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World Wide Star Count Project Results

Posted on January 15, 2008 | Leave a comment

 

Three months ago I posted The Great World Wide Star Count Project, and here Comes the Results.

"The Star Count team is pleased to announce that citizen scientists from 64 countries submitted a total of 6,624 observations!"

6,624 Observations is a good news… a good step 🙂 , but the bad news is most citizen who had joined are from the same zones. If you see the map above you will notice that Europe and North America submitted more observations compared to the other zones.

Download maps:

World: JPEG (print) or (screen) | PDF (print) or

(screen)

US & Canada : JPEG (print) or (screen) | PDF (print) or (screen)

Europe: JPEG (print) or (screen) | PDF (print) or (screen)

Download the Star Count datasets:

ESRI Shapefile, Google Earth KMZ, Excel Spreadsheet, or Comma-Separated Text file.

Coming Soon: Summary Analysis and "how-to" guides to help you with your analysis.

Thank you for your contributions to the Great World Wide Star Count! We hope that you will join us in 2008 and help us achieve our goal of 12,000 observations.

The Star Count team

If your interested for the results summary then keep visiting their website. Otherwise stay tuned for the next Star Count Project. 🙂

Technorati Tags: Great World Wide Star Count, Star Count, Windows To The Universe

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Do Not Touch

Posted on January 14, 2008 | 1 comment

WHAT!!??  Guys lets ger out from here……

Looks their selling cheap & unstable Tripods

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Save Astronomy

Posted on January 14, 2008 | Leave a comment

The British Science & Technology Facilities Council is in trouble and under threat, suffering from large cuts in research funding. Their budget is short by £80 million. The reasons for the cuts aren’t clear (the details we know are on Paul Crowther’s website). There are several factors at work, but the important thing is that this is not the result of astronomers wasting money, but as a result of factors beyond our control. Astronomy is now being hit. World class telescopes and facilities are facing closure. University physics departments will suffer huge cuts.

Find out what will be affected…

I found this message in my inbox month ago, but forgot to post it here. Well you can see what’s going on, and we need your help. If you live in UK, you can help us by writing to your member of parliament urging them to press the government to fill the black hole in STFC’s budget.

Please visit http://www.saveastronomy.org.uk if your interested.

Help us spreading this news. Just hit the Blog it button below or just copy the link and send it to all the people you know who can help.

 

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See you all next year

Posted on December 26, 2007 | 4 comments

 

  I hope everyone has had a wonderful Xmas and will have a great New Year  🙂

I’ve got nothing important to say now, but just to say see you all next year.

uhm uhm…. let me finish to eat my cake now

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Help NASA EDGE Celebrate 50 years of NASA!

Posted on November 18, 2007 | Leave a comment

50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE

SPACE AGE

1957 – 2007

So next year 2008, Nasa EDGE will be covering some of the greatest achievements of the past 50 years.

I’ve just looked in Nasa EDGE’s blog and they would like to hear from us! Their question is

  • What do you think are some of the most memorable NASA achievements over the past 50 years?

you can comment about any funny stories on Nasa’s missions and projects. Nasa EDGE would like to hear comments from early Nasa’s history.

“Maybe one of your comments or stories will make a NASA EDGE show”

You can comment here but make sure you comment in NASA EDGE blog.

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NASA’s 50th Anniversary Website

Some of my greatest memorable NASA achievements are:

  • the birth of (NASA)-National Aeronautics and Space Administration on October 1, 1958 🙂
  • The lunch of its first earth satellite (Explorer-I) on January 31st, 1958.
  • The successful Apollo 7 mission in October 1968.
  • The successful Apollo 8 mission, which orbited the Moon on December 24-25, 1968.
  • The successful landing of Apollo 11 mission on July 20th, 1969.
  • The successful of other crazy missions like Apollo 12,13,14,15,16,17 and all the other crazy missions.
  • The successful of building space rockets, lunching things and failing 🙂
  • Sending live animals into space with the launch of Challenger flight STS-51B on April 28, 1985 🙂
  • the successful launch of the Hubble Space Telescope astronomical observatory into orbit.
  • And at last, the successful of celebrating 50 years of NASA 🙂 haha

Thus are some of 10 achievements, please add yours so the total can be 50  😉  hahaha

I Just remember of all this, my first and last time I visited Kennedy Space Center (NASA) Florida in 2000, 7 years ago. I hope that I will visit NASA again and I hope the other next 50 years of NASA will be successful in Space age of exploration and searching for life beyond our planet earth and beyond our Galaxy-the Milky Way.

