Astronomy & Space - July 2007

2007-07-02 15:21:11 · 8 answers · asked by ~~~Tara~~~ 1

2007-07-02 15:13:39 · 6 answers · asked by ~~~Tara~~~ 1

They say if we had no moon, the Earth as we know it could not exsist.
If water did not expand when frozen, the Earth as we know it would not exsist.
The list of requirements goes on and on. So, is it intelligent design or did we just luck out by meeting all of the correct requirements to have the earth we have?

2007-07-02 15:12:32 · 21 answers · asked by PT109 1

2007-07-02 15:04:13 · 16 answers · asked by ~~~Tara~~~ 1

2007-07-02 15:00:27 · 7 answers · asked by ghytrd 1

I'm a novice astronomer I have several books but I would like a few websites if possible that will give me current information as to what can be viewed nightly from Kansas. Reading in the dark is difficult, websites would be great.

2007-07-02 14:58:57 · 4 answers · asked by Meryl 2

2007-07-02 14:30:02 · 2 answers · asked by Girl 3

2007-07-02 14:28:39 · 3 answers · asked by Girl 3

2007-07-02 12:23:55 · 8 answers · asked by Mopar Maniac 2

Because there's less intervening atmosphere to see through.

Does seeing work that way?
Can it be, say, 1" for a celestial body and 0.5" for a tree a few hundred yards away?

Assuming your telescope is large enough that Dawes limit doesn't push in of course.

Is Airy disk size directly proportional to to airmass? something like if 1 airmass = 2" then 10 airmasses= 20"?

2007-07-02 12:23:48 · 5 answers · asked by anonymous 4

good info

2007-07-02 12:08:38 · 3 answers · asked by Experimental876 4

All Space Shuttle buffs out there.

In the launch phase for the Space Shuttle I've read that the control surfaces on the rear of the orbiter are used along with the engine gimbles to steer the vehicle into orbit.

1.Do they become useless and lock down at a certain altitude?

2.Why are OHMS engines burns used early in the boost phase on some of the recent launches? Could this be due to weight constraints of the payload?

3.If the shuttle were to carry enough OHMS fuel to be able to abort to the ISS from any orbit in an emergency situation, would that extra weight mean such a difference that it could not carry a substancial payload?

2007-07-02 11:26:58 · 2 answers · asked by ericbryce2 7

I was looking at Venus through a 100 mm diameter refractor. She smiled at me with a silver crescent, but the rest of her was hidden behind a bluish veil !.

Was the appearance due to the incidence of Sun's rays only on her visible part or was it due to part of the rays falling on her being reflecting off (the blue surface above the cresent) in a direction away from my line of sight?.

My location was 6 Deg. 48 Min. 34.43 Sec. North and 79 Deg. 58 Min.30.96 sec. East. Date was Sunday, July 1st. Local Time 20.30, (GMT +5.5), Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Can someone please explain?

2007-07-02 10:54:44 · 1 answers · asked by Eskay d 1

is it the same?

2007-07-02 10:12:19 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I Was hanging out with my friends joking around with our paintball guns and one of my friends happen to have a lazer scope attached to his gun i ask to see it i was messing with and i notice it reached from my backyard to the house across the street i also read that a lazer is a device that emits light through a specific mechanism and it was already dark enough to see the moon i pointed the lazer towards the moon and thought to myself if it was possible that the lazer could of reached that far?

2007-07-02 10:02:38 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

There is a sale near my house for a 660 telescope and my kid wants one but wants to actually see something, so is this worth getting and what planetary distance does it have?

Thanking you all in advance!

2007-07-02 09:38:26 · 8 answers · asked by That guy you know :) 2

The bible states a 1000 yrs. is as a day with the LORD. Could 6 days creation be 6000 yrs & the 6000yrs. following be 6000 X 365?

2007-07-02 09:23:41 · 7 answers · asked by james h 2

will it like actually reach the moon. or say, if you miss, will it fly on to space? or will gravity pull it back to the earth until the bullet lands somewhere, or hits someone, or disintegrates into oblivion? Thanks.

2007-07-02 09:01:26 · 18 answers · asked by Baby Kangaroo 5

2007-07-02 08:58:45 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-02 08:52:33 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't have a telescope yet but I do a little amatuer astrophotography in my spare time. I took an amazing picture of Andromeda Galaxy last night completely on accident while I was trying to snap a photo of Mars. I took the photo with a Kodak Z710 with an 8 second shutter time. Check out my picture @ myspace.com/blakehofmann

2007-07-02 08:35:09 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

on a missle to launch at the sun to blow some of it off it could stop globel warming from going so fast do u think it would slow globel warming down or do u think we do not have the technoligy

2007-07-02 08:10:56 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-02 08:04:22 · 13 answers · asked by TeeHee 3

Say seeing is 1 second of arc one night, near the zenith. Is it possible to get close enough to a building to see better than 1 second of arc on it?

Because there's less total atmosphere between you and the building than between the star and space

How close do you have to be?

2007-07-02 08:03:33 · 4 answers · asked by anonymous 4

I would like to get into astronomy and I've heard a good pair of binoculars might be a good and basic place to start. What strength should I look at? Also, where would I be able to buy some start charts? Would I be able to find them somewhere in a store? Is there any thing else I should consider?

2007-07-02 07:55:37 · 2 answers · asked by Simba 7

how do you know which way is east, west, north, or south?

2007-07-02 07:43:47 · 8 answers · asked by skilled_cuer 3

So everyones heard about the airoplane full of passangers who saw two oval shaped yellow things flying in the sky, including the pilot and air staff...and they wernt picked up on radar....for those in the US it was all over the news, and its so big the government are being brought in...

Anyone think they know what it is, and if its a UFO ?

2007-07-02 06:51:46 · 1 answers · asked by Mister-meaner ! 2

2007-07-02 06:34:47 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

Where do they come from? Are photons "matter"? Do they have any mass? Is light made of photons? Can anything travel faster than the speed of light? sorry for all the questions but im just really curious!!! can someone please give me some answers in non-physics langauge (im not very good at physics) thank you!! :)

2007-07-02 06:33:50 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

From the big bang came the universe with all of its complexities and from all of the complexities made there shall be questions and my question is could there be one universe that allows friction to create a fire and another universe that allows you to create a fire in a totally different way? Basically what I am asking is could there be more than one universe?

2007-07-02 05:38:29 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous