Astronomy & Space - April 2007

I live in NYC and thankfully near the airport, which allows me to have a pretty clear view of the night sky. I was wondering what is a good telescope to buy in which I can see other planets. My budget is $1500.00. Anyone has any recommendations ? I am new to the field of Astronomy and was wondering if their were any enviromental factors that would constrict my views ?

2007-04-02 17:06:17 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was looking at Venus from Vancouver, British Columbia with my sky watcher 130mm 650 focal Newtonian and am a beginner in astronomy.

But venus was pretty bright and just showed up as a bright spot in my scope. A bright speck of light, I could not really make out any surface details or for that matter anything at all. The damn planet looked like a star with a light of its own :(

I am assuming this is because of its closeness to sun, while the sun sets across the horizon.

Can one see a good view of venus through the above scope. I mean saturn was quite interesting to see but venus on the other hand did not really amuse me too much at first sight. I am wondering it is because of the good ol sun or simply the nature of things.

Thanks

2007-04-02 16:53:18 · 9 answers · asked by planck12 1

2007-04-02 16:22:27 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

the universe is way to big to traval from one solor system to the next. alpha centauri is 4.3 light years away so we're not going to be visited any time soon:?"
i hear this quite alot, and from top scientists. we imply our science(remember we have only been flying for a littel over a hundred years) that another civiliztion maybe a billion years ahead of us, and they can't come here?
a billion year of technology,distants and time might be irrelevent. all i'm saying is, i think we need to be more open minded about this.

2007-04-02 15:19:28 · 9 answers · asked by ash7600 2

What does this suggest about star?

2007-04-02 15:19:02 · 3 answers · asked by blue october 3

What raw materials would I use to build one? Would the engines be in the front or the back? How long would it take to accelerate or decelerate from near lightspeed? Best SERIOUS answer gets the 10 points.

2007-04-02 15:13:55 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I heard this story about a mission to send a spacecraft to the planet of Saturn to find out what the surface is made of, amongst other things. It took months for the spacecraft to arrive because Saturn is so far away. The spacecraft took the pictures and we recently got them back. The biggest problem was that the whole mission cost us over $3 billion dollars! $3 billion dollars for pictures of Saturn?! Are you f@*king kidding me? Let's be honest here. Why does anybody care what Saturn is made of? It's not like we can live there someday. Was it really worth all that money to learn more about some planet that no one really cares about? I just hope the taxpayers' money wasn't used to fund this expedition. Here's a message to NASA: Stop wasting billions of dollars for these scatterbrained missions! There's nothing out there that we can use. If you find the cure for AIDS and cancer out there, then I'll owe you an apology. But I wouldn't bet on that. What do you think of this?

2007-04-02 15:11:22 · 13 answers · asked by mikey062804 3

2007-04-02 15:09:51 · 2 answers · asked by ? 2

well, are there, to hell with scientifical evidance, wht do you think?

2007-04-02 15:08:23 · 8 answers · asked by Tenaya K 1

2007-04-02 15:07:14 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Today, how can astronomers can measure distances directly to worlds like Venus, Mars, the Moon, or the satellites of Jupiter?

using x-ray telescopes

bouncing radar beams off them

sending graduate students out with very long tape measures

using Cepheid variable stars that lie behind the planets

using the Hubble Space Telescope to triangulate with

I thought it would be using Cepheid variable stars that lie behind the planets but I know I'm wrong would it be using the Hubble Space telescope...

2007-04-02 14:58:04 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

What will a star moving toward the Sun show?

a shift in the spectral lines toward the blue end (as compared to the laboratory positions of these lines)

a shift in the spectral lines toward the red end (as compared to the laboratory positions of these lines)

a significant increase in its apparent brightness (magnitude)

no change that can be measured with our present-day instruments

more and more helium lines as it approaches us

I think it will show more helium...not sure

2007-04-02 14:54:53 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-02 14:52:11 · 3 answers · asked by vandarith v 1

Which of the following statements about interstellar matter is FALSE?

It is clumpy: much of it is distributed in patchy, irregular clouds.

It also includes grains of dust.

The total mass in interstellar matter in our Galaxy is about 5% of the mass in stars.

If the matter were spread out evenly, it would be about as dense as the Earth's atmosphere.

99% of it is in the form of gas.

2007-04-02 14:38:09 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

What are the largest types of clouds found in interstellar space?

molecular clouds with supplies of dust and molecules

interstellar grains


all these clouds are approximately the same size

HII regions -- clouds of ionized hydrogen

HI regions -- clouds of neutral hydrogen

2007-04-02 14:35:43 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-02 14:29:19 · 7 answers · asked by closeinphilly 3

2007-04-02 14:18:14 · 15 answers · asked by Babylove DeDe 1

Is/was Mars in Orion tonight? I thought I viewed it with my binocs around the left shoulder area around 9 PM EST . I'm fairly sure I viewed Saturn in the eastern sky, and the evening star, Venus, in the west.

2007-04-02 14:13:11 · 8 answers · asked by josh m 4

2007-04-02 14:08:01 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

i need info on rockets history and current stuff

2007-04-02 13:50:17 · 8 answers · asked by xoxpujrulesxox 2

2007-04-02 13:30:41 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-02 13:23:37 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

If Earth's orbit takes Earth closer to the sun then back out (which would cause ice ages), isn't it possible that this orbital pattern is causing our global warming?

2007-04-02 13:20:33 · 10 answers · asked by OwNaGeR 3

2007-04-02 12:58:23 · 7 answers · asked by fstgrl03 1

i`ve got a test and it ask how long ago did the formation of te protoplanetary disc occur and then ask for the age of earth which i know. but then say`s providing a reason,briefly explain by how much he age given in your answer (first) differs from the age of the earth.
i tough that when the protoplanetary disc occour thats when the earth was born so that would b the same age am i right???

2007-04-02 12:42:25 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

If god made the earth.
Who made god?

2007-04-02 12:41:21 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-02 12:28:14 · 6 answers · asked by Alfonso G 1

2007-04-02 12:14:36 · 1 answers · asked by squan_girl 1

2007-04-02 11:57:21 · 5 answers · asked by Kevin G 2

i need to build my own telescope so i can see the stars and some planets anything related to the outerspace

2007-04-02 11:48:59 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous