On this site http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/index.php?p=content/rtmovies The LASCO C3 movie on the extreme right, titled "1/4 Res 13day MPEG" shows the...
Hello Dr Rathnasree, Â Venus will reach an eastern elongation of 10 degrees on July 15th. It might be visible in the evening sky with some difficulty. It...
This post results from a thought expressed by Rathnashree, seeking to connect the lyric of Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence", with the effort to...
Som, Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" is more closely connected with the Dustin Hoffman starrer "The Graduate" and also the aftermath of the...
Apologies for the long silence on these circles. I have been having exams. About the sky colour indicator, well, it was a simple java script concoction and it...
Thanks for the information Manoj. I do remember the recurrence of this song in The Graduate but wasn't aware of the Kennedy connection. Will look it up. Will...
... to connect the lyric of Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence", with the effort to quantify (and thereby get around) metropolitan light pollution for...
Hmm interesting talk , Really liked the discussion. It does offer some insights. But this is all for the heck of discussion ona topic i do not know much...
no question of minding Sanath - thoughts are always welcome. And within and without are basically two sides of the same completeness/oneness thing. Anyway,...
Y does it sound like Voyager finding our way back home !!!? HAHHA well every thing has atleast two sides but it is the lighter side i relish!. I am kind of...
No particular reason Sanath it is a random topic. As to motive: I can only point to the Primum Mobile, the one and only Motive in this universe. All else is...
HAHAHH . Nah no more beer for the road. It is time to throw the big switch and declare it a day!. I am 11.5 hours behind IST now. and am 12 hours from work...
Hello Sanath, No motive, as Som says. Just random walking :-) I was very stuck by the line in the song "When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light ...
Ajay, We are looking for measured co-ordinates (Either a measurement of Altitude and Azimuth, noting the time) or a measurement of RA and Dec) of the Sun and...
I have added quite a lot of references on this page. I am also thinking of adding just a couple of lines of summaries from some of the references, as I read...
Would it be possible for some of us to try and obtain relatively standardised photographs of one region of the sky, containing some of the boundary stars that...
Would one of the techies in the group be able to look at the following free mapping software that might help us with displaying data? http://www.gpstm.com/ Not...
Hi One of our friends from BAS [Hemant Hariyani] found a non-free Light Pollution Map of the world. We use that superposed on Google Earth to find our dark...
Hi I'm sorry, Marble doesn't contain a high resolution light pollution map by default. This site: http://www.lightpollution.it/dmsp/artbri.html Lists a lot of...
Hello Akarsh, Yes, of course, studies do exist of night sky brightness mapping from mosaics of satellite data. I was thinking of our making small scale local...
The Times of India article is slotted for the 5th of June - so, we have two days in which to do this ... PS: Heres the Irridium flare pic i promised: ...
Avnish, could you try and image the Leo region from your home today, keep the same settings and try to obtain roughly the same field of view tomorrow, at Nuh?...
Dear All, I am back from my long holiday and getting back to work. There are literally 100s of mails (after deleted some without opening) I have to answer. But...
Ya it would defintely be possible to get the things. will do it once the weather permits. Ans also while talking to you today, getting the sky glow thru your...
I have not read most of the discussion on this topic but let me remind you about the limiting magnitude (lm) estimation with IMO star fields. The procedure...
Arvind, this is a very good idea. Let us discuss the possible logistics some more. Over here at Delhi, we will definitely volunteer to make the necessary...
Dear Shri Arvindji, pl.send us the cd on our add.as under,we are thankful to you for giving this type of information & visuals. thanks yours DDPUROHIT &...
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hi, This is a really interesting idea. It also might be an easier way of contributing star count data. Consider the use of Google maps under My Maps. You can...