Finding the ISS is a really good ‘astronomy for beginners’ project because it is so simple, and NASA makes this even easier. Find the Milky Way As I mentioned before, you can alsosee the Milky Way. This is either going to be very easy or very hard, depending on your location and w...
In addition to the dark skies, there will be other scheduled events such as an astronomers breakfast, ice cream social, program for beginners and educational activities for the children. As well as, several area attractions located within an hour drive from the site, including several golf course...
Public Open Nights & Astronomy Classes are held at the Canopus Observatory, including weekly observing nights for members. Regular observing nights are also held in the Launceston area. Visitors welcome. Address: Secretary, Joy Coghlan, GPO Box 1654, Hobart Tas 7001 Fees: Full membership $75 (...
A. in B. for C. on D. with 7. Being a very lazy student, he seldom takes ___ in all his classes. A. notices B. notes C. papers D. sights 8. ___ I could copy down the words on the blackboard, the teacher had wiped them off it. A. When B. Until C. Before D...
ScopeReviews.com author Ed Ting provides excellent telescope reviews of all classes of instruments: both old and new models, for beginning and advanced users. Jason Whitehead of BestBinocularsReviews.com provides thorough hands-on reviews of binoculars for all purposes and in all sizes. General Came...
A variety of classes of article may satisfy these general requirements, and for some there will be additional criteria to be applied in considering whether an article is suitable for publication in the journal. The following types of article are currently identified within the submission and ...
I've been advocating for a geophysical definition with dynamical sub-classes which blends the dynamical and geophysical planet definitions into a complete taxonomy that addresses both perspectives. But the reality is the two sides are just using the definition they prefer. The IAU definition is just...
Specifically, in Stern & Levison's system the geophysical definition identifies the class of bodies called Planets which are then divided into dynamical sub-classes. Stern & Levison provided the criteria for dynamical sub-classes calling the bodies orbiting the Sun that clear their orbit Uberplanets...
Broadly speaking, there are two classes of refractors: Achromatic refractor An achromatic refractor (or achromat) typically uses a two-element objective lens, with elements of crown and flint glass. An achromat is reasonably well corrected for most optical aberrations, but it shows noticeable chrom...
1. There’s a French cooking school.L’Ecole de la Maison, in the Osthoff Resort (thank you, Lola), offers culinary classes on everything from truffles and chocolates to casual Italian. While I was busy cooking lemon curd and rolling out homemade baguettes in the cooking school’s gorgeou...