... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Area of science: Astronomy . ... My idea is as follows: A very strong concrete foundation is attached to "Earth" a cable made of some increadably strong material is attached on to a giant powered pully wheel, the capble runs out into space aprox 400 miles ! ... In his novel "Fountains of Paradise" Clarke uses that idea: take a cable 40,000 km long and drop it from the satellite to the spot directly underneath it on the Earth and secure it. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) . ... Before jumping into all the finer details of teh survey, a brief non-astronomer's guide to redshift surveys is available. ... The primary scientific aims of the QSO survey are: (1) to obtain the primordial fluctuation power spectrum out to COBE scales, (2) to determine the rate of QSO clustering evolution in the non-linear and linear regimes and hence obtain new limits on the value of and the bias parameter, (3) to apply a powerful geometric method to measure . ...

The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Director Ludy D'Angelo (609) 882-9336 Assistant Director Jeff Bernardis (609) 466-4238 jeffbernardis@gmail.com Treasurer Michael Mitrano (609)-737-6518 michael.mitrano@att.net Program Chairman John Church (609) 799-0723 j.church@mindspring.com Secretary Editors Larry Kane Bryan Hubbard and Michael Wright (609) ... At the last meeting of the year in June, we were gathered at the State Museum Planetarium in Trenton. ...

... Space activity at the beginning of XXI-st Century view from inside G.M.Chernyavskiy STC for Earth Space monitoring of FSUE , Russia 1. The systemic approach in astronautics Everyone who has linked his life with astronautics and those who are interested in the future of the inhabitancy medium and its expansion up to cosmic scales, are troubled about the current state and development of space activity in the World and in the Native Land of the first artificial Earth satellite (AES). ...

... Общероссийская неделя "Астрономия на тротуаре" - 15-17 апреля . ... Астрономия и компьютеры (Модераторы: Deimos , Ed_Vazhorov ) ? Прошивка пульта ETX-Autostar Meade - HELP ! ... Рейтинг: +4/-1 . 03.08.2006 [10:37:28] ? ... В наличии имеется пульт ETX-Autostar (не родной, но рабочий). ... Может кто скинет в почту и объяснит как осуществляется прошивка для LXD-75 на этом пульте ? ... Закачиваем это к себе, соединяем комп и пульт, запускаем программу, выбираем прошивку и заливаем ее. ...

... Printed in the U.S.A. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/691/2/1222 AUTOMATED LASCO CME CATALOG FOR SOLAR CYCLE 23: ARE CMEs SCALE INVARIANT? ... CME RATE DURING CYCLE 23 Figure 2 shows the daily CACTus CME rate for cycle 23 in red, with the International Sunspot Number (e.g., Vanlommel et al. 2004) superimposed in gray as solar cycle reference. ... The CACTus CME speeds Figure 12. ... A comparison of a sample of common events shows that on average the CDAW CME width is wider than the CACTus CME width. ...

GPS GP-37 () GPS . ... GPS- (John A. Klobuchar) [3]. ... GPS GP-37, Furuno. ... Datta-Barua S., Doherty P.H., Delay S.H., Dehel t., Klobuchar J.A. Ionospheric scintillation effects on single and dual frequency GPS positioning. ... Air Force Surveys in Geophysics, No. ... Klobuchar, J. A. Ionospheric Time-Delay Algorithm for Single-Frequency GPS Users. ... Global Positioning System Standard Positioning Service (SPS) Signal Specification. 2nd Edition. ... Klobuchar, J. A. Ionospheric Effect on GPS. ...

... The bright supernova (hereafter SN) in the galaxy NGC 4527 was first sighted by S. Knight (USA) on April 13.17UT at magnitude ~14.0v. The report of the sighting was subsequently forwarded by phone to the AAVSO. ... SN 1991T. The galaxy NGC 4527 is an Sb(s)II type galaxy with an apparent Blue magnitude of 11.32 (Shapley-Ames, 1981). ... An analysis of this event utilizing visual observations by amateurs, plus a light curve is presented.. ... THE LIGHT CURVE: . ... ISN SN 1991T web page . ...