• NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 29 October 2011

    Updated: 2011-10-31 13:04:37
    All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Saturday - Crew off duty.

  • Photo: Progress Launch As Seen From The International Space Station

    Updated: 2011-10-31 13:04:37
    @astro_aggie (Mike Fossum)

  • Photo: Sermeq Kujalleq Glacier, Greenland, As Seen From Space

    Updated: 2011-10-31 13:04:37
    This Envisat image, acquired on 21 July 2011, shows part of Greenland's west coast - home to one of the fastest and most active glaciers in the world, Sermeq Kujalleq.

  • Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee - Public Teleconference 17 Nov 2011

    Updated: 2011-10-31 13:04:37
    Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee - Public Teleconference 17 Nov 2011

  • Photo: Flooding in Thailand As Seen From Space

    Updated: 2011-10-31 13:04:37
    In this image, vegetation is displayed in red, and flooded areas are black and dark blue. Brighter blue shows sediment-laden water, and gray areas are houses, buildings and roads.

  • Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 30 October 2011

    Updated: 2011-10-31 13:04:37
    Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 30 October 2011

  • NASA Solicitation: Notification of On-Ramp 1 for RAPID III

    Updated: 2011-10-31 13:04:37
    The Rapid Spacecraft Development Office (RSDO) Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition (RAPID III) is a multiple award, IDIQ, Fixed Price type contract, for satellite bus core systems with any necessary modifications to meet specific Mission needs.

  • NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 30 October 2011

    Updated: 2011-10-31 13:04:37
    All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Sunday - Crew off duty. Ahead: Week 7 of Increment 29 (three-person crew).

  • Video: Space Station Reboost: Watch Astronauts Move As Engines Fire

    Updated: 2011-10-31 13:04:37
    As the International Space Station is boosted into a higher orbit, Expedition 29 Commander Mike Fossum and Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa and Sergei Volkov float freely to demonstrate the acceleration of the orbiting complex.

  • Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 29 October 2011

    Updated: 2011-10-31 13:04:37
    Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 29 October 2011

  • Video: Progress 45 Cargo Vehicle Launch

    Updated: 2011-10-31 13:04:37
    Video: Progress 45 Cargo Vehicle Launch

  • Photo: Georgia and Florida as Seen From Space at Night

    Updated: 2011-10-31 13:04:37
    This is one of a series of night time images photographed by the Expedition 29 crew from the International Space Station. It features Southeastern United States centered near Atlanta. The Florida peninsula is visible under clouds (lower right).

  • NASA Advisory Council Science Committee; Astrophysics Subcommittee Meeting 21 Nov 2011

    Updated: 2011-10-31 13:04:37
    NASA Advisory Council Science Committee; Astrophysics Subcommittee Meeting 21 Nov 2011

  • Successful Progress Launch Sets Stage for Soyuz Flight

    Updated: 2011-10-31 13:04:37
    Pending the outcome of a series of flight readiness meetings in the coming weeks, this successful flight sets the stage for the next Soyuz launch, planned for mid-November.

  • NASA Planetary Science Subcommittee Meeting for November 2-3 2011 Is Cancelled

    Updated: 2011-10-31 13:04:37
    NASA Planetary Science Subcommittee Meeting for November 2-3 2011 Is Cancelled

  • Three New Planets and a Mystery Object Found Orbiting Dying Stars

    Updated: 2011-10-31 11:55:52
    Some interesting new additions to the exoplanet family were announced last week by astronomers from Penn State University. While finding exoplanets these days may be considered “just another day at the office,” astronomers discovered three very unique planets and an additional “mystery” object. What’s unique about these planets is the fact that the stars they [...]

  • CSExtra – Monday, October 31, 2011

    Updated: 2011-10-31 11:16:16
    To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Monday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe, plus a roundup of reporting from the weekend. Russia’s launch [...]

  • Closing the Clamshell on a Martian Curiosity

    Updated: 2011-10-31 02:45:49
    Curiosity’s clamshell has been closed. And it won’t open up again until a few minutes after she blasts off for the Red Planet in just a little more than 3 weeks from now on Nov. 25, 2011 – the day after Thanksgiving celebrations in America. The two halves of the payload fairing serve to protect [...]

  • Weekly Weather: A slight warm-up before a chance of rain and another front

    Updated: 2011-10-31 00:18:54
    Welcome to your Monday morning weather update, in which I’ll attempt to sum up the immediate past, present and future of weather on the bayou. It’s going to be another great week, with a cool front coming late Wednesday or Thursday, setting up a splendid weekend. PAST Here’s a weather tidbit that will blow your [...]

  • China is Go for Tiangong1/Shenzhou 8 Mission

    Updated: 2011-10-31 00:17:04
    China space officials are ready to fly their first space rendezvous and docking tests with the Tiangong 1target vehicle, a craft that was lofted on September 29. An unpiloted Shenzhou 8 spaceship is scheduled to be launched at 5:58:07 a.m. (local time) on November 1st. Riding atop a Long March 2F/Y8 carrier rocket launched from [...]

  • Great news: Russians successfully launch Soyuz rocket to ISS!

    Updated: 2011-10-31 00:00:10
    Yesterday, October 30, 2011, the Russian space agency Roscosmos successfully launched a new Progress spacecraft on a Suyuz rocket, the same kind of rocket that failed in August and caused such worry. This means it looks like the Russians have indeed figured out what went wrong in the previous launch and fixed the issue. I’ll [...]

  • Determining The Galaxy Collision Rate

    Updated: 2011-10-30 23:15:34
    Big galaxies… Little galaxies… But how often do they meet? Thanks to information from some of the latest Hubble surveys, astronomers have been able to more closely estimate galaxy collision rates than ever before. Apparently those that have happened within the last eight to nine billion years have occurred somewhere in-between previous estimates. (...)Read the [...]

  • Astrophoto: Iridium 12 Flare by Riad Hamamieh

    Updated: 2011-10-30 18:23:10
    This photo of the Iridium 12 flare was captured by Riad Hamamieh on October 15, 2011 at at 7:42 PM in Beirut, Lebanon. Iridium 12 is one of the 66 active Iridium communication satellites orbiting the Earth. It was launched on June 18, 1997. Riad used a Canon Powershot SX210 IS camera with CHDK. Camera [...]

  • Sunday Launch Signals Soyuz Recovery, Eases Space Station De-staffing Concerns

    Updated: 2011-10-30 15:27:53
      A Soyuz rocket soared into Earth orbit with the Progress 45 cargo capsule early Sunday, marking the first mission of the venerable Russian launcher to the International Space Station since the late August crash of a similar supply craft. The Aug. 24 loss led to a suspension of Soyuz launches, including those carrying three [...]

  • Open the Pod Door! Mars Crew “Returns” to Earth

    Updated: 2011-10-30 14:08:54
    A team of six Mars explorers are ready to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere and land back on terra firma. The crew will “arrive back on Earth” on November 4 and go into quarantine for four days for medical checks. The Mars500 is the first full-duration simulation of a human mission to the red planet, living [...]

  • Success ! Launch Video of Crucial Russian Rocket to ISS puts Human Flights back on Track

    Updated: 2011-10-30 13:56:12
    Video caption: Liftoff of unmanned Russian Progress craft atop Soyuz booster on Oct. 30, 2011 from Baikonur Cosmodrome. Credit: NASA TV/Roscosmos. Photos and rocket rollout video below The very future of the International Space Station was on the line this morning as the Russian Progress 45 cargo ship successfully launched this morning from the Baikonur [...]

  • Time lapse: Crater Lake

    Updated: 2011-10-30 13:30:38
    Crater Lake, Oregon, is an ancient volcano caldera that is filled with water. If you’ve never been there, words really cannot convey the magnificence of the view. I was there in 2006, and was so struck by the awesome beauty of the place that I did what I could to relay how I felt at [...]

  • Astrophoto: Hinterlands Startrail by Rick Wainwright

    Updated: 2011-10-30 08:15:37
    This image of startrails is a composite of 209 one-minute exposures captured by Rick Wainwright on July 30, 2011. He used a Canon EOS Kiss X4 camera. Check out Rick’s Flickr page for more astrophotos. Want to get your astrophoto featured on Universe Today? Join our Flickr group, post in our Forum or send us [...]

  • Apollo Astronaut Returns “Stolen” Camera

    Updated: 2011-10-30 00:05:03
    In a follow-up to a recent Universe Today article, Apollo astronaut and sixth-man-on-the-moon Ed Mitchell has agreed to return a lunar Data Acquisition Camera (DAC) that he kept from the Apollo 14 mission, rather than face a court date next year over a suit filed by NASA in June. (...)Read the rest of Apollo Astronaut [...]

  • Incredible ‘Space-O-Lanterns’

    Updated: 2011-10-29 22:08:49
    When it comes to Halloween, there are some very creative people out there. Unfortunately, I’m not one of them, but I’ve been enjoying some incredible space-themed Jack-O-Lanterns that people on Twitter have been sharing. Above is an amazing re-creation of the Moon by astronomer and science writer Will Gater (@willgater) which shows the maria, craters [...]

  • Just cos

    Updated: 2011-10-29 19:00:37
    Some people might consider this a sin, but hey: I’m no angle. This comic is from Luke Surl, who has some pretty funny geek comics on his site. … and if you don’t get it, this might help. Or you could try searching on it; secant you shall find. Tip o’ the sunscreen lid to [...]

  • Shuttle's Assembly Building Open to the Public

    Updated: 2011-10-29 00:52:09
    Starting Nov. 1, NASA will offer tours of its gigantic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to visitors at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. Here's what to expect.

  • There's a Mysterious Spot on Uranus!

    Updated: 2011-10-28 20:20:00
    There's a strange brightening in the Uranian atmosphere and amateur astronomers can help investigate what it is.

  • Space.com, Guardian, Telegraph, more: European spacecraft finds that big asteroid is special. Old. Dense. A planetary leftover?

    Updated: 2011-10-28 20:01:53
    , , , : . . . Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment AP , etc : Estimate of Fukushima release of Cs-137 goes up . Terabecquer-what-the-hell-is-that . involved Space.com , Guardian , Telegraph , more : European spacecraft finds that big asteroid is special . Old . Dense . A planetary leftover Asteroid 21 Lutetia has the sort of name that belongs deep in a catalog , just a stone among many . But a close looks shows it may be a rock for the ages . Three papers in this week’s Science from researchers pondering data from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta space probe report this is no beat-up rubble pile . It is a solid and primitive leftover of the early solar system . It satisfies the spec sheet for what experts call planetesimals the concretions of the

  • Wrap up: Donors Choose

    Updated: 2011-10-28 19:00:56
    I want to thank everyone who contributed to the Donors Choose science blogger challenge. Because of you all — 90 people who donated in total coming from this blog and my other outlets like Twitter and Google+ — we raised $5,887, and 2,480 students will see new science materials in their clasrooms! Wow. Think about [...]

