Dave Green's homepage . my other homepage) . Addresses: my contact details (both Departmental and College). Teaching: for the current academic year; . but, there is evidence that I've not been setting some of my students in College enough work! My current favourite is number 5. ... Research: details of my research, including: . ... details of my research antecedents . LaTeX: . I maintain a LaTeX class file -- NSTexam.cls -- for preparation of NST examination papers; . ...

How do you recognize life? Whether on Earth or in space, looking for living organisms?or evidence of life ? ... Spacecraft have already been to Mars, the moon and numerous other places in the solar system, but we haven't found life anywhere yet. ... In general the tests will scan for the same types of evidence as we would look for to detect Earth microbial life: . ... The first thing that will be done with samples is to 'look' for visual signs or chemical evidence of life. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Choosing the Right Microscope . ... On most microscopes the specimen glass remains fixed while the microscope's objective lens and eyepiece move as a unit up or down to focus the image. ... Eyepieces of varying powers work with objective lenses of varying powers to yield a range of microscope magnifications. ... Magnification: The effective magnification of a microscope is determined by multiplying the eyepiece power by the objective lens power . ... about meade |...

I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical; I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news--- With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. ...

... During the course of this report many key points have come to light, in particular the wastefulness of overlighting. ... The idea that more lighting means better lighting is not only wasting money, but also the lives of animals, such as the 50,000 birds that died over 2 nights at Warner Robins Air Force Base. ... There is also a wide range of different bulbs that can be used, all cheaper and more efficient than the kind everyone is used to: incandescent bulbs. ...

A large population of deer thrive on the land surrounding the observatory. The picture was taken on a Saturday morning in mid-October,1996. It was the next to last day of archery hunting season. This animal walked up behind our roll roof building where I had been waiting for about half an hour. ... Just beyond this nice web outside the main building's front door, is the solar observation equipment and beyond that, one of the sanctuary's three ponds . ... Back to Moore Observatory Homepage ...

. In recent years, Brian May has found a comfortable mixture of music, astronomy, stereography, and animal welfare activism тАФ all of which were childhood passions. Brian May Archive

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Suppose a star explodes into a supernova at a distance of about 100 lightyears. ... Supernovae are very bright, and they put out light at all different wavelengths. ... For a typical supernova to be as bright to the human eye as the Sun, it would have to occur at a distance of about a light year from the Earth. ... For a supernova to be as bright as a good solar flare, it would have to be at a distance of about 5-60 light years or so away. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... AstroAsciiData is a Python module to handle ASCII tables. ... The idea to develop this Python module emerged from the fact that ASCII tables continue to be one of the most popular and widely used data exchange formats in astronomy and probably science in general. ... To load this ASCII table, go into Python, load the AstroAsciiData module and read in the table with: . ... demo = asciidata.open('webexa.txt') . ... Users who only want to work with ASCII tables neeed no further python modules. ...