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Looking For Astronomy Gifts? Sleep Under The Stars Every Night! From the moment we are born, astronomy gifts, glow in the dark stars and star themed lullabies are thrust upon us. 'Twinkle twinkle little star' is sung or played repeatedly to all babies and every piece of equipment and clothing aimed at small children has themes of stars and moons. This is no wonder, as the heavens have inspired and fired imaginations throughout mankind's history. Astronomy gifts, including glow in the dark stars, are some of the most popular presents for young and old alike. Every child loves getting astronomy gifts, as outer space holds no limits for their imagination. Hours of fun can be had, pretending to be an astronaut and exploring new planets and galaxies. Even as adults, we still stop and stare in wonder, when we are lucky enough to view a star-filled sky at night. It is such an amazing and beautiful sight! Studying the stars can be a lifelong hobby. My father used to spend many ev...

Astronomy Binoculars - 5 Tips For Best StarGazing Equipment And Techniques Astronomy binoculars can be a valuable resource for the amateur astronomer. With a good set of binoculars, you can see a wide range of stars and other objects. This article provides five tips to help stargazers get started in viewing the heavens. 1) Get a good handbook Many hobbies have excellent reference works. Two good books for learning how to use astronomy binoculars are "Touring The Universe Through Binoculars" by Philip Harrington, and "The Binocular Stargazer" by Leslie Peltier. These reference works provide helpful tips to the beginner and experienced stargazer alike. 2) Get a center focusing wheel Once you have identified a star watching target, focusing your binoculars is the most important operation to getting the best view of your target. A center focusing wheel will give you the most control in getting the sharpest image for your observation. 3) The wider the field o...

Backyard Astronomy Without a Telescope Are you looking to do backyard astronomy? You may be stuck in a problem. No telescope and you still want to do backyard astronomy! In this article, you will discover some astronomy experiments you can do without the need for a telescope. The first thing we see, when we look up at the sky, is lots of shining points of light. These points of light seem to make up patterns, and these patterns are what we call constellations. There are 88 in total that is visible from the Earth. These constellations have such an old meaning to us, that we still have birth signs. Your birth sign is one of those 88 constellations. Constellations are made up of a group of objects in space. This makes looking at constellations, one of the greatest things to do. Imagine, knowing where these 88 constellations are.  You could literally take any rough coordinate for a star or object in the sky, and manage to navigate to it, much more easily. And all this beca...

Astronomy Tool - Green Laser Pointer  With the hot summer coming, nightlife has become one of the major themes of a day. Summer is the best season for astronomy researchers and fans to watch constellations in the night sky.  Astronomy laser pointer might be a wonderful tool for those astronomy fans to have clear stargazing and targeting. If you know little of laser diode technology about the application in astronomy, I hope these tips might be helpful. The fist is the color of a laser beam.  Various kinds of green, red, blue, yellow, violet color lasers are all available in the market, while what kind of color should you choose?  For astronomy, high brightness and long distance visibility are two major factors to be paid attention to. Green laser pointer has a medium wavelength of 532nm and the most sensitive color, so the beam of the green laser diode has better diversity than any other colored laser diode device. As a result, the green color laser ...

Astronomy The Real Star Power Ever watched out the window around evening time and end up gazing at the universe, pondering what is up there? This has been an exceptionally basic inquiry among people since the beginning of time since progress initially existed. From the Nubian Monuments to the Egyptian Monuments and Stonehenge, these are archeological confirmation from the past that galactic examinations have been a typical enthusiasm among humanity all through the ages.  Stargazing basically is the exploration of considering items and wonders in space, for example, anything outside the world's climate.  Until telescopes were developed in the seventeenth century, cosmology as we probably are aware was restricted to simply gazing upward into the sky with our exposed eyes. Since the creation of telescopes, Astronomy has fragmented off into another field of study which considers more inside and out the material science of heavenly items frameworks, Astrophysics....

Astronomy is a Great Hobby! Astronomy must be one of the most lowering of all subjects to ponder. Simply the prospect of our universe, resembling a grain of sand in a sandy shore of universes, is sufficient to make me need to slither back under the sheets. Everything just appears to be so enormous, and beyond perception. Where does it end? Is it conceivable to get as far as possible of the room? Astronomy endeavors to come up with those answers. Like any science, Astronomy makes undeniably more inquiries then it can reply. Be that as it may, that is a piece of what makes it so captivating. As far back as the main explorer pondered what was past the next horizon, people have been attempting to grow their limits. Space science is carrying on that fine convention. It's a really enormous skyline, and perhaps one that doesn't end? Who knows, just space experts of things to come will almost certainly answer that question. Astronomy Begins At Home We don't need to r...

