Search results

  1. W

    New Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON)

    It looks like only a fragment remains :(
  2. W

    Air & Space Museum petition

    "On Tuesday September 20 2011 the Canadian Air & Space Museum was handed a notice of eviction by its landlords, the Crown Corporation Parc Downsview Park. The locks were immediately changed and the Museum was essentially closed with no notice. The building, which has been recognized as a Federal...
  3. W

    News World Ending October 21st?

    Still here! I wonder what explanation he's going to come up with this time.
  4. W

    Horizon Venus transit

    Would it be possible to see the disk of Venus with the naked eye during a transit while the Sun is on the horizon?
  5. W

    Gliese 581d -could- have a complete water-cycle climate

    But what about all of the aqua life?
  6. W

    What languages do you speak?

    My native is English I've been working vigorously at German for about 6 months now, I really like it, and i'll be taking it in university in the fall!
  7. W

    A base on one of Jupiter moons

    There is a lot of ice under Callisto's crust which could be useful, although there are advantages to being closer to Jupiter on Ganymede like being able to take advantage of its influence for gravity assists and stuff.
  8. W

    Q/As about space

    If you had a jar of air and a jar of nothing (vacuum), and you threw both in a pool, would they both float or would the vacuum jar sink?
  9. W

    Science Earths magnetic field inversions

    Yeah, but we're majorly over-due for a switch today.
  10. W

    How many known stars has disappeared from sight for no known natural reasons, if any?

    Some red dwarfs can burn for trillions of years.
  11. W

    Comet McNaught - by Robert Mcnaught

    I wonder how long he set the exposure for.
  12. W

    Solar observations

    I sure did. its pretty low-res, as you can see!
  13. W

    Solar observations

    There is a single large sunspot on the sun right now, I went out and projected it. It was really neat! http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/mdi_mag/512/latest.jpg
  14. W

    Dangerous rockets

    It looks like fun!
  15. W

    Problem orbiter momenterely freezez every minuet?

    I do know that sometimes when i'm in orbit, and I time-warp, the sim will freeze for a few seconds if I warp too fast. What version of orbiter are you running? (I can't get 2010 to run so I wouldn't know about that version :( )
  16. W

    Beginer help

    If your telescope is a reflector-type, you will probably need to collimate (align) the primary mirror. If you don't know the difference, a reflector telescope uses mirrors, while a refractor telescope uses lenses. Also, you might want to take the cap off of your telescope, leave it outside for...
  17. W

    Resolving Earth and the Moon as seen from Venus

    When I am orbiting Venus in Orbiter (of course:lol:) I can see the Earth and the Moon as two distinctive dots. What I am wondering is: Could you resolve the Earth and the Moon as two distinctive Entities from Venus? (from above the clouds) If so, how many arc-seconds would they be apart from...
  18. W

    Solar observations

    Once upon a time I tried to project the Sun onto a metallic sheet using one of my telescopes, I did get it, but I didn't see any Sun spots, however I did manage to melt the plastic inside of the eyepeice, being 300X magnification:rofl: fortunately it was a cheap eyepiece from my first telescope...
  19. W

    Orbiter 2010 problem: "Side by side configuration is incorrect"

    I did run it as an administrator. I can run the program, but it gets an error when it's done, regardless of how I run it. EDIT I have a question; when the C++ 2005 redistributable installer is done installing, does it make a folder anywhere that it keeps the installed files in? Because I tried...
  20. W

    Orbiter 2010 problem: "Side by side configuration is incorrect"

    I checked, and my account is an administrator. I think I might try to install the redist files onto my other computer, then take the files and put them on to my laptop and see if that will work.
Top