home education > activities . ... Astronomy . ... This calculational activity by Evan Manning helps familiarize students with the Gregorian calendar, and then asks them to come up with a calendar system for another planet where the year is also not an integer multiple of days. [m,h] . ... Offers a spreadsheet to make a scale model of the solar system and beyond. ... Very basic activity, building a scale model of the Earth-Moon system; also teaches the simple math of ratios and scaling. [e, m] . ...
... Explanation: Positioning his camera and tripod on planet Earth, near Maricopa, Arizona, USA, astrophotographer Joe Orman created this trailing display of the ongoing sky-full-of-planets on May 3rd. ... Of course these planets, Mercury , Venus , Mars , Jupiter , and Saturn all still dazzle in western skies near sunset, but sky gazers who want to see Mercury should look soon. ... Publications with keywords: planets - conjunction . ... Venus Near the Moon . A Superior Conjunction Of Mercury . ...
... To derive the motion of a penny dropped inside an airliner moving at 600 miles/hr (about 1000 km/hr)--should we calculate it with respect to the interior of the airliner, or with respect to the ground? ... And if a similar penny is let go inside an orbiting spaceship--should its motion be calculated relative to the interior of the spaceship, or relative to the Earth outside? ... Each such choice is known as a frame of reference . Some possible frames are -- the interior of the airliner, . ...
. This is a new popup window - close it when you are done . Submitted by William Lee on 05/20/2007 15:17:03 . Quick Piggyback of Cygnus and Lyra . Vega is top center. Nikon D70 DSLR piggybacked on C8, 5 minute exposure with 5 minute dark frame, 22mm focal length (18-70mm zoom), F/8, ISO 800. Logon to post a follow-up comment or review comments from others . Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. About Us Contact Us
... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Meade Pictor XT-Series CCD Autoguider/Imagers . ... Take new sets of calibration frames if the temperature changes significantly.(or change the set you are using or the scaling if you are reusing calibration frames). ... You can also use scaleable dark frames called thermal frames. ... However, if you wish to reuse dark frames with images of different exposure times, you must turn the dark frame into a thermal frame by subtracting the bias information. ...
Magnification (Power) And Using Eyepieces . ... To determine power in a telescope, divide the focal length of the telescope by the focal length of the eyepiece. By exchanging an eyepiece of one focal length for another, you can increase or decrease the power of the telescope. For example, a 25mm eyepiece used on a telescope with a 1000mm focal length would yield a power of 40x (1000 / 25 = 40) and a 10mm eyepiece used on the same telescope would yield a power of 100x (1000 / 10 = 100). ...
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... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... solar system . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Solar eclipse travelogue: Sulawesi delivers a spectacular eclipse . ... What determines the length of totality during a solar eclipse? ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Join Astronomy for America's 2017 total solar eclipse! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter...
... Formation of Galactic Subsystems in Light of the Magnesium Abundance in Field Stars. ... The Thin Disk(2006) . ... I. The Thick Disk. ... A Compiled Catalog of Spectroscopically Determined Elemental Abundances for Stars with Accurate Parallaxws. I Magnesium. ... Stars of extragalactic origin in the solar neighborhood.( ... Evidence for age delay between the formation of the old halo and the thick disk(2000) . ... Tel:work(8632)433985 . home(8632)333178 . Fax:(8632)434044 . ...
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... The one year crew. (image credit: NASA/Bill Stafford) . The тАЬOne Year CrewтАЭ has specific objectives to their mission all in a bid to find out if the human body and mind is capable of long missions to an asteroid, back to the Moon or even to Mars in the future. ... On-board the Russian space station Mir four cosmonauts clocked up more than a year in space in the 1980s and 1990s.€а (1942-) has the record for the longest single space flight of 437 days or 14 months in space in 1995. ...