<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009</id><updated>2011-08-28T16:52:47.410+02:00</updated><category term='Google Sky'/><category term='Astronomy Names - Nomi Astronomici'/><category term='Near Galaxies'/><category term='General Purpose'/><category term='Astronomer - Astronomi'/><category term='Wikipedia'/><category term='Solar Eclipse - Eclissi Solare'/><category term='Zooniverse'/><category term='Ionized Cloud'/><category term='Interviews - Interviste'/><category term='Man on the Moon'/><category term='GalaxyZoo'/><category term='Planetarium - Planetari'/><category term='Nebulae - Nebulose'/><category term='MoonZoo'/><category term='Blogger'/><category term='Solar Storm'/><category term='Overlapping Galaxies - Galassie Sovrapposte'/><category term='Web'/><category term='GalaxyZoo Paper'/><title type='text'>Half65</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>51</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-3275257713673537516</id><published>2011-08-08T19:42:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-08T19:42:06.098+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zooniverse'/><title type='text'>Zooniverse - Aggiornamenti</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Come già specificato in precedenti  posts le  informazioni, in Italia, sul  progetto GalaxyZoo non sono molto  diffuse  ad esclusione di scarni  trafiletti sul alcune riviste e siti   specializzati.Ho così pensato, come fatto  in precedenza, di scrivere un post solo in Italiano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;As just said in previous posts the   information, in Italy, on  GalaxyZoo are not very common except litt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;le  arcticle on som&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;e specialized magazines and  websites.I thougth so, as before, to write a post only in  Italian. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Prendo spunto da un vecchio post per dare qualche aggiornamento sul progetto&lt;a href="http://www.zooniverse.org/"&gt; Zoouniverse.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Prosegue il successo dell'iniziativa ed oltre alle ricerche legate al mondo astronomico si sono aggiunte altre di uguale interesse scientifico, anche se legate altri campi di ricerca.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Cresce, quindi,&amp;nbsp; "la casa", così come &lt;a href="http://www.zooniverse.org/about"&gt;definito nel sito ufficiale&lt;/a&gt;, del progetto di "citizen science" più grande, più popolare e di maggior successo (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;citazione dal sito ufficiale: &lt;i&gt;"The Zooniverse is home to the internet's largest, most popular and most  successful citizen science projects."&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Cresce il portale &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zooniverse.org/"&gt;Zoouniverse&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;attraverso il quale accedere a tutti i progetti in atto e potervi partecipare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Attualmente i progetti attivi in campo astronomico sono:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://galaxyzoo.org/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="29" src="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/live_galaxyzoo.gif?1272368039" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;- Galaxy Zoo Hubble, naturale prosecuzione di Galaxy Zoo 2;&lt;span id="goog_2042441574"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_2042441575"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span id="goog_2042441571"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_2042441572"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://solarstormwatch.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="29" src="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/live_solar_stormwatch.jpg?1272368039" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;- Solar Stormwatch, sull'attività solare;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://mergers.galaxyzoo.org/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="29" src="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/live_mergers.gif?1272368039" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;- Galaxy Zoo Mergers, sulla simulazione delle interazioni fra galassie;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://supernova.galaxyzoo.org/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="29" src="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/live_super.gif?1272368039" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;- Galaxy Zoo Supernova, per l'individuazione delle supernova;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.moonzoo.org/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="29" src="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/live_moonzoo.gif?1273563041" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;- Moon Zoo, per la individuazione dei crateri e di altre formazioni lunari;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.milkywayproject.org/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="29" src="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/MWPBanner.png?1312054582" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.planethunters.org/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="29" src="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/ph_banner.png?1312054582" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;- The Milky Way Project, per la catalogazione e misurazione della nostra Galassia;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;- Planet Hunters, per la ricerca di pianeti extrasolari;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.icehunters.org/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="29" src="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/ice_banner.png?1312054582" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;- Ice Hunters, per la ricerca di oggetti della fascia di Kuiper.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;I progetti attivi in altri campi sono:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ancientlives.org/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="29" src="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/live_oldweather.gif?1312054582" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;- Old Weather, per catalogare informazioni meteorologiche registrate nel passato dalle navi della Royal Navy;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.oldweather.org/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="29" src="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/al_banner.png?1312054582" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;- Ancient Lives, per la trascrizione di antichi papiri.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Per partecipare, come sempre, bastano un po' di tempo, curiosità e voglia di aiutare la ricerca scientifica in modo concreto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-3275257713673537516?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/3275257713673537516/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=3275257713673537516&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/3275257713673537516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/3275257713673537516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2011/08/zooniverse-aggiornamenti.html' title='Zooniverse - Aggiornamenti'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-318756343498872642</id><published>2010-07-20T20:04:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-21T21:41:01.040+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Man on the Moon'/><title type='text'>The man on the Moon - (English)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The partecipation to &lt;a href="http://www.moonzoo.org/"&gt;MoonZoo&lt;/a&gt;  project and the recent &lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/06/dr-william-keel-interview.html"&gt;interview  with Dr William Keel &lt;/a&gt;have rewakened my interest for Apollo  missions &lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;and the  desire to remember those exciting moments&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;. The post  is not complete, will not and can not be, considering  the complexity  and vastness of the topic. In particular  the post will  focus on the description of the Apollo 11 mission that  brought the man  on the Moon. More  information will require a dedicated web site and not a simple post.  (Clicking on the  pictures you can see them in original size). Italian version &lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/07/luomo-sulla-luna-italiano.html"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEaqBiUqhII/AAAAAAAAAhM/qaGto7rIlzY/s1600/Apollo_11_insignia.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEaqBiUqhII/AAAAAAAAAhM/qaGto7rIlzY/s400/Apollo_11_insignia.png" width="395" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Apollo 11 Logo (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;From 17th December 1903 to  20th July 1969 less than 66 years have passed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;This is  the time elapsed between the first man who gets up in flight with an aircraft  heavier than air, at beach of Kitty Hawk, and the first man to set foot on  the moon in the Sea of Tranquility.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;Less than 12 years since the first artificial satellite,  the Soviet  Sputnik I, and less than 10 years since the first man in  space, Yuri  Gagarin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="medium_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;The  mission is preceded by a series of  preparatory missions that, from Apollo 7  onwards, bring man closer to  the objective almost near to touch  our  natural satellite.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;The  objective of the mission is to perform a manned moon landing and  return to Earth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="medium_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TER-cMX29dI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/t7yp0wUELQc/s1600/2009-5073-m.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="267" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TER-cMX29dI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/t7yp0wUELQc/s400/2009-5073-m.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;The  journey that leads the man to the moon starts from very far with the testing  and inspection of various components and assembly of the rocket in the  Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) created for this specific purpose enclosing a space of about three million and 600 thousand  cubic meters with a height of 160 meters. In the VAB is mounted the Saturn V rocket, the Apollo spacecraft and the umbilical tower.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;The  Saturn V is composed of 3 stages.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEISG5kmXFI/AAAAAAAAAfg/hyrGvzFbZ8w/s1600/ap11-KSC-69PC-69.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEISG5kmXFI/AAAAAAAAAfg/hyrGvzFbZ8w/s640/ap11-KSC-69PC-69.jpg" width="460" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Saturn V - S-IC&amp;nbsp; (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;The first stage (S-IC) is about 42  meters high (138 feet) and has a diameter of about 10 meters (33 feet),  contains about 1 million and 500 thousands kilograms (3,307,855 pounds) of  liquid oxygen and about 640 thousands kilograms (1,426,069  pounds) of kerosene (RP-1). It's equipped with five F-1 engines, of  which 4 ring mounted on gimbals to allow to maneuver the carrier,  and a centrally located disk, consuming a total of about 13 tons (29,364  pounds) of propellant per second. The empty weight is about 130 thousands kilograms (288750 pounds), fully loaded and about 2 million 260  thousands kilograms (5,022,674 pounds).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEImPMbjHLI/AAAAAAAAAfw/SESIK4TXvsg/s1600/ap11-69-HC-340.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="580" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEImPMbjHLI/AAAAAAAAAfw/SESIK4TXvsg/s640/ap11-69-HC-340.jpg" width="440" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Saturn V - S-IVB  (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;The second stage (S-II) is about 25  meters high (81.5 feet) and has a diameter of about 10 meters (33 feet),  contains about 370 thousands kilograms (821,222 pounds) of liquid oxygen and  about 70 thousands kilograms (158,221 pounds) of liquid hydrogen. It's equipped with  five J-2 engines, 4 of which ring mounted on gimbals to allow the  carrier to operate, and a fixed center.The empty weight  is about 36 thousands kilograms (79,918 pounds), fully loaded about 477 thousands  kilograms (1,059,171 pounds).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The third stage  (S-IVB) is about 18 meters high (58.3 feet) and has a diameter of less  than 7 meters (21.7 feet) contains approximately 86 thousands kilograms  (192,023 pounds) of liquid oxygen and about 20 thousands kilograms (43,500  pounds  of liquid hydrogen. It's equipped with a J-2 engine mounted in a  central location. The empty weight is about 11 thousands kilograms (25,000  pounds) fully loaded about 117 thousands kilograms (260,523 pounds).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEIT3-OmHvI/AAAAAAAAAfo/YzP2ehg_Hj4/s1600/ap11-KSC-69P-179.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="256" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEIT3-OmHvI/AAAAAAAAAfo/YzP2ehg_Hj4/s400/ap11-KSC-69P-179.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Instrument Unit (IU) (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;At the  top of the third stage there is the Instrument Unit (IU) with a diameter  of less than 7 meters (21.7 feet) and a height of about 1 meter (3  feet) that contains guidance systems, navigation, control equipment,  telemetry, communications, tracking, crew safety, environmental control  and electric central support. The IU has a weight of about 2.000  kilograms (4,306 pounds). In total, the Saturn V rocket and the  Instrument Unit (IU) reach about 86 meters (281 feet) high with a total  weight load of approximately 180 thousands kilograms (397,974 pounds) and 2  million and 856 thousands kilograms (6,346,674 pounds) with the full propellants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TER46p5k96I/AAAAAAAAAgA/zO73NBlu_a4/s1600/ap11-KSC-69P-0245.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TER46p5k96I/AAAAAAAAAgA/zO73NBlu_a4/s400/ap11-KSC-69P-0245.jpg" width="301" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Lunar Modul (LM) (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Above  the Saturn V is located the payload of the mission: the Apollo  spacecraft. Sequentially over the Instrument Unit are located the Lunar  Module (Lunar Module - LM) and the Service Module (Service Modul - SM),  the Command Module (Command Module - CM) and the Tower Rescue (Launch  Escape System - SLE).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Lunar Module  (LM-5) consists of two stages: Ascending Stage and Descending Stage.It's about 7 meters wide and about 10 m wide from foot to foot. The system at  full load, excluding the crew, weighs 14,000 kilograms. For launch the  Lunar Module is included, with legs folded, inside a protective cone being  designed for use only in vacuum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Service  Module (SM-107) contains what is necessary to travel through space:  oxygen, producing energy, water, propulsion system and consumables. It's less  than 8 meters high with a diameter of about 4.5 meters. The gross weight is about 23 thousands kilograms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TER3kxwUi1I/AAAAAAAAAf4/IfFbFQI_vBQ/s1600/ap11-69-HC-440.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TER3kxwUi1I/AAAAAAAAAf4/IfFbFQI_vBQ/s640/ap11-69-HC-440.jpg" width="483" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Command and Service Module (CSM) (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;The  Command Module (CM-107) is the basic structure of the system where there  are crew members. It's a pressurized cone-shaped  structure less than 4 meters high and with a larger diameter of just  over 4 meters.It has a takeoff weight of about 5 thousands and 500 kilograms. The base is composed of a heat shield needed for  reentry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tower Rescue is located at the top of the whole system  and is composed of three solid propellant motors. The tower is  taller than 11 meters with a base diameter of about 4 meters. Fully loaded weighs about 4.000 kilograms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The overall  system is about 124 meters high and weighs just under 3 million kilograms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TESPGv75HSI/AAAAAAAAAgY/toQW8gWs9SU/s1600/ap11-KSC-69PC-237.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="500" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TESPGv75HSI/AAAAAAAAAgY/toQW8gWs9SU/s640/ap11-KSC-69PC-237.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Apollo 11 roll out from VBA directed to 39A Command and Service Module (CSM) (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;As mentioned in the VAB is also assembled the umbilical tower, 130 meters high (380 feet), and the whole complex, without the propellants must be delivered to launch pad 39A 5 Km and 600 mt away(3.5 miles).&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TESVHEVLhnI/AAAAAAAAAgg/nIgig13ETms/s1600/140795main_drawing-lg.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="315" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TESVHEVLhnI/AAAAAAAAAgg/nIgig13ETms/s400/140795main_drawing-lg.gif" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Crawler (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;To realize this not easy transportation a special vehicle (crawlers) is created wide 46 meters (135 feet) long 54mt (160 feet) high 8.5 meters (25 feet) capable of handling 2 million and 500 thousands kilograms (6 million pounds) on a leveling platform. The vehicle is mounted on four trucks&amp;nbsp; each about 3.5 meters tall (10 feet) long and 13.5 meters (40 feet) with 16 motors powered by four 1,000 kw generators generated by two diesel engines to 2750 hp . Top speed is about 1.6 km/h (1 mph) and takes about 6 hours to complete the route.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The launch pad 39A is formed by a concrete block in the shape of a truncated octagonal pyramid covers an area of about 1 square kilometer and which rises up to 30 meters on the surrounding area. Inside there is a canal 30 meters wide can guarantee at launch a stream of about 190,000 liters per minute (50,000 gallons per minute) of water needed to cool the structure and avoid the danger of fire resulting from the use of first stage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once reach the launch pad, nine hours before departure, start the procedures for loading the propellants that require approximately 4 hours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before going on to describe the launch and the mission is due to introduce its crew.