Interesting Links

InvisibleBadger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm34Muv6Lsg

Interesting video from 1997 about how to go to Mars cheaply(less than the Anglo bailout).
The main point is about using less weight.
Send the return spaceship ahead first, to sit on Mars for 2yrs, where it can make its own fuel and oxygen very easily and cheaply.
Send Astronauts along to stay on Mars for 18 mths.
Repeat a few times and then build a Mars base!

demakinz

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/29/797043/-Photo-Tour-of-The-Solar-System-%252528Part-1


Some cool pictures from around the Solar System. enjoy

jkforde

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/george_smoot_on_the_design_of_the_universe.html

love the animated model of the cosmic structure starting around 10mins in

InvisibleBadger

Here is a 20min talk with Pete Worden of Nasa.
http://fora.tv/2010/10/16/Long_Conversation_with_Pete_Worden_and_Peter_Schwartz

He talks about Nasas future plans. Nothing too detailed but a nice look at what they're doing.

WalterMitty

http://www.irishastrosoc.org/wordpress/?page_id=59

Viewing in sandymount dublin every month. next meeting nov 12th at 8pm

The Hill Billy

Impact Catastrophe Calculator

Conor108

'Introduction to Astrophysics'

This is a set of 24 lectures (~1 hour each) from Yale university on the Academic Earth site. Theres an astrobiology course available too. And TONS of other courses on other subjects.

walkingtheline

Don;t know if this is listed but I found an interesting link which I just posted about

http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/blast-off-for-a-year-of-stargazing.html

You can comment, ask questions etc and they will get back asap which is pretty good

Donegal Skies

Astrophotography and Astronomy Articles By Brendan Alexander, Co. Donegal.

www.DonegalSkies.com

Ahorseofaman

might have been posted somewhere already but I found this fascinating.http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1LoDzO/www.aip.de/groups/galaxies/sw/udf/swudfV1.0.html

ooops title should have read ultra deep field

Rubecula

While I was browsing for some info I came across this site (link below) I think it may help newcomers to astronomy.

http://www.rocketroberts.com/astro/first.htm

InvisibleBadger

If you skip to the last half of this video you'll find Elon Musk talking about space ships. Extremely interesting from the guy who is big in the space private sector.
http://fora.tv/2009/04/07/Uber_Entrepreneur_An_Evening_with_Elon_Musk#fullprogram

slade_x

Worthwhile

Amtmann wrote: »

Lecture 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32wIKaLkvc4

Nate--IRL-- wrote: »

Lecture 1 to 8



Nate

Duncan1001011

Make sure to take a look here. Updates by the minute.

howmanypeopleareonmarsrightnow.com/

souperduper

This is my favourate its very well laid out:D http://www.n2yo.com/

zenno

This guy Lenard walson site has some great closeup shots of the moon. he uses a 12 inch telescope with a camera connect - through computer control to record some good shots of the moon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLSkV4VgF-o

slade_x

zenno wrote: »

This guy Lenard walson site has some great closeup shots of the moon. he uses a 12 inch telescope with a camera connect - through computer control to record some good shots of the moon.

You do realise that this is the person who created these videos to show that not only are there bases on the moon (alien or otherwise) but also alien spacecrafts navigating our skies of which he claims to have footage too. Its also mind boggling how he can achieve such an unbelievably close view of the moon with his as claimed amazing ccd techonology but can only achieve a relatively crappy view of the iss where others that dont use his revolutionary techonology can achieve much better captures of it.

http://www.google.ie/#hl=en&safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&q=john+lenard+walson+hoax&oq=john+lenard+walson+hoax&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_nf=1&gs_l=hp.3...1196301.1196882.2.1197088.5.5.0.0.0.0.0.0..1.0.p22UNGdhxdY&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=528ae06e1251b0fe

zenno

slade_x wrote: »

You do realise that this is the person who created these videos to show that not only are there bases on the moon (alien or otherwise) but also alien spacecrafts navigating our skies of which he claims to have footage too. Its also mind boggling how he can achieve such an unbelievably close view of the moon with his as claimed amazing ccd techonology but can only achieve a relatively crappy view of the iss where others that dont use his revolutionary techonology can achieve much better captures of it.

