Brooke's Astronomy Page Ron Wodaski s astronomy Stuff CCD tips 7 tricks - book cahpter Stargazer s pub - links FTP sites -ftp//ftp.satellite.eu.org/pub/sat/programs/- http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/Astro.shtml
Extractions: UFOs I have a Celestron 8" telescope with a tripod equatorial mount and some accessories. It takes quite a while to get proper polar alignment, but once you do it is very easy to point it at any object for which you know the declination and right ascension. Although the newer digital setting circles will work without polar alignment, there is image rotation that limits the exposure time for astrophotraghpy. I have seen image de-rotators that fix this problem, but still piggyback astrophotography needs the equatorial mount, that's why I have included a web reference for Astro Pier, to make it easier to use the equatorial mount. Depending on what you are doing there are different ways to look at the night sky: your eyes, binoculars, telescope or scope with CCD and starting in 2001 or 2002 using a very sensitive TV camera. As a rough guide a decent 50mm pair of binoculars will take you from the naked eye limit of around mag. +6, to about mag. +10 (in suitable skies).
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Subject Title List - Education 0316082775 Bedroom astronomy KLUTZ ENT 14.95 1570545162 Bedtime Teaching Board Book DK pubLIS 6.95 0789452154 My Freshman Manual CREAT pub 6.95 http://www.thedistributors.com/inven/subject/educat.htm
February 2000 Capitol Skies gc M13 Her 16h 41m 42s +36deg 27 36 Size 21 mag 5.8 Ura 114 Distance To me, no book more beautifully captures the spirit of amateur astronomy than http://www.madisonastro.org/capskies/2000/2000_06/June2000.html
Extractions: June/July 2000 A word from the (acting) president by Neil Simmons This month we gather to select our board of directors and enjoy a fun-filled day of picnicking at our own Yanna Research Station (for details, see page 3). Most years we have sunshine, but rain is not a complete stranger to our summer social gathering and our clubhouse is rather a blessing in those years. Years ago it was the end of a social season. The elected officials would not take office until near the summer's end in September and no other meetings took place until then. There is a wisdom to this as we all need time to enjoy our observing, but summer is both a time of observing and of construction and as the speed of modern life quickened, the loss of two or three months of meetings became troublesome. This year we will be nearly wiping clear the slates that hold the names of our board members. Only Tim Ellestad will remain as our Observatory Director. For those who are new, we have been President-less since the resignation of Bob Manske in September after holding the office for so long that nobody's quite sure exactly when he started, but it's been about ten years. The remaining members of the board have made it clear to me that it was their time to stop as well. I would like to thank those departing board members who have given service to the MAS. Joe Keyes, who has pretty much been the treasurer since I can remember, lists his years of service with double digits. Our Secretary, Bob Shannon, had last year graciously extended his service to 6 years. Dave Weier has been on the board as President, Vice-President, and Member-at-large, again for years ranging into the double digits, has also decided to explore other aspects of his astronomical interests. Mike Puffer, who had returned last year as a board member at large, had previously held the office of Secretary for years along with his wife Paula, is also stepping aside.
