Star-Gazing
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-05 | Author:Dan Parry [Dan Parry]

Chapter 10 PUSHED TO THE LIMIT The final say on whether Apollo 11 would launch on schedule was down to the crew as much as anyone, and determined to make ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-04 | Author:Dickinson, Terence [Dickinson, Terence]

NGC1872 A rich cluster of thousands of stars dwells in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Star clusters are usually classed as either open or globular, but NGC1872 has characteristics of both. ...
( Category: Astronomy June 2,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Woodhouse, Chris [Chris Woodhouse]

fig.8 Sequence Generator Pro uniquely focuses images using multiple HFD measurements from one image, improving speed and reliability. The autofocus settings dialog box has many options, not only for the ...
( Category: Handbooks & Manuals May 24,2015 )
epub, mobi | | | Author:Carl Sagan [Sagan, Carl]

18. The Canals of Mars In 1877 (as in 1971) the planet Mars was close–forty million miles from Earth. European astronomers, with newly developed telescopes, prepared for what was then ...
( Category: Marine Biology February 3,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alan Hirshfeld [Hirshfeld, Alan]

While astronomers were engaged in the Dopplerian debate over star colors, a little-known conjecture wafted in the background. In December 1848, French physicist Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau delivered a lecture at the ...
( Category: Astronomy November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Richard Grossinger [Grossinger, Richard]

In the traditional occult, Venus is the goddess of love and ripeness, tranquility and charity. She represents the ardor within nature to grow and spread, dispatching fields of wild plants ...
( Category: Cultural October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Stephen Hawking [Hawking, Stephen]

*A lecture given at the Three Hundred Years of Gravity conference held in Cambridge in June 1987, on the three hundredth anniversary of the publication of Newton’s Principia. Ten THE ...
( Category: Cosmology March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-01 | Author:Christopher Cokinos

THERE’S ANOTHER REASON FOR the frenzy: A self-described “long-haired rock and roller” with a mailbox shaped like a rocket and a persona as subtle as a fireball. Robert Haag—The Meteorite ...
( Category: Comets, Meteors & Asteroids March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |pt | 1997-09-08 | Author:Carl Sagan

PLANETARY SCIENCE fosters a broad interdisciplinary point of view that proves enormously helpful in discovering and attempting to defuse these looming environmental catastrophes. When you cut your teeth on other ...
( Category: Astronomy March 24,2014 )