Click here to Download the NASA 50th Anniversary poster

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Mac OS X Leopard Astronomy Edition

Posted on November 1, 2007 | 2 comments

So, Is Apple Mac OS X Leopard, Astronomy Edition??!

Looks so! because months ago, Apple introduced the new Leopard with leopard theme picture in it…Not a Galaxy! 

Right shows the picture of the the new OS leopard CD with leopard theme background.

But once apple came with the Leopard OS…They made it Astronomy Edition 🙂 ….They knew that some people love Astronomy…Very claver idea to attract customers  😉

Anyway,

The new Mac OS X Leopard comes with 300+ futures! Impressive.

 

and One of the coolest future is the Astronomy…Time Machine

You just click the time machine icon, inter the year you want to go to, like 2067 and then just bingo…you will be flying into back to the future 🙂

Hahaha just kidding about that. The time machine lets you restore your past deleted or lost files easily by just clicking back and front arrows. It works the same as the system restore point in windows.

 The Time Machine

Even the Leopard OS Desktop is great and has many futures including the wormhole wallpaper as you can see below.

Leopard Desktop

 This new OS from Apple is amazing…Only because its Astronomy edition. haha just kidding…

because it comes with 300+ NEW futures and its the best OS yet in the Planet Earth….who knows maybe their are some Aliens (UFO) living somewhere in the solar system with very powerful OS then the Leopard! 🙂 hahaha

Finally, If your non Mac user then get a Mac. Or if you already own a Mac, then add a new Mac to your Mac 🙂 ….you can also add Windows Vista..via boot camp if you liked to…for Windows users 🙂

                                                      More Pictures Click here       

 Click on the picture left to BUY the new Mac OS X Leopard from Apple/Amazon.

 

Need more information just leave your comments here and I’ll reply back to you soon.

The Company Link is:

 

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Galaxiki, Get your own solar system

Posted on October 28, 2007 | Leave a comment

Edit stars, planets & moons

Get your own solar system

Galaxiki is a fictional online galaxy created, maintained and owned by its Community. Membership is free – sign up now to become a "Galaxician" and start editing stars, planets and moons, or get your own personal solar system. Go ahead and take the tour.

 

It’s cool !

  • It’s a fictional world purely imagined by its community.
  • Imagine and create the history of a planet and its life forms.
  • Membership and editing community stars is completely free.
  • Get your own personal solar system(s) for only $12.- or €10.-.

A month ago, I received an email from Jos Kirps, the Project leader of Galaxiki.

He asked me to write a few things about Galaxiki, so here it is.

Galaxiki is a great site, and its been given many positive feedback. This site has been lunched only 4 months ago..How impressive!! If you’ve got any comments or if your already a member please share your views about this site here.

If you need more detailed information everything you’ll need is probably here, including press releases:

About Galaxiki                    Press Release

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The Great World Wide Star Count Project

Posted on October 25, 2007 | Leave a comment

The Great World Wide Star Count Project is finished 50% now since the deadline date 15th Oct 07. For those who have participated. Just wait for the Results of the Great World Wide Star Count which will be available soon showing  thousands of observations received worldwide! LOL. Just click here if you don’t know what’s its about!

For people who have missed this event, please do not worry ;). You can still view the results once its available. Sorry I forgot to post about this earlier..

This is amazing and very interesting project which many people from different ages and places around the world have joined and worked on the project.

I just found another similar activity buts its not a project. You can go to this site and have fun.

I just cant wait for the results…hope it comes out soooon 🙂

Project from Windows To The Universe

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Eid Mubarak

Posted on October 12, 2007 | 3 comments

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BBC HD

Posted on September 27, 2007 | 3 comments

 

The world is now growing up with high technologies. Many people have got the new Slim (HD) High Definition TVs.

After we so some quality HD DVD’s and Blue-rays. Here comes more from BBC 

             

The BBC HD Channel

BBC always is great channel. It brings us all the world news and great shows about Space and Astronomy. As BBC HD channel is a trial service now, we would like to see great shows of astronomy in HD format. This will be so amazing 🙂 or what do you think?

I would also like BBC to show us some of its great astronomy Documentaries in HD format like the Space Episodes by Sam Neill. (previous post)

There are also many ways of getting BBC. Like the BBC iplayer, BBC on PC and BBC radio.

I would like to see in near future BBC on HD mobiles, I can see one of the greatest mobile TVs is here from Sony Ericsson.

           

Just imagine you carrying one of this devises and watching Astronomy programs in brilliant views. I can’t wait to get one of this 🙂

 

Links:

BBC Web    –    BBC HD    –   About HD   –   BBC the future

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