Recent content by Mikeral

Hello astrophotographers :biggrin: I am new to the whole domain and just posted my first shots on youtube, i shot a couple short passes of stars with a webcam (logitech C200) and my telescope (http://www.tasco.com/single.cfm?s=Telescopes&family=Luminova&product=40114675" ). Anyway, if anyone...

From what i can see the surface temperature of Titan is ~94K. The energy typically released by a methane combustion is ~882kJ/mol. i have also found the heat capacity of methane to be 35.69kJ/(mol K). The temperature required to sustain combustion is 580℃(853K) therefore if one reaction were...

What my impression of the discussion of the location of the center of the universe, would be look at it from another point of view. As a man on balloon looks around him, all he sees is a 2 dimensional plane with no possible to center to it. But when we take a look from outside the system, in a...

If you want to create gravity in it natural state. By that, i mean attraction of two masses. you would need to place an object with the same mass as the earth, maybe a black hole, in the belly of the craft. Only problem with that is going to be moving. when you accelerate, you are going to...

I still find the concept of "2012" rather humorous although it does coincide with the solar cycle. Without getting to far into an "end of the world" discussion it does seem that the year 2012 is going to be an interesting year for solar activity. SO far as i read, the reason for the 11 year...

I read that the cause was isostatic re-stabilization, that make sense to anyone? (Since the region was covered in glaciers 20 000 years ago) Any other theories floating around out there, maybe aliens or the government?

By quickly googling up our sun's magnetic cycle i can see that the latest reversal took place in 2001, at this time the magnetic south was pointed geographically north and magnetic north pointed geographically south. Each "flip" lasts about 11 years. So we can expect the next reversal to take...