Archive for the ‘Astrophography’ Category
Caroline Moore: Teen Astronomer found rare supernova
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010NASA and Microsoft Provide Mars 3-D Close Encounter
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010PASADENA, Calif. — NASA and Microsoft Research are bringing Mars to life with new features in the WorldWide Telescope software that provide viewers with a high-resolution 3-D map of the Red Planet.
Microsoft’s online virtual telescope explores the universe using images NASA spacecraft return from other worlds. Teams at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., and Microsoft in Redmond, Wash., jointly developed the software necessary to make NASA’s planetary data available in WorldWide Telescope.
Click the link below for the full story.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Hubble IMAX 3D: Starts This Weekend
Saturday, March 20th, 2010This weekend is the release of the Movie Hubble IMAX 3D. During the last service mission for the Hubble Space Telescope, an IMAX 3D camera was along for the ride.
Here is a youtube trailer for the movie.
Watch Asteroids: Deadly Impact !
Friday, March 5th, 2010I thought with all of the discussion about major leading scientist now releasing there conclusion about the Chicxulub crater on the Mexican coast being the cause of the dinosaurs mass extinction some 65 million years ago. I would post this 55min video about Meteor impacts form National Geographic. It also covers the Shoemaker-Levey 9 that collided with Jupiter in July 1994, and discusses what happens when a mountain size asteroid collides with the Earth. Eugene Shoemaker passed away July 18, 1997 from a car accident in Australia. He was there looking for previously unnoticed or undiscovered meteor craters. On July 31, 1999, some of his ashes were carried to the Moon by the Lunar Prospector space probe. This makes him the only person to have been buried on the Moon. This will make more since when you watch the video.
The brass foil wrapping of Shoemaker’s memorial capsule is inscribed with images of Comet Hale-Bopp, the Barringer Crater, and a quotation from Romeo and Juliet reading
“And, when he shall die
Take him and cut him out in little stars
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun
Watch Asteroids: Deadly Impact | Watch Free Documentaries Online | SnagFilms.
BIG NEW SUNSPOT:#1045
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Image from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
Pluto, Former Planet, Ready for Its Close-Up – AOL News
Friday, February 5th, 2010
Pluto, Former Planet, Ready for Its Close-Up – AOL News
Friday, February 5th, 2010
Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Odd X-Pattern of Trailing Debris
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Found a Couple of Good Magazines With CD’s.
Monday, January 25th, 2010My recent trip to Barns & Noble I found a couple of good magazines with CD’s.
The first one is the January 2010 Issue of SKY WATCH produced by Sky & Telescope
The CD is chalked full of PDF’s on
GETTING THE MOST FROM YOUR TELESCOPE
• Mastering Your Finderscope
• Sky Maps with Your Telescope
• Mastering Your Equatorial Mount
• No-Tears Collimation
And
GREAT SIGHTS TO SEE
• Binocular Bonanza
• Jupiter: Big, Bright, and Beautiful
• Ursa Major: Bear, Dipper, and Much More
• The Serpent Bearer
• The Hyades
And much more.
This is definitely worth having in your library.
The other one was by Sky and Telescope call Beautiful Universe. The CD has about 20 Images from world renowned astrophotographer Robert Gendler that worth being your wall paper for your desk top, and is on display until February 8th, 2010.
Prepare for Impact!
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009Friday Moring about 5:30am MST. The LCROSS impactor will crash in to the south pole of the Moon, into a permanently shadowed crater, in the hopes of finding large amounts of water ice. This could be instrumental in long missions on the moon and even a permanent Moon Base. For more information on viewing the impact go to the following link.
New Impact Page Available: to provide the casual backyard observer useful information for observing the LCROSS impact event, see: http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/observation/amateur.htm