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The crew consists of three elements, two of which will go down physically on the moon while the third remains in orbit around our natural satellite. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TESotuSxgsI/AAAAAAAAAgs/zeJF9geR7wA/s1600/a11portrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="508" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TESotuSxgsI/AAAAAAAAAgs/zeJF9geR7wA/s640/a11portrait.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;From Left - Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr  (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neil A. Armstrong - NASA Astronaut - Apollo 11 Commander - Born Aug. 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio (USA). 4,000 hours of flight at launch time and a space mission on board as commander of Gemini 8.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michael Collins - NASA Astronaut - Command Module Pilot of Apollo 11 - Born October 31, 1930 in Rome (ITA.) 4,000 hours of flight at launch time and a space mission as pilot on board the Gemini 10.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edwin E. Aldrin Jr - NASA Astronaut - Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot - Born Jan. 20, 1930 in Montclair, New Jersey (USA). 3,500 hours of flight at launch time and a space mission as pilot on board the Gemini 12.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TES3TaksO2I/AAAAAAAAAg0/yUduutFmB2s/s1600/ap11-S69-39525.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TES3TaksO2I/AAAAAAAAAg0/yUduutFmB2s/s400/ap11-S69-39525.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Saturn V lift off (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;The crew gets on board the elevator that takes them on top of the Saturn V, at more than 100m in 25 seconds, 2 hours and 40 minutes and 40 seconds before launch. Sequentially entering Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong (-2h 34m 44s) in the left seat, Michael Collins (-2h 39m 55s) in the right seat and Edwin Aldrin (-2h 23m 46s) in the center seat. Two hours after the launch is closed the hatch of the spacecraft.At 50 seconds after launch power is transferred to the Saturn V, which becomes independent.At 15 seconds, the driving control is carried on board.Starts the final countdown "12, 11, 10, 9, ignition sequence start, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, all engine running (Taken by the emotion Jack King "Apollo Voice" made mistake by saying " all engine running), lift-off. "&lt;br /&gt;At 9:32:00 East coast (13:32:00 UTC) the mission that will lead man on the moon start.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEYMQHFrQHI/AAAAAAAAAg8/suqrx7bHF00/s1600/10075089.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEYMQHFrQHI/AAAAAAAAAg8/suqrx7bHF00/s400/10075089.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Apollo 11 flight plan (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;After 2m 41.63s the first stage is turned off, it's detached and the second stage motors starts&amp;nbsp; (+2 m 43.04s). After 3m 17.9s the Rescue Tower is jettisoned.After 7m 40.62s the central engine of the second stage cutoff, after 9m 8.22s are also turned off the engines outside of the second stage, it's detached and the third stage starts (+9 m 12.2s). After 11m 39.33s the third stage is turned off and after 11m 49.33s happens the insertion in Earth orbit. After 2h 44m 16.2s the third stage is ignited for the second time and cut off after 2h 50m 3.03s. After 2h 50m 23.9s starts the translunar orbital mission that will reach the Moon. The rest of the trip does not pass in plain waiting. During the approach is the separation of the Command and Service Module (CSM) from the third stage, 180° rotation, the attachment of LM, a further 180°&amp;nbsp; rotation and the subsequent continuation of the orbit, after 4h 17m 3s since launch. Is then a&amp;nbsp; new ignition of jets to change course after 25h 44m 58.64s lasting about 3s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After 75h 49m 50.37s is spent the engine is re-ignited for insertion into lunar orbit and subsequent insertion into circular orbit at 80h 11m 36.75s from launch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Starting procedures for the lunar landing. Commander Armstrong and Aldrin pilot moving to the Lunar Module that now is called "Eagle", symbol of the U.S. and of the mission, and the Apollo capsule, is called "Columbia", remembering the spaceship "Columbiad" named by Jules Verne in his novel "From Earth to the Moon." After 100h 12m the CSM is separated from LM, which begins its descent toward the surface while the CSM remains in orbit with only Collins on board.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The descent is smooth. But when the landing zone approaches the area chosen by the onboard computer is unsuitable due to the presence of a crater, and so the landing is made manually.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEaesaMjs-I/AAAAAAAAAhE/ZEDzd-gSGjU/s1600/5454_t.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEaesaMjs-I/AAAAAAAAAhE/ZEDzd-gSGjU/s400/5454_t.jpg" width="397" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Moon from LM after landing (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;At 20:17:39 UTC on July 20, 1969 man landed on another celestial body after 102h 45m 39.9s from takeoff. Moon - Sea of Tranquility. Armstrong announced: "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Starting immediately after the operations to allow the first man to set foot on the moon.At 2:56:48 UTC on July 21, 1969 Commander Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, and pronounce the historic phrase: "That's one small step for man ... one giant leap for mankind".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="420" height="366" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-242e0878d79023ce" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v9.nonxt4.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D242e0878d79023ce%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330399239%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D4420752BF52A1403F9448AE06AA17ED3584A8EC3.5068AB34673F22928D31E2F10A4A0AE9C70FD04E%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D242e0878d79023ce%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DKYlwyqgvmiMa2Trhi6_WvTZObRA&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="420" height="366" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v9.nonxt4.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D242e0878d79023ce%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330399239%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D4420752BF52A1403F9448AE06AA17ED3584A8EC3.5068AB34673F22928D31E2F10A4A0AE9C70FD04E%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D242e0878d79023ce%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DKYlwyqgvmiMa2Trhi6_WvTZObRA&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Video taken from LM (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He is reached after 12 minutes even by Edwin Aldrin. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEcGuwLF_WI/AAAAAAAAAhU/vy_GTanj0LY/s1600/800px-Apollo11Plaque.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="206" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEcGuwLF_WI/AAAAAAAAAhU/vy_GTanj0LY/s400/800px-Apollo11Plaque.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The commemorative plate &lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;During the 2 hours of extravehicular activity (EVA), the two astronauts perform many operations, planting the American flag, installed a laser reflector and a seismic station. Also collect numerous samples of rocks for a total of about 22 kilograms (47 pounds). Among other things abandoned on the lunar surface must be recorded on a plaque installed in memory on a leg of the LM.They rentering the LM at 5:11:13 UTC on July 21, 1969.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Throughout the period of stay on the moon, Michael Collins is in orbit, alone, especially, in the 48 minutes when it loses radio contact with Earth, orbiting behind our natural satellite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At 17:54:00 UTC the Ascendig Stage of the LM detaches from the Descending Stage to reach&amp;nbsp; Columbia in orbit. The attachment is perfect at 21:35:00 UTC. The crew of the LM moved in the CMS and the LM is ejected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At 4:55:52 UTC on July 22, 1969 at 135h 23m 42.28s the CMS engine is ignited to perform the orbit of return. At 16:21:12 UTC on July 24, 1969 near the end of mission the Command Module separates from the Service Module and at 16:35:05 UTC, 3m 5.7s to 195h after its launch, SM is back in the atmosphere.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEcRuXOou1I/AAAAAAAAAhc/it2FKOu6RxA/s1600/ap11-S69-21698.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEcRuXOou1I/AAAAAAAAAhc/it2FKOu6RxA/s640/ap11-S69-21698.jpg" width="616" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Command Modul splash down &lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;At  16:50:35 UTC Command Module splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;The challenge is accomplished. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;Half65.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="medium_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;Before closing I  want to point out some links used to make this post and  where you can learn more:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title=""&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html"&gt;NASA - Apollo 11 - Image Library&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700011707_1970011707.pdf"&gt;NASA  - Apollo 11 - Technical Information Summary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www-lib.ksc.nasa.gov/lib/archives/apollo/pk/apollo11pt1.pdf"&gt;NASA  - Apollo 11 - Press Kit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_11i_Timeline.htm"&gt;NASA -  Apollo 11 Timeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-318756343498872642?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/318756343498872642/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=318756343498872642&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/318756343498872642'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/318756343498872642'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/07/man-on-moon-english.html' title='The man on the Moon - (English)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEaqBiUqhII/AAAAAAAAAhM/qaGto7rIlzY/s72-c/Apollo_11_insignia.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-9186235410755440937</id><published>2010-07-20T02:56:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-21T20:07:32.824+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Man on the Moon'/><title type='text'>L'uomo sulla Luna - (Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;La partecipazione al progetto &lt;a href="http://www.moonzoo.org/"&gt;MoonZoo&lt;/a&gt;  e la recente &lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/06/dr-william-keel-interview.html"&gt;intervista  al Dr William Keel&lt;/a&gt; hanno risvegliato il mio interesse per le  missioni Apollo e la voglia di ripercorrere quegli emozionati momenti. Il post non è certo completo, non vuole e non può  esserlo, considerando la complessità e vastità dell'argomento. In  particolare sarà incentrato sulla descrizione dello svolgimento della  missione dell'Apollo 11 che ha portato l'uomo sulla Luna. Maggiori informazioni richiederebbero  un sito web dedicato e non un semplice post. (Cliccando sulle foto è  possibile vederle nelle dimensioni originali). English version&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/07/man-on-moon-english.html"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEaqBiUqhII/AAAAAAAAAhM/qaGto7rIlzY/s1600/Apollo_11_insignia.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEaqBiUqhII/AAAAAAAAAhM/qaGto7rIlzY/s400/Apollo_11_insignia.png" width="395" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Il distintivo della Missione Apollo 11 (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span id="goog_491340322"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_491340323"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Dal 17 dicembre 1903 al 20 luglio 1969 sono passati meno di 66 anni.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Questo il tempo intercorso dal primo uomo che si alza in volo con un velivolo più pesante dell'aria, dalla spiaggia di Kitty Hawk, al primo uomo che mette piede sulla Luna nel Mare della Tranquillità.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Meno di 12 anni dal lancio del primo satellite artificiale, il sovietico Sputnik I, e meno di 10 anni dal primo uomo nello spazio, Yuri Gagarin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;L'impresa è preceduta da una serie di missioni preparatorie che, dall'Apollo 7 in poi, portano l'uomo sempre più vicino all'obiettivo fino quasi a toccare il nostro satellite naturale.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'obiettivo che si prefigge la missione è di eseguire un atterraggio sulla Luna con equipaggio e ritornare sulla Terra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TER-cMX29dI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/t7yp0wUELQc/s1600/2009-5073-m.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="214" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TER-cMX29dI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/t7yp0wUELQc/s320/2009-5073-m.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Il viaggio che porta l'uomo sulla Luna ha inizio&amp;nbsp; da molto lontano con i test ed i controlli delle varie componenti e con l'assemblaggio del razzo nel Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), l'edificio per l'assemblaggio veicoli appositamente costruito che racchiude uno spazio di circa tre milioni e 600 mila metri cubi con un'altezza di oltre 160 mt. Nel VAB viene montato il razzo Saturno V, il veicolo spaziale Apollo e la torre ombelicale.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il Saturno V è costituito da 3 stadi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEISG5kmXFI/AAAAAAAAAfg/hyrGvzFbZ8w/s1600/ap11-KSC-69PC-69.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEISG5kmXFI/AAAAAAAAAfg/hyrGvzFbZ8w/s640/ap11-KSC-69PC-69.jpg" width="460" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Saturn V - S-IC&amp;nbsp; (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Il primo stadio (S-IC) è alto circa 42 mt (138 piedi) ed ha un diametro di circa  10 mt (33 piedi), contiene circa 1 milione e 500 mila chilogrammi (3,307,855 libbre) di ossigeno  liquido e circa 640 mila chilogrammi (1,426,069 libbre) di cherosene (RP-1). E'  equipaggiato con 5 motori F-1, dei quali 4 montati ad anello, su giunti  cardanici per consentire di manovrare il vettore, ed 1 in posizione  centrale fisso, che consumano complessivamente circa 13 tonnellate (29,364 libbre) al secondo di propellente.  Il peso a vuoto è di circa 130 mila chilogrammi (288,750 libbre), a pieno carico circa  2 milioni e 260 mila chilogrammi (5,022.674 libbre).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEImPMbjHLI/AAAAAAAAAfw/SESIK4TXvsg/s1600/ap11-69-HC-340.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="580" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEImPMbjHLI/AAAAAAAAAfw/SESIK4TXvsg/s640/ap11-69-HC-340.jpg" width="440" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Saturn V - S-IVB  (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Il secondo stadio (S-II) è alto  circa 25 mt (81.5 piedi) ed ha un diametro di circa 10 mt (33 piedi), contiene circa 370 mila chilogrammi (821.,22 libbre) di ossigeno liquido e circa 70 mila chillogrammi (158,221 libbre) di idrogeno  liquido. E' equipaggiato con 5 motori J-2, dei quali 4 montati ad  anello, su giunti cardanici per consentire di manovrare il vettore, ed 1 centrale fisso. Il peso a vuoto è di circa 36 mila chilogrammi (79,918 libbre),&amp;nbsp; a  pieno carico circa 477 mila chilogrammi (1,059,171 libbre).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il terzo stadio (S-IVB) è alto  circa 18 mt (58.3 piedi) ed ha un diametro di meno di 7 mt (21.7 piedi) contiene circa 86 mila  chilogrammi (192,023 libbre) di ossigeno liquido e circa 20 mila chilogrammi (43,500 libbre) di idrogeno  liquido. E' equipaggiato con un motore J-2 montato in posizione  centrale. Il peso a vuoto è di circa 11 mila chilogrammi (25,000 libbre), a pieno carico circa 117 mila chilogrammi (260,523 libbre).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEIT3-OmHvI/AAAAAAAAAfo/YzP2ehg_Hj4/s1600/ap11-KSC-69P-179.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="256" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEIT3-OmHvI/AAAAAAAAAfo/YzP2ehg_Hj4/s320/ap11-KSC-69P-179.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Instrument Unit (IU) (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Alla sommità del terzo stadio è collocata la Instrument Unit (IU) con un diametro di meno di 7 mt (21.7 piedi) ed un'altezza di&amp;nbsp; circa 1 mt (3 piedi) che contiene i sistemi di guida, navigazione, controllo equipaggiamenti, telemetria, comunicazioni, tracciamento, sicurezza equipaggio, controllo ambientale e la centrale di supporto elettrico. La IU ha un peso di circa 2 mila chilogrammi (4,306 libbre).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;In totale il razzo Saturno V e la Instrument Unit&amp;nbsp; (IU) raggiungono circa 86 metri (281 piedi) di altezza con un peso complessivo a vuoto di circa 180 mila chilogrammi (397,974 libbre) e 2 milioni e 856 mila chilogrammi (6,346,674 libbre) con il pieno di carburante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TER46p5k96I/AAAAAAAAAgA/zO73NBlu_a4/s1600/ap11-KSC-69P-0245.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TER46p5k96I/AAAAAAAAAgA/zO73NBlu_a4/s400/ap11-KSC-69P-0245.jpg" width="301" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Lunar Modul (LM) (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Al di sopra del Saturno V è collocato il carico pagante della missione: il veicolo spaziale Apollo. In sequenza sopra la Instrument Unit sono collocati il Modulo Lunare (Lunar Module - LM) e il Modulo di Servizio (Service Mosule - SM), il Modulo di Comando (Command Module - CM) e la Torre di Salvataggio (Launch Escape System - LES).