Moon week is March 29th - April 5th 2009. International Year of Astronomy.
a simple wide view look around the moon on moon week.
a great help if you can go and buy sky at night magazine this month they explain were to look and help on dates and were to get a good scope.
thanks to Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, CBE, HonFRS, FRAS
helpfull links below
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore
sky at night mag http://www.bbcshop.com/invt/skyan&source=buyat&cm_mmc=Buyat-_-Affilai...
http://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/Default.asp?bhcp=1
http://www.youtube.com/user/bbcskyatnightmag
there will be a moon week free from the sky pollpuotion.
"When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
Name: Moon Age: 4.5 billion years old Mass: 73'490'000'000'000'000 million kg Shape: Egg-shaped Family: Member of our solar system, satellite of earth Active Relationships: Orbits around the earth Distance from earth: 384'467 km (~364 397 km at perigee,
~406 731 km at apogee) Traveling by car:
Traveling by rocket:
Traveling by light speed:
130 days
13 hours
1.52 sec
Diameter:
Driving around by car: 3476 km (1/4 of the Earth's)
4 days Gravity acceleration: 1.62m/sec2 (1/6 of Earth's) Revolution period: 27.3217 days Mean Synodic period
(new moon to new moon): 29.530588861 days Mean orbital velocity: 1'023 km/sec
there will be a moon week free from the sky pollpuotion.
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As usual
brilliant work John
TY for sharing
love, peace and respect
thefranmann 2 years ago
thanks i would get this scope if i was starting i first had its older brother the 5 inch, The new and unique Meade $1299 6" ETX-LS scope has hands-free ... Here are some of the jaw-dropping new features that make the new ETX-LS telescope so unique . LightSwitch™ Technology for no-hands/no eye automatic sky ...
JohnLenardWalson 2 years ago