Blogs Posts in Astrometry category; 266 blog posts

TC astronomy professor to join meteor viewing

Imagination Laboratories,Inc. and The West Side Recreation and Park District will be host a free meteor shower viewing at the A Street Park Friday at 9 p.m., until as late as you can stay up. The Perseid Meteor Shower is a y [...]

Posted On : Aug, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Economic Astronomy: Gender Gaps in Lifetime Earnings

There are two recent studies of gender disparities in science and technology (referred to by the faintly awful acronym "STEM") getting a lot of play over the last few days. As is often the case with social-science results, the d [...]

Posted On : Aug, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

UBC undergrad gets rare opportunity to log time on internati...

Steve Mairs will boldly go where few undergrads have gone before. The third-year physics and astronomy student at UBC's Okanagan campus leaves for Hawaii early next month for two weeks study at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Mau [...]

Posted On : Aug, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

The Native Astronomer

Although the job of the astronomer is a lot less lonely than it used to be—they spend far fewer long nights looking into telescopes in remote observatories and far more days in laboratories and research centers crunching numbers, an [...]

Posted On : Aug, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

96 New Reasons To Love Star Clusters

“Ninety-six clusters of stars in the sky…. Ninety-six clusters of stars… You take one down and pass it around…” Do you need ninety-six new reasons to love astronomy? Then you’re going to want to hear [...]

Posted On : Aug, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

A TRUE STORY OF ASTRONOMY IN THE DESERT

Sometime around the age of thirteen, I decided that I wanted to be an astronomer. (Thank you, Carl Sagan, for your inspiring character in Ellie Arroway.) If getting to explore the universe isn't enough of a job perk, I've also had [...]

Posted On : Aug, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Spruce Knob observatory gives astronomy buffs skies with a v...

Not long after Morgantown native Joe Morris moved to a rural section of Maryland's Eastern Shore, development in the fast-growing area began interfering with his hobby. Morris, an orthopedic surgeon and an amateur astronomer since [...]

Posted On : Aug, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

On Astronomy: Meteors are highlight of August skies

When I think of August, I think of meteor showers. The annual Perseid meteor shower peaks on the night of Aug. 13. A full moon will hinder ability to see the fainter meteors on this night. Patient sky watchers will still see about 20 very [...]

Posted On : Jul, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

How to Choose Binoculars For Astronomy

When buying binoculars for astronomy one of the main considerations is the light gathering capability of the binoculars you are looking to buy and therefore the size of the objective lens is extremely important. Before you start check [...]

Posted On : Jul, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Astronomy - The Subdisciplines and Tendencies of Science

Ever since the humankind and human culture existed we have been looking at the stars above us captivated by their beauty and their mystery. That is why the investigation of astronomy was known since ancient times and is developing today. [...]

Posted On : Jul, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Astronomer talks gas measurement

A leading Okanagan astronomer will explain how the coldest gas in the universe is being measured at the June meeting of the Okanagan Centre RASC (Royal Astronomical Society of Canada) in Vernon on Wed. June 29. Dr. Erik Rosolowsky, ass [...]

Posted On : Jun, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Mother of Iranian astronomy dies at 90

Her funeral procession began at Tehran’s Saint Mary Church on Monday and her body was then laid to rest at the cemetery for Iranian Christians in Tehran. Her fellow Christians celebrated her 90th birthday at the Ararat Club in Tehr [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Astronomer, renowned comet-chaser Brian Marsden dies

Prominent British-born astronomer and comet-chaser Brian Marsden has died at the age of 73 after a long illness, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said. Marsden was best known for predicting the return of Comet Swift-Tuttle [...]

Posted On : Dec, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

The measure of success

How do you make astrometry fun? Well, you don’t, of course. Astrometry is the precise measurement of the position and motion of astronomical objects. It is not something one takes lightly. It requires skill, exactitude, and lots an [...]