- “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”
- “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
- “I want to know God’s thoughts; the rest are details.”
- “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
- “Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.”
Monthly Archive for July, 2007
I am so released! Finally, I have fixed the theme (the visual presentation of my blog) to the best I could do. How do you feel? Please leave your comments here so that it can be further improved.
Anyway, the header (top banner) is still not done yet. Afterthat, I have to focus on the content building. You guys won’t want to read rubbish, right?
There’s a science event this Thursday, the Water Rocket Competition organised by CHHS (my school) Mathematics and Science Club.
It’s quite challenging to look for and read the information and steps to create a water rocket. It takes me about 3 days to finish all the reading and get the stuff ready to be combined into a rocket. Picture will be posted after I have done it. Let’s hope I can fly it over 240m.
I think I better take a break before I continuing doing anymore modification to my blog. See… I messed it.
You can see the cmos clearly by clicking for a larger image. Yes, I mean very clear and large.
I was so happy to see the QHY5 arrived at my doorstep on 13 July 2007. This CMOS camera is designed by Prof. Qiu Hong-Yun for autoguiding and planetary imaging. Its violet hue metallic casing looks very nice and solid. It has a IR filter attached. Below the filter is the CMOS which has 1.30Mpixels and each pixel has an area of 5.2µm x 5.2µm. It has a guider port and a USB port. There’s a red LED too.
2 ports and 1 LED on the bottom of QHY5
Anyway, review on this cmos camera will be made within one weeks time. The curse of new equipment has come, the weather has changed to hazy. A lot of amateur astronomers have this weather curse (normally, cloudy days) after they got their new equipments but mine is due to the forest burning in Indonesia.
Look for this photo by going to their website. I find this very interesting.
Have you ever heard the sun? It’s common that most of us haven’t done so. However, there’s a team of people recording the wave emited by sun in New Mexico. They are the guys at HelioTown.com. The authority is Thomas Ashcraft.
All you need to do is to download the sound file and play it using your favourite music player. I use foobar2000. Have fun!
There are unlimited stars shinning on the starry night of 4 July. The Jupiter is so bright at the meridian and Scorpius (the constellation) is just beside him. Crux is very easy to recognise. It’s totally the same as its name. It is creeping under Centaurus. Sagittarius is not far from Centaurus. It’s one of the constellations that have lots of scenic dark sky objects. Did I mention Leo? It’s just next to Hydra (Hydra’s west) and Hydra is next to Centaurus (Centaurus’s west).
Don’t forget the beautiful shinny Venus. She has a very nice companion, Saturn with her. 5 days before, they were so close and only 1/3º apart.
These are the wonderful objects can be seen through the unaided eyes on the starry night of equatorial latitude. The seeing tonight is so great but I can’t resist the “sleepmare”…
I HATE MOSQUITOES! I really hate them. They are so active since the start of this month.
When I just went out to setup my telescope, everything was fine. However, when I switched off the lights. They were all like the dark force, interupting me observing the Jupiter. They are so annoyed! I can’t bear with them. So, I quickly packed everything and went inside the house. They are so terrible, ruining my precious observing session.
Anyway, if you haven’t seen the Venus and Saturn close encounter, you can still see it this week but they’ll not be that close as on 30 June.
