Mike's Telescope Workshop. I have been involved in amateur telescope making (ATM) for over 20 years.
In that time I have built many different telescopes and other instruments. This web page chronicles just a few of them. ATM is a great and very rewarding hobby. You can build a better telescope than you can buy. After you build your first telescope you'll never buy another mass-produced scope. The Projects Since I've been casting my own telescope mirror blanks for several years now.
Click to see the whole project. This is a 12.5 inch diameter, 1.5 inch thick, light-weight honeycomb-back telescope mirror blank that I made myself. Click on the photo to see how I made it. This is a 12.5 inch diameter, 1.5 inch thick, light-weight telescope mirror blank that I made myself. I have been experimenting with making telescope mirror blanks by fusing together disks of thin glass in my kiln to make the full thickness blanks.
BOLIDES - Visualizing meteorites. WebGL Globe. If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system. Mercury Venus Earth You Are Here Moon Mars Jupiter Io Europa Ganymede Callisto Saturn Titan Uranus Neptune Pluto(we still love you) That was about 10 million km (6,213,710 mi) just now. Incredible Time-Lapse Captures Up Close & Personal View of a Supercell Forming. Mars Curiosity Landing » ChartGeek.com. Best Explanation Of Gravity, Makes It So Much Easier To Understand! We Choose the Moon: Pre-launch. WIKISKY.ORG.
HERE IS TODAY. Space Exploration Home Page. The new page address is working now!!
==> www.rocketmime.com/space/space.html Welcome to the Home Page for Space Exploration. This Web site provides you with all the information you need to complete the Boy Scout Space Exploration Merit Badge, along with links to more information that is either useful or way fun. On this page you will find the requirements for the merit badge, listed below. For each requirement there are links to my pages, or NASA's pages or others, that provide you with the information you need to complete the requirement. This merit badge is too cool for words. Enough talk. Updated for the 2005 requirements! Tell the purpose of space exploration and include the following: Historical reason Immediate goals in terms of specific knowledge Benefits related to Earth resources, technology, and new products Go To Reasons for Space ExplorationDesign a collector's card, with a picture on the front and information on the back, about your favorite space pioneer.
About Randy Culp. Time Line of Space Exploration. A Wet Towel In Space Is Not Like A Wet Towel On Earth : Krulwich Wonders... You just don't know (because who's going to tell you?)
That when you leave Earth, travel outside its gravitational reach, hundreds and hundreds of everyday things — stuff you've never had to think about — will change. Like ... oh, how about a wet washcloth? Two high school students in Nova Scotia, Kendra Lemke and Meredith Faulkner, asked Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield (who is orbiting the planet right now) what it would be like to dip a washcloth in water (they suggested he clump it into a bottle, then pull it out) and squeeze it. On Earth, a really wet washcloth, squeezed tight, will drip, right? Up on the International Space Station, wet washcloths don't drip. (As a radio guy, I was SO aware of Chris's floating microphone. ... Thanks to Jason Kottke and his blog for noticing this. Correction: Reader Fred Bortz and a few others in the comments below were right to point out a mistake in my blog post. Www.dynamicdiagrams.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/orrery_2011_bce.swf.
My Solar System 2.04. Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) Interactive Virtual Tour - 360VR Images by Jook Leung. Science & Environment - How big is space? Big questions demand big answers.
And here at Future we have a hard time thinking of a question bigger than: how big is space? So, we set about trying to illustrate it. The resulting picture is so large that we could not squeeze it all on to one image in Photoshop. Instead, we had to create several sections and stitch them together for you. Printed out, the graphic spans 27 pages of A4 paper. But even at this size we only managed to get to the edge of our Solar System – known as the heliosphere.
Yet even within this relatively small corner of space, there is a lot packed in there. What is the most distant man-made object? Scroll (and scroll... and scroll) through our monster graphic to explore our cosmic neighbourhood. And if you want to check out the data we used to construct it, you can find it here. How Many People Are In Space Right Now? Galaxy. Astronomy For Beginners...Astronomy Basics...Amazing Astronomy Facts. 100,000 Stars. Helioviewer.org - Solar and heliospheric image visualization tool. 50_Years_Space_Exploration1.jpg (3861×1706) Space News.