Astronomy & Space - December 2007

Can anyone recommend a book about space? It'll be for a christmas present, and I want to spend up to £10. Nothing too complicated, just a book with lots of photos would be ideal.

2007-12-07 01:13:08 · 11 answers · asked by sleepflower 2

I am about to purchase my first telescope and am finding it difficult to decide which to purchase, I have decided to go for a 5" or 6" Newtonian Reflector but cannot decide which model and more importantly cannot decide whether to go for an Equatorial mount or and Auto Tracking one.

My budget is approx £300, am happy to buy one secondhand.

At some point in the near future i will also be buying an SLR camera so i can take long exposure pictures of the moon/planets etc so this needs to be taken into consideration as well.

Can anyone give any advise;

How difficult is it to manually track your self?
How difficult is it to locate planets/nebulae etc without an auto find?
Can anyone suggest a model to buy?

Thanks in advance.

2007-12-07 00:35:12 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or has a heart attack - what now??

2007-12-07 00:27:16 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

Analemma...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070617.html

booful, ain't it?....

2007-12-06 23:55:26 · 12 answers · asked by meanolmaw 7

What do you like mostly about astronomy?

Why?

2007-12-06 23:09:12 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why should Military or Government to de-classify and keep them as secrets? Why always says that there is not enough evidence?

2007-12-06 23:01:07 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

In 1969, NASA, sent two astronauts to moon and they landed on it.Why haven't we made another attempt? We are now technically advanced than those days...so why we are unable to send man to moon?

2007-12-06 22:31:21 · 23 answers · asked by ♥ ΛDIƬΥΛ ♥ ııllllııllıı 6

I honestly used to believe one hundred percent that we did, but doesnt it seem a llittle odd to anyone that we havent gone back since???

2007-12-06 21:54:07 · 30 answers · asked by surfer2thextreme 1

2007-12-06 21:49:28 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-06 21:47:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-06 21:44:43 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

In October, Comet Holmes "exploded" (maybe not literally---one explanation is that it is simply visible head-on or tail-on; whereas one radio talkshow guest, Richard C. Hoagland, stated he thinks it could have been the focus of an experiment, apparently, to see if an object in distant space could be hit from Earth). Anyway, assuming it literally blew up, what will happen to it? Will it re-form into a comet?

2007-12-06 19:56:40 · 7 answers · asked by The Invisible Man 6

2007-12-06 19:25:15 · 13 answers · asked by zoeymodelgirl 1

What would be you rank, department, and position?
What vessel would you serve on?

2007-12-06 18:22:59 · 5 answers · asked by christiantrekkie 4

A couple of questions:

1. The Earth is a perfect example of an undifferentiated planetary body.
2. The Van Allen belts are long parallel trenches in the Atlantic between
the North American and Eurasian plates.
3. Free oxygen was not present in the early terrestrial atmosphere, but
became plentiful only after plant life formed.
4. The first step in the formation of the solar system was the collapse of a rotating interstellar cloud.
5. Neptune’s rings are composed of many small particles.
6. The visible surface of Neptune is covered with water ice.
7. The Roche limit is the maximum size a planet may be without being a star.
8. The atmosphere on Mars is more dense than the Earth’s but less dense than the Venereal atmosphere.

2007-12-06 18:06:43 · 3 answers · asked by EV.JUNE 2

How would you answer the questions on this page? (What do you think the answers are? i already finished this, but idk if my answers are correct.)



http://pomounties.schoolwires.com/5683582104748/lib/5683582104748/_files/13-2_rnr.pdf

2007-12-06 17:51:22 · 2 answers · asked by Invader Kor 2

My brother believes that there are other galaxy's, although I think that the huble telescope just discovered a few nebula's. How can they tell if its a galaxy or just a nebula? And are there even any other galaxies and what are they named?

2007-12-06 16:30:50 · 11 answers · asked by elliot710 1

In the 1600's & 1700's none of those people at the time could have ever dreamed of the technologies that we use today so who knows

2007-12-06 16:10:19 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why couldn't rocket escape black hole? I keep hearing stuff about how the escape velocity is the speed of light and nothing can go the speed of light. So? The Earth's escape velocity is seven miles per second and none of the probes we sent out into the solar system ever went seven miles per second. Instead, they gradually speed up over time to get away from gravity. Likewise, why couldn't a probe with lots of rocket fuel be sent into the event horizon of a black hole and then fire the rockets to escape?

2007-12-06 16:09:05 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-06 15:36:58 · 11 answers · asked by need help 1

Is it true that if we study Venus' greenhouse effect atomosphere, we can learn to control it here on Earth? Or that we can learn to stop air pollution in our atmosphere by studying other planet's atmosphere?

Basically ... can the information about other planets in our solar system help us understand ours?

2007-12-06 15:09:42 · 4 answers · asked by husna 1

please tell me because its serious

2007-12-06 12:58:33 · 7 answers · asked by Showtime! 2

I came to a conclusion that there is no way.

2007-12-06 12:43:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please help!

2007-12-06 11:52:14 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

How do we measure distances between galaxies?
In this context explain the roles of variable stars, supernovae, the Tully-Fisher relation and the Hubble flow.

2007-12-06 10:50:22 · 2 answers · asked by DoubleO 7 1

Chinese and Japanese had sent space probes to the moon. They will soon send it to the Mars too.
The Russian Mars probe will be sent in next year(?).
Will they land on the moon or Mars?

2007-12-06 09:59:09 · 2 answers · asked by chanljkk 7

I googled and yahooed but I can't find one and I doubt any have ever been taken but if anyone has seen one post me a link or at least let me know it exists.

2007-12-06 09:54:17 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Here`s the video:

http://realufos.blogspot.com/2007/11/more-hidden-ufo-architecture-on-moon.html

Strange, if you ask me...

2007-12-06 09:50:08 · 6 answers · asked by ? 6

2007-12-06 09:44:15 · 4 answers · asked by ~~xx{Stelth[k9]}xx~~ 1

So I was watching a show, but forgot what channel and time.

It was late (after 11pm central time) and it seems like it was the history channel.

does anyone have any idea what show that was? was it "the universe"? or something else?

2007-12-06 09:41:20 · 3 answers · asked by Mercury 2010 7