Table './thoth_sunthoth/nuke_session' is marked as crashed and should be repaired
Table './thoth_sunthoth/nuke_session' is marked as crashed and should be repaired
Table './thoth_sunthoth/nuke_session' is marked as crashed and should be repaired
Table './thoth_sunthoth/nuke_session' is marked as crashed and should be repaired
Table './thoth_sunthoth/nuke_session' is marked as crashed and should be repaired
Table './thoth_sunthoth/nuke_session' is marked as crashed and should be repaired
Table './thoth_sunthoth/nuke_session' is marked as crashed and should be repaired
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Lonecat in Orbit 12 |
 By Lonecat
HELLO once more from Lonecat still in orbit around the Earth and wishing I could get to the Hubble telescope to take a close-up look at it. I like telescopes and will never forget the time I first saw the Moon and Jupiter through a refractor I had made, myself, when I was about 13 or 14. I remember that to get a good view of an open patch of sky I had to take the telescope and tripod ( which I had also made) out into the local cemetery or rather church yard. Both The Moon and Jupiter were to be seen in the sky and I was able to view the craters on the gibbous Moon which shone down upon the gravestones. I was absolutely astonished and literally open-mouthed at the sight of the lunar mountains along the terminator (the line along the Moon's surface which separates the lunar day from the lunar night). This is the best time to see the Moon through a telescope, when the angle of the Sun throws the shadows of the features on the Moon's surface into stark relief. I was also treated, on that same night in the graveyard, to a sighting of the so-called Gallilean Moons of Jupiter. the very Moons which Gallileo dei Gallilei himself discovered with his first rudimentary telescope.
Here are some good links to go to if you're thinking of buying a telescope and you'd like to know the basics.
http://tinyurl.com/4ypps6
http://tinyurl.com/2q2s2w
http://tinyurl.com/4acqt8
NEW STATION CREW AND A TOURIST SET FOR LAUNCH THIS SUNDAY
Here is an interesting article with some very nice photographs. At the bottom of the first picture you see there is an invitation to click for further images. Do that for the pictures are very good... indeed.
http://tinyurl.com/4ps8aq
SOME VERY INTERESTING ASTRO AIDS
Our good friend and fellow contributor, Pencil, sent in this highly entertaining guide to the night sky which is worthy of some detailed perusal. After that, or course, you have actually to get your arse off that chair and go outside and check it...out!
As Pencil himself says: "This has excellent photographs to show where Saturn is in the morning sky. Scroll past the sun and the first picture on the left".
http://tinyurl.com/4qawsy
LONGITUDE ON MARS
While gazing at Earth this morning through my BoT-OSV observation port, I began to think about globes of the Earth which we see marked with the lines of Latitude and longitude. Then I thought of the Maps and globes I have seen of Mars and this made me wonder when, how and by whom the zero meridian was established on Mars. So I looked for it on my on-board computer and this is what I got:
http://tinyurl.com/3v5fno
MORE ABOUT THE MERCURY MISSION
As I said in my first post about Mercury this week, I had seen an article in Spanish on the subject and was looking for more about it in English. So here is an article from Space dot Com http://tinyurl.com/3rs8tq
NO NAKED BLACK HOLES? NOPE.
Not long ago we were talking about when worlds collide. Here is something else to get your head round. Ever thought about what happens when Black Holes collide...and at the speed of light or near enough as makes no difference?
"No matter how hard you try to push their boundaries, black holes always seem to preserve their modesty".
http://tinyurl.com/4oz5lh
SPACE TELESCOPES
We hear so much about the wonderful Hubble telescope and its dramatic and sometimes troubled life in orbit and we are, at the same time, so overawed by the almost fantastic photographs it has sent back to us since it was launched, that we might be excused for overlooking the other orbital telescope, the Spitzer. So, here is a little bit about it for you to read by just clicking onto this link:
http://tinyurl.com/3otdma
IT'S THAT CASSINI AGAIN!
It's NASA's Cassini space explorer again! What is happening now!?
"NASA's Cassini spacecraft is scheduled to fly within 16 miles of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Oct. 9 and measure molecules in its space environment that could give insight into the history of the solar system. This encounter will potentially have far-reaching implications for understanding how the solar system was formed and how it evolved," said professor Tamas Gombosi, chair of the University of Michigan Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences.
http://tinyurl.com/4xwxmb
HOW TELESCOPES WORK
Many p4eople must often have wondered just how telescope really function. Some will have thought about building their own telescopes. First, though, you have grasp the fundamentals of makes a telescope, before going on to the ins-and-outs of the modern monsters, still called telescopes but looking more like figments of the imagination of science-fiction writers. The following link will give you some idea.
http://tinyurl.com/43svbo
WHERE DO STARS COME FROM IN THE FIRST PLACE?
Good question. We see stars in the night sky (if we are lucky enough not to live in the big, light-polluted cities) and they seem to, just... to be there, for us to enjoy. Maybe they are there for that purpose but, more likely, there is a lot more out there we cannot see or appreciate, yet. If you have a reasonably good telescope you will, with your very first sight through the tube at the night sky, almost undoubtedly open your mouth in wonder. Then of course, there are bigger and bigger and ever more sophisticated telescopes which afford us ever more beautiful images of what the universe is holding out there in store for us to see. Would you like to see a "snapshot" of what some of the great telescopes, on Earth and in orbit around the Earth can see and photograph for us? The just click here:
http://tinyurl.com/4xmsjs
AN IDEA FOR A SMOOTHER RE-ENTRY?
I'd been thinking it was about time somebody started coming up with a more sophisticated re-entry system. I have had a few small ideas myself but I suppose THEY must know better.
"The IXV project objectives are the design, development, manufacturing, and on-ground and in-flight verification of an autonomous European lifting and aerodynamically controlled re-entry system..." click here for more: http://tinyurl.com/4o4pln
THE FIRST SNOWS OF 2008
Here is a very sharp, clear and beautiful photograph taken from space of the first snow to fall on Iceland.
http://tinyurl.com/4ypx9u
AN ASTRONOMICAL SENSE OF HUMOUR?
As I draw to the end of this week's Orbit, the twelfth, I thought I'd show you some astronomical "Lightbulb Jokes" I found. Out here in orbit, you know, there is also time for just bit of frivolity. After all, we human, after all.
http://tinyurl.com/4wft6f
ENCELADUS FLY-BY
Sorry, friends but HAVE to rush! My attitude control thrusters have...a...problem. This is a quick post which I will pick up on again if I can get this damned 4G rotation in my control cabin sorted out:-?
http://ciclops.org/index.php?js=1
CHANCE SPACE SNAPSHOT
Right. That's got that sorted out for the time being...and so, to end, here is a very interesting space photograph showing the Sun and, no... not a sunspot... nor is it a bicycle being ridden by a boy and ET across the face of the Sun but...guess what! Click here to find out: http://tinyurl.com/6cyl6c
Look at the photograph and...just...think! Back next week at the same time if all systems are still working normally. Lonecat
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