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I have added a page for those involved with amateur radio. It looks at solar interference, HF band conditions and much more. You will find it on the menu under Amateur Radio. These are the tools (below) as they appear today, but more may be added in the future: Here is a TV story started by Echoes of Apollo talking about the closure of the NASA dish that brought the world the images of Neil Armstrong first steps walking on the moon. We are trying to get NASA to pause their actions that will see the dish turned into a monument as we [...] Today we have had our first media coverage on the Australian ABC’s “Saturday AM” program with an interview with ABC’s BRENDAN TREMBATH and Echoes of Apollo Global Events Manager, ROBERT BRAND. A transcript of the interview appears below. Click to hear the radio interview: 2010-01-23 Australian ABC Saturday AM show Transcript: Space nuts fight to save famous dish Brendan [...] Echoes of Apollo PRESS RELEASE: 10-001 Jan. 21, 2010 Sydney — The Moon dish that brought the Apollo 11 moon walk images to the world’s TV screens is slated to become little more than a statue near Canberra, the capital of Australia in just over a week .NASA is feeling the pinch during world economic crisis [...] The Australian Dish that brought the world the first footsteps on the moon is to be stripped of all electronics and servos and welded in the Stow position by “cash strapped” NASA. They have really looked at where they could get the budget, but found only enough that it was prepared to keep the historic [...] Moving seawater creates electric fields and these can be detected by existing infrastructure. Placing pressure sensors around the world’s oceans to detect tsunamis before they strike can be expensive and time consuming. But it might be possible to fill in gaps in the sensor network using existing communications cables. Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [...] World Moon Bounce Day 2010 This major event will add a new word to most people’s vocabulary – Moon Bounce. Moon Bounce has been happening for almost as long as the oldest of us can remember. From the early days when it was thought to be a means of communications that the military [...] This is a long story and needs to be told in better detail later, but here are my home videos taken at Parkes of the Giotto spacecraft’s encounter with Halleys Comet on 14 March 1986. Giotto was ESA’s probe to get in close and take the first photos and measurements of a comet [...] A Brief History of the Early Days (thoughts from a near demented mind) The “raison d’etre” for the OTCA Carnarvon satellite station was to provide a reliable communications link between the NASA/AWA tracking station located on the southern end of Brown’s Range at Carnarvon, and NASA control in the USA. In 1966 [...] Several videos have been added to the exOTC website that are historic. Many date back to 1984-1986. These were taken by myself (Robert Brand) with an early large video camera and backpack recorder. The tapes have been only just digitised so they have survived for a long time. Here are two of the OTC ads [...] |
A Mosaic of Cassiopeia
 This mosaic of images from the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explore, or WISE, in the constellation of Cassiopeia contains a large star-forming nebula within the Milky Way Galaxy, called IC 1805 or the Heart Nebula, a portion of which is seen at the right of the image. IC 1805 is more than 6,000 light-years from Earth. Also visible in this image are two nearby galaxies, Maffei 1 and Maffei 2. In visible light these galaxies are hidden by dust in IC 1805 and were unknown until 1968 when Paolo Maffei found them using infrared observations. Both galaxies contain billions of stars and are located some 10 million light-years away. Maffei 1 is a lenticular galaxy, which has a disk-like structure and a central bulge but no spiral structure or appreciable dust content. Maffei 2 is a spiral galaxy that also has a disk shape, but with a bar-like central bulge and two prominent dusty spiral arms. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA Read More |
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