Sentences with phrase «of amateur astronomers who»

There are a number of amateur astronomers who follow these satellites «for fun,» he says.

Paglen was able to identify and photograph these secret spacecraft due to the work of a diverse international group of amateur astronomers who maintain a catalogue of classified spacecraft in Earth's orbit by producing mathematical descriptions of orbits using simple tools like stopwatches and binoculars.

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«Twenty years ago, light pollution could be considered only a problem for astronomers,» says lead author Fabio Falchi, a high school physics teacher in Thiene, Italy, who became concerned about the growing threat of light pollution in the 1990s after it began interfering with his hobby of amateur astronomy.

Rasmussen compares Stamets to visionary entrepreneur - scientists like Thomas Edison or «some of the truly fine amateur naturalists or astronomers of the 17th and 18th centuries — people who were experts in their fields, but had other ways to occupy their days.»

The first person to study the impact sites after Jupiter emerged from behind the Sun was David Gray, an amateur astronomer in County Durham, who saw the dark band immediately, in spite of poor conditions.

But as Johnson explained here today at the 219th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, that all changed thanks to British amateur astronomer Kevin Apps, who is working closely with the Kepler science team.

With the new recognition, he notes, Sark will likely see a boost in tourism, especially among amateur astronomers who might visit to take advantage of the island's crisp, clear skies during winter months, perhaps to catch a spectacular view of the Milky Way (main picture).

To confirm the signal was a planet and not a blip in the system, Dr Bayliss called in help from one of the world's largest telescopes, the Magellan Telescope in Chile, and an amateur astronomer, T G Tan, who operates from his backyard in Perth.

The American Meteor Society, Ltd. is a non-profit scientific organization founded in 1911 and established to inform, encourage, and support the research activities of both amateur and professional astronomers who are interested in the fascinating field of Meteor Astronomy.

This remarkable phenomenon has attracted the attention of many astronomers (equally both professionals and amateurs), who observe galaxies regularly as they «hunt» supernovae.

The astronomer refuses to publish the calculation, claiming that it is proprietary and denouncing another amateur astronomer who tries to replicate the calculation as a «tool of big business».

Amateur astronomers, called «Planet Hunters» have been among those who, sifting through huge quantities of data from NASA's Kepler mission, detected the unusual behaviour of the star in 2015, years after the end of the mission in 2013.

According to John Bortle of Stormville, N.Y., who has observed several hundred comets in his more - than - 50 years as an assiduous amateur astronomer, Comet Lovejoy, «appears to be only modestly condensed, at best, and lacking in any obvious stellar nucleus, even a very faint one.

The astronomer refuses to publish the calculation, claiming that it is proprietary and denouncing another amateur astronomer who tries to replicate the calculation as a «tool of big business».