  • A city-block-sized asteroid will swing by Earth on November 8

    Updated: 2011-10-28 14:00:35
    On November 8, an asteroid 400 meters across will pass by the Earth, missing us by the very comfortable margin of about 320,000 kilometers (200,000 miles). Named 2005 YU55, it’s been known for some time that this pass will occur, and astronomers are jumping on the chance to observe it. First off, it’s no danger [...]

  • CSExtra – Friday, October 28, 2011

    Updated: 2011-10-28 12:36:44
    To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Friday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. NASA’s prototype for a new system of spacecraft that will [...]

  • New Weather, Climate Studies Mission Launches

    Updated: 2011-10-28 11:56:38
      The $1.5 billion NPOESS Preparatory Project mission was off to a successful start early Friday, as a Delta II rocket carrying the spacecraft and five new instruments designed to improve weather forecasting and climate change studies lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base,Calif. The two stage rocket departed at 5:48 a.m., EDT, quickly rising [...]

  • Houston chooses a side in the war over commercial space

    Updated: 2011-10-28 01:21:15
    The future of western spaceflight is up for grabs, and it’s essentially a no-win battle between the status quo (NASA) and commercial providers trying to wrest away the job of flying astronauts to orbit after half a century of space agency dominance. On one side there’s SpaceX and other companies seeking some government support to [...]

  • Where’s that much promised cold front?

    Updated: 2011-10-27 22:03:22
    It’s coming. The front is now moving through Conroe, and it’s expected to reach downtown Houston by around 7 p.m. Temperatures will fall slowly in its wake, as colder air moves into the region, say forecasters with the Houston/Galveston office of the National Weather Service. Saturday morning should find temperatures in the 40s for most [...]

  • (Updated with New Bumps*) Double News Bump: Distant Eris downsized, now tied with dwarf planet Pluto. Same as last time.

    Updated: 2011-10-27 20:21:19
    : , . . Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment NYTimes A big energy section . Is it news Sure . Is it about what ought’a be . No Double News Bump : Distant Eris downsized , now tied with dwarf planet Pluto . Same as last . time Two weeks ago word circulated in several news outlets from a joint meeting in France of European planetary experts with the American Astronomical Society’s Division of Planetary Sciences about results of a meticulously planned observation of the Kuiper Belt heavweight orb named Eris . They came as it eclipsed a distant star . The duration and depth of the blink , as seen from several locations on Earth , provided info on Eris’s radius of curvature and hence its size I think radius of curvature the paper loses me at oblate Maclaurin

  • Psychics leave me in shambles

    Updated: 2011-10-27 19:00:05
    You know what really eats me up? People who claim they can talk to the dead, when it is far, far more likely they are simply using psychological tricks (like cold reading) and random guesses, making it seem like they have some supernatural power. A while back, the James Randi Educational Foundation publicly challenged so-called [...]

  • CSExtra – Thursday, October 27, 2011

    Updated: 2011-10-27 12:30:13
    To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Thursday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space-related activities from across the globe. The $1.5 billion NPOESS Preparatory Project mission developed by NASA and [...]

  • Mars Feels Sun's Wrath

    Updated: 2011-10-27 00:22:35
    The sun battered the Earth's magnetosphere with an "epic" geomagnetic storm over the last couple of days, generating beautiful auroral displays at low latitudes. Now it's Mars' turn.

  • Rina Forces Early End to NASA Asteroid Analog Mission

    Updated: 2011-10-26 22:30:14
      The NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations undersea asteroid analog mission off Key Largo,Fla., came to an early end on Wednesday. The six NEEMO crew members surfaced after forecasters predicted Hurricane Rina, a late season tropical storm in the western Caribbean, would grow stronger and veer toward southFlorida. There were no plans to resume what [...]

  • MSNBC – Private, automated airship reaches ~100,000 feet altitude, photographs self

    Updated: 2011-10-26 19:35:20
    , , Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment AP , etc : Sun Quiet Not this week . Northern lights dance in Arkansas , dozens of other states’ night skies MSNBC Private , automated airship reaches 100,000 feet altitude , photographs self A private company , JP Aerospace and the initials belong to its president , has probably made no secret of a project to sling a lightweight truss between two helium balloons , put electric motors and propellers on it , and float it way , way up . But I’d never heard about that . But now we all can hear that it rose just past 95,000 feet , one balloon burst , handlers ordered the other released , and the remaining hardware came back down under a parachute . That’s sort of remarkable . This prototype craft , assertedly the

  • AP, etc: Sun Quiet? Not this week. Northern lights dance in Arkansas, dozens of other states’ night skies

    Updated: 2011-10-26 18:33:33
    , : . , Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Bay Area Press : Berkeley quake swarm exposes a few of modern media’s faults MSNBC Private , automated airship reaches 100,000 feet altitude , photographs self AP , etc : Sun Quiet Not this week . Northern lights dance in Arkansas , dozens of other states’ night skies Can this really be a pic from Ozark , Arkansas The Associated Press ran it . It’s true . The services’s Seth Borenstein wrote it up after , he tells us , sitting on the news for a few hours to confirm it via first-hand witnesses and thus refute a NOAA contact’s assertion it should not have been visible that far south Borenstain , after clarifying the truth of the matter , elected to call it baffling in his lede . It appears that while the solar

  • NASA cancels underwater “asteroid” mission due to Rina

    Updated: 2011-10-26 18:11:15
    NASA has had to cut short its NEEMO experiment off the coast of Florida due to possible effects from Hurricane Rina. The mission, originally planned for 13 days to explore technologies needed to have astronauts work on an asteroid, was ended after just five days. “Despite the length, we accomplished a significant amount of research,” [...]

  • CSExtra – Wednesday, October 26, 2011

    Updated: 2011-10-26 11:43:09
    To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Wednesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space-related activities from around the world. China looks to early November for its first attempt at docking [...]

  • Journal-Sentinel: Investigative onslaught on Medtronic and spine surgery continues

    Updated: 2011-10-26 01:35:57
    : Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment New Yorker : On Malthus and us and on Armenians and cheese and nine-centimetre birds Bay Area Press : Berkeley quake swarm exposes a few of modern media’s faults Journal-Sentinel : Investigative onslaught on Medtronic and spine surgery continues The unstoppable John Fauber of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has done another investigative piece in a long series , this time indicting researchers hired by Medtronic , who , Fauber reports , failed to disclose a potential cancer risk associated with a bone-growth agent in Medtronic’s spine-surgery produce , . Infuse The Journal-Sentinel asked independent experts to review the research , and Fauber reports that they found problems with the way the researchers reported the

  • Rina nears resorts areas of the Yucatan

    Updated: 2011-10-26 01:27:30
    Hurricane Rina remains just below major hurricane strength this morning with sustained 110-mph winds. The latest track models are still not clear, with some keeping the storm near the Yucatan Peninsula before its dissipation, and other models bringing it toward Cuba or Florida. The official track forecast splits the difference and brings the system toward [...]

  • Final: ROSAT came down in the Bay of Bengal

    Updated: 2011-10-25 17:32:01
    The German space center DLR is reporting that ROSAT — an astronomical satellite launched in 1990 — re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere just after 01:50 UTC last Sunday, October 23, burning up over the waters of the Bay of Bengal, to the southwest of Thailand. This was during the day, which is why there were no [...]

  • Pluto Exploration: Free App!

    Updated: 2011-10-25 12:55:35
    NASA’s New Horizons mission to distant Pluto and the Kuiper Belt can be followed on iPhone and iPad. Now available in the iTunes App Store: “New Horizons: A NASA Voyage to Pluto.” This app brings users the latest news and pictures from the mission, as well as details on the spacecraft and science instruments, and [...]

  • A panoply of moons and rings

    Updated: 2011-10-24 23:43:16
    Take four moons, some rings, a schoolbus-sized spacecraft, and mix them together. What do you get? Magnificence. That stunning shot is from the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn. The big moon is Titan, and by big, I mean bigger than the planet Mercury. Big enough to have a thick nitrogen atmosphere, clearly visible in this picture. [...]

  • Coincidental spirals for your Monday pleasure

    Updated: 2011-10-24 16:59:39
    It’s been a while since I’ve done a Monday spiral, so here’s a great example of one: the nearby beauty M96. [Click to oooh-and-ahhhhhenate.] There’s some nifty stuff here. M96 is about 36 million light years away — relatively close by, for a big galaxy — and is part of a small group of galaxies [...]

  • 11.25″ X 1.5″ Tk.-F/5. Coated-used Cond. This Is Pyrex,Perforated – $100.00

    Updated: 2011-10-24 04:05:41
    Current Price: $100.00Buy It Now Price: $110.00Bids: 0 This is a nice size piece of Pyrex*.It is is a shame no one ever made something with it. The (Shall we Call) Blank is 11.25" ca, and 1.5" th There is a Ctr.Perforation of 2.5" And has a Rough Edge around the inside Rim.[Could be re-beveled [...]

  • 5.1 MP USB MICROSCOPE DIGITAL CAMERA VIDEO EYEPIECE NEW – $179.00

    Updated: 2011-10-24 02:08:28
    Current Price: $179.00Buy It Now Price: $235.00Bids: 0 5.1 MP USB MICROSCOPE DIGITAL CAMERA VIDEO EYEPIECE NEW Click Photos to Enlarge Click to EnlargeClick to EnlargeClick to EnlargeClick to EnlargeClick to EnlargeClick to EnlargeClick to Enlarge       Description   2592X1944 PIXELS COLOR MICROSCOPE DIGITAL EYEPIECE CAMERA AND VIDEO SYSTEM W/ USB2.0 You are bidding [...]

  • Beautiful 9″ SC F/1.5 Enhanced Aluminum Conical,Light Weight Meade – $125.00

    Updated: 2011-10-24 01:44:13
    Current Price: $125.00Buy It Now Price: $149.00Bids: 0 This came from a Meade SC-8 and is 9.25" Conical Moulded-Pristine!!Ideas?Make a Shafer MAk., or use as a 6" Full Aperture "Schmidt-Camera".Lot of Promise.The mirror is very well coated in exc.cond.IDEA'S ?? Tags: schmidt camera, Hospitality Recreation

  • Binocular Eyepiece For SCT… – $175.00

    Updated: 2011-10-24 00:16:48
    Current Price: $175.00Buy It Now Price: $195.00Bids: 0 Binocular eyepiece attachment for Schmidt-Cassegrain type telescopes in new condition... optical core microscope head by E. Leitz (Leica), Germany... features individual focus on both eyepieces and push-pull interpupilary distance adjustment... accepts 1.25" eyepieces... threads on to standard 50mm SCT accessory adapter... comes with caps. Tags: Schmidt Cassegrain, [...]

