I just came across this funny video about science in astronomer Phil Plait‘s blog which features Veronica Belmont Courtesy
Tag Archive: Astronomy
Feb 06
WolframAlpha widget for celestial objects
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Jan 30
Telescope under urban night sky
I recently posted about my new telescope.I watched the moon (Photos posted in that same blog) first. It was a full moon and craters were easily visible with my 20 mm eyepiece ( 45x magnification ).With this magnification moon was just covered by the viewing area which is about 1 degree in diameter. (Orion‘s belt is 3 degree’s …
Dec 31
Jupiter’s Moon
Using 70mm Binocular , The star 20 Psc is confusing with Callisto (Both 6th Magnitude and same distance from Jupiter ) but "Io" and "Ganymede" constructs the line which distinguishes "Callisto" as Jupiter’s moon ref: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Jupiter+7%3A43+pm+30+DEC+2010+from+hyderabad For individual stats of Galileo moons http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Ganymede
Dec 25
How to choose telescope
I stumbled upon the following article in at Sky & Telescope which a few very good articles about details of an astronomical telescope. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/equipment/basics For a quick summery I found the Amazon’s Telescope buyers’ guide Also Orion’s PDF Instruction Manual was very informative regarding specifications and “What to expect from a beginner’s telescope ”
Nov 28
Online Planetariums and Sky Charts
When its a cloudy night and wrong season to see your favorite star , you might want to quickly look at a computer software’s which emulates the sky. The 1st software I had seen back in my college days was CyberSky. Since then it has added so many futures that I can not even imagine. …
Nov 24
The November Sky
November is about to end but here is a quick summery of the night sky from hubblesite.org. Paul Neave has designed an awesome interactive sky map. This is one of the wonderful creations of his.
Nov 16
Its “The time of the year” again
Exactly a couple of years back I posted http://neilghosh.com/2008/11/15/significance-of-birthday/ saying about the reason why Birthdays does not really have anything to to your behavior. Recently I spotted two very important objects in the sky with my new Celestron 15×70 Binoculars. Even though these are supposed to be visible in naked eye in a very dark …
Apr 25
BBC Wonders Of The Solar System
Here is an extraordinary BBC astronomy documentary hosted by Brian Cox.I had a tough time embedding the YouTube Playlist into this blog due to missing embed code in the new YouTube after they redesigned it last month.Thanks to Google groups forum.We have already seen his humorous ted show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6uKZWnJLCM I specially like this Documentary because …
Nov 15
Looking forward to Leonid Meteor shower on 17th
Only 2 days to go but the sky is still not clear here at Hyderabad.Moreover ambient light of Hi-tech city always hinders sky watching. I am hoping clouds will be cleared and we will be able to see.Its a new moon on 17th of November 2009 which will add to the darkness of the sky. …