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il Modulo Lunare (LM-5) è composto da due stadi: lo Stadio di Ascenzione (Ascending Stage) e lo Stadio di Discesa (Descending Stage). E' alto complessivamente circa 7 mt e largo circa 10 mt da piede a piede. Il sistema a pieno carico, escluso l'equipaggio, pesa circa 14 mila&amp;nbsp; chilogrammi. Per il lancio il Modulo Lunare è inserito con le zampe ripiegate all'interno di un cono protettivo essendo progettato per il solo utilizzo nel vuoto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il Modulo di Servizio (SM-107) contiene quanto necessario al viaggio attraverso lo spazio: ossigeno, produzione energia, acqua, sistema di propulsione e materiali di consumo. E' alto poco più di 8 mt con un diametro di circa 4,5 mt. Il peso a pieno carico è di circa 23 mila chilogrammi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TER3kxwUi1I/AAAAAAAAAf4/IfFbFQI_vBQ/s1600/ap11-69-HC-440.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TER3kxwUi1I/AAAAAAAAAf4/IfFbFQI_vBQ/s640/ap11-69-HC-440.jpg" width="483" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Command and Service Module (CSM) (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Il Modulo di Comando&amp;nbsp; (CM-107) è la struttura di base del sistema dove trovano posto i componenti dell'equipaggio . E' una struttura pressurizzata a forma di cono alta meno di 4 mt e con un diametro maggiore di poco più di 4 mt. Ha un peso al decollo di circa 5 mila e 500 chilogrammi. La base è composta da uno scudo termico necessario per il rientro in atmosfera. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La Torre di Salvataggio è posta alla sommità di tutto il sistema ed è composta da tre motori a propellente solido. La torre è alta più di 11 mt con un diametro alla base di circa 4 mt. Pesa a pieno carico circa 4 mila chilogrammi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il sistema complessivamente è alto circa 124 mt e pesa poco meno di 3 milioni di chilogrammi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TESPGv75HSI/AAAAAAAAAgY/toQW8gWs9SU/s1600/ap11-KSC-69PC-237.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="500" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TESPGv75HSI/AAAAAAAAAgY/toQW8gWs9SU/s640/ap11-KSC-69PC-237.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Apollo 11 esce dal VAB diretto alla rampa di lancio 39A (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Come accennato nel VAB viene assemblata anche la Torre Ombelicale, alta 130 mt (380 piedi),&amp;nbsp; e tutto il complesso, privo dei propellenti, deve essere trasportato alla rampa di lancio 39A distante &lt;br /&gt;5 chilometri e 600 metri (3,5 miglia).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TESVHEVLhnI/AAAAAAAAAgg/nIgig13ETms/s1600/140795main_drawing-lg.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="315" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TESVHEVLhnI/AAAAAAAAAgg/nIgig13ETms/s400/140795main_drawing-lg.gif" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Il Crawler (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Per realizzare questo non facile trasporto viene realizzato un apposito veicolo (crawler) largo 46 mt (135 piedi), lungo 54mt (160 piedi) e alto 8,5 mt (25 piedi) in grado di movimentare 2 milioni e 500 mila chilogrammi di peso (6 milioni di libbre) su una piattaforma autolivellante. Il veicolo è montato su 4 carrelli cingolati ognuno alto circa 3,5 mt (10 piedi) e lungo 13,5 mt (40 piedi) dotati di 16 motori alimentati da 4 generatori da 1.000 Kw generati da 2 motori diesel da 2.750 cavalli di potenza. La velocià massima e di circa 1,6 Km/h (1 miglio orario) ed occorrono circa 6 ore per compiere il percorso. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La piattaforma di lancio 39A è costituita da un blocco di calcestruzzo a forma di tronco di piramide ottagonale che copre una superficie di circa 1 chilometro quadrato e che si innalza fino a 30 mt sulla zona circostante. Al suo interno è presente un canale ampio 30 mt in grado di garantire al momento del lancio un flusso di circa 190.000 litri al minuto (50.000 galloni al minuto) di acqua necessaria a raffreddare la struttura ed evitare il pericolo di incendio derivato dall'utilizzo del primo stadio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una volta raggiunta la piattaforma di lancio, nove ore prima della partenza, iniziano le procedure di carico dei propellenti che richiedono circa 4 ore e mezza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prima di passare alla descrizione del lancio e della missione è doveroso introdurre il suo&amp;nbsp; equipaggio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'equipaggio è composto da tre elementi, due dei quali scenderanno fisicamente sulla Luna mentre il terzo rimarrà in orbita intorno al nostro satellite naturale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TESotuSxgsI/AAAAAAAAAgs/zeJF9geR7wA/s1600/a11portrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="507" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TESotuSxgsI/AAAAAAAAAgs/zeJF9geR7wA/s640/a11portrait.jpg" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;From Left - Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neil A. Armstrong - Astronauta NASA - Comandante Apollo 11 - Nato il 5 agosto 1930 a Wapakoneta, Ohio (USA). 4.000 ore di volo all'attivo al momento del lancio ed una missione spaziale come comandante a bordo del Gemini 8.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michael Collins - Astronauta NASA - Pilota del Modulo di Comando Apollo 11 - Nato il 31 ottobre 1930 a Roma (ITA). 4.000 ore di volo all'attivo al momento del lancio ed una missione spaziale come pilota a bordo del Gemini 10.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edwin E. Aldrin Jr - Astronauta NASA - Pilota del Modulo Lunare Apollo 11 - Nato il 20 gennaio 1930 a Montclair, New Jersey (USA). 3.500 ore di volo all'attivo al momento del lancio ed una missione spaziale come pilota a bordo del Gemini 12.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TES3TaksO2I/AAAAAAAAAg0/yUduutFmB2s/s1600/ap11-S69-39525.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TES3TaksO2I/AAAAAAAAAg0/yUduutFmB2s/s400/ap11-S69-39525.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Il decollo del Saturno V (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;L'equipaggio sale a bordo dell'ascensore che li porterà in cima al saturno V, a oltre 100mt di altezza in&amp;nbsp; 25 secondi, 2 ore e 40 minuti&amp;nbsp; e 40 secondi prima del lancio. In sequenza entrano nell'Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong (-2h 34m 44s) nel sedile di sinistra, Michael Collins (-2h 39m 55s) nel sedile di destra e Edwin Aldrin (-2h 23m 46s) nel sedile centrale. A due ore dal lancio viene chiuso il portello della navicella spaziale.&lt;br /&gt;A 50 secondi dal lancio l'alimentazione viene trasferita al Saturno V che diventa autonomo.&lt;br /&gt;A 15 secondi il controllo di guida viene trasferito a bordo.&lt;br /&gt;Inizia il conto alla rovescia finale "12, 11, 10, 9, inizio sequenza di accensione, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, tutti il motore sta' funzionando (Preso dall'emozione Jack King "La Voce dell'Apollo" sbagliò dicendo "All engine running"), DECOLLO". &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alle 9:32:00 ora della costa Est (13:32:00 UTC) avviene il decollo della missione che porterà l'uomo sulla Luna.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEYMQHFrQHI/AAAAAAAAAg8/suqrx7bHF00/s1600/10075089.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEYMQHFrQHI/AAAAAAAAAg8/suqrx7bHF00/s400/10075089.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Il piano di volo della Missione Apollo 11 (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Dopo 2m 41.63s viene spento il primo stadio, avviene il distacco e viene acceso il secondo stadio (+2m 43.04s).&lt;br /&gt;Dopo 3m 17.9s viene espulsa la Torre di Salvataggio.&lt;br /&gt;Dopo 7m 40.62s viene spento il motore centrale del secondo stadio, dopo 9m 8.22s vengono spenti anche i motori esterni del secondo stadio, avviene il distacco e viene acceso il terzo stadio (+9m 12.2s).&lt;br /&gt;Dopo 11m 39.33s viene spento il terzo stadio e dopo 11m 49.33s avviene l'inserzione in orbita terrestre.&lt;br /&gt;Dopo 2h 44m 16.2s viene riacceso il terzo stadio e spento dopo 2h 50m 3.03s.&lt;br /&gt;Dopo 2h 50m 23.9s inizia la navigazione orbitale translunare che porterà la missione a raggiungere la Luna. Il resto del viaggio non trascorre in semplice attesa. Durante l'avvicinamento avviene la separazione del Modulo di Comando e Servizio (CSM) dal terzo stadio, la rotazione di 180°, l'aggancio del LM, una ulteriore rotazione di 180°e la successiva prosecuzione dell'orbita, dopo 4h 17m 3s dal momento del lancio. Avviene poi una accensione per correggere la rotta dopo 25h 44m 58.64s della durata di circa 3s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trascorse 75h 49m 50.37s avviene la riaccensione dei motori per l'inserzione in orbita lunare e la successiva inserzione in orbita circolare a 80h 11m 36.75s da lancio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iniziano le procedure per l'atterraggio lunare. Il Comandante Armstrong ed il pilota Aldrin si trasferiscono nel Modulo Lunare che prende il nome di "Aquila", simbolo degli Stati Uniti e simbolo della missione, e la Capsula Apollo prende il nome di "Columbia", in ricordo dell'astronave "Columbiad" di Jules Verne nel suo romanzo "Dalla Terra alla Luna".&lt;br /&gt;Dopo 100h 12m avviene la separazione del CSM dal LM che inizia la sua discesa verso la superficie mentre il CSM rimane in orbita con a bordo il solo Collins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La discesa avviene senza difficoltà. Ma al momento dell'atterraggio la zona scelta dal computer di bordo si rivela inadatta a causa della presenza di un cratere e così l'atterraggio avviene in manuale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEaesaMjs-I/AAAAAAAAAhE/ZEDzd-gSGjU/s1600/5454_t.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEaesaMjs-I/AAAAAAAAAhE/ZEDzd-gSGjU/s400/5454_t.jpg" width="397" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Vista della Luna dal LM subito dopo l'atterraggio (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Alle 20:17:39 UTC del 20 luglio 1969 l'uomo atterra su un altro corpo celeste dopo 102h 45m 39.9s dal decollo. Luna - Mare della Tranquillità. Armstrong comunica: "Houston, qui Base Tranquillità. L'Aquila è atterrata" ("&lt;i&gt;Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed&lt;/i&gt;").&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Iniziano immediatamente dopo le operazioni per permettere al primo uomo di mettere piede sul suolo lunare.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Alle 2:56:48 UTC del 21 luglio 1969 il Comandante Neil Armstrong mette piede sulla Luna e pronuncia la storica frase: "That's one small step for man ... one giant leap for mankind". (Questo è un piccolo passo per l'uomo ... un grande balzo per l'umanità).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="420" height="366" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-242e0878d79023ce" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v9.nonxt4.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D242e0878d79023ce%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330399239%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D3F3200D7B6F9E549EED69F26E6385A9F09C2B600.7990F2C7F2EF4DCF4BD7AC31E3D03C2F384E2945%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D242e0878d79023ce%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DKYlwyqgvmiMa2Trhi6_WvTZObRA&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="420" height="366" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v9.nonxt4.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D242e0878d79023ce%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330399239%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D3F3200D7B6F9E549EED69F26E6385A9F09C2B600.7990F2C7F2EF4DCF4BD7AC31E3D03C2F384E2945%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D242e0878d79023ce%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DKYlwyqgvmiMa2Trhi6_WvTZObRA&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Video dello sbarco ripreso dal LM (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Viene raggiunto 12 minuti dopo anche da Edwin Aldrin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEcGuwLF_WI/AAAAAAAAAhU/vy_GTanj0LY/s1600/800px-Apollo11Plaque.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="206" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEcGuwLF_WI/AAAAAAAAAhU/vy_GTanj0LY/s400/800px-Apollo11Plaque.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;La placca installata sulla gamba del LM (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Durante le 2 ore e mezza di attività extraveicolare (EVA - Extra Vehicular Activity) i due astronauti compiono numerose operazioni, piantano la bandiera americana, installano un riflettore laser ed una stazione sismica. Raccolgono inoltre numerosi campioni di roccia per un totale di circa 22 chilogrammi (47 libbre). Fra le varie cose abbandonate sulla superficie lunare va segnalata la placca installata su una delle gambe del LM a ricordo dell'impresa.&lt;br /&gt;Rientrano nel LM alle 5:11:13 UTC del 21 luglio 1969. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Durante tutto il periodo di permanenza sulla Luna Michael Collins è in orbita, solo, soprattutto, nei 48 minuti in cui perde il contatto radio con la Terra, nell'orbitare dietro al nostro satellite naturale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alle 17:54:00 UTC&amp;nbsp; lo Stadio di Ascenzione del LM si stacca dallo Stadio di Discesa per raggiungere in orbita il Columbia. L'aggancio avviene perfettamente alle 21:35:00 UTC. L'equipaggio del LM si trasferisce nel CMS ed il LM viene espulso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alle 4:55:52 UTC del 22 luglio 1969 a 135h 23m 42.28s dal lancio viene riacceso il motore del CMS per&amp;nbsp; effettuare l'orbita di rientro. Alle 16:21:12 UTC del 24 luglio 1969 in prossimità del rientro il Modulo di Comando si separa dal Modulo di Servizo ed alle 16:35:05 UTC, a 195h 3m 5.7s dal lancio, avviene il rientro in atmosfera.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEcRuXOou1I/AAAAAAAAAhc/it2FKOu6RxA/s1600/ap11-S69-21698.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEcRuXOou1I/AAAAAAAAAhc/it2FKOu6RxA/s640/ap11-S69-21698.jpg" width="616" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Il Modulo di Comando è ammarato (Credit: &lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Vehicle"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alle 16:50:35 il Modulo di Comando ammara nell'Oceano Pacifico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'impresa è compiuta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In chiusura voglio segnalare alcuni link utilizzati per scivere questo post e dove è possibile approfondire l'argomento:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html"&gt;NASA - Libreria di Immagini dell'Apollo 11&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700011707_1970011707.pdf"&gt;NASA - Informazioni sulla Missione Apollo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www-lib.ksc.nasa.gov/lib/archives/apollo/pk/apollo11pt1.pdf"&gt;NASA - Apollo 11 - Informazioni per i Giornalisti (Press Kit)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_11i_Timeline.htm"&gt;NASA - Apollo 11 Timeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-9186235410755440937?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/9186235410755440937/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=9186235410755440937&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/9186235410755440937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/9186235410755440937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/07/luomo-sulla-luna-italiano.html' title='L&apos;uomo sulla Luna - (Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TEaqBiUqhII/AAAAAAAAAhM/qaGto7rIlzY/s72-c/Apollo_11_insignia.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-6779724446117050457</id><published>2010-07-04T15:31:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-07T13:46:57.284+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nebulae - Nebulose'/><title type='text'>All Possible Nebulae Updated - (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3989"&gt;LizPeter  &lt;/a&gt;in the &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php"&gt;GalaxyZoo  Forum&lt;/a&gt; create a specific thread with the list of all posted &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=273756.msg260498#msg260498"&gt;possible  nebulae&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using this list and the perl program that  I used for manage overlapping data (modified for this purpose) I made  pdf files with the image and link to SDSS page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is  the &lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half1965/nebulae" target="_blank"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; with the data updated at 4th July 2010.&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3989"&gt;LizPeter  &lt;/a&gt;nel &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php"&gt;Forum di  GalaxyZoo&lt;/a&gt; ha creato uno specifico argomento per raccogliere la lista  di tutte le &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=273756.msg260498#msg260498"&gt;possibili  nebulose&lt;/a&gt; inviate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Usando tale lista ed il  programma in perl che uso per elaborare i dati delle galassie  sovrapposte (modificato per tale scopo) ho creato dei file pdf con le  immagini ed il link alla pagina SDSS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questo il &lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half1965/nebulae" target="_blank"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; con i dati aggiornati al 4 luglio 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buona Visione&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-6779724446117050457?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/6779724446117050457/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=6779724446117050457&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/6779724446117050457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/6779724446117050457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/07/all-possible-nebulae-updated-english.html' title='All Possible Nebulae Updated - (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-6832395668542739638</id><published>2010-07-02T19:47:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-03T00:20:49.317+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Near Galaxies'/><title type='text'>Ursa Minor Dwarf (UMi dSph - UGC 9749)  - Nana dell'Orsa Minore - (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ursa Minor Dwarf (UMi dSph - UGC 9749)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;ra: 15:09:08.5 - dec: 67:13:21 - 240.000 l.y. - Spheroidal&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Another satellite galaxy of the Milky Way is the Ursa Minor Dwarf a speroidal galaxy at approximately 240.000 l.y. from Earth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;It's formed by an old age population of stars and does not appear to have any star formation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The galaxy was discovered in 1954 by Albert George Wilson at Lowell Observatory and in one of the smallest and faintest satellite galaxies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Half65.