  • 1” Inch Ring Steel Offset Weaver Rail Flashlight Laser Scope Tactical Mount New – $8.99

    Updated: 2011-10-22 15:50:00
    Current Price: $8.99Buy It Now Price: $9.98Bids: 0 Item description & features   * Item title: Flashlight/Lase?r/Scope 1" Offset Weaver Ringl Mount * Model: T-2008* Color: Black * Material: Steel with Aluminium* Rail Size( mm ): 20mm-22mm * Mount dia: 1 inch diameter* Weight( g ): 80* Designed to mount flashlight / laser / scope [...]

  • The Moon, waxing poetic

    Updated: 2011-10-22 14:00:48
    Space Shuttle astronaut Ron Garan should be familiar to regular BA readers; I’ve featured a lot of the photos he’s taken from space here on the blog. He’s been posting more of them on Google+, and he just put up this gorgeous shot of the Moon over the limb of the Earth: Spectacular! [Click to [...]

  • 3 New Vintage Hoya Lenses Wrapped In Carrying Case – $25.00

    Updated: 2011-10-22 04:49:08
    Current Price: $25.00Buy It Now Price: $40.00Bids: 0 I believe these are telescopic lenses of some sortThe brand being Hoya.Looks as though they have not been usedThey were left behind by a friend of mine who was an avid collector and practitioner of all things science,astronomy,photography, magic, anthropology and electronics.Any other questions, feel free to [...]

  • 45° Roof Erecting Prizm1.25″ 1&1/4in. NEW Meade 07210 #932 ETX 90,125 & 105 – $16.95

    Updated: 2011-10-21 23:38:05
    Current Price: $16.95Buy It Now Price: $34.95Bids: 0 45° Roof Erecting Prizm1.25" 1&1/4in.NEW Meade 07210 #932 ETX threads 90,125&105 I bought this with some other optics at an auction. I am strictly astronomy so I do not need this. Mfr Website: http://www.shopatron.com/products/productdetail/part_number=07210/1323.0.1.1 Listed as new. Looks new to me. Still in wrapper, in box. I see [...]

  • Meade 8″ LX 200 LX200 Telescope W/ GPS And UHTC W/extras – $1495.00

    Updated: 2011-10-21 22:04:08
    Current Price: $1495.00Buy It Now Price: $1695.00Bids: 0 cis Meade 8” lx200 with GPS and UHTC/ great condition Meade 8” lx200 with GPS and UHTC great condition Telescope     This auction is for a Meade 8” lx200 telescope with GPS and UHTC with high precision smart drive in great condition. The scope has no [...]

  • Orionid Meteor Shower This Weekend

    Updated: 2011-10-21 21:32:58
    Home Advertise Blog The Sky This Month The Moon This Month Astronomy News Astrobiology Magazine News Astronomy Picture of the Day BBC Science News CNN Space News Earth Observatory News Eurekalert Astronomy Space News European Southern Observatory News European Space Agency News Gemini Observatory News Hubble Space Telescope News JPL News Kepler Telescope News Lunar and Planetary Institute News MSNBC Space News NASA Breaking News NASA PlanetQuest News NASA TV National Geographic News PBS Nova News Science at NASA News Scientific American News Space Shuttle News Space Today News STEREO Solar Mission News The Astronomer’s Telegram News The Space Show Wired Science News Astronomy Podcasts 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast Astronomy Cast Podcast Astronomy Magazine Podcast Earth Sky Podcast

  • Herschel Space Observatory Detects Abundant Water in Planet-Forming Disc

    Updated: 2011-10-21 20:39:59
    Home Advertise Blog The Sky This Month The Moon This Month Astronomy News Astrobiology Magazine News Astronomy Picture of the Day BBC Science News CNN Space News Earth Observatory News Eurekalert Astronomy Space News European Southern Observatory News European Space Agency News Gemini Observatory News Hubble Space Telescope News JPL News Kepler Telescope News Lunar and Planetary Institute News MSNBC Space News NASA Breaking News NASA PlanetQuest News NASA TV National Geographic News PBS Nova News Science at NASA News Scientific American News Space Shuttle News Space Today News STEREO Solar Mission News The Astronomer’s Telegram News The Space Show Wired Science News Astronomy Podcasts 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast Astronomy Cast Podcast Astronomy Magazine Podcast Earth Sky Podcast

  • What Is Our Future in Space?

    Updated: 2011-10-21 20:12:43
    Home Advertise Blog The Sky This Month The Moon This Month Astronomy News Astrobiology Magazine News Astronomy Picture of the Day BBC Science News CNN Space News Earth Observatory News Eurekalert Astronomy Space News European Southern Observatory News European Space Agency News Gemini Observatory News Hubble Space Telescope News JPL News Kepler Telescope News Lunar and Planetary Institute News MSNBC Space News NASA Breaking News NASA PlanetQuest News NASA TV National Geographic News PBS Nova News Science at NASA News Scientific American News Space Shuttle News Space Today News STEREO Solar Mission News The Astronomer’s Telegram News The Space Show Wired Science News Astronomy Podcasts 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast Astronomy Cast Podcast Astronomy Magazine Podcast Earth Sky Podcast

  • Celestron NexStar GPS Telescope 9.25″ Plus 2 Ccd Cameras And Lens Kit – $1795.00

    Updated: 2011-10-21 19:45:38
    Current Price: $1795.00Buy It Now Price: $1995.00Bids: 0 For sale is a like new Celestron Nexstar 9.25 GPS Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope. Also included are 2 CCD cameras and a 14 item lens/filter kit. 40,000 object data base Easy to operate Neximage solar system CCD camera Mead Deep Sky Imager with autostar suite CCD Camera 14 item [...]

