Tech Astronomy http://TechAstronomy.com Stars Astronomy Facts, Definition, Articles, News, Events, History and lots more updates en-us Copyright 2007, Tech Astronomy team. 240 How the Astrometry.net robot works http://TechAstronomy.com/article.asp?articleid=96476 Wed, 8 Sep 2010 07:02 GMT http://TechAstronomy.com/article.asp?articleid=96476 Astro means 'relating to the stars' and metry means to do with measurement, so astrometry is the branch of astronomy concerned with measuring the positions, motions, and brightness of celestial objects.Astrometry by hand When astronomers analyse a new image, one of their first tasks is often to 'solve the astrometry'. This means they work out where that picture belongs in a standard reference frame, such as a chart of the whole sky.

How the Astrometry.net robot works

Astrometry 'by hand' can involve lots of complicated calculations but astromomers need to do it so they can compare images and observations. For digital photos, solving the astrometry means they map particular pixels to positions on the sky.

]]> Astrology Zodiac Horoscopes http://TechAstronomy.com/article.asp?articleid=96341 Tue, 7 Sep 2010 06:31 GMT http://TechAstronomy.com/article.asp?articleid=96341 What does your future hold? Astrology is a fun way to learn more about yourself. Have you checked your daily horoscope today? Did you know? Astrologers believe that the positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets at the time of a person's birth have a direct influence on that person's character.

Astrology Zodiac Horoscopes

Astrology and horoscopes are a fun tools for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us. Check you sun sign and see if your compatible with friends or lovers, What do the cards tell you? Free daily Tarot card reading, Numerology plus more! Have fun and share with your friends!

]]> Astrology in Judaism Speculum Vol Iv- the Medieval Period http://TechAstronomy.com/article.asp?articleid=96200 Mon, 6 Sep 2010 04:56 GMT http://TechAstronomy.com/article.asp?articleid=96200 Shabbethai Donalo Doctor and Astrologer (913-970) was borne in south Italy. At the age og 12 he was coptured (925) by an Arabic Batalion, his relatives had redeem him by paying for him a large amount of money.

At first he educated him self by the medicine discipline, since in those days a part of   the diagnosis was done by astrology matters, he thought himself all that were known in this period in his soundings. How ever he decided to widen his knowledge by studying the Greek, Babylonian, and Indian Astrology.

]]> My Thoughts On Astrology http://TechAstronomy.com/article.asp?articleid=96110 Sun, 5 Sep 2010 15:29 GMT http://TechAstronomy.com/article.asp?articleid=96110 Mysteries of the nature have always fascinated me. My inner has always been that of an inquisitive child who loves to ask as many questions about the nature of things as may be possible. Thinking of evolution, what I have come to understand is that the universe evolves, like a tree evolves from its seed at the time of creation, which contains all the future development and qualities within itself in a basic form. The growth and decline of this evolution can be measured with the help of time as quantities in the form of years, days and months etc. and the other aspect of quality can be explored through the science of astrology. Astrology then becomes a unique subject, which studies the most intricate problems of life in an amazingly integrated manner. Astrology basically deals with the quality of time.

]]> How Can Astrology Help Me? http://TechAstronomy.com/article.asp?articleid=95960 Sat, 4 Sep 2010 07:24 GMT http://TechAstronomy.com/article.asp?articleid=95960 Communication problem is a most serious problem with the teens. Teen age is the most important period in Astrology is the method of determining the character and future of a person through the alignment of the stars and planets. Astrology does not work and cannot predict future events or personalities. The Eastern astrology is event oriented, they will tell you what happened in the past and what will happen in the future with much grater accuracy. The most prevalent application of horoscopic astrology is to use it to analyze the birth charts of individuals in order to read character, psychological traits, and to some extent destiny.

]]> About Astrology http://TechAstronomy.com/article.asp?articleid=95874 Fri, 3 Sep 2010 11:55 GMT http://TechAstronomy.com/article.asp?articleid=95874 Astrology is the study of planetary position to determine the course of things ahead in life as well as event and details concerning past life or karma. The earliest recording or sign of astrology was found in the 3rd millennium BC. Astrology has over the course of time, influenced culture, early astronomy and other disciplines.

