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Extrasolar Planet Hunter Kepler in ER

July 29, 2013 By Sandy Eulitt Leave a Comment

The wildly successful Kepler mission, launched in 2009 and which, to date, has found nearly 3000 extrasolar planet candidates, suffered the loss of a second reaction wheel this past spring. Beginning … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Extrasolar Planets, Space News Tagged With: Ball Aerospace, degrees of freedom, Discovery News, ET, extrasolar planets, extraterrestrial intelligence, Kepler Mission, NASA, reaction wheels

Colossus telescope could find theorized Dyson Sphere

July 12, 2013 By Sandy Eulitt Leave a Comment

On June 8, the magazine SPACE (6/8, Howell) reported about a proposed 77-meter Colossus telescope. I think the very first thing to do here is to attempt to put this into perspective. Currently, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Space News, Telescopes and Missions Tagged With: alien civilizations, Aliens, Colossus Telescope, Dyson Sphere, extrasolar planets, Freeman Dyson, Keck, Keck Telescopes, resolving power

June 5 Transit of Venus – Location

June 1, 2012 By Sandy Eulitt 3 Comments

Solar Eclipse May 2012

Please be sure to arrive before 2:30 pm--and please READ THE INSTRUCTIONS below for important warnings. After hours and hours of scouting locations from the beach to the mountains yesterday, it is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Archive Tagged With: Celestron, destroy the Earth, extrasolar planets, Lake Poway, solar astronomy, solar viewing, Ted Williams, Transit of Venus

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