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A special thanks to Dr. Stefan Binnewies &amp;amp; Dr. Josef&amp;nbsp; Pöpsel for the authorization to use the interesting an beautiful image.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TC4kVhC1SkI/AAAAAAAAAfY/8e_JO99Oiak/s1600/UMiDwarf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="451" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TC4kVhC1SkI/AAAAAAAAAfY/8e_JO99Oiak/s640/UMiDwarf.jpg" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ursa Minor Dwarf (Credit: &lt;a href="http://www.capella-observatory.com/"&gt;www.capella-observatory.com&lt;/a&gt; - Authors: Dr. Stefan Binnewies &amp;amp; Dr. Josef&amp;nbsp; Pöpsel)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nana dell'Orsa Minore - (UMi dSph - UGC 9749)&lt;br /&gt;ra: 15:09:08.5 - dec: 67:13:21 - 240.000 a.l. - Sferoidale&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Un'altra galassia satellite della Via Lattea è la Nana dell'Orsa Minore una galassia sferoidale ad una distanza approssimativa di 240.000 a.l. dalla Terra.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;E' formata da una popolazione stellare antica ed apparentemente non presenta formazione stellare.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;La galassia è stata scoperta nel 1954 da Albert George Wilson presso l'Osservatorio Lowell ed è una delle più piccole e deboli delle galassie satellite.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Half65.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Un ringraziamento particolare al Dr. Stefan Binnewies &amp;amp; Dr. Josef Pöpsel per l'autorizzazione all'utilizzo della interessante e splendida immagine.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-6832395668542739638?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/6832395668542739638/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=6832395668542739638&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/6832395668542739638'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/6832395668542739638'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/07/ursa-minor-dwarf.html' title='Ursa Minor Dwarf (UMi dSph - UGC 9749)  - Nana dell&apos;Orsa Minore - (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TC4kVhC1SkI/AAAAAAAAAfY/8e_JO99Oiak/s72-c/UMiDwarf.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-3913577505279594588</id><published>2010-06-22T23:36:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-07T13:45:43.614+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Interviews - Interviste'/><title type='text'>Dr William Keel Interview - (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="medium_text" id="result_box" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;I also  translate the  interview in Italian (at the bottom of the English one) with the  awareness that it can not  make things the same way, even for my poor  knowledge of English. I will &lt;/span&gt;refine the  translation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Ho tradotto anche in  italiano l'intervista (segue quella in inglese) con la consapevolezza di  non poter rendere le cose allo stesso modo, anche per la mia scarsa  conoscenza della lingua inglese. Raffinerò la traduzione.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the second experiment of inteview, started &lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/05/alice-interview-english-italiano.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; with Alice, and it's a real honor, and also a pleasure, to host in my blog a scientist which I'm particularly linked. &amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;This time the interviewed is &lt;a href="http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/"&gt;Dr. William Keel&lt;/a&gt; (NGC3314 in &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/"&gt;GalaxyZoo Forum&lt;/a&gt;), a professional astronomer of the &lt;a href="http://www.google.it/url?sa=t&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;ved=0CBgQFjAA&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ua.edu%2F&amp;amp;ei=Th8hTLGEOIWUsQbospmZDg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHqjRQ7ND0Y9gjECOsQi9KRYAg_qg&amp;amp;sig2=Rby4rmIQCSAmesyuFkYSvQ"&gt;University of Alabama&lt;/a&gt;, with an enviable Curriculum Vitae and numerous publications to its credit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;It's also my guru of the &lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/04/overlapping-galaxies-data-english_14.html"&gt;overlapping galaxies&lt;/a&gt;, a Galaxy Zoo project in which I'm particularly involved.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Half65: Dr Keel present yourself to readers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TB_FoIFWXrI/AAAAAAAAAe0/Rg7WFm7fKSc/s1600/Bill-fettu-x.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="267" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TB_FoIFWXrI/AAAAAAAAAe0/Rg7WFm7fKSc/s400/Bill-fettu-x.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Dr. William Keel&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Dr. Keel:&lt;/span&gt; I'm an astronomer working at the University of Alabama. In my younger  days I spent several years at &lt;a href="http://www.google.it/url?sa=t&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;ved=0CBwQFjAA&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.noao.edu%2Fkpno%2F&amp;amp;ei=uR8hTO7AG8GnsQaRs4CmDg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH4GNvGBaApp3e10yCuyTnPrnAvzA&amp;amp;sig2=FfsTJukNV_3-PsfLfh_3tA"&gt;Kitt Peak National Observatory&lt;/a&gt;, and at  Leiden University in the Netherlands. Unlike many colleagues, I started  as an amateur astronomer in my backyard. My special interests are in the  study of galaxies - interacting galaxies, active galaxies, dust in  galaxies, history of galaxies... My approach is strongly observational;  the quest for data has taken me to observatories from Hawaii to Russia  and from Chile to Arizona, and on to use of instruments in space. My  training started in optical astronomy, but later work has taken me  occasionally into radio, X-ray, and especially ultraviolet measurements.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Half65: You're a member of the Galaxy Zoo Team. Do you really believe, especially in the beginning, that the project would have been so succesful and would have grown so widely&amp;nbsp; ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TApnvEYynZI/AAAAAAAAAdI/KVWVWRbUIUU/s1600/live_galaxyzoo.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="47" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TApnvEYynZI/AAAAAAAAAdI/KVWVWRbUIUU/s320/live_galaxyzoo.gif" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Dr. Keel:&lt;/span&gt; I didn't see this coming - not only the breadth  of public interest and engagement, but the depth to which some  participants have gone. I would never have expected, for example, the  work that some have done in creating web interfaces for side projects,  doing SQL&amp;nbsp; (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ed.: Structured Query Language - A query language for databases&lt;/span&gt;) queries and reformatting the results to make charts with  auxiliary data (as you have), or the sophisticated way the Pea&amp;nbsp; (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ed.: Pea Galaxies - Un raro tipo  di galassie scoperto dagli utenti di GalaxyZoo&lt;/span&gt;) team made  their case to the Zookeepers (&lt;span style="color: #ffd966;"&gt;Ed.: in GalaxyZoo the founder are called Zookeeper&lt;/span&gt;). Likewise, I don't think the SDSS team  ever expected that human beings would inspect every galaxy in their main  sample, or examine all those spectra in detail.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65: In you current work of astronomer at what percentage Galaxy Zoo, and derived works, occupy your time ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Dr. Keel:&lt;/span&gt; I recently realized that all my project funding from NASA for various  things is related to Galaxy Zoo projects - Hanny's Voorwerp (&lt;span style="color: #ffd966;"&gt;Ed.: a strange object discovered by one of the users of GalaxyZoo&lt;/span&gt;), public  outreach programs, and UV analysis of the overlapping-galaxy sample.  Beyond that, the Kitt Peak observations of smaller AGN (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ed.: Active Galactic Nucleus&lt;/span&gt;) clouds (which  we're finishing tonight - &lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ed.: 8 June 2010&lt;/span&gt;) and a &lt;a href="http://www.saraobservatory.org/"&gt;SARA&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ed.: Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy&lt;/span&gt;)&amp;nbsp; program on the occurrence of "dead  quasars" are also derived from Galaxy Zoo. As things have developed,  much of my involvement has been through projects which began on the  forum rather than the original statistical questions the Zoo was  designed to answer - one more example of the power of serendipity in  astronomy. I became part of the team only after participating on the  forum and contacting some of the original Zookeepers, in fact.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TCErXLI6mwI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/lN9eYiPGPIo/s1600/pano-1200x250.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="132" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TCErXLI6mwI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/lN9eYiPGPIo/s640/pano-1200x250.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Kitt Peak (Credit: P. Marenfeld (NOAO/AURA/NSF))&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Half65: How is important, for your teaching activity, to be an active researcher ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Dr. Keel:&lt;/span&gt; As I see it, this enriches the students'  experience in at least two ways. Of course, they will be exposed to the  latest (and often very exciting) results. My introductory students have  seen pictures of Hanny's Voorwerp for a couple of years now when we talk  about AGN and their relation to galaxy development. Beyond that, it s  very natural for people involved in research to expose students very  clearly to the way science works - the interplay of observations and  hypothesis informing one another. That is best taught in the context of  specific projects, so I often lead students through the tale of how we  learned things as well as the results. (I have to say that many  participants in the Zoo get this quite clearly, and become deeply  involved in research as well as understanding how it works).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;Half65: I read that the space missions of the '60  impacted substantially on your subsequent career. I read of your discussion with students about the Apollo missions in which you disprove the evidence  brought by those who are convinced that never occured. I confess that  without a scientific approach in the eyes of a layman like me and some  doubts may be and those explanations are really appreciated. Two questions on  the subject.&lt;br /&gt;Because the LEM appears not to sink into the regolith? Why the astronauts don't&amp;nbsp; made some kind of signal visible to the naked eye?(In an example was cited  the possibility to lay a sheet of aluminum to reflect sunlight)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TCEcxcP-zWI/AAAAAAAAAfI/uacmVtwUAyE/s1600/moon-walk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TCEcxcP-zWI/AAAAAAAAAfI/uacmVtwUAyE/s320/moon-walk.jpg" width="306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Dr. Keel: &lt;/span&gt;Some lunar scientists were quite worried that  the regolith wouldn't bear the load of a person even in 1/6 g, because  so little was known about whether the fine powdery results of eons of  micrometeoroids would behave. The NASA robotic landers - the Surveyors -  were designed to have the same load (in kg/cm^2) as was expected for the  LM on landing, to test this directly. They also looked at their  footpads with the TV cameras to see how deeply they sank. his is outside  my actual expertise, but I think the issue is how particles settle over  time, especially when impacts generate small vibrations over and over  for long times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I don't think it occurred to anyone working on Apollo that  they would need more evidence than photographs, tracking, and samples.  There were some ideas kicked around (in both USA and USSR) for the first  robotic missions, some as crazy as setting off a nuclear blast to show  it had reached its target. The aluminum sheet is an interesting idea to  explore - if a 2x1 meter Iridium&amp;nbsp; (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ed.: a telecommunication satellite&lt;/span&gt;) antenna panel can reflect enough  sunlight to be seen in daylight 800 km up, how much sunlight would be a  bright object from the lunar surface? It would have to stand out against  the sunlit lunar surface. If the panel were flat to better than 1/4  degree, it would reflect sunlight to at least the center of its aim  point with the same intensity as a perfect mirror (since the Sun appears  1/2 degree in diameter). At the center of its reflected beam, an  Iridium can be magnitude -8. So if we put the same 2-m^2 panel at the  Moon's distance of 400,000 km, it would appear fainter by 5 *  log(400,000/800) = 13.5 magnitudes. If aimed exactly to catch sunlight  form part of the Earth, it could be as bright as magnitude 13.5-8 = 5.5.  That would be visible telescopically, at least from part of the Earth -  since the Sun appears 1/4 as large as the Earth in the lunar sky, only a  small part of Earth would see the reflection. To show up to the naked  eye, it would have to be much brighter, so it could stand out against  the bright Moon - at least 100 times larger in area, 200 m^2 or so,  would be needed. This would have to be properly aligned and kept flat to  1/4 degree or better - not impossible, but a considerable technical  feat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;Half65: What would you responde to those who ask: "Why study Astronomy ?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Dr. Keel: &lt;/span&gt;For  many people, there are probably two questions - what benefit does a  person gain from astronomy, and should society pay people to pursue this  branch of research? Many people find strength, even exaltation,&lt;br /&gt;form  contemplating the vastness and intricacy of the Universe in which we  find ourselves. There are all sorts of quotations from famous people  making this point. Immediately, I can find these in my file of sayings:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" style="text-align: center; width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="100"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;"... if  wonder and humility are the best vehicles to bear the soul to  its hearth,  I should think that a quiet Sunday morning spent at  home in controlled  meditation on a picture book of galaxies might  be an auspicious start  for that voyage."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Joseph Campbell,  Creative Mythology, ch. 9 part VI&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: justify;"&gt;"Many a man, brought  up in the glib profession of some shallow form  of Christianity,  who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for  the first time  how majestically indifferent most reality is to  man, and who perhaps abandons  his religion on that account, may  at that moment be having his first genuinely  religious  experience."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;C.S. Lewis, Miracles  (chapter 7)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: justify;"&gt;"Whereas other animals hang their heads and  look at the ground, he  made man erect, bidding him to look up to  heaven, and lift his  head to the stars."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or according to  CS Lewis, Letters  vol. III p. 1267 (16 May 1961), "Whereas other  animals look  earthwards, he gave to man a lofty countenance and  ordered him to  contemplate the sky and to raise his erected face  ot the stars."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Ovid  (Metamorphoses book I)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: justify;"&gt;"I can never look  upon the stars without wondering that the whole world  does not  become astronomers; and that men, endowed with sense and  reason,  should neglect a science that must convince them of their   immortality."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; Thomas  Wright&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: justify;"&gt;"What intelligent being, what being  capable of responding  emotionally to a beautiful sight, can look  at the jagged, silvery  lunar crescent trembling in the azure sky,  even through the  weakest of telescopes, and not be struck by it in  an intensely  pleasurable way, not feel cut off from everyday life  here on  Earth and transported toward that first stop on celestial   journeys?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What thoughtful soul could look at   brilliant Jupiter with its four attendant satellites, or splendid   Saturn encircled by its mysterious ring, o r a double star  glowing  scarlet and sapphire in the infinity of night, and not be  filled  with a sense of wonder? &amp;nbsp;Yes, indeed:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If  humankind -  from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in  the cities  to teachers, people of independent means, those who  have reached the pinnacle  of fame or fortune, even the most  frivolous of society women - if they  knew what profound inner  pleasure awaits those who gaze at the heavens, then  France, nay,  the whole of Europe, would be covered with telescopes instead  of  bayonets, thereby promoting universal happiness and peace."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;Camille Flammarion, French astronomer, 1880&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other  question is one that keeps coming up in political discussions. Does  government have any business supporting basic research which doesn't  have obvious application to its basic functions? Of course, this answer  will differ from place to place depending on the way governments work.  I've heard astronomy justified because it pushes technology in  advance of commercial needs, as a form of national prestige, and because  this is something that great societies do. These are all a little weak  to me; I tend to think that it enriches a society, however  astronomy is supported and organized.