ASTRONOMY URLs BrailleTouch the UniverseNASA Braille book of astronomy by Norine Grice. FTP list for astronomy http//seds.lpl.arizona.edu/pub/faq/astroftp.html http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/sii/URLs/URLs-Astronomy.html
Extractions: Please include name of non-operative link as well as the name of this page: URLs-Astronomy ASTRONOMY CLUBS ASTRONOMY COMPANIES ASTRONOMY EDUCATION ASTRONOMY WEBSITES FOR KIDS ... SATELLITES An Astronomy Web Index (Astro Web) http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/astroweb.html Yahoo's Index of Astronomy Resources Astronomy Picture of the Day http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ Adirondack Video Astronomy http://www.astrovid.com/ email: avaastro@compuserve.com cameras with manual gain and shutter control. Complete kits are available to attach to the telescope. Amateur Sky Survey (TASS) http://www.tass-survey.org/tass/tass.shtml TASS hopes to construct low-cost drift-scan cameras and distribute them to sites around the worldto monitor bright objects across a large section of the sky Amateur Telescope making http://www.astunit.com
Lunar Explorers Digest Book List Hockey, Thomas A, The book of the Moon Introduction to astronomy, geology, The Editors, The milepost (a guide to Alaskan hywy), Vernon pub. http://www.lpi.usra.edu/ILEWG/led.html
Extractions: How to Submit a Review Science Education Exploration ... Fiction Five stars means top rating; "N/R" means the book has not been rated. Science Author Book Publisher Rating Adler, Isador Analysis of extraterrestrial material (1986) J Wiley and Sons N/R Balsiger, H (ed) Mission to the Moon (1992) ESA SP 1150 Balsiger, H (ed) Towards a world strategy for the exploration and utilization of our natural satellite (1994) ESA SP 1170 Baldwin, Ralph B The face of the Moon (1949) Univ. Chicago Press N/R Baldwin, Ralph B The measure of the Moon (1963) Univ. Chicago Press N/R Baldwin, Ralph B A fundamental survey of the Moon (1965) McGraw-Hill N/R Basilevsky, A T Impact craters on the Moon and planets (1983) NAUKA Press N/R Cadogen, Peter H The Moon: Our sister planet (1981) Cambridge Univ. Press Cameron, W S Catalog of lunar mission data NSSDC#77-02 (1977) Goddard Space Center N/R COMPLEX An Integrated Strategy for the Planetary Sciences: 1995-2010 (1994) http://www.nap.edu/nap/online/planet_sci/ Foing, B H (ed) Astronomy and space science from the Moon (1992) - symp. COSPAR/Pergamon N/R Genet, Russell
The Book Forum - Which Magazines Do You Read? If I haven t got access to a book or mag I ll read anything, back of cereal packets, Otherwise looks like more astronomy today, New Scientist . http://forums.thebookforum.com/archive/index.php/t-86.html
Extractions: I subscribe to a UK magazine called Digital Photo. Although I'm not very good with Paint Shop Pro, I still enjoy reading about how to apply all the clever effects etc... My only problem with the magazine is that it concentrates too much on Adobe Photoshop. Whilst Photoshop is an excellent package, I'm not prepared to pay out £500 for it! I bought Paint Shop Pro, and I'm sticking with that :) I occasionally pick up a computer or DVD magazine, but a lot more info is usually available online. lies 12th May 2002, 03:34 PM I only read music-related magazines to be honest. I have a subscription to the Dutch magazine OOR (desperately trying to get out of it though), and I pick up copies of Aardschok, Mindview (it's free, yay!) and others from time to time... 2nd June 2002, 03:29 PM
Merlyn - Astron Page 2 - J R Stockton Merlyn Home Page Site Index, E-mail, Copying; My other astronomy Reference Bernard Wicksteed, It s Fun Finding Out p.159 foot; book pub. http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/astron-2.htm
Extractions: Some of this page needs a compatible Symbol font, in which for example p is displayed as the Greek letter pi and as Root; otherwise, letters may be displayed in place of Greeks and Maths signs. This governs Date and Time. See also my Date Miscellany I Time Miscellany Critical and Significant Dates Gravity Page pages, and some of their links; I do not myself deal with measurements. The Gregorian Calendar is intended to remove long-term drift from the date of the Vernal Equinox, and does so reasonably well; in it, the average year length is 365.2425 days. This assumes typical UK atmospheric conditions, and no optical aids.
