Society for Popular Astronomy

I want to draw a time-line for the history of the universe and need a small app' that can produce the baseline with the following scales and label each increment I wish to include.
Time.....from 10 to the minus 43 to present.
Temp'..... from ~10 to the 32 to 3 Kelvin.

Thanks.

I've just returned from a thoroughly enjoyable trip to Cern and Geneva. I organised the trip for myself and a couple of friends and it couldn't have been easier. The Cern visitor service are excellent and quick. We were added to a mixed group to make up the numbers but such as an Astronomy club can ...

Take a look here for more on time dialation and Einsteins Relativity.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/hotsciencetwin/

and/or listen to this....
http://365daysofastronomy.org/2010/01/0 ... arp-drive/

Sorry HC I can't offer any advice.....I'm not using Win7 yet.
Hope the work front is improving.

Thanks Ros'....brilliant.

Thats gone straight to our Astro' Guru for inclusion in future classes and lectures.

and have a good New Year too.

Yup......'Heavens Above' have recently intoduced this page...
http://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=36119

During extended periods of heavy CPU use my Dell LT would overheat and crash, especially during summer. I got a stand with fans which helped a little but portability and battery usage were a problem. I then found this App', written specifically for Dell machines, to manage the temperature controls a...

Thanks R'
I am enjoying the lectures and the transcript is a handy ref' since he tends to go apace at times

....and here,

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubbl ... index.html

Rosanella wrote: Please excuse my very bad typing, today, but I have my right, writing hand in a sling after this morning carpal tunnel proceadure

Hope it won't be too long before you're strumming again.

Follow the HST calibration and commissioning here...
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubbl ... g2009.html

It is scheduled to be up and running by Oct' to image the Lcross/Centaur lunar impacts.

In answering that Saturday night party Jupiter question, I'd have 'em all asleep by the time I'd read off Jupiter's moons' apparent mag's, size, distance, orbital velocities etc.:shock: Not often you hear Carpenter and Nerd in the same breath, :wink: :lol: A good place to check or IM on Astro softw...

Might be worth you trying a 'wanted' ad' under classified.

and whiz me on up to V6.3.3 It won't whizz you anywhere :( After installing vs 6, go to HELP > 'Check for Updates' and download any from the web. ie 6.3.3 SN ship only the basic vs 6 disc. Comets etc will update as before each time you open SN. As far as I know vs 6 did not have problems with QT, o...

Some info' here.

http://www.tuaw.com/2009/07/20/stars-in ... -for-free/

Also some stuff on youtube as recent as a month ago.