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;Half65: Naturally i can't miss a question about Overlapping Galaxies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;When you launched on the Forum the request to report this particular optical alignment did you believe that this combination was rare ? Did you thought to receive so much data to allow the number of observational campaigns that follows ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Dr. Keel: &lt;/span&gt;I had done a lot of work on dust in galaxies with this approach up to about 2000, when we ran out of known nearby candidates (some astronomers would occasionally email me random examples they came across). I could see within a few weeks that we would improve on that dramatically - I showed some pictures at a meeting (in Rome, my only visit there) in the autumn of 2007 to show what new possibilities there were. But a list of over 2000 candidates was beyond what I could have thought of early in the project. Some of these have been very informative - a favorite example is shown in the attached pictures, first a color image taken last month from the 3.5m &lt;a href="http://www.noao.edu/wiyn/"&gt;WIYN telescope&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ed.: Winsconsin, Indiana, Yale &amp;amp; NOAO - Kitt Peak&lt;/span&gt;) and then a version processed to show the amount of dust absorption. We now have &amp;nbsp;4 pairs (one from Hubble, the rest from GZ) with evidence of dust lanes very far out in the galaxy, were the density of stars has dropped too low to find the dust in other ways (and it may even be too cold for current far-infrared techniques, though we hope to test that with &lt;a href="http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=16"&gt;Herschel&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ed.: a space observatory&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TCEWY4BHZeI/AAAAAAAAAe8/BdtSY4BBiWA/s1600/sdss1142.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="325" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TCEWY4BHZeI/AAAAAAAAAe8/BdtSY4BBiWA/s400/sdss1142.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Color Image WIYN 3.5 mt (Credit: William Keel)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TCEWyS95ncI/AAAAAAAAAfA/Qp_a4SfqWoI/s1600/btau3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="335" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TCEWyS95ncI/AAAAAAAAAfA/Qp_a4SfqWoI/s400/btau3.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Processed Image (Credit: William Keel)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;Half65: Finally  you can say what you want.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Dr. Keel: &lt;/span&gt;At the risk of sounding poetic but doing it badly, it's an amazing thing   that we live in a Universe where stars are born and die, worlds can be   made of molten rock, ice, or liquid hydrogen, moons can spray volcanic   matter hundreds of km into their skies or have lakes of methane,   gigantic black holes can power unimaginable energy release, galaxies can   collide and change form, stars can dance in pars, triples, and  clusters  - and we can start to see and understand it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65: Really a great interview. Thanks Bill for the precious time subtracted to your&amp;nbsp; and for the beautiful images.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Questo è il secondo esperimento di intervista, iniziato &lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/05/alice-interview-english-italiano.html"&gt;qui&lt;/a&gt; con Alice, ed è un vero onore, oltre che un piacere, ospitare nel mio blog uno scienziato a cui sono particolarmente legato. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Questa volta l'intervistato è il &lt;a href="http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/"&gt;Dr. William Kill&lt;/a&gt; (NGC4133 in the &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/"&gt;GalaxyZoo Forum&lt;/a&gt;),&amp;nbsp; un astronomo professionista dell'&lt;a href="http://www.google.it/url?sa=t&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;ved=0CBgQFjAA&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ua.edu%2F&amp;amp;ei=Th8hTLGEOIWUsQbospmZDg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHqjRQ7ND0Y9gjECOsQi9KRYAg_qg&amp;amp;sig2=Rby4rmIQCSAmesyuFkYSvQ"&gt;Università dell'Alabama&lt;/a&gt;, con un invidiabile Curriculum Vitae e numerose pubblicazioni all'attivo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;E' anche il mio guru delle &lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/04/overlapping-galaxies-data-english_14.html"&gt;Galassie sovrapposte&lt;/a&gt; (Overlapping Galaxies) un progetto di Galaxy Zoo nel quale sono particolarmente coinvolto.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Half65: Dr Keel presenti se stesso ai lettori.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TB_FoIFWXrI/AAAAAAAAAe0/Rg7WFm7fKSc/s1600/Bill-fettu-x.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="267" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TB_FoIFWXrI/AAAAAAAAAe0/Rg7WFm7fKSc/s400/Bill-fettu-x.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Il Dr. William Keel&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Dr. Keel: &lt;/span&gt;Sono un astronomo e lavoro per l'Università dell'Alabama.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;All'inizio ho trascorso parecchi anni all'&lt;a href="http://www.google.it/url?sa=t&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;ved=0CBwQFjAA&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.noao.edu%2Fkpno%2F&amp;amp;ei=uR8hTO7AG8GnsQaRs4CmDg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH4GNvGBaApp3e10yCuyTnPrnAvzA&amp;amp;sig2=FfsTJukNV_3-PsfLfh_3tA"&gt;Osservatorio Nazionale del Kitt Peak&lt;/a&gt; e al'lUniversità di Leiden in Olanda. Al contrario di altri colleghi ho iniziato come astronomo amatoriale nel mio cortile. Sono particolarmente interessato allo studio delle galassie - galassie interagenti, galassie attive, polvere nelle galassie, storia delle galassie, ... Il mio primo approccio è fortemente osservativo.&lt;br /&gt;La ricerca di dati mi ha condotto per vari osservatori, dalle Hawaii alla Russia, dal Cile all'Arizona, ed all'utilizzo degli strumenti spaziali. Il mio addestramento è iniziato con l'astronomia in ottico, ma i lavori successivi mi hano occasionalmente avvicinato all'astronomia radio, dei raggi X e specialmente alla misurazione ultravioletta.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65: Lei è un membro del Team di Galaxy Zoo. Ha veramente creduto, specialmente all'inizio, che il progetto sarebbe stato di così grande successo e che sarebbe cresciuto in maniera così ampia ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TApnvEYynZI/AAAAAAAAAdI/KVWVWRbUIUU/s1600/live_galaxyzoo.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="47" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TApnvEYynZI/AAAAAAAAAdI/KVWVWRbUIUU/s320/live_galaxyzoo.gif" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Dr. Keel: &lt;/span&gt;Non ho intravisto cosa sarebbe successo, non solo l'ampiezza dell'interesse e del coinvolgimento del pubblico, ma neanche la profondità a cui si sono spinti alcuni partecipanti. Non mi sarei mai aspettato, per esempio, il lavoro che molti hanno fatto per creare le interfaccie web per i progetti collaterali, le ricerche in SQL (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;NdR: Structured Query Language - - Linguaggio di interrogazione per databases&lt;/span&gt;) e le formattazioni dei risultati per creare tabelle con i dati ausiliari (come hai fatto tu) o il sofisticato approccio scelto dal team dei Pea (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ndr: Pea Galaxies - Un raro tipo di galassie scoperto dagli utenti di GalaxyZoo)&lt;/span&gt; per sottoporre la loro ricerca agli Zookeeper (&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ed.: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;In GalaxyZoo i  responsabili sono chiamati ZooKeeper (Guardiani dello Zoo)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;). Allo stesso modo non penso che il team della SDSS sia aspettasse che degli esseri umani ispezionassero ogni galassia del loro archivio primario o esaminassero nel dettaglio un così alto numero di spettri elettromagnetici.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Half65: Nel suo attuale lavoro di astronomo in che percentuale Galaxy Zoo, ed i progetti derivati, occupano il suo tempo ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Dr. Keel: &lt;/span&gt;Ho realizzato recentemente che tutti i miei progetti finanziati dalla NASA per molti aspetti sono correlati con il progetto Galaxy Zoo - Hanny's woorverp (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ndr: uno strano oggetto scoperto da uno degli utenti GalaxyZoo&lt;/span&gt;),&amp;nbsp; programmi di sensibilizzazione del pubblico e l'analisi ultravioletta dei dati delle galassie sovrapposte. Oltre questo le osservazioni di piccole nubi AGN&amp;nbsp; (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ndr.: Active Galactic Nucleus - Nuclei Galattici Attivi&lt;/span&gt;)(che abbiamo ultimato questa notte - &lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;NdR: 8 giugno 2010&lt;/span&gt;). ed un programma &lt;a href="http://www.saraobservatory.org/"&gt;SARA&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ed.: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy&lt;/span&gt;) sull'evento del "quasar morto" anch'esso derivato da Galaxy Zoo. Così come si sono sviluppate le cose la maggior parte del coinvolgimento è dipeso da progetti che hanno avuto inizio nel forum più che dalle originali domande statistiche per le quali lo zoo era stato disegnato - un altro esempio della serendipità in astronomia. Infatti io sono divenuto parte del team solo dopo aver partecipato al fourm ed aver contattato alcuni degli originali zookeeper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TCErXLI6mwI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/lN9eYiPGPIo/s1600/pano-1200x250.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="131" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TCErXLI6mwI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/lN9eYiPGPIo/s640/pano-1200x250.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Kitt Peak (Credit: P. Marenfeld (NOAO/AURA/NSF))&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Half65: Quanto è importante, per la sua attività di insegnante, essere anche un ricercatore in attività ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Dr. Keel: &lt;/span&gt;Per come la vedo io, questo arricchisce le esperienze degli studenti in almeno due modi. Naturalmente verranno a conoscenza (e saranno spesso molto emozionati) dei risultati. I miei studenti dei corsi iniziali hanno visto immagini dell'Hanny's Voorwerp già da un paio d'anni quando parliamo di AGN e delle loro interazioni con lo sviluppo delle galassie.&lt;br /&gt;Oltre questo è veramente naturale per le persone coinvolte nella ricerca spiegare molto chiaramente agli studenti il modo in cui la scienza opera, l'interazione di osservazioni ed ipotesi serve ad entrambi. Queste son meglio sviluppate nel contesto di specifici progetti, cosi, frequentemente, conduco gli studenti attraverso storie su come impariamo le cose così come arrivare ai risultati. (Devo dire che molti partecipanti allo zoo hanno cmpreso questo chiaramente e sono diventati profondamente coinvolti nelle ricerche così come comprendere come funziona il lavoro).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Dr. Keel: Ho letto che le missioni spaziali degli anni '60 hanno influito in maniera notevole sulla sua successiva carriera. Ho letto che discute con gli studenti sulle missioni Apollo confutando le prove portate da chi sostiene che no siano mai avvenute. Confesso che senza un approccio scientifico agli occhi di un profano come me qualche dubbio possa venire e ben vengano tali spiegazioni. Due domande sull'argomento.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Perchè il LEM sembra non affondare nella regolite ? Perchè non è stato fatto un qualche tipo di segnale visibile da tutti ad occhio nudo ? (E' stata ad esempio citata la possibilità di stendere un foglio di alluminio che avrebbe potuto riflettere la luce solare)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TCEcxcP-zWI/AAAAAAAAAfI/uacmVtwUAyE/s1600/moon-walk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TCEcxcP-zWI/AAAAAAAAAfI/uacmVtwUAyE/s320/moon-walk.jpg" width="306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Buzz Aldrin - Apollo 11 (Credit: NASA)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ffd966;"&gt;Dr. Keel: &lt;/span&gt;Molti scienziati lunari erano molto preoccupati che la regolite non avrebbe sopportato il peso di una persona, nemmeno ad 1/6 della gravità, perchè così poco era conosciuto su come la fine polvere, risultato di eoni di impatti di micrometeoriti, si sarebbe comportata. Le sonde robotiche della NASA - i Surveyors (Ispettori) - erano progetate per avere lo stesso carico (in Kg/cmq) previsto per il LM in atterraggio al fine di testare questo direttamente. Inolte guardavano le impronte con delle telecamere per vedere di quanto affondassero. Questo esula dalle mia attuali competenze ma ip penso che il problema dipende da come le particelle si comportano nel corso del tempo, soprattutto quando gli impatti generano piccole vibrazioni in continuazione per lungo tempo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Io penso che nessuno del progetto Apollo ritenesse necessaro altri al di fuori di fotografie, tracciati e campioni. Ci furono numerose idee scaturite (sia in USA che in Russia) per la prima missione robotizzata, alcune totalmente folli come quella di provocare una esplosione nucleare per mostrare a tutti di aver ragginto il bersaglio. Il foglio di alluminio è un'idea interessante da esplorare, se un pannello d'antenna di 2x1 metro di un Iridium (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;NdR: satellite per telecomunicazioni&lt;/span&gt;) può riflettere sufficiente luce solare da essere visibile di giorno da 800 Km, come dovrebbe essere per essere visibile dalla superficie lunare ? Dovrebbe essere steso sulla superficie lunare esposto alla radiazione solare. Se il pannello fosse più in piano di 1/4 di grado rifletterebbe la luce solare all'incirca nel centro del punto d'incontro dei raggi con la stessa intensità di un specchio perfetto (considerato che il Sole appare con un diametro di 1/2 grado). Al centro di questo fascio di luce un Iridium potrebbe apparire di magnitudine -8. Così se mettessimo lo stesso pannello di 2x2 mt sulla Luna ad una distanza di 400.000 Km apparirebbe più debole di 5*log(400.000/800) = 13.5 magnitudini. Se avesse anche la capacità di catturare parte della luce della Terra dovrebbe avere una magnitudine di 13.5 - 8 = 5.5. Questo lo renderebbe visibile strumentalmente, almeno da una parte della Terra, finchè il Sole apparisse 1/4 della larghezza della Terra nel cielo lunare, solo una piccola parte della Terra vedrebbe la riflessione. Per essere visibile ad occhio nudo dovrebbe essere più brillante, così da essere visibile contro la brillantezza della Luna, almeno 100 volte più grande come area, 200 mq o più sarebbero necessari. Questo dovrebbe essere propriamente allineato e mantenuto in piano, di 1/4 di grado o anche meno. Non impossibile ma tecnicamente complicato.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65: Cosa risponderebbe a chi chiedesse: "Perchè studiare l'astronomia ?"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Dr. Keel: &lt;/span&gt;Per molte persone probabilmente sono due domande - quali sono i benefici che una persona trae dall'astronomia e se la società dovrebbe pagare le persone per poter effettuare questo genere di ricerche ?&lt;br /&gt;Molte persone traggono forza, addirittura esaltazione, nel comtemplare la vastità e la complessità dell'Universo in cui ci troviamo.&lt;br /&gt;Ci sono tutti i generei di citazioni di persone famose che confermano questo. Su due piedi posso citare le seguenti:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" style="text-align: center; width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="100"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;"... se meraviglia ed umiltà sono i mezzi migliori per condurre l'anima al suo cuore, io credo che una tranquilla domenica mattina passata a casa in contemplazione di un libro di fotografie di galassie potrebbe essere una partenza auspicabile per quel viaggio."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Joseph Campbell,  Creative Mythology, ch.  9 part VI&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Più di un uomo, cresciuto all'ombra di qualche debole forma di cristianesimo inculcata da professionisti della loquacità, che arriva a realizzare per la prima volta attraverso letture di astronomia quanto la realtà sia maestosamente indifferente agli uomini, e che forse abbandona la propria religione per tale motivo, possa in quel momento sperimentare la prima vera esperienza religiosa."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;C.S. Lewis, Miracles  (chapter 7)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Considerando che gli altri animali chinano la testa e quardano a terra, egli fece l'uomo eretto, consentendogli di guardare in alto al paradiso e sollevare la testa verso le stelle."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;C.S. Lewis, Letters  (vol. III p. 1267 - 16 maggio 1961)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;"Considerando che gli altri animali guardano a terra, ha dato all'uomo un volto nobile e gli ha ordinato di contemplare il cielo e sollevarsi eretto con il volto verso le stelle."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Ovidio  (Le metamorfosi - Libro I)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Non posso guardare verso le stelle senza fantasticare perchè tutti nel mondo non si trasformino in astronomi e quegli uomini, dotati di senso e ragione, debbano trascurare una scienza che li convincerebbero della loro immortalità."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; Thomas  Wright&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Che cosa significa intelligenza, cosa significa essere capace di rispondere emotivamente ad una bella vista, guardare alla frastagliata, argentea luna crescente tremolante nel cielo azzurro, anche attraverso il più debole dei telescopi, e non essere colpiti in un modo intensamente piacevole, non si sentono tagliati fuori dalla vita quotidiana qui sulla Terra e trasportati verso la prima tappa del viaggio stellare ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;Quale  pensiero gentile poteva guardare al brillante Giove con i suoi  quattro satelliti che lo seguono, o lo splendido Saturno circondato dal  suo anello misterioso, o una doppia stella splendente di scarlatto e zaffiro  nell'infinito della notte, e non restare pieno di meraviglia? &lt;/span&gt;Sì, infatti:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se l'umanità - a partire dagli umili  contadini nei campi fino ai lavoratori che lavorano duramente nelle città, agli insegnanti, persone con mezzi propri, quelli che hanno  raggiunto l'apice della fama o della fortuna, anche la più frivola delle donne  di società - se sapessero quanta profonda gioia interiore attende quelli che  guardano il cielo, allora la Francia, anzi l'intera Europa, sarebbero  coperta con i telescopi, invece che di baionette, promuovendo così la  felicità e la pace universale ".