  • White 70mm Computerized GPS ‘Go-To’ Refractor Telescope – $459.99

    Updated: 2011-10-21 19:26:23
    Current Price: $459.99Buy It Now Price: $505.99Bids: 0 White 70mm Computerized GPS 'Go-To' Refractor Telescope 70mm fully coated, achromatic objective lens Focal Length: 700mm 20mm Eyepiece 12mm Eyepiece 4mm Eyepiece 2x Barlow Lens iOptron SmartStar-A Computer Controlled Combination Altazimuth and Equatorial Mount with GPS GoToNova Computer Controller with 80,000 Object Database Heavy Duty Stainless Steel [...]

  • Last call: Donors Choose

    Updated: 2011-10-21 16:43:49
    For the past couple of weeks I’ve been participating in a science blogger challenge with Donors Choose, to raise as much money as we can to go to classrooms that need science equipment. The challenge ends Saturday at midnight Eastern US time. I just got a note from the folks at Donors Choose saying that [...]

  • MOTOR MOUNT CLOCK DRIVE FOR REFLECTOR TELESCOPES – $49.99

    Updated: 2011-10-21 03:46:02
    Current Price: $49.99Buy It Now Price: $69.99Bids: 0  THIS IS LISTING IS FOR THE MOTOR MOUNT (NOT A FULL SCOPE THANKS FOR LOOKING) MOTOR MOUNT/CLOCK DRIVE FOR REFLECTOR TELESCOPES. HAND CONTROL THE HAND CONTROLLER HAS FOUR KEYS, IF THE 8X OR 2X KEY IS PRESSED, THE MOTOR WILL TURN AT 8X OR 2X SIDEREAL RATE, [...]

  • Celestron 20mm 1.25″ Eyepiece – $8.99

    Updated: 2011-10-20 22:46:34
    Current Price: $8.99Buy It Now Price: $14.99Bids: 0 Celestron 20mm Eyepiece 1.25"Used, but in excellent condition.This is one of two eyepieces that came with an Astromaster 90EQ telescope.  Includes a plastic eyepiece container, features a fold-up rubber eyeguard.  If you own the Celestron FirstScope, this eyepiece is an excellent upgrade, featuring additional eye relief as [...]

  • 1” Inch Ring Steel Offset Weaver Rail Flashlight Laser Scope Tactical Mount New – $8.99

    Updated: 2011-10-20 22:27:38
    Current Price: $8.99Buy It Now Price: $9.98Bids: 0 Item description & features   * Item title: Flashlight/Lase?r/Scope 1" Offset Weaver Ringl Mount * Model: T-2008* Color: Black * Material: Steel with Aluminium* Rail Size( mm ): 20mm-22mm * Mount dia: 1 inch diameter* Weight( g ): 80* Designed to mount flashlight / laser / scope [...]

  • Our Future in Space – panel at TAM 9

    Updated: 2011-10-20 19:26:49
    In July 2011, at the JREF’s TAM 9 meeting in Las Vegas, I moderated a panel discussing the future of space exploration. On that panel were some familiar faces: Bill Nye (the Science Guy), astronomers Neil Tyson and Pamela Gay, and theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss. All of us have, ah, some experience talking to the [...]

  • Doomed ROSAT captured in video

    Updated: 2011-10-20 16:45:47
    I actually kinda half-expected this would happen: the fantastic "amateur" astronomer Thierry Legault was able to observe and get video of the astronomical satellite ROSAT as it’s making its final orbits around the Earth: He also observed it on October 16th, but I think the video above from late September shows it better. To show [...]

  • Meade Variable-Projection Tele-Extender – $10.00

    Updated: 2011-10-20 16:27:14
    Current Price: $10.00Buy It Now Price: $15.00Bids: 0 One nice Meade Variable-Projection Tele-Extender used with my telescope to take pictures of planets, stars, etc.  Don't need it anymore as I have given up astrophotography.See from the picture that it is in good shape. Tags: pictures of planets, Good Shape, Technology Internet, Human Interest

  • MEADE 8″ LX200 EMC SCHMIDT CASSEGRAIN TELESCOPE, USED, EXTRAS – $1200.00

    Updated: 2011-10-20 14:28:52
    Current Price: $1200.00Buy It Now Price: $1400.00Bids: 0 UP FOR SALE IS MY USED MEADEE 8" SCHMIDT CASSEGRAIN TELESCOPE, SORRY NO MANUAL BUT, CAN BE DOWNLOADED ON MEADE WEBSITE MINT CONDITION, SORRY NO REFUNDS, AS IS SALE,,,WE HAVE BEEN SELLING FOR OVER TEN YEARS ON EBAY  WILL SHIP UPS WITH TRACKING & INSURANCE COMES WITH MANY [...]

  • NEW – Zhumell 32mm Plossl Telescope Eyepiece Meade 1.25 – $23.49

    Updated: 2011-10-20 13:02:00
    Current Price: $23.49Buy It Now Price: $25.99Bids: 0 No International bidding or shipping New item 52 degree apparent field of view 32mm high grade eyepiece with 20mm eye relief metal housing & glass lens No original box I took this photo with a 127mm Schmidt-Cassegrain with an identical Zhumell 32mm eyepiece on 9.15.2010 Tags: Apparent [...]

