SJAA Ephemeris October 2009 |
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The loaner program offers members a means to try scopes of various sizes and technologies before you buy. For more information please see the loaner program web page: http://www.sjaa.net/loaners
Q: What radio frequencies are best for detection of meteorites?A: The FM band, 88 MHz to 108 MHz is a good place to start when trying to detect meteorites. It sits between 20 Mhz and 150 MHz which is the area generally used for such detections. (RASC 2209, p.259)
Astro Blogs (part 2)http://www.cosmicdiary.org/ – About 28 professional astronomers blog about their work. Most of them you have probably not heard of except for Brother Guy Consolmagno – the Vatican’s astronomer. http://www.portaltotheuniverse.org/ – Sources say this website just started last April and it looks fantastic. You can access several blogs by clicking the “blogs” tab. You can see the current lunar phase, a day/night map, recent supernovae discoveries, Near Earth Object passes, current exoplanet count, an aurora map, sun spot activity graph, predictions of Class M and X solar flares, and the top 3 astronomy news items – and that’s just the home page. http://www.ukrc4setwomen.org/html/projects-and-campaigns/astronomy-blog – This blog is part of the “She is an Astronomer” initiative.
“I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.” - Sally Ride, first U.S. woman in space. |