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;Camille  Flammarion, astronomo francese, 1880&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'altra domanda è una di quelle che possono scaturire nel corso di discussioni politiche. I governi hanno programmi di supporto alla ricerca di base che non abbiano applicazioni dirette per le loro funzionalità di base ? Certamente la risposta differisce da paese a paese in considerazione del modo in cui il governo opera. Io ho sentito l'astronomia giustificata perchè poneva le necessità di crescita tecnologica davanti alle esigenze commerciali, come motivo di prestigio nazionale, e perchè questo è quello che fanno le grandi società. Queste ragioni sono un po' deboli per me: io tendo a pensare che ciò che arricchisce una società è un'astronomia supportata ed organizzata.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Half65: Non poteva, naturalmente, mancare una domanda sulla galassie sovrapposte.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Quando ha lanciato la richiesta di segnalare questo particolare allineamento ottico pensava che tale combinazione fosse rara ? Pensava di ricevere così tanti dati da poter effettuare il numero di campagne osservative che si sono susseguite ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Dr. Keel: &lt;/span&gt;Avevo effettuato un sacco di lavoro sulla polvere nelle galassie con questo approccio quando esaurimmo i candidati a noi vicini (alcuni astronomi occasionalmente mi inviavano via e-mail degli esempi in cui si sono casualmente imbattuti). Ho intravisto che avremmo potuto incrementarle drammaticamente - in poche settimane mostrai alcune foto in un incontro (a Roma, la mia unica volta lì) nell'autunno del 2007 per mostrare quali fossero le nuove possibilità. Ma un elenco di oltre 2000 candidati era al di là di quello che avrei potuto immaginare all'inizio del progetto. Alcuni di questi sono stati molto utili - un esempio preferito è mostrato in figura, la prima immagine, scattata il mese scorso con il &lt;a href="http://www.noao.edu/wiyn/"&gt;telescopio WIYN&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;NdR: Winsconsin, Indiana, Yale and NOAO - Kitt Peak&lt;/span&gt;) di 3,5 mt, e la seconda elaborata per evidenziare la quantità di assorbimento dovuta alle polveri.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ora abbiamo 4 coppie (una dell'Hubble, le altre di GalazyZoo) con evidenza di flussi di polvere molto lontane dalla galassia, dove la densità stellare decade a livelli così bassi&amp;nbsp; da non poter individuare la polvere in altro modo (e può persino essere troppo freddo per le attuali tecniche di misura nel lontano infrarosso anche se pensiamo di testarlo con &lt;a href="http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=16"&gt;Herschel&lt;/a&gt; (NdR: un osservatorio spaziale).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TCEWY4BHZeI/AAAAAAAAAe8/BdtSY4BBiWA/s1600/sdss1142.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="317" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TCEWY4BHZeI/AAAAAAAAAe8/BdtSY4BBiWA/s400/sdss1142.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Immagine a colori WIYN 3,5 mt (Credit: William Keel)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TCEWyS95ncI/AAAAAAAAAfA/Qp_a4SfqWoI/s1600/btau3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="290" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TCEWyS95ncI/AAAAAAAAAfA/Qp_a4SfqWoI/s400/btau3.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Immagine elaborata (Credit: William Keel)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Half65: Per concludere può dire quello che vuole.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Dr. Keel:&lt;/span&gt; A rischio di sembrare poetico senza riuscirci, è una cosa stupefacente pensare che viviamo in un Universo in cui le stelle nascono e muoiono, i mondi possono essere fatti di roccia fusa, ghiaccio o idrogeno liquido, le lune possono spruzzare materia vulcanica a migliaia di chilometri nei loro cieli o avere laghi di metano, i buchi neri giganti possono rilasciare inimmaginabili quantità di energia, le galassie possono collidere e cambiare forma, le stelle possono danzare in coppia, in trio ed in gruppo e noi possiamo iniziare a vedere e capirle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65: Decisamente una grande intervista. Grazie Bill per il prezioso tempo sottratto al tuo e per le bellissime immagini.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-3913577505279594588?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/3913577505279594588/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=3913577505279594588&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/3913577505279594588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/3913577505279594588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/06/dr-william-keel-interview.html' title='Dr William Keel Interview - (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TB_FoIFWXrI/AAAAAAAAAe0/Rg7WFm7fKSc/s72-c/Bill-fettu-x.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-993496315203782961</id><published>2010-06-20T16:49:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-07T13:41:30.894+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Overlapping Galaxies - Galassie Sovrapposte'/><title type='text'>Overlapping Galaxies - Hubble - (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Using the new data available from Hubble Galaxy Zoo I have updated the first extraction of Hubble Overlapping Galaxies.&lt;/div&gt;Here the &lt;a href="http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&amp;amp;pid=sites&amp;amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxoYWxmNjVkZXBvdDF8Z3g6NGUyNzg4MjEyNTNhOTQ0Yw"&gt;link &lt;/a&gt;to view, only in pdf format by now, and here to &lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half65depot1/file-depot/EstrazioneHubbleOverlap.pdf?attredirects=0&amp;amp;d=1"&gt;download&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Usando i nuovi dati disponibili dall'Hubble Galaxy Zoo ho aggiornato la prima estrazione delle Galassie sovrapposte dall'Hubble.&lt;/div&gt;Qui il &lt;a href="http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&amp;amp;pid=sites&amp;amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxoYWxmNjVkZXBvdDF8Z3g6NGUyNzg4MjEyNTNhOTQ0Yw"&gt;link &lt;/a&gt;per visualizzare, per ora solo in formato pdf, e qui per &lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half65depot1/file-depot/EstrazioneHubbleOverlap.pdf?attredirects=0&amp;amp;d=1"&gt;scaricare&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-993496315203782961?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/993496315203782961/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=993496315203782961&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/993496315203782961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/993496315203782961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/06/overlapping-galaxies-hubble-english.html' title='Overlapping Galaxies - Hubble - (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-3758589588496536310</id><published>2010-06-19T20:39:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-19T21:50:07.313+02:00</updated><title type='text'>I found me on Zooniverse - Sono su Zooniverse - (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>This is for self-celebration.&amp;nbsp; I'm now also on Zooniverse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TB0OqABkteI/AAAAAAAAAes/rlE6V1HxhnA/s1600/Super_Smileys_0077.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TB0OqABkteI/AAAAAAAAAes/rlE6V1HxhnA/s1600/Super_Smileys_0077.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TB0NkICUD8I/AAAAAAAAAeQ/9C9kWhZ1SnA/s1600/ZooMe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TB0NkICUD8I/AAAAAAAAAeQ/9C9kWhZ1SnA/s640/ZooMe.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Credit: &lt;a href="http://www.zooniverse.org/"&gt;Zooniverse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Questo è autocelebrativo. Sono anche su Zooniverse&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TB0OqABkteI/AAAAAAAAAes/rlE6V1HxhnA/s1600/Super_Smileys_0077.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TB0OqABkteI/AAAAAAAAAes/rlE6V1HxhnA/s1600/Super_Smileys_0077.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-3758589588496536310?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/3758589588496536310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=3758589588496536310&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/3758589588496536310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/3758589588496536310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/06/i-found-me-on-zooniverse-sono-su.html' title='I found me on Zooniverse - Sono su Zooniverse - (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TB0OqABkteI/AAAAAAAAAes/rlE6V1HxhnA/s72-c/Super_Smileys_0077.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-5162274092309273416</id><published>2010-06-19T18:34:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-04T17:54:32.708+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Near Galaxies'/><title type='text'>Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) - Piccola Nube di Magellano - (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;ra: 00:52:44.8 - dec: -72°:49:43 - 210.000 l.y. - Dwarf Irregular&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Travelling around our Galaxy we encounter the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;It's an irregular dwarf galaxy, perhaps originally a barred spiral, disrupted by the tidal forces of the Milky Way. It's located at a distance of 210.000 l.y. from Earth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;A stream of hydrogen and stars, the Magellanic Stream, is ejected from  the Great Cloud and the Small Cloud (SMC) and connected with the Milky  Way. Another stream, similarly composed, extends, however, between the  Great and the Small Cloud and is called Magellanic Bridge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The discovery occurred in 964 by the Persian astronomer Rohman al-Abd  al-Sufi but the name was attributed to Ferdinand Magellan who first  described it along with the Small Cloud (SMC).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Half65.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A special thanks to Mr Stéphane Guisard for the use of the astonishing and beautiful picture. At this link &lt;a href="http://www.astrosurf.com/sguisard" target="_blank"&gt;www.astrosurf.com/sguisard&lt;/a&gt; you can discover other images and video really interesting.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TBzzhKKl8VI/AAAAAAAAAeA/R67z9FEuFDQ/s1600/smc_guisard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="425" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TBzzhKKl8VI/AAAAAAAAAeA/R67z9FEuFDQ/s640/smc_guisard.jpg" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Small Magellanic Cloud&lt;/span&gt; - Image courtesy of and © Stéphane Guisard, &lt;a href="http://www.astrosurf.com/sguisard" target="_blank"&gt;www.astrosurf.com/sguisard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Piccola Nube di Magellano (SMC)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;ra: 00:52:44.8 - dec:  -72°:49:43 - 210.000 a.l. - Nana Irregolare &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Viaggiando nei dintorni della nostra Galassia incontriamo la Piccola Nube di Magellano (SMC).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;E' una gallasia nana irregolare, forse in origine una spirale barrata, disturbata dalle forze di marea generate dalla Via Lattea. E' situata ad una distanza di 210.000 a.l. dalla Terra.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Un flusso di idrogeno e stelle, la Corrente Magellanica, fuoriesce dalla  Nube e dalla&amp;nbsp; Grande Nube (LMC) e si connette con la Via Lattea. Un  altro flusso, composto analogamente, si estende, invece, fra la Grande e  la Piccola Nube ed è chiamato Ponte Magellanico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La scoperta avvenne nel 964 da parte dell'astronomo persiano Abd  al-Rohman al-Sufi ma il nome fu attribuito a Ferdinando Magellano che  per primo la descrisse insieme alla&amp;nbsp; Grande Nube (LMC).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un ringraziamento particolare al Sig. Stéphane Guisard per l'utilizzo della stupefacente e bellissima immagine.A questo indirizzo &lt;a href="http://www.astrosurf.com/sguisard" target="_blank"&gt;www.astrosurf.com/sguisard&lt;/a&gt; potete scoprire altre immagini e video veramente interessanti.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-5162274092309273416?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/5162274092309273416/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=5162274092309273416&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/5162274092309273416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/5162274092309273416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/06/small-magellanic-cloud-smc-piccola-nube.html' title='Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) - Piccola Nube di Magellano - (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TBzzhKKl8VI/AAAAAAAAAeA/R67z9FEuFDQ/s72-c/smc_guisard.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-2952117532647721262</id><published>2010-06-07T21:37:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-08T13:45:46.647+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GalaxyZoo Paper'/><title type='text'>GalaxyZoo - Documenti Pubblicati - (Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Il lavoro del Team di GalaxyZoo, coadiuvato dagli oltre 300.000 volontari sparsi in tutto il mondo, continua a dare i suoi frutti.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Questo l'elenco aggiornato delle pubblicazioni, già accettate (Stato in verde) o in corso di approvazione.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Titolo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: The Large-Scale Spin Statistics of Spiral Galaxies in the  Sloan Digital Sky Survey&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Autori&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Kate Land, Anze Slosar, Chris J. Lintott, Dan Andreescu, Steven Bamford, Phil Murray, Robert Nichol, M. Jordan Raddick, Kevin Schawinski, Alex Szalay, Daniel Thomas, Jan Vandenberg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: lime; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Stato&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Inviato 21 marzo 2008 - Accettato 19 maggio 2008&lt;br /&gt;Pubblicato da MNRAS Volume 388, Issue 4, pp. 1686 - 1692&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: lime; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.3247" target="_blank"&gt;arXiv:0803.3247&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Titolo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo : Morphologies Derived from Visual Inspection of Galaxies From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="color: #9fc5e8;"&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Autori&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Chris J. Lintott, Kevin Schawinski, Anze Slosar, Kate Land, Steven  Bamford, Daniel Thomas, M. Jordan Raddick, Robert C. Nichol, Alex  Szalay, Dan Andreescu, Phil Murray, Jan VandenBerg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: lime; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Stato&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Inviato 16 aprile 2008 - Accettato 4 luglio 2008&lt;br /&gt;Pubblicato da MNRAS Volume 389, Issue 3, pp. 1179 - 1189&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: lime; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.4483" target="_blank"&gt;arXiv:0804.4483&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Titolo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: The Dependence of Morphology and Colour on Environment&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Autori&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Steven P. Bamford, Robert C. Nichol, Ivan K. Baldry, Kate Land, Chris J.  Lintott, Kevin Schawinski, Anze Slosar, Alexander S. Szalay, Daniel  Thomas, Mehri Torki, Dan Andreescu, Edward M. Edmondson, Christopher J.  Miller, Phil Murray, M. Jordan Raddick, Jan Vandenberg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: lime; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Stato&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Inviato 16 maggio 2008 - Accettato 13 novembre 2008&lt;br /&gt;Pubblicato da MNRAS Volume 393, Issue 4, pp. 1324 - 1352&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: lime; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2612v2" target="_blank"&gt;arXiv:0805.2612&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Titolo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: A Sample of Blue Early-Type Galaxies at Low Redshift&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Autori&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Kevin Schawinski, Chris J. Lintott, Daniel Thomas, Marc Sarzi, Dan  Andreescu, Steven P. Bamford, Sugata Kaviraj, Sadegh Khochfar, Kate  Land, Phil Murray, Robert C. Nichol, M. Jordan Raddick, Anze Slosar,  Alex Szalay, Jan VandenBerg, Sukyoung K. Yi&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: lime; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Stato&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Inviato 14 giugno 2008 - Accettato 19 marzo 2009&lt;br /&gt;Pubblicato da MNRAS Volume 396, Issue 2, pp. 818 - 829&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: lime; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3415" target="_blank"&gt;arXiv:0903.3415&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Titolo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: 'Hanny's Voorwerp', a Quasar Light Echo ?&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Autori&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Chris J. Lintott, Kevin Scawinski, William Keel, Hanny van Arkel, Edward  Edmondson, Daniel Thomas, Nicola Bennert, Danieal J.B. Smith, Peter D.  