Archive for February 17th, 2012
Cool CCD Camera images
A few nice CCD Camera images I found:
butterfly-fullframe01
Image by Jaymis
Full resolution frame from 200FPS "Smooth Slow Record" footage from a Sony HD CCD camera.
Featuring butterflies and leaves and flowers and sky.
Improv Camera
Image by Quasimondo
For capturing the images I am using the board and ccd chip from a salvaged webcam. Since the lens is pretty heavy I am going to move the sensor instead to adjust the focus. I mounted it on the sled taken from a defective DVD player.
No CommentsNice Planet Mars photos
Some cool Planet Mars images:
The opposition of the planet Mars
Image by Destinys Agent
The opposition of the planet Mars – This is a shot at 70mm focal length
NASA budget has money for big rocket, space telescope
NASA budget has money for big rocket, space telescope
But it also cuts the agency's planetary-science budget by $ 300 million, killing two unmanned Mars missions, to free money to help pay for a new space telescope that was supposed to launch last year. Because of cost overruns and poor management, …
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Telescope picks out glowing Taurus Molecular Cloud which is a blank space in …
By Rob Waugh A hi-tech telescope in Atacama, Chile has picked out a ten light-year-long cosmic dust cloud filled with young, forming stars. The cloud is a black 'void' in visible light. In the early Twentieth century, astronomers argued that the …
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No CommentsHow long is Corot 7b’s orbit around the sun?
Question by Saj S: How long is Corot 7b’s orbit around the sun?
Best answer:
Answer by Freakazoid
0.853585 days according to wikipedia.
Which is to say about 20 hours and 29 minutes.
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