Astrology uses two ways of predicting the future – one is astrological transits and the other is astrological progressions. It is important to understand how both play, in the way a horoscope is read out and predications made. Astrological transits look into the movement of planets and the impact of such movements in space and n personal horoscope. Astrological progressions use a set of methods to determine how a horoscope ha s moved forward in time. Now-a-days, astrologers no longer predict actual events. Instead what they do is bring out various general astrological events in order to have better results and give importance to arbitrary and unrelated events.

]]> A New Cosmology http://TechAstronomy.com/article.asp?articleid=95741 Thu, 2 Sep 2010 06:54 GMT http://TechAstronomy.com/article.asp?articleid=95741 A new one? What s the old one? Cosmology, from the Greek, cosmologia-order and logos (word, reason, plan) is study of the Universe in its totality! So we think as though we know it all? By extension then the conclusions are humanity's place in it. Though the word cosmology is recent (first used in 1730 by Christian Wolff), the study of the Universe has a long history involving science, philosophy, esotericism, and religion. So, we're talking something BIG here!  

Let's begin by saying the cosmos is what the cosmos is, but we the inhabitants of it are changing greatly! The consciousness of humanity is a story of an ever increasing, and probably greatly interrupted, advances in our ability to udnerstand the world we live in. we're going to need to employ all of the philosophical disciplines, get beyond the creation myths, or at least understand them. As had as it will be for the scientific community we must realize that the cosmos, as Gill Edwards put it, "is based on unconditional love, which we are inseparable. Love is what we are. What is more, we are not victims of fate or chance or karma, but divine co-creators of everything (without exception) that happens to us.

]]> How You Can Predict Your Future Using Astrology? http://TechAstronomy.com/article.asp?articleid=95570 Wed, 1 Sep 2010 06:54 GMT http://TechAstronomy.com/article.asp?articleid=95570 How You Can Predict Your Future Using Astrology? Many people passionately believe that the future can be divined by the positions of the planets and sun and moon. Astrology may not be a science, but it has still proven to be eerily accurate. In this article, we'll uncover how the heavens may impact life here on earth.

Astrology is a group of systems, traditions and beliefs by which astrologers acquire information about a person's personality, strengths and weaknesses. For more details www.be-a-stargazer.com The zodiac is the belt or band of constellations through which the sun, moon and planets transit across the sky.

]]> Astronomers identify star 10 million times brighter than the Sun http://TechAstronomy.com/article.asp?articleid=94692 Mon, 9 Aug 2010 11:53 GMT http://TechAstronomy.com/article.asp?articleid=94692 Experts identified it among a group of "monster" stars – whose size and brightness exceed what many scientists thought was possible Found within two young star clusters, NGC 3603 and RMC 136a, the stars weigh up to 300 times the mass of the Sun, a figure which doubles the previously accepted limit of solar mass. A researcher at the University of Sheffield discovered the monster stars using the European southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope.

The biggest star found, R136a1 within the R136a cluster, has a current mass of 265 solar masses, and it is thought its birthweight was as much as 320 times that of the Sun. It is also the most luminous star ever found, close to 10 million times that of the Sun. If R136a1 replaced the Sun at the centre of our solar system, it would outshine our star by as much as the Sun currently outshines the Moon.

]]> Scorched alien planet has a comet tail http://TechAstronomy.com/article.asp?articleid=93347 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:20 GMT http://TechAstronomy.com/article.asp?articleid=93347  A scorched alien planet is flying so close to its parent star that its atmosphere is being swept off it in a glowing tail like some sort of giant comet, NASA announced Thursday. The existence of the planet and its strange tail, which was suggested in previous studies, was confirmed recently by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Scorched alien planet has a comet tail

These new observations of the gas giant planet, called HD 209458b, suggest strong winds from its nearby star are blowing the atmosphere off the scorched world and shaping it into a comet-like tail. "Since 2003 scientists have theorized the lost mass is being pushed back into a tail, and they have even calculated what it looks like," said astronomer Jeffrey Linsky of the University of Colorado in Boulder, leader of the study.

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