  • Telrad Finder For Telescope/Illuminated Bulls-Eye Finder For Any Scope. Easy Use – $24.95

    Updated: 2011-10-20 12:27:36
    Current Price: $24.95Buy It Now Price: $34.95Bids: 0  Telrad Illuminated Reflex Sight/Finder for any Telescope. This one's in near mint condition. Comes with Telrad base, New Batteries, Owners Instructions,  and the Telrad Reflex sight itself. It's in great shape, and works perfectly.  Free Shipping Some Manufacturer's Info: Description Don't hunt stars without it! If you're [...]

  • New 1” Inch Rail Offset Weaver Ring Flashlight Laser Telescope Tactical Mount – $8.99

    Updated: 2011-10-20 11:49:07
    Current Price: $8.99Buy It Now Price: $9.98Bids: 0 Item description & features   * Item title: Steel 1 Inch Rail Offset Weaver Ring Flashlight/Lase?r/Scope Rifle Mount* Model: T-2008* Color: Black * Material: High Pressure Steel and Aluminium* Rail Size( mm ): 20mm-22mm * Mount dia: 1 inch diameter* Net weight( g ): 80 * Designed [...]

  • Meade Series 4000 1.25″ Telescope Eyepiece Color FILTER SET #1 — NEW IN BOX – $26.95

    Updated: 2011-10-20 10:53:35
    Current Price: $26.95Buy It Now Price: $29.95Bids: 0                                                                 Fine-tune your telescope observing! Up for auction is a new in box Meade 1.25" color filter set #1, which includes:#12 Yellow#23A Light-Red#58 Green#80A BlueEach filter comes with a plastic protective caseWhy use a filter? Planetary and lunar observation is almost always improved by the use of [...]

  • New 1” Inch Steel Rail Offset Weaver Ring Flashlight Laser Scope Tactical Mount – $8.99

    Updated: 2011-10-20 10:15:11
    Current Price: $8.99Buy It Now Price: $9.98Bids: 0 Item description & features   * Item title: Steel 1 Inch Rail Offset Weaver Ring Flashlight/Lase?r/Scope Rifle Mount* Model: T-2008* Color: Black * Material: High Pressure Steel and Aluminium* Rail Size( mm ): 20mm-22mm * Mount dia: 1 inch diameter* Net weight( g ): 80 * Designed [...]

  • 1” Inch Rail Offset Weaver Ring Steel Flashlight Laser Scope Tactical Mount New – $8.99

    Updated: 2011-10-20 10:08:16
    Current Price: $8.99Buy It Now Price: $9.98Bids: 0 Item description & features   * Item title: Steel 1 Inch Rail Offset Weaver Ring Flashlight/Laser/Scope Rifle Mount* Model: T-2008* Color: Black * Material: High Pressure Steel and Aluminium* Rail Size( mm ): 20mm-22mm * Mount dia: 1 inch diameter* Net weight( g ): 80 * Designed [...]

  • Galileo 3X Astroscopic Barlow Lens Telescope – $18.00

    Updated: 2011-10-20 07:14:50
    Current Price: $18.00Buy It Now Price: $20.00Bids: 0 Galileo 3X Barlow LensUsed but in great condition. Does not have cover cap. Tags: Barlow Lens, Technology Internet

  • Celestron NexStar 8i Mount W/Meade 2080 – 8″ Catadioptric Telescope/Great Shape – $645.00

    Updated: 2011-10-20 04:08:20
    Current Price: $645.00Buy It Now Price: $795.00Bids: 0 SquareTrade © AP6.0 Celestron NexStar 8i Mount W/Meade 2080 - 8" Catadioptric Telescope. Great shape! This is a Celestron NexStar 8i mount that has been machined to accept a ScopeStuff dovetail shoe to allow you to mount any telescope with a dovetail on this mount. It's a standard [...]

  • Meade 1.25″ Budget Shorty 2X Telescope BARLOW — NEW – $6.50

    Updated: 2011-10-20 02:23:06
    Current Price: $6.50Buy It Now Price: $7.95Bids: 0 Nice price, don't miss this bargain! Up for sale is a very economical,  brand new Meade 2X shorty barlow lens for 1.25" eyepieces. This barlow features a 2-element glass lens in a hard plastic casing.  Double the power of your 1.25" eyepieces -- lots cheaper than buying [...]

  • Soyuz VS01 on Launch Pad – Watch Online: Soyuz – Galileo IOV Launch

    Updated: 2011-10-19 18:24:39
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  • Animation of the Aurora Australis From Space | Flickr

    Updated: 2011-10-18 09:43:00
    : TF Exo Cassini Chandra Curiosity Earth Hubble Kepler La Silla Mars Express Mauna Kea MRO MESSENGER Paranal Solar System Spitzer Universe Webb WISE FoS TelescopeFeed Animation of the Aurora Australis From Space Flickr 1 week ago in Exo Antennae Galaxies Composite 1 week ago in Universe Telescope Feed Star Cluster NGC 2100 5 weeks ago in La Silla Observatory Feed Spiral Galaxy NGC 3393 5 weeks ago in Chandra X-ray Observatory Feed NGC 4438 and NGC 4435 2 months ago in Paranal Observatory Feed NGC 2146 2 months ago in Hubble Space Telescope Feed Martian Skylight 2 months ago in Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Feed Magnitude X6.9 Solar Flare 2 months ago in Solar System Telescope Feed Tethys and Titan 2 months ago in Cassini Orbiter Feed Curiosity's Destination : Gale Crater 3 months ago in Mars

