Astronomy & Space - June 2007

I know in the good old days before digital cameras astronomers would stay up all night looking through the sky. Nowadays, I'd imagine they just program the motorized telescope and digital camera and shoot all night automatically. That way they can sleep all night like a normal person and look at their picture "prizes" the next day. Am I right, or am I way off?

2007-06-29 12:50:11 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

the eye is a lens the brain sees the image in the same way as a digital camera. Images from the camera can be downloaded
onto a computer, the brain is a computer,in the distant furture
could the images we have seen in a lifetime be downloaded
for all to see ,?

2007-06-29 12:46:00 · 6 answers · asked by mickjack 5

Since gravity creates time out of the annihilation of space would it be correct to say that regions of space with no matter don't have time?

2007-06-29 12:15:40 · 17 answers · asked by misoma5 7

im not good at anything, for real i am not..not sports..not ANYTHING

PEOPLE SAY EVERYBODY IS GOOD FOR SOMETHING BUT I AM NOT?? HELP

2007-06-29 10:54:24 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

I realize that this same general question could be asked about any conspiracy theory, but the persistence of certain conspiracy theories makes more sense than others. For example, the "JFK second gunman" conspiracy theory is probably persistent because some people who opposed U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War WANT to believe that the CIA of the 1960s was corrupt and out of control. And some people believe in “9/11” conspiracies because they WANT to believe that the Bush Administration is corrupt and imperialistic, or perhaps some people NEED to believe that a good Muslim like Osama ben Laden is not capable of such a crime in order to avoid a crisis of faith.

But what’s up with the moon? Is it really so hard for some people to accept that the United States is capable of doing something so monumental that they will go to such incredible lengths to bury their heads in the sand and ignore the obvious evidence?

2007-06-29 10:26:30 · 14 answers · asked by Randy G 7

2007-06-29 10:21:59 · 5 answers · asked by Introuble 4

2007-06-29 09:48:39 · 12 answers · asked by intelligensio 2

2007-06-29 09:22:09 · 50 answers · asked by Anonymous

1 -The ascend part of the lander and the service modul docked at some point. The astraunauts went from one space craft into another. Wouldn´t they need a chamber in one of the crafts so the pressure would be equalized?
2- The lunar module would probably need such a chamber too, since it was unlikely that the astraunauts walked out of a cabinet with pressure straight into vacuum. I haven´t seen a chamber like that in any one of the LM pictures on the internet, can somebody explain that?
3- If as claimed the lander ended up landing miles away from where it originally was supposed to, wouldn´t that require reprogramming everything so it wouldn´t miss the CM on the way back? Did NASA know exactly where the lander had landed? Wouldn´t it take an inch for the lander to miss the orbit unless it took off at the right second and from the exact location?

2007-06-29 09:10:43 · 8 answers · asked by sultan.murat 3

What of contamination issues if an accident occurs, bodies littering the surface if there is a crash; recovery?...and its affect upon future manned missions funded by the general public?

2007-06-29 09:05:20 · 10 answers · asked by Kristina C 1

2007-06-29 08:36:36 · 17 answers · asked by cool shah 1

This question is one of a few questions my (then) 8year old daughter asked me while I was showing her the Ultra Deep field images taken by Hubble and the image which Carl Sagan poetically described as the pale blue dot (home) so many years ago.

She asked some questions which stumped me and we attempted to contact NASA to see if we could get an answer, but never received a reply.


1) How did the Voyager take a photo from 4 billion miles away?

2) How do you measure four billion miles in space?

3) How close to the sun was the Voyager if the earth is shown in a sunbeam?

4) How was it determined that the 'pale blue dot' was earth and not a larger planet or star?

5) Why don't we see any other stars, planets, etc. in the photo from that distance?

2007-06-29 08:23:30 · 5 answers · asked by ♪ 4

Is there a site where I can download a 4D map of the known stars, galaxies and rate of expansion of space?

2007-06-29 07:47:11 · 2 answers · asked by misoma5 7

2007-06-29 07:46:26 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

my new barlow lens is says x 2

so my new barlow x2 lens
doubles my magnification?

like if my eyepiece is 26mm and the magnification of an object is 46x does that mean the barlow makes it 92 x closer?

2007-06-29 07:25:27 · 2 answers · asked by Kara 2

alot of credible wittnesses have come foward,along with thousands of discredible wittnesses

2007-06-29 07:04:50 · 42 answers · asked by ruffian 2

i have an 8 inch dobsonian and the eyepiece
sizes i have are 26mm , 25mm ,10mm 9.7mm,7.5mm

Can anyone tell me how many times each size is magnifying an object for me?
I want to write it down in my observing journal .

THANKS in advance ;)

here is the focal length info on my scope ..

it says D=200mm
F=1200 mm

2007-06-29 06:41:36 · 4 answers · asked by Kara 2

what should you do if you see one land in a nearby field

2007-06-29 06:32:23 · 9 answers · asked by Quo 2

whered god come from
where outerspace come from
the sun
everything

2007-06-29 06:32:03 · 11 answers · asked by araya11saphire 2

what phase of the moon cannot be seen? why?

2007-06-29 06:06:58 · 12 answers · asked by princess 2

Stephen Hawking argued this long ago and my understanding is that string theorists have debated this to a point that now Hawking concedes, but I have not seen any public corrections by Hawking.

2007-06-29 06:00:15 · 11 answers · asked by ♪ 4

2007-06-29 05:42:59 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-29 05:25:06 · 17 answers · asked by ThinkieWinkie 2

Hey Everyone,
I'm currently an Earth and Space Science student and I am taking a virtual course. Unfortunately one of the resource sites that would've given me my answer will not open and "cannot be found". I told my teacher about it and she was basically like, "tough". So I need help with this one question or maybe a new resource site? Thanks!

Q:
Because we can't see through a gas cloud, we would not use optical telescopes which collect visible light to form images of stars inside a gas cloud. Which type of telescope would we use to study new stars inside the giant gas cloud and why?

2007-06-29 04:58:52 · 7 answers · asked by Bri 3

Websites or explanations here is very welcomed!! thanks a lot!!!!

2007-06-29 04:45:54 · 3 answers · asked by burntpotato 2

And Would You??

2007-06-29 04:41:18 · 12 answers · asked by me 1

As i look out at the sky in the night i'm wondering where the hell the stars are at?
Why don't they appear?

2007-06-29 04:40:32 · 9 answers · asked by SpartanWarFighter 4

Science lives and dies by the term "Matter exists" yet cannot accept White Holes. This is a contradiction

2007-06-29 04:37:34 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Im haveing a little trouble finding the right material to put on my rocket! I really want to walk on the moon ,its a 1 person rocket .Im almost done but so woried about it getting too hot inside ,please let me know !

2007-06-29 03:34:28 · 8 answers · asked by DagNaggit limpuladerfy II 4

Ok this is serious question that came to me after watching an episode of stargate (don't laugh). In this episode, O'neil and Teal'c are trapped in a ship and are rescued by another one. But to escape their ship they have to blow the top off, free float away from the ship for 5-6 sec before being transported aboard the other one.

So my question is this, can you survice in space for 5-6 seconds without a space suit ? If not, what's the main reason you would die instantly ?

2007-06-29 03:02:51 · 11 answers · asked by Kaynos 5