Chronological Bibliography William Brewster Humphrey, pub. by American Indian League, NY 1912astronomy with an Opera Glass, by Garrett P. Serviss. Appleton. http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/native/dance/chronological.htm
Extractions: Search Now: 1887-The Mountain Chant, a Navaho Ceremony, by Dr. Washington Matthews, 5th Annual Report Bureau Ethnology, pp. 379-467. 1892-The Medicine Men of the Apache, by John G. Bourke, 9th Annual Report Bureau of Ethnology, pp. 451-495. 1892-Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition, by John Murdoch, 9th Annual Report Bureau Ethnology, pp. 19-441. 1893-Dakota Grammar, Texts and Ethnology, by Stephen Return Riggs, Contributions to North American Ethnology, Vol. IX. 1893-Land of Poco Tiempo, by Charles F. Lummis, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1894-Indian Songs, by Alice C. Fletcher, Century Magazine, Jan. 1894-A Study of Indian Music, by John Comfort Fillmore, Century Magazine, Feb. 1896-The Menominee Indians, by Walter James Hoffman, 14 Annual Report Bureau Ethnologi, Part I, pp. 11-328. 1896-The Ghost Dance Religion, by James Mooney, 14th Annual Report Bureau Ethnology, Part II, pp. 641-1136. 1899-The Eskimo About Bering Strait, by Edward W. Nelson, 18th Annual Report Bureau Ethnology, Part I, pp. 19-518. X900-Indian Story and Song from North America, by Alice C. Fletcher, Small, Maynard Rc Co.
Anonymous FTP: Sitelist Part 20 Of 23 [20/23] ftp//ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/info/ftplist.zip Z Files astronomy; bench; calculators; cdrom; cisco; cygnus; database; docs; games; http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/ftp-list/sitelist/part20.html
Extractions: Note from archiver cs.uu.nl: This page is part of a big collection of Usenet postings, archived here for your convenience. For matters concerning the content of this page , please contact its author(s); use the source , if all else fails. For matters concerning the archive as a whole, please refer to the archive description or contact the archiver. This article was archived around: 13 Nov 1997 10:17:02 GMT All FAQs in Directory: ftp-list/sitelist Source: Usenet Version Archive-name: ftp-list/sitelist/part20 Garbo-archive-name: ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/ftp-list.zip Simtel-mirror-name: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/info/ftp-list.zip Site : peoplesparc.berkeley.edu Country: USA GMT : -8 Date : 06-Jan-94 Source : old ftp-list Alias : Admin : Organ : University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, California Server : System : Unix (SunOS 4.1) URL : ftp://peoplesparc.berkeley.edu/
Extractions: I t's very hard to explain 24th century physics from a 20th century perspective. Even worse, is attempting to justify the whims of Star Trek scriptwriters to science accuracies. Krauss doesn't go as far as to attack any 'science advisors' on any of the four Star Trek series and six films, but he must have thought they were asleep some of the time to let so many faux pas get through. Krauss ignores the technobabble and goes for the jugular with the basic scientific principles that are wrong. Anyone who understood high school science will know the Conservation of Energy (nothing can be created or destroyed only its form can be altered) and the speed of light is an impossible barrier to exceed will immediately have problems with warp drive. As a book of the current developments of science in our century and reality, Krauss has provided a reasonable layman's understanding of today's physics. Where it goes wrong is in attempting to apply this to Star Trek. The Roddenberry hype of plausibility refers to scientific analysis, characters' jobs and astronomical phenomena than the means to get there.
SCI.SPACE FAQ No. 05 - Space/references See the back pages of astronomy or other amateur astronomy publications for contact info; ftp//explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/SPACE/FAQ/CapsuleLocations http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/facts/faq05.html
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History Of Astronomy, By George Forbes BOOK I. THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD. 1. PRIMITIVE astronomy AND ASTROLOGY mag., vol. xxiv., pp. 4814. 2. Plaeiadas t esoronte kai opse duonta bootaen http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8hsrs10h.htm
Extractions: M.A., F.R.S., M. INST. C. E., PREFACE 1. PRIMITIVE ASTRONOMY AND ASTROLOGY 3. ANCIENT GREEK ASTRONOMY 12. THE SUN 13. THE MOON AND PLANETS 14. COMETS AND METEORS INDEX Lastly, it must be noted that, as a History of England cannot deal with the present Parliament, so also the unfinished researches and untested hypotheses of many well-known astronomers of to-day cannot be included among the records of the History of Astronomy. The writer regrets the necessity that thus arises of leaving without mention the names of many who are now making history in astronomical work. G. F. August 1st, 1909. The growth of intelligence in the human race has its counterpart in that of the individual, especially in the earliest stages. Intellectual activity and the development of reasoning powers are in both cases based upon the accumulation of experiences, and on the comparison, classification, arrangement, and nomenclature of these experiences. During the infancy of each the succession of events can be watched, but there can be no anticipations. Experience alone, in both cases, leads to the idea of cause and effect as a principle that seems to dominate our present universe, as a rule for predicting the course of events, and as a guide to the choice of a course of action. This idea of cause and effect is the most potent factor in developing the history of the human race, as of the individual.
Extractions: <0.8). With these, "high-thrust" interplanetary flight is not possible, because system acceleration (a(t)) capabilities are always less than the local gravitational acceleration. In contrast, gain values 50-100 times higher are found for some fusion concepts, which offer "high-thrust" flight capability. One performance example shows a 53.3 day (34.4 powered; 18.9 coast), one-way transit time with 19% payload for a single-stage Earth/Mars vehicle. Another shows the potential for high acceleration (a(t)=0.55g(o)) flight in Earth/moon space. "The QED Engine System: Direct Electric Fusion-Powered Systems for Aerospace Flight Propulsion" by Robert W. Bussard, EMC2-1190-03, available from Energy/Matter Conversion Corp., 9100 A. Center Street, Manassas, VA 22110. [This is an introduction to the application of Bussard's version of the Farnsworth/Hirsch electrostatic confinement fusion technology to propulsion. 1500
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SEDS Messier Database s of the Messier objects from observations by astronomers apparent visual brightness in magnitudes mag, apparent (angular) diameter in http://www.infoguide.dk/HitCounter.pub?linkid=16544&url=http://seds.lpl.arizona.
Extractions: Below is a list that observers may use to evaluate whether the source(s) that they are contemplating using for visual or V stellar magnitudes are recommended or not. Unfortunately, many errors have been found over the years in the both the individual variable-star charts of the AAVSO (ICQ code AC) and the AAVSO Variable Star Atlas (code AA); those variable-star charts were designed for the purpose of tracking the relative variation in brightness of individual variable stars, and they frequently are not adequately aligned with the proper magnitude scale. The new Hipparcos/Tycho catalogues have had new codes implemented (see below). New additions (and changes in categories) will be made to the following list as new information reaches the ICQ. < V < 16.0) as published in Visual Astronomy of the Deep Sky (see ref. 'CL', below), p. 250. CE Open star cluster NGC 1647 photometry (8.5 < V < 16.4), in Visual Astronomy of the Deep Sky, p. 252 (see ref. 'CL', below). CF Open star cluster NGC 2129 photometry (11.2 < V < 16.1), in Visual Astronomy of the Deep Sky, p. 254 (see ref. 'CL', below). CG Open star cluster NGC 2422 (M47) photometry (7.7
Prime Focus 9 Sat Iota Virgi nis (mag. 4.8) occulted by Moon 1254 AM 10 Sun Mother s Day. This year the meeting will be cohosted by astronomy magazine and the http://www.trivalleystargazers.org/newsletter/1998/may98pf.html
Extractions: At this early point in the mission and its data analysis, this range may be in error by as much as an order of magnitude, because Luna r Prospector is the first interplanetary mission to employ a neutron spectroscopy tool to measure water. No previous precis e models exis t to describe exactly how neutrons behave on the lunar surface. Binder believes that, "the answer is in the data... it's just a matter of finding out what it is." Lunar Prospector's overall mission places scientific exploration of the Moon as its highest priority. Researchers expect that the mission will contribute major new understandings of the origin, evolution, and current state of the Moon. Join us at the May meeting to hear the latest from the project's pri ncipal investigator.