  • Antennae Galaxies Composite

    Updated: 2011-10-17 12:32:00
    : TF Exo Cassini Chandra Curiosity Earth Hubble Kepler La Silla Mars Express Mauna Kea MRO MESSENGER Paranal Solar System Spitzer Universe Webb WISE FoS TelescopeFeed Animation of the Aurora Australis From Space Flickr 1 week ago in Exo Antennae Galaxies Composite 1 week ago in Universe Telescope Feed Star Cluster NGC 2100 5 weeks ago in La Silla Observatory Feed Spiral Galaxy NGC 3393 5 weeks ago in Chandra X-ray Observatory Feed NGC 4438 and NGC 4435 2 months ago in Paranal Observatory Feed NGC 2146 2 months ago in Hubble Space Telescope Feed Martian Skylight 2 months ago in Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Feed Magnitude X6.9 Solar Flare 2 months ago in Solar System Telescope Feed Tethys and Titan 2 months ago in Cassini Orbiter Feed Curiosity's Destination : Gale Crater 3 months ago in Mars

  • Billion Tonne Comet May Have Missed Earth By A Few Hundred Kilometres in 1883 | Technology Review

    Updated: 2011-10-17 09:54:00
    : TF Exo Cassini Chandra Curiosity Earth Hubble Kepler La Silla Mars Express Mauna Kea MRO MESSENGER Paranal Solar System Spitzer Universe Webb WISE FoS TelescopeFeed Animation of the Aurora Australis From Space Flickr 1 week ago in Exo Antennae Galaxies Composite 1 week ago in Universe Telescope Feed Star Cluster NGC 2100 5 weeks ago in La Silla Observatory Feed Spiral Galaxy NGC 3393 5 weeks ago in Chandra X-ray Observatory Feed NGC 4438 and NGC 4435 2 months ago in Paranal Observatory Feed NGC 2146 2 months ago in Hubble Space Telescope Feed Martian Skylight 2 months ago in Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Feed Magnitude X6.9 Solar Flare 2 months ago in Solar System Telescope Feed Tethys and Titan 2 months ago in Cassini Orbiter Feed Curiosity's Destination : Gale Crater 3 months ago in Mars

  • Announcing the 2012 Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest

    Updated: 2011-10-17 04:52:40
    The Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest has been co-sponsored by NSS and Baen Books since 2007. Science fiction writers who create positive stories about man’s future in space are rewarded with professional publication, NSS membership and an award presented each year at the International Space Development Conference (ISDC). These winning [...]

  • Join NSS at the Women & Mars Conference

    Updated: 2011-10-17 04:26:15
    The National Space Society is a co-sponsor of the Women and Mars Conference presented by Explore Mars in partnership with NASA and the Space Policy Institute on November 9-10, 2011 at the Jack Morton Auditorium at George Washington University. Registration and Conference Agenda at: womenandmars.eventbrite.com Use NSS Discount Code: WomenandMars-NSS In addition, they have arranged a tour of [...]

  • M31 Andromeda Galaxy with DSLR and Newtonian

    Updated: 2011-10-16 15:03:59
    , M31 Andromeda Galaxy with DSLR and Newtonian Category : Astronomy Images Posted by : Tom How The DSLR experiment continues . This time with a mosaic . Each panel of this two-framer of part of the M31 region is made up of about 12 x 300s exposures at ISO800. The Canon 350D DSLR is mounted at prime focus on my 8 inch 1000mm focal length Newtonian telescope . The camera is modified with a higher band-pass IR filter , but no light pollution filters have been . used As you can see I've made a poor job of joining the two sections together . Getting the background colour flat across the whole image is proving troublesome . Because of this I've pushed the background rather too dark , so more processing practice needed Click here for a larger sized . version Comments No comments yet Add Comment

  • Amateur Skywatchers Help Space Hazards Team

    Updated: 2011-10-14 00:36:50
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  • SPS-ALPHA: The First Practical Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrarily Large PHased Array

    Updated: 2011-10-13 01:29:25
    The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program has issued a grant to John Mankins of Artemis Innovation Management Solutions for a study of space solar power. SPS-ALPHA (Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrarily Large Phased Array) is a novel, bio-mimetic approach to the challenge of space solar power. If successful, this project will make possible the [...]

  • Did the Water in Earth’s Oceans Come From Comets After All?

    Updated: 2011-10-12 23:17:50
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  • Photometry Needed for the November Asteroid Flyby

    Updated: 2011-10-12 12:41:25
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  • NASA Releases New Interactive Space Communications Game

    Updated: 2011-10-12 05:34:10
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  • Looking Into The Galaxy's Heart (It's Red)

    Updated: 2011-10-08 00:06:00
    NASA gives us a look at the center of the galaxy, in the form of an infrared image that penetrates the dust clouds that obscure the core in the visible spectrum. The result shows "the glow of hot hydrogen in space," the space agency says.

  • Nasa To Seek Applicants For Next Astronaut Candidate Class

    Updated: 2011-10-05 02:09:16
    HOUSTON — In early November, NASA will seek applicants for its next class of astronaut candidates who will support long-duration missions to the International Space Station and future deep space exploration activities. “For scientists, engineers and other professionals who have always dreamed of experiencing spaceflight, this is an exciting time to join the astronaut corps,” said [...]

  • ALMA: Atacama Large Millimeter Array

    Updated: 2011-10-03 18:16:13
    Humanity’s most complex ground-based astronomy observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has officially opened for astronomers at its 16,500-feet elevation site in northern Chile. Detailed views of star-formation in the Antennae Galaxies are the first astronomical test images released to the public from ALMA, confirming that this new telescope has surpassed all others of [...]

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