http://www.google.ie/#hl=en&safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&q=john+lenard+walson+hoax&oq=john+lenard+walson+hoax&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_nf=1&gs_l=hp.3...1196301.1196882.2.1197088.5.5.0.0.0.0.0.0..1.0.p22UNGdhxdY&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=528ae06e1251b0fe

Emm.. not sure about this bases on the moon stuff but I was looking through a few of his videos and was quite amazed at the shots he could capture though. If his agenda is about aliens and such i never took that into account as i thought the video was damn good of the moon only. Will read you're links now but the reason I put these links up was because of the good recordings of the moon. surely they are not fake ?

zenno

OK, I have just found out that john lenard walsons moon recordings are genuine so he has NOT faked these images. Though there was a short film made by a guy called jose escamilla called Interstellar and used so-called images of weird structures in space and there is a lot of people saying that it was all faked but i'm not interested in that film. The moon recordings are genuine so that's all i care about. Most of his video recordings are copyrighted by himself and are his own recordings. that film though is odd though and i am not in any position to make any judgement on it as i haven't a clue what he was actually recording.

WakeUp

Hi all

have never posted in your forum before is quite cool though lots of interesting sh1t being discussed here. Following the meteorite in Russia and DA14s shave with our planet have been hoovering up knowledge of all things astronomical lately. Anyways here is a link for anyone interested constant updating newsfeeds from around the world all things astronomy...

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Science/Astronomy

Just Like Heaven

MeteoritesEire

pretty funny ^^^^

here's something cool.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-279

Take a Virtual Tour of Vesta With New High-Resolution Images
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
September 13, 2013

An atlas of the giant asteroid Vesta, created from images taken as NASA's
Dawn mission flew around the object (also known as a protoplanet), is
now accessible for the public to explore online. The set of maps was created
from mosaics of 10,000 images taken by Dawn's framing camera instrument
at a low altitude of about 130 miles (210 kilometers).

The maps are mostly at a scale about that of regional road-touring maps,
where every inch of map is equivalent to a little more than 3 miles of
asteroid (1 centimeter equals 2 kilometers).

"Creating the atlas has been a painstaking task -- each map sheet of this
series has used roughly 400 images," said Thomas Roatsch of the Deutsches
Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt, Germany, who presented the images Sept.
11 at the European Planetary Science Congress 2013 in London.

"The atlas shows how extreme the terrain is on a body the size of Vesta.
In the south pole projection alone, the Severina crater contours reach
a depth of 11 miles [18 kilometers]; just over 60 miles [100 kilometres]
away from the mountain peak towers about 4 miles [7 kilometers] high."

Read the full news release from the European Planetary Science Congress
at:
http://www.europlanet-eu.org/epsc2013/media-press/76-epsc2013/media-press/621-take-a-virtual-tour-of-vesta-with-new-high-resolution-atlases

.

View the images online at:
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/vesta_atlas_gallery.asp
and http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/pia17480


As an aside, Vesta is thought to be the home asteroid of the HED suite of meteorites (Howardite, Eucrite and Diogenite).

rolion

A nice useful website with a calculator to give you Field of View (FoV) for different scopes, Barlow's and eyepieces.
Handy for viewing or for Imaging.

Also, it looks like it shows what kind of view you can have based on the date/month/year !


http://www.12dstring.me.uk/fov.htm

My "dream" setup:



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rolion

Welcome to Planets for Kids

I really hope you enjoy the information that I have provided on this website. You will find lots of information about our solar system with lots of questions and answers and games for you to play. We also have a colour in section where you can download pictures and have fun.

Remember everything here is "Kid-friendly" so lets get started....


http://www.planetsforkids.org/

http://www.planetsforkids.org/page-about_us.html

Enjoy it...

_Tombstone_

https://developer.cdn.mozilla.net/media/uploads/demos/l/i/littleworkshop/the-planetarium/demo_package/index.html

cruizer101

Thread not too active but didn't think this was worth thread of its own, a nice visualization of all human space exploration:

https://www.popchartlab.com/products/the-chart-of-cosmic-exploration

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0211/4926/files/P-Space_Zoom.jpg?5131334108286536853

rolion

How big is our Solar system !?

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

Bsal

Interesting video watch in 4k if you can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLbPTI-kh9E

shedweller

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.runar.issdetector.pro

ISS tracker on sale in the play store. I have it already and its great. Looks like all the add ons are included in the €1.50 price so its a
bleedin baargain!

Bsal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTxnECbI0-U