Do you know, you can actually guess Moon Rise and Set Timing? Just as the Sun rises and sets on the horizon each day, so does the Moon. The time of these events changes depending on the current phase of the Moon. The Moon can be found as often during the day as often as it can be at night. When a new moon arrives, the moonrise time is about the same time as sunrise time. Likewise, the moonset time is about the same as sunset time.  • As it waxes to become a crescent moon, then half moon, then the gibbous moon, and onto a full moon, the Moon rises during the day (after sunrise), rising later and later every day, and sets during nighttime, later into the night with every passing night.  • As the full moon approaches, the moonrise and moonset times progress such that the Moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise.  • As the Moon wanes, becoming a half moon, crescent moon, and returning again to a new moon, the Moon starts to rise during the night (after sunse...

Why the Moon has different phases? The cyclical phases of the Moon are actually different angulated views of the Moon created by the relative positions of the Sun, Earth, and Moon.  • At any one point of time, the Moon is half-lit by the Sun (except during lunar eclipses when the Moon is directly behind the Earth with respect to the Sun and is completely shadowed by the Earth).  • However, as the Sun, Earth, and Moon periodically move and orbit through space, the portion we see illuminated on the Moon changes. Since the unlit portion of the Moon remains invisible to the naked eye, we only see the different Moon “shapes.”  • Note that the phases of the Moon are different geometric views of the half-lit Moon from Earth, which are not created by the shadow of the Earth on the Moon. Moon Phases The new Moon occurs when the Moon, Earth, and Sun all lie along approximately the same line. Since the Sun is behind the Moon from Earth’s perspective, the...

What is the aurora? Named for the Roman goddess of dawn, the aurora is a mysterious and unpredictable display of light in the night sky. The aurora borealis and aurora australis often called the northern lights and southern lights are common occurrences at high northern and southern latitudes, less frequent at mid-latitudes, and seldom seen near the equator. While usually a milky greenish color, auroras can also show red, blue, violet, pink, and white. These colors appear in a variety of continuously changing shapes. Sometimes the aurora is as dim and scattered as to be mistaken for clouds or the Milky Way; sometimes it is bright enough to read by. What does an aurora look like?  Auroras can appear as long, narrow arcs of light, often extending east to west from horizon to horizon. At other times they stretch across the night sky in bands that kink, fold, and swirl, or even ruffle like curtains. They can spread out in multi-colored rays, like vertical shafts of...

JOURNEY TO ASTRONOMY Astronomy is the study of stars, planets, and space.  As you study astronomy, you will learn about yourself. Astronomy tells you: • Where are We? • When is Now? • What are We? WHERE ARE WE?  Knowledge of Earth's location in the Universe has been shaped by 400 years of telescopic observations and has expanded radically in the last century. What we know right now is that we live on Earth which is a planet. *Earth: Home Planet *The orbit of Moon: 768,210 km. The average diameter of the      orbit of the Moon relative to the Earth. *Earth’s orbit: 299.2 million km. The average diameter of the orbit    of the Earth relative to the Sun. Encompasses the Sun, Mercury,    and Venus. *Inner Solar System: Encompasses the Sun, the inner planets    (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars) and the asteroid belt. *Outer Solar System: Includes the outer planets (Jupiter, Satur...

Binoculars For Astronomy Lovers When purchasing binoculars for Astronomy, one of the fundamental goals is the light assembling ability of the binoculars you are hoping to purchase and subsequently, the span of the target focal point is critical. How to begin  Before you begin to look at the scope of binoculars for space science that is as of now available you have to consider the separation you are hoping to cover and what dimension of detail you want to see. On the off chance that you can envision that a telescope can furnish you with an altogether bigger aperture (target focal point) and a wide scope of amplification capacities it's reasonable that for survey over longer separations, and to see the better subtleties, a telescope is regularly a superior alternative. Anyway, that said binoculars can demonstrate helpful, notwithstanding for the genuine space expert, and are a modest method to begin. The genuine motive of utilizing binoculars for Astronomy is the...

Have you ever wonder how seasons change? We are too busy in our daily routine that we never wonder how seasons get change. Here is a short explanation of how earthlings experience the season change throughout the year. We can’t really feel that the Earth is orbiting the Sun (even though the Earth is traveling 30 km/s), and these days not many people take notice of the Earth’s orbital position.  We primarily notice the passing of a year by the cycle of the seasons. So what is the cause of the seasons? Clearly, the seasons have something to do with the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Yet many people are confused about why the Earth has seasons. Why do seasons occur? “The seasons are caused by the changing distance between the Earth and the Sun, and it is warmer in summer because the Earth is closer to the Sun at summer time.”  This is a very common response and it is true that the Earth-Sun distance does change. As we just saw, the Earth’s distance from t...