminutes or just over half a light-year. Dark Lunar Eclipse . ... The Moon passed close to the center of Earth's shadow on August 28th. Seen best by skywatchers in western North America, and the Pacific region, the resulting total lunar eclipse was a dark one, lasting about 90 minutes. ... Could Hydrogen Peroxide Life Survive on Mars . ...

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... The absolute magnitude of the RCBs in the LMC and the small number of Galactic RCBs implies that they are very rare stars. Together with statistics for related stars, the total number of hydrogen-deficient stars in the Galaxy is estimated to be about 1000. Whilst the luminosity of RCBs is similar to that of other low-mass stars as they evolve rapidly from the asymptotic RED GIANT branch to become WHITE DWARFS , their frequency is much lower. ...

Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean holds a special environmental sample container which holds soil collected during the second moonwalk EVA. ... Central Latitude/Longitude (deg): -3.01, 23.42 . ... Instrument: Hasselblad Camera . ... Instrument Field of View (deg): 60 mm Focal Length . ... Illumination Incidence Angle (deg): N/A . ... NASA Image ID number: AS12-H-49-7278 . ... Code 633, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center . Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA . ... Code 630, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center . ...

... 2013 February 10 . Asteroids in the Distance . ... Explanation: Rocks from space hit Earth every day. ... Many kilograms of space dust pitter to Earth daily. ... Further, just last year the 50-meter wide asteroid 2012 DA14 was discovered that will pass inside the orbit of Earth's geosynchronous satellites this coming Friday. A collision with a large asteroid would not affect Earth's orbit so much as raise dust that would affect Earth's climate . ... About APOD | ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The algorithm and appropriate program for decametric radiosignal propagation conditions prediction for paths from 500 to 9000 km have been developed at ISTP SB on the basis of normal wave method (AltyntsevaB.I,Iliyin N.V., Kurkin V.I. and others //Decameters channel simulation on the base of normal wave method . ... Solar activity indices are chosen automatically from the prediction date from the database . ...

. Mars is "behind" the sun from the earth's point of view and is therefore not visible in the nighttime sky (i.e. its up in the daytime). Venus it at greatest elongation and appears in the western sky as a bright object for 2-3 hours after sunset .