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2008-07-24 Astronomy - Planet or Star?: Hi again Sean, Your star chart is for 7/24 at 22:50 Universal Time (time in England) so that's your CDT time at (-5 hr) for 17:50 pm CDT or 5:50 pm. CDT. (Or if you're EDT, then you are 4 hours off)...
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2008-07-24 Astronomy - Planet or Star?: Hi Sean, Yes, you are correct, it's the planet Jupiter at -2 magnitude, just past opposition now (as we just passed it up, as we do every 13 months) so since Venus is currently behind the sun, Jupiter...
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2008-07-23 Astronomy - age of universe: Robert! I thinkk i did not put it through succinctly enough. I am not demoralised. why should i be? :) Indeed this is NOT the first time i have admitted to anyone that i do not know. I am utterly...
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2008-07-23 Astronomy - Moon's visible side: The Moon is in what is called "Synchronous Rotation". The period of rotation of the Moon is the same as its orbit around the Earth. As an experiment put a ball or something in the middle of the room...
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2008-07-23 Astronomy - Cosmological constant - Big bang expansion: Hi Mohan, Realize right off the top that just because Albert Einstein believed in a static Universe, that does not make his general relativity principles wrong. He just mistakenly set the cosmological...
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