Herbert, Matt J. Jarvis, Dan Andreescu, Steven P. Bamford, Kate Land,  Phil Murray, Robert C. Nichol, M. Jordan Raddick, Anze Slosar, Alex  Szalay, Jan Vandenberg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: lime; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Stato&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Inviato 15 luglio 2008 - Accettato 23 giugno 2009&lt;br /&gt;Pubblicato da MNRAS Volume 399, Issue 1, pp. 129 - 140&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: lime; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.5304" target="_blank"&gt;arXiv:0906.5304&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Titolo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: Chiral Correlation Function of Galaxy Spins&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Autori&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Anze Slosar, Kate Land, Steven Bamford, Chris J. Lintott, Dan Andreescu,  Phil Murray, Robert Nichol, M. Jordan Raddick, Kevin Schawinski, Alex  Szalay, Daniel Thomas, Jan Vandenberg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: lime; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Stato&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Inviato 12 settembre 2008 - Accettato 22 ottobre 2008&lt;br /&gt;Pubblicato da MNRAS Volume 392, Issue 3, pp. 1225 - 1232&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: lime; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://uk.arxiv.org/abs/0809.0717" target="_blank"&gt;arXiv:0809.0717&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Titolo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: Disentangling the Environmental Dependence of Morphology and Colour&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Autori&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Ramin A. Skibba, Steven P. Bamford, Robert C. Nichol, Chris J. Lintott, Dan Andreescu, Edward M. Edmondson, Phil Murray, M. Jordan Raddick, Kevin Schawinski, Anze Slosar, Alexander S. Szalay, Daniel Thomas, Jan Vandenberg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: lime; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Stato&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Inviato 20 novembre 2008 - Accettato 29 giugno 2009&lt;br /&gt;Pubblicato da MNRAS Volume 399, Issue 2, pp. 966 - 982&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: lime; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3970" target="_blank"&gt;arXiv:0811.3970&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Titolo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: The Fraction of Merging Galaxies in the SDSS and Their  Morphologies&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Autori&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;D. W. Darg, Sugata Kaviraj, Chris J. Lintott, Kevin Schawinski, Marc  Sarzi, Steven P. Bamford, J. Silk, Dan Andreescu, P. Murray, R. C.  Nichol, M. Jordan Raddick, Anze Slosar, Alex S. Szalay, Daniel Thomas,  Jan Vandenberg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: lime; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Stato&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Inviato 28 novembre 2008 - Accettato 8 settembre 2009&lt;br /&gt;Pubblicato da MNRAS Volume 401, Issue 2, pp. 1043 - 1056&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: lime; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5057" target="_blank"&gt;arXiv:0903.5057&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Titolo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: An Unusual New Class of Galaxy Cluster&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Autori&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Marven F. Pedbost, Trillean Pomalgu, the Galaxy Zoo Team.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Stato&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Inviato marzo 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: lime; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5377" target="_blank"&gt;arXiv:0903.5377&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Titolo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: The Properties of Merging Galaxies in the Nearby Universe -  Local Environments, Colours, Masses, Star-formation Rates and AGN  Activity&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Autori&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;D. W. Darg, Sugata Kaviraj, Chris J. Lintott, Kevin Schawinski, Marc  Sarzi, Steven P. Bamford, J. Silk, Dan Andreescu, P. Murray, R. C.  Nichol, M. Jordan Raddick, Anze Slosar, Alex S. Szalay, Daniel Thomas,  Jan Vandenberg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: lime; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Stato&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Inviato 16 marzo 2009 - Accettato 25 settembre 2009&lt;br /&gt;Pubblicato da MNRAS Volume 401, Issue 3, pp. 1552 - 1563&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: lime; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5057" target="_blank"&gt;arXiv:0903.5057&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Titolo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo Green Peas: Discovery of A Class of Compact Extremely Star  Forming Galaxies&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Autori&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Caroline Cardamone, Kevin Scawinski, Marc Sarzi, Steven P. Bamford,  Nicola Bennert, C.M. Urry, Chris J. Lintott, William C. Keel, John  Parejiko, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel Thomas, Dan Andreescu, Phil Murray,  M. Jordan Raddick, Anze Slosar, Jan Vandenberg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: lime; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Stato&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Inviato 10 aprile 2009 - Accettato 9 luglio 2009&lt;br /&gt;Pubblicato da MNRAS Volume 399, Issue 3, pp. 1191 - 1205&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: lime; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.4155" target="_blank"&gt;arXiv:0907.4155&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Titolo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: A Correlation Between Coherence of Galaxy Spin Chirality and  Star Formation Efficiency&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Autori&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Raul Jimenez, Anze Slosar, Licia Verde, Steven P. Bamford, Chris J.  Lintott, Kevin Scawinski, Robert Nichol, Dan Andreescu, Kate Land, Phil  Murray, M. Jordan Raddick, Alex Szalay, Daniel Thomas, Jan Vandenberg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: lime; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Stato&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Inviato 9 giugno 2009 - Accettato 11 gennaio 2010&lt;br /&gt;Pubblicato da MNRAS Volume 404, Issue 2, pp. 975 - 980&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: lime; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.0994" target="_blank"&gt;arXiv:0906.0994&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Titolo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: Reproducing Galaxy Morphologies Via Machine Learning&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Autori&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Manda Nanerji, Ofer Lahav, Chris J. Lintott, Filipe B. Abdalla, Kevin Scawinski, Steven P. Bamford, Dan Andreescu, Phil Murray,  M. Jordan Raddick, Anze Slosar,&amp;nbsp; Alex Szalay, Daniel Thomas, Jan Vandenberg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: lime; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Stato&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Inviato 4 agosto 2009 - Accettato 17 marzo 2010&lt;br /&gt;In corso di pubblicazione MNRAS&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: lime; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.2033" target="_blank"&gt;arXiv:0908.2033&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Titolo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: Dust in Spirals&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Autori&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Karen L. Masters, Robert C. Nichol, Steven P. Bamford, Moein Mosleh, Chris J. Lintott, Dan Andreescu, Edward M. Edmondson, William C. Keel, Phil Murray,&amp;nbsp; M. Jordan Raddick, Kevin Schawinsky, Anze Slosar, Alex S. Szalay, Daniel Thomas, Jan Vandenberg.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: lime; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Stato&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Inviato 17 agosto 2009 - Accettato 12 gennaio 2010&lt;br /&gt;Pubblicato da MNRAS Volume 404, Issue 1, pp 792 - 810&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: lime; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.1744" target="_blank"&gt;arXiv:1001.1744&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Titolo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: Exploring the Motivations of Citizen Science Volunteers&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Autori&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;M. Jordan Riddick, Georgia Bracey, Pamela Gay, Chris J. Lintott, Kevin  Scawinski, Alex Szalay, Jan Vanderberg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Stato&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Inviato settembre 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: lime; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2925" target="_blank"&gt;arXiv:0909.2925&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Titolo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: Passive Red Spiral&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Autori&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Karen L. Masters, Moein Mosleh, A. Kathy Romer, Robert C. Nichol, Steven P. Bamford,&amp;nbsp; Kevin Schawinsky, Chris J. Lintott, Dan Andreescu, Heather C. Campbell, Ben Crowcroft, Isabelle Doyle, Edward M. Edmondson,&amp;nbsp; Phil Murray,&amp;nbsp; M. Jordan Raddick, Anze Slosar, Alex S. Szalay, Jan Vandenberg.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: lime; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Stato&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Inviato 19 ottobre 2009 - Accettato 10 febbraio 2010&lt;br /&gt;Pubblicato da MNRAS online.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: lime; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4113" target="_blank"&gt;arXiv:0910.4113&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Titolo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Revealing Hanny's Voorwerp: radio observations of IC 2497&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Autori&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;G. I. G. Jozsa, M. A. Garrett, T. A. Oosterloo, H. Rampadarath, Z.  Paragi, Hanny van Arkel, Chris Lintott, William C. Keel, Kevin  Scawinski, Edd Edmondson&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: lime; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Stato&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pubblicato da Astronomy &amp;amp; Astrophysics - A&amp;amp;A 500, L33-L36 (2009)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: lime; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.4155" target="_blank"&gt;arXiv:0907.4155&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Titolo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: The Fundamentally Different Co-evolution of Supermassive Blach Holes and Their Early-and late-type Host Galaxies&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Autori&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Kevin Schawinsky, C. Megan Urry, Shanil Virani, Paolo Coppi, Steven P. Bamford, Ezequiel Treister, Chris J. Lintott, Marc Sarzi, William C. Keel, Sugata Kaviraj, Carolin N. Cardamone, Karen L. Masters, Nicholas P. Ross, Dan Andreescu, Phil Murray, Robert C. Nichol, M. Jordan Raddick, Anze Slosar, Alex S. Szalay, Daniel Thomas, Jan Vandenberg.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Stato&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Inviato gennaio 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: lime; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.3141" target="_blank"&gt;arXiv:1001.3141&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Titolo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #f1c232; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: Bars in Disk Galaxies&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Autori&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Karen L. Masters, Robert C. Nichl, Ben Hoyle, Chris J. Lintott, Steven Bamford, Edward M. Edmondson, Lucy Fortson, William C. Keel, Kevin Schawinsky, Arfon Smith, Daniel Thomas.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Stato&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Inviato febbraio 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: lime; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.0449" target="_blank"&gt;arXiv:1003.0449&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-2952117532647721262?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/2952117532647721262/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=2952117532647721262&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/2952117532647721262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/2952117532647721262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/06/galaxyzoo-documenti-pubblicati-italiano.html' title='GalaxyZoo - Documenti Pubblicati - (Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-6731341907693036146</id><published>2010-06-04T22:41:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-05T21:06:50.858+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Solar Storm'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zooniverse'/><title type='text'>Solar Stormwatch - Italiano</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Come già specificato in    precedenti  posts le informazioni, in Italia, sui progetti derivati da  Galaxy Zoo, non sono molto  diffuse ad esclusione di scarni  trafiletti  sul alcune   riviste e siti  specializzati. Ho così pensato, come fatto  in precedenza,   di scrivere un post solo in Italiano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;As just  said in previous posts the     information, in Italy, on project derived from GalaxyZoo are  not very  common except little  article on some specialized  magazines  and websites.I  thougth so, as before, to write a post only in  Italian.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://solarstormwatch.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TApn3Tc60tI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/y_s7MQU1MDo/live_solar_stormwatch.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Un altro progetto particolarmente interessante e di carattere decisamente diverso dai progetti di classificazione precedenti è sicuramente costituito dal &lt;a href="http://solarstormwatch.com/"&gt;Solar Stormwatch&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Questa volta ad essere oggetto di studio è il nostro Sole ed in particolare le tempeste solari (Solar Storm).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAlCIDkzICI/AAAAAAAAAcY/eBz3kBQJbKU/s1600/intro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="221" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAlCIDkzICI/AAAAAAAAAcY/eBz3kBQJbKU/s400/intro.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Credit: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nasa.gov/"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Le tempeste solari sono delle massicce esplosioni di particelle ad alta energia, che avvengono nella Corona solare, in grado di proiettare nello spazio fino a 10 miliardi di tonnellate di materiale. Tali tempeste possono creare notevoli disturbi e danneggiare o distruggere i satelliti artificiali o provocare interruzioni di corrente sulla Terra. Sono inoltre estremamente pericolose per gli astronauti, soprattutto se impegnati in attività extraveicolari.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Nonostante l'altissima velocità, circa 1.6 milioni di Km/h, impiegano dai 3 ai 4 giorni per raggiungere il nostro pianeta, dovendo coprire una distanza di circa 150 milioni di Km.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Questo tempo è sufficiente per poter individuare il fenomeno e dare l'allarme.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAlDHDq8bJI/AAAAAAAAAcg/XTfOpyhoKw4/s1600/ST_orbit_8yrs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAlDHDq8bJI/AAAAAAAAAcg/XTfOpyhoKw4/s400/ST_orbit_8yrs.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il progetto si basa sui dati forniti dalla missione &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/"&gt;STEREO&lt;/a&gt; (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) che consiste in sue sonde di osservazione, quasi identiche, poste sull'orbita terrestre nei punti di Lagrange L4 e L5,&amp;nbsp; una in posizione più avanzata rispetto al pianeta (AHEAD - L4) e l'altra in posizione arretrata (BEHIND - L5) in grado di fornire una visione tridimensionale della nostra stella.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAlDWOfy9EI/AAAAAAAAAck/yPZQliz29OQ/s1600/Spot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="382" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAlDWOfy9EI/AAAAAAAAAck/yPZQliz29OQ/s400/Spot.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;(Credit: Solar Storm)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ai partecipanti viene richiesto di visionare dei filmati, riferiti a dati storici, che mostrano contemporaneamente dlele immagini delle due sonde (SPOT) e di individuare in essi l'eventuale presenza di tempeste solari indicando se appaiono solo in una (AHEAD o BEHIND) o in entrambe (BOOTH) e, qualora presenti, fornire altri dettagli quali ad esempio l'inizio del fenomeno o il raggiungimento di una certa posizione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E' inoltre richiesto (WHAT'S THAT) di individuare la presenza di altri fenomeni ottici (Optical Effect) o di comete (Comet) ovvero di particelle (Particle Strike).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" style="text-align: center; width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAlilmTeEqI/AAAAAAAAAcs/xpToWennwnw/s1600/comet_animated_v02.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAlilmTeEqI/AAAAAAAAAcs/xpToWennwnw/s1600/comet_animated_v02.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Cometa (Credit: SolarStorm)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAli1_q499I/AAAAAAAAAcw/7CMtLeHSRzU/s1600/particle_strike.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAli1_q499I/AAAAAAAAAcw/7CMtLeHSRzU/s1600/particle_strike.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Particelle (Credit: Solar Storm)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E' poi presente un'opzione che consente di osservare le immagini quasi in tempo reale (INCOMING!) ed individuare eventuali tempeste in arrivo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAlkL235vRI/AAAAAAAAAc4/NRRVTzdnT5Q/s1600/Incoming.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="392" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAlkL235vRI/AAAAAAAAAc4/NRRVTzdnT5Q/s400/Incoming.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;(Credit: Solar Storm)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I filmati presentati rivestono un interesse particolare non solo da un punto di vista scientifico ma anche scenografico. Ho trovato particolarmente affascinanti i filmati in cui appaiono comete.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Come per gli altri progetti è presente una sezione dalla quale apprendere come svolgere le analisi. In particolare sono presenti alcuni filmati che consento la rapida comprensione del compito da svolgere.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Anche per questo progetto sono presenti un &lt;a href="http://forum.solarstormwatch.com/"&gt;Forum&lt;/a&gt; ed un &lt;a href="http://blogs.zooniverse.org/solarstormwatch"&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt; dedicati nel quale porre domande e curiosità o seguire l'andamento degli studi direttamente dai ricercatori.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Come al solito il consiglio è provare.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Half65.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-6731341907693036146?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/6731341907693036146/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=6731341907693036146&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/6731341907693036146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/6731341907693036146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/06/solar-stormwatch-italiano.html' title='Solar Stormwatch - Italiano'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh6.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TApn3Tc60tI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/y_s7MQU1MDo/s72-c/live_solar_stormwatch.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-5596745207695620985</id><published>2010-06-04T16:00:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-18T19:07:39.288+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Near Galaxies'/><title type='text'>Boötes Dwarf (Boo I dSph) - Nana di Boote - (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Boötes Dwarf (Boo I dSph) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;ra: 14:00:06 - dec: +14:30:00 - 197.000 l.y. - spheroidal&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Keep moving away from the Milky Way, after the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) we encounter the Boötes Dwarf Galaxy, located at a distance of 197,000 a.l. from Earth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;The galaxy appears to be a spheroid highly disturbed by the gravitational tidal wave of our Galaxy that have stripped away a lot number of stars that now formed a double cross-shaped tail.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;It's the fainter galaxy near us and was discovered width the SDSS (Sloan Ditigal Sky Survey) data only in 2006.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Half65. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAkm6BwYWuI/AAAAAAAAAbk/1s6c7QRzzkA/s1600/20060508.companions_boot.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="385" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAkm6BwYWuI/AAAAAAAAAbk/1s6c7QRzzkA/s400/20060508.companions_boot.gif" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;(Credit: Vasily Belokurov, SDSS-II Collaboration)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Nana di Boote (Boo I dSph)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;ra: 14:00:06 - dec: +14:30:00 -  197.000 a.l. - sferoidale&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Continuando ad allontanarci dalla Via Lattea, dopo la Grande Nube di Magellano (LMC), si incontra la galassia nana di Boote, ad una distanza di 197.000 a.l. dalla Terra.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;La galassia appare come uno sferoide notevolmente disturbato dalle forze gravitazionali di marea della nostra Galassia che ne hanno strappato via numerose stelle che ora formano una doppia coda a forma di croce.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;E' la più fioca delle galassie a noi prossime ed è stata scoperta grazie ai dati dello SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) solo nel 2006.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Half65.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-5596745207695620985?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/5596745207695620985/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=5596745207695620985&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/5596745207695620985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/5596745207695620985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/06/bootes-dwarf-galaxy-boo-i-dsph-english.html' title='Boötes Dwarf (Boo I dSph) - Nana di Boote - (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAkm6BwYWuI/AAAAAAAAAbk/1s6c7QRzzkA/s72-c/20060508.companions_boot.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-1019589900090136798</id><published>2010-06-02T22:18:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-02T23:45:34.881+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General Purpose'/><title type='text'>New Blog Page</title><content type='html'>I discover the new possibility of Blogger to create static pages. I decide to create one to store some links. &lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/p/link.html"&gt;http://half65.blogspot.com/p/link.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ho scoperto la nuova possibilità offerta da Blogger di creare pagine statiche. Ho deciso di crearne una per archiviare alcuni links. &lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/p/link.html"&gt;http://half65.blogspot.com/p/link.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-1019589900090136798?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/1019589900090136798/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=1019589900090136798&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/1019589900090136798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/1019589900090136798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-blog-page.html' title='New Blog Page'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-7320347830151073581</id><published>2010-05-31T21:50:00.051+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-08T09:50:39.191+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zooniverse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MoonZoo'/><title type='text'>MoonZoo - (Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Come già specificato in   precedenti  posts le informazioni, in Italia, sui progetti derivati da Galaxy Zoo, non sono molto  diffuse ad esclusione di scarni  trafiletti sul alcune   riviste e siti  specializzati. Ho così pensato, come fatto in precedenza,   di scrivere un post solo in Italiano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;As just  said in previous posts the    information, in Italy, on project derived from GalaxyZoo are  not very common except little  article on som&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;e specialized  magazines and websites.I  thougth so, as before, to write a post only in  Italian. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.moonzoo.org/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAkzXPa6gZI/AAAAAAAAAbs/80aDVNR1wXI/live_moonzoo.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;L'ultimo progetto in ordine di tempo ad essere stato introdotto nello &lt;a href="http://www.zooniverse.org/"&gt;Zooniverse&lt;/a&gt; è &lt;a href="http://www.moonzoo.org/"&gt;MoonZoo&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo scopo è quello di effettuare la mappatura dei crateri lunari, sia come numero e dimensione, a partire da una misura minima prefissata, sia in base ad alcune caratteristiche peculiari, quali la presenza di strutture o colorazioni particolari, eventuali strutture lineari o eventuali oggetti derivanti dalle esplorazioni spaziali.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAkzqxdPS7I/AAAAAAAAAbw/u8Ra1Y_tfbY/s1600/banner5b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="51" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAkzqxdPS7I/AAAAAAAAAbw/u8Ra1Y_tfbY/s400/banner5b.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Credit: NASA.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Le immagini presentate hanno una risoluzione particolarmente elevata essendo tratte dal &lt;a href="http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/"&gt;Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il LRO è una sonda in orbita intorno al nostro satellite, lanciata nel 2009, con lo scopo di fornire la prima accurata mappa tridimensionale della Luna. Trasporta numerosi strumenti ed in particolare tre macchine fotografiche: una Wide Angle Cameras e due Narrow Angle Camera. Da queste ultime sono tratte le immagini di &lt;a href="http://www.moonzoo.org/"&gt;Moon Zoo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Le immagini rivestono un fascino particolare, almeno per me, facendomi tornare alla memoria le ore passate, soprattutto da ragazzo, ad osservare il satellite terrestre, prima ad occhio nudo, poi con un binocolo e finalmente mediante un telescopio.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il progetto prevede due tipi di classificazioni.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAQcqQ55LoI/AAAAAAAAAbI/PpIcjThPnWE/s1600/Survey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="285" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAQcqQ55LoI/AAAAAAAAAbI/PpIcjThPnWE/s400/Survey.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Un esempio di Survey (Credit: MoonZoo)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;La prima chiamata "Crater Survey" (Indagine Crateri) si basa sulla presentazione di una immagine nella quale devono essere selezionati i crateri più grandi di un cerchio di misura data, dimensionabile tramite mouse. E' quindi possibile segnare, attraverso un selettore rettangolare, aree particolari ed indicare cosa contengono.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left; width: 600px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"&gt;In particolare è possibile indicare:&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;- Relitti Spaziali (Spacecraft Hardware);&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;- Caratteristiche dei Crateri (Craters):&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Terrazzati/Picchi/Piatti (Bench/Mound/Flat);&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Alone scuro (Black Haloed);&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Bianchi Recenti (Fresh White);&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Bordi Elongati (Elongated Pits);&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;- Strutture Lineari (Linear Features):&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Tracce di Massi (Boulder Tracks);&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Catene di Crateri (Crater Chain);&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Canali Sinuosi (Sinuous Channels);&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"&gt;Altre Strutture Lineari (Other Linear Feauture);&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;- Altro (Other).&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Di seguito alcuni esempi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left; width: 600px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAk0PEZKvpI/AAAAAAAAAb4/GidJNvcUuiI/s1600/bench_crater_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAk0PEZKvpI/AAAAAAAAAb4/GidJNvcUuiI/s1600/bench_crater_2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Cratere Terrazzato (Credit: MoonZoo - NASA)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAk0mSxtw7I/AAAAAAAAAcA/AV-ujITQwgA/s1600/fresh_crater_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAk0mSxtw7I/AAAAAAAAAcA/AV-ujITQwgA/s1600/fresh_crater_1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Cratere Recente Bianco (Credit: MoonZoo - NASA)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAk1A1BD2pI/AAAAAAAAAcI/bnnisgf1grs/s1600/boulder_tracks_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAk1A1BD2pI/AAAAAAAAAcI/bnnisgf1grs/s1600/boulder_tracks_3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Tracce di Massi (Credit: MoonZoo - NASA)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAk1KXRsdJI/AAAAAAAAAcM/GJMYahokvmE/s1600/sinuous_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAk1KXRsdJI/AAAAAAAAAcM/GJMYahokvmE/s1600/sinuous_1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Canale Sinuoso (Credit: MoonZoo - NASA)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;E' inoltre possibile indicare se un cratere contiene rocce e se in numero esiguo (Some) o numerose (Many).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAQxIWncITI/AAAAAAAAAbQ/tJnb2NH7MCo/s1600/War.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAQxIWncITI/AAAAAAAAAbQ/tJnb2NH7MCo/s400/War.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Un esempio della Guerra dei Massi (Credit: MoonZoo)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;L'altra tipologia di classificazione è costituita dalla "Boulder Wars" (Guerra dei Massi) nella quale vengono presentate due immagini contemporaneamente per consentire la loro comparazione e decidere quale contiene più massi o se non sono presenti in nessuna delle due. Prima di effettuare la scelta è possibile anche qui selezionare aree particolari segnalandone le caratteristiche già elencate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Correlato con il progetto ci sono un &lt;a href="http://forum.moonzoo.org/"&gt;Forum &lt;/a&gt;ed un &lt;a href="http://blogs.zooniverse.org/moonzoo"&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt; dedicato.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Nel &lt;a href="http://forum.moonzoo.org/"&gt;Forum &lt;/a&gt;è possibile porre domande e segnalare curiosità mentre nel &lt;a href="http://blogs.zooniverse.org/moonzoo"&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt; è possibile seguire l'evolversi del progetto.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Di particolare rilevanza le pagine dedicate allo &lt;a href="http://www.moonzoo.org/Explore_the_Moon"&gt;studio della Luna&lt;/a&gt; dalle quali è possibile apprendere numerose nozioni sulla sua formazione, struttura e composizione.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In conclusione un progetto particolare e di carattere decisamente diverso dai progetti di classificazione precedenti. Le immagini, come già accennato, sono particolarmente interessanti e molto variabili anche in funzione dellle condizioni di luce in cui sono state scattate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il consiglio come sempre è di provare e sicuramente non resterete delusi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-7320347830151073581?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/7320347830151073581/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=7320347830151073581&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/7320347830151073581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/7320347830151073581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/05/moonzoo-italiano.html' title='MoonZoo - (Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh4.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/TAkzXPa6gZI/AAAAAAAAAbs/80aDVNR1wXI/s72-c/live_moonzoo.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-5822691379536932940</id><published>2010-05-27T00:26:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-07T13:42:07.039+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Overlapping Galaxies - Galassie Sovrapposte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GalaxyZoo'/><title type='text'>Overlapping Galaxies - Hubble - (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>As I said in other &lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/04/overlapping-galaxies-data-english_14.html"&gt;post&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; I'm interested in Overlapping Galaxies.&lt;br /&gt;The new Hubble GalaxyZoo made the possibility to discovering new overlapping galaxies.&lt;br /&gt;I'm starting the extraction and normalization of data for to Dr. William Keel (&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1292"&gt;NGC3314&lt;/a&gt;  on the GalaxyZoo Forum), the astronomer that create the original &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=6732.0"&gt;Overlapping  thread&lt;/a&gt;, to help in the selection of galaxies for a professional  study and possible future observation campaigns (&lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/03/overlapping-galaxies-english-italiano.html"&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;  ...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Those data will be frequently updated, due to the new posts of the  GalaxyZoo members, in the new &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=277593.msg454786#msg454786"&gt;Hubble Overlapping Galaxies Thread&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&amp;amp;pid=sites&amp;amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxoYWxmNjVkZXBvdDF8Z3g6NGUyNzg4MjEyNTNhOTQ0Yw"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is the first extraction (very rough by now). &lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half65depot1/file-depot/EstrazioneHubbleOverlap.pdf?attredirects=0&amp;amp;d=1"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; the link to download the pdf file.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/Sd4xOO09VRI/AAAAAAAAAKM/HUb12UJ03Z8/Overlap.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/Sd4xOO09VRI/AAAAAAAAAKM/HUb12UJ03Z8/Overlap.gif" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 200px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 200px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come detto in altri &lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/04/overlapping-galaxies-data-english_14.html"&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; sono interessato alle Galassie sovrapposte (Overlapping Galaxies).&lt;br /&gt;Il nuovo progetto Hubble GalaxyZoo rende possibile la scoperta di nuove Galassie di questo tipo.&lt;br /&gt;Ho iniziato l'estrazione e la normalizzazione dei datida inviare al Dr. William Keel (&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1292"&gt;NGC3314&lt;/a&gt;  sul Forum di GalaxyZoo), l'astronomo che ha creato l'argomento &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=6732.0"&gt;Galassie  Sovrapposte&lt;/a&gt;, come aiuto per la selezione delle galassie per uno studio professionale ed eventuali future campagne osservative (&lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/03/overlapping-galaxies-english-italiano.html"&gt;altro&lt;/a&gt;  ...)&lt;br /&gt;Questi dati cambiano frequentemente, grazie ai nuovi posts dei  membri di GalaxyZoo nel nuovo &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=277593.msg454786#msg454786"&gt;Hubble Overlapping Galaxies Thread&lt;/a&gt;, ed effettuerò nuove estrazioni.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&amp;amp;pid=sites&amp;amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxoYWxmNjVkZXBvdDF8Z3g6NGUyNzg4MjEyNTNhOTQ0Yw"&gt;Questo  il link&lt;/a&gt; alla prima estrazione (ancora molto embrionale). &lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half65depot1/file-depot/EstrazioneHubbleOverlap