Cosmology, Astronomy – The Moon

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Video captures from my backyard observatory.

an imagined cosmos

Cosmology, Astronomy – Space Tourists

http://live.pirillo.com/ - It may not be as cool as going outside and using your telescope to view the night sky, but Skellarium allows you to view the night sky (and more) from the comfort of your computer   more...screen!  less

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From Coast to Coast AM March 21, 2006.
George Noory interviews Robert Temple about his book The Sirius Mystery and the Dogon tribe of Mali.

According to anthropological studies, the Dogon Tribe of Africa   more...developed a religion based on the Sirius star system and were aware of Sirius B (a companion star that can't be seen with the naked eye) as well as a third star in that system which wasn't confirmed by astronomers until 1995, nearly 20 years after Temple wrote about it in his book.  less

George Noory interviews Robert Temple about his book The Sirius Mystery and the Dogon tribe of Mali.

According to anthropological studies, the Dogon Tribe of Africa developed a religion based on the Sirius   more...star system and were aware of Sirius B (a companion star that can't be seen with the naked eye) as well as a third star in that system which wasn't confirmed by astronomers until 1995, nearly 20 years after Temple wrote about it in his book.  less

Syd Barrett's humn ....by Pink Floyd just after Syd's departure. Rare TV appearance. ( found in YouTube )

Graham Hancock - Egypt & Mayan Astronomy.

It's a ball. and it's evil.
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Here's a little opener on the topic of Astronomy. Being a much more intuitive way of grasping the things that happen to us in our own universe,

our own planet, distances in the universe and some basic   more...and useful arguments that are very intuitive and very powerful against ignorance and

closed-minded arguments.

Links for the lecture:

The Electromagnetic Spectrum:
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/emspectrum .html

Pictures of the Sun (shrink/grow):
http://solar.physics.montana.edu/YPOP/Classroom/Lessons/Ecce ntricity/sunpix.html

Definition of a planet (from the International Astronomical Union):
http://www.iau.org/iau0603.414.0.html

The story behind Pluto's reconsideration as a planet:
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=4459

Measuring the distance to the sun (Defining Astronomical Units):
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Sun/distance.html
http://www.badastronomy.com/mad/1996/au.html

Measuring Speed of Light:
http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/sped lite.html

Nice Speed/Distance Space calculator:
http://janus.astro.umd.edu/astro/distance/

Please send me your notes; i am only human, and if I am inaccurate about something, I want to know about it so I can correct myself. Don't

hesitate to correct me on anything scientific.

Enjoy,

~moo  less

french commercial

Glowing halo in clouds over Moscow

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His shots of 189 secret spy satellites are the subject of a new exhibit -- despite the fact that, officially speaking, the satellites don't exist. The Other Night Sky, on display at the University of   more...California at Berkeley Art Museum through September 14, is only a small selection from the 1,500 astrophotographs Paglen has taken thus far.  less

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday.

The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes,   more...the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, was quoted as saying the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.http://my.att.net/s/editorial.dll?pnum=1&bfromind=7401&eeid=5872818&_sitecat=1505&dcatid=0&eetype=article&render=y&ac=-2&ck=&ch=ne&rg=blsadstrgt

"How can we rule out that life may have developed elsewhere?" Funes said. "Just as we consider earthly creatures as 'a brother,' and 'sister,' why should we not talk about an 'extraterrestrial brother'? It would still be part of creation.  less

The Japanese Kaguya probe captures some amazing footage of Earth rising and setting behind the moon.

what we believe to be the remnants of the march 21 supernova in Bootes, narrated by our man Grif. Music is a clip from bubble by characterdefect We were just talking to a friend here, Rizze, about   more...a cgi supernove, and here comes a real one, imagine that.  less

a collection of current ufo pics with music from characterdefect These are more current sightings from around the US. There are over 200 sightings reported in the US per year, over 1,000 worldwide.   more... Check out characterdefect.com for more music, rss space new, and lots of space in one place.  less

Unidentified Object floating over the Moon. Captured by Italian Astronomer.


Tracked while adjusting the focus of the scope
April 29,2007
location: Busto Arsizio, Italy 45.600°N, 8.852°E. Elevation:   more...214 m
Time: Tracking beginning: 10.52pm
Celestron C8 +6mm orthoscopic eyepiece projection Meade LXD75 Mount
Camera Unibrain Fire-I Board - 640 x 480 B&W
Capturing software AstroIDC on MacBook Pro
Note: the capturing software was set to grab 300 frames x movie so I couldn't track the event in continuous mode. This is the cause of the gaps between the movies.
The path on the background image is due to the stacking while the object moved through the moons surface.
http://81.72.14.47/Astro/UFO-April-29...

Italian astrophile films UFO hovering over the moon
Alberto Mayer, astrophile in Busto Arsizio (VA) managed to film a UFO crossing the moon very slowly, stopping, curving and going outside the satellite in another direction.
He edited all the videos and overlapped them to a static image of the moon to show clearly the object's anomalous motion.
"On the night of April 29, I was trying to focus my camera attacheded to the telescope. The high zooming factor and atmospheric turbulence were causing issues to the focusing steps.
The moon appeared "waving" but I immediatly noticed the presence of a small black dot in the corner of our satellite. At first glance I thought it was just dust on the lens of the camera. After taking a better look I saw the dot moving very slowly and it had the classic "distortions" produced by "bad seeing" (atmospheric turbulence). At this point I immediatly tried to start filming the object getting images as clear as I could."
http://www.ufoinfo.com/sightings/ital...  less

Mars in a minute with Nastradamus the 19th.

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