Last Friday night Kirbic and I observed with a good sized group under dark skies about 30 miles south of Madison, and there were an unusually high number of bright meteors that night as well. I missed most of them, being glued to my camera and Mars, but I counted the gasps at one point that evening and recorded a record rate!
Got this in last week's NASA email -- this satellite has a 95MP sensor (array)!
Originally posted by NASA Science News:
The Kepler telescope is specially designed to detect the periodic dimming of stars caused by transiting planets. Some star systems are oriented in such a way that their planets cross in front of their stars, as seen from our Earthly point of view. As the planets transit, they cause their stars' light to slightly dim, or wink. The telescope can register changes in brightness of only 20 parts per million.
"If Kepler were to look down at a small town on Earth at night from space, it would be able to detect the dimming of a porch light as somebody passed in front," said James Fanson, Kepler project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
To accomplish this feat, Kepler will use the largest camera ever launched into space, a 95-megapixel array of charged couple devices or "CCDs."
Aaaaaaaagh! The Venusians are coming, the Venusians are coming!
maybe this is good thing that Venusians are visiting us ... i always imagined that fleet of great space battleships of yamamoto class
filled with beautiful woman on all decks are ... harvesting us. :-)
Aaaaaaaagh! The Venusians are coming, the Venusians are coming!
maybe this is good thing that Venusians are visiting us ... i always imagined that fleet of great space battleships of yamamoto class
filled with beautiful woman on all decks are ... harvesting us. :-)
Why would the Venusians name a class of battleships after a Japanese Admiral?
Why would the Venusians name a class of battleships after a Japanese Admiral?
argh. i knew it ... no bad intensions or prejudices here ... it is the name of the powerful vessel/gun in starcraft pc game ... it's all my imagination. sorry.
Why would the Venusians name a class of battleships after a Japanese Admiral?
argh. i knew it ... no bad intensions or prejudices here ... it is the name of the powerful vessel/gun in starcraft pc game ... it's all my imagination. sorry.
I knew the source.....sometimes I just like to be difficult. :) Of course the question remains Why would the Venusians name a class of battleships after a Japanese Admiral?
