REVIEW OF FALAK CLASS  [20 FEB 2009]

Last Friday, 20 Feb 2009 the venue of Falak Class suddenly need to be change due to the a conditon at Hellipad is not suitable at that time because the sportlight was emits through all over the places. After all we decided to change the venue to the nearest place that is the operating room of WATANIAH organization . For those that always keep going and follows the Falak Class activity we sincerely apologize because the sudden decision in changing the venue cause you to be truble to find the venue . However the last Falak Class was so special because while we were at the Rugby Field to do the Stargazing Session the team from falak online with thier equipments help us to track down comet lulin . That was such a really great experince to be endure .From what I have read from the article Comet Lulin is named after the observatory in Taiwan where the discovery-photo was taken. “It is a green beauty that could become visible to the naked eye any day now” .

Falak Class is open to public and it is conducted once in a week . I will describe to you how was the Falak Class was going . I wont tell you now because I dont have enough information. Some pictures will be uploaded too. But one for sure it is really interiesting because it returns us a very great experience and knowledge of the universe.

This is another interesting story  I got from Astronomy.Com : In 1996, a 7-year-old boy in China bent over the eyepiece of a small telescope and saw something that would change his life — a comet of flamboyant beauty, bright and puffy with an active tail. At first he thought he himself had discovered it, but no, he learned, two men named “Hale” and “Bopp” had beat him to it. Mastering his disappointment, young Quanzhi Ye resolved to find his own comet one day.

News Dan Smith/Peter Herbert/Matt Jarvis/the ING Web users to write “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxies” How many arms does a spiral galaxy have? Can you spot a galaxy with a “peanut” bulge? Or how about a galactic merger? Ordinary web users who, by working together, have proven to be just as good at galaxy spotting as professional astronomers will provide answers to these and other strange questions. Read more. Related blog: Here comes Galaxy Zoo 2, by Daniel Pendick, associate editor Keith Vanderlinde Cosmologists aim to observe first moments of universe During the next decade, a delicate measurement of primordial light could reveal convincing evidence for the popular cosmic inflation theory. It proposes that a random, microscopic density fluctuation in the fabric of space and time gave birth to the universe in a hot Big Bang approximately 13.7 billion years ago. Read more. NASA/JPL Spacecraft falling for Mars Launched in September 2007 and propelled by hyper-efficient ion engines, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft passed Mars’ orbit last summer. At that time, the asteroid belt — where Dawn’s two targets, asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres, reside — had never been closer. In early July the spacecraft began to lose altitude, falling back toward the inner solar system. Then on October 31, 2008, after 270 days of almost continuous thrusting, the ion drive turned off. Read more. UCLA/William K. Hartmann As Dawn approaches Mars, scientists gear up for GRaND tests As the Dawn spacecraft, which began its journey to the asteroid belt in 2007, nears Mars, scientists at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute (PSI) prepare to use the February 18 encounter to tune up Dawn’s Gamma-Ray and Neutron Detector (GRaND) instrument. Read more. Royal Astronomical Society, United Kingdom Stars packed together in the early universe In our galaxy, we are used to the idea that even the nearest stars are light-years away from the Sun. But a team of scientists led by Pavel Kroupa of the University of Bonn, in Germany, thinks things were very different in the early universe. In particular, Ultra Compact Dwarf galaxies (UCDs), a recently discovered class of object, may have had stars packed together a thousand times more closely than in the solar neighborhood, according to calculations made by team member Joerg Dabringhausen. Read more. More astronomy headlines: Astronomers unveiling life’s cosmic origins Satellite company recovers from orbiter loss Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ships south in preparation for launch Missions extended to study Mars, Venus, and Earth’s magnetosphere

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