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Chromatic aberration in the human eye	19 Jul 2005 15:11 GMT	7
While playing around with one of my diffraction gratings viewing a point source (a low energy lightbulb with pinhole aperture) I noticed that the human eye shows significant chromatic aberration, with my reportedly 20:20 eyes at least bringing the yellow/red region to focus at ...
fireball/meteor Storm	19 Jul 2005 02:24 GMT	6
Did any one witness the so called "Meteor Storm last night?" I know Delta Aquarids are active but this is a fairly poor show. Fireball was supposed to come from the North over Wales and down over Eastborne/Bexhill.
The Donut of the heavens	19 Jul 2005 01:24 GMT	25
This description fits well when viewing the "Helix nebular" Hubble took a nice picture of it" I enlarged it and have it hanging in my office. Might as well mention I did the same thing with the "Eskimo Nebular" My view on that is it reminds me of a diamond in a setting of rubies. ...
& Tell ~ A Morning Wood Tale ~ *	18 Jul 2005 19:40 GMT	4
!Be Warned! Sign Says ... ~ * ~
Human Evidense Older Then Coal?	18 Jul 2005 15:24 GMT	2
nightbat wrote There was a fellow recently posting something about fossil evidence of Humans possibly being older then coal, well see news. See:
Scientists Discover New Element in Neighboring Territory	18 Jul 2005 13:40 GMT	6
SCIENTISTS DISCOVER NEW ELEMENT - GOVERNMENTIUM Rio Piedras (UPI) - The Biology Department of the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, has just announced the discovery of the heaviest
Mars rising	18 Jul 2005 12:23 GMT	14
A quick shot to the east just before packing up this morning. http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/Mars/mars-20050713.html Hope Rob got to see it rising out of the sea...
Webcam help?	18 Jul 2005 12:04 GMT	4
Had a play last night at aiming at something dimmer but light pollution and not being able to focus easily were against me... :) Anyway, I thought next time I would try and image something larger, maybe just a starfield or something, rather than going for something small and dim.
solar prom erupts this morning!	18 Jul 2005 10:57 GMT	1
Chris.B Wrote: > Why do your prominence shots show a dark solar disk with a narrow red > rim? Yet you seem to capture the solar disk at about the same image > intensity at other times. Even though the prominences might b
somebody tell me about the 3 star solar system that was just discovered	18 Jul 2005 04:12 GMT	8
i only saw a brief piece on CNN. a binary orbitting a regular?
Shuttle launch scrubbed	18 Jul 2005 03:05 GMT	31
At least for today it seems, crew taken off. Looks like a faulty fuel sensor. Sorry no link as taken straight from Nasa Tv live.
Lifelike Robot	18 Jul 2005 02:34 GMT	46
An ultra-lifelike female robot made quite an impression at the 2005 World Expo in Japan. http://www.livescience.com/technology/050628_real_robot.html There ya go, Bert.
NLC this morning	17 Jul 2005 22:51 GMT	3
Did anyone see NLC this morning? I saw something which could possibly be NLC at around 02:20 UT this morning from Eastleigh(N of Southampton). It was about 10 degrees above the Northern Horizon. I thought another (more likely)possibility was sunlight reflected off ...
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Re: The strange way the Earth dies	17 Jul 2005 19:24 GMT	1
As a follow-up to my original post, here are some links to peruse: Geologists searching past earthquake records for exotic mater impacts with the Earth say two strangelets sailed through the earth moving around a million miles per hour, in 1993: