Archive for November, 2007

When people think of telescopes, reflecting telescopes are usually the last things that come to mind. Rather, people tend to think of a straight tube with lenses at either side. This is unfortunate, since there’re many ways to bend light so that it’s magnified to the point where an actual person on the ground...
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A celestial body orbiting another celestial body of larger size is a satellite. An artificial satellite is a manufactured object or vehicle intended to orbit the earth, the moon, or another celestial body. Since October 4th, 1957 humanity is capable of putting artificial satellites in orbit around the earth. The Russians were the first...
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Billions of galaxies exist in the known Universe, and not any two are explicitly the same. Galaxies are large compared to what we can comprehend, various thousands of light years from end to end (a light year is approx 300,000kms a second!), others are hundreds of thousands of light years from one side to...
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SETI, or Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, has been an ongoing endeavor for many decades. Clear? In the early days, it was expected to be a quick success, so much so that national governments even helped fund these projects. Like the Moon race, there was something of a “find E.T.” race. All that is gone...
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When aspiring astronomers look for quality optics that will let them peer into the unknown reaches of void, Meade telescopes are an excellent choice. And so… So far so good. With a wide variety of telescopes, mounts, and filters available, Meade gives options for the backyard stargazer & the serious student alike. And so…...
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The Hubble Space Telescope has been orbiting around the Earth & owes its name to Edwin Hubble who made the discovery of galaxies that lay outside the Milky Way as well as for his creation of Hubbles Law that calculated the rate at which the universe is getting bigger. The Hubble Space Telescope is...
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Web cams have changed amateur astrophotography profoundly. You can now have a CCD for a fraction of the cost. Web cams can take awesome planetary & lunar astrophotos right out of the box. You can use the capture software that comes with the cam for capturing your shots & then use freeware to process...
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Billions of galaxies reside in the known Universe, and not any two are completely the same. Galaxies are sizable compared to what we can comprehend, various thousands of light years from end to end (a light year is approx 300,000kms a second!), others are hundreds of thousands of light years from one side to...
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When a nature enthusiast is using their binoculars to take in the sights of nature, such as bird watching or watching deer in their natural habitat, holding a pair of binoculars can be a strain on the arms, back & neck. To alleviate this strain & make the experience more pleasant there is a...
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For many generations various human cultures have had great knowledge about the star constellations. However, these days most of the so-called modernized breed of human cant tell you much about whats around us in the infinite Universe. The funny thing is, technically we now know more about whats there than ever before, weve even...
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Like a lot of kids, my folks gave me a 60mm telescope for Christmas one year. The scope was a typical department-store brand – not very good – but to a 12-year old kid it opened up the universe. Through it I got to see the moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus &...
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Do you believe in unidentified flying objects & believe that our government has not told us everything about UFO’s that they have knowledge of? What is the truth about these unidentified flying objects in your mind? Are you confused or do you just think that these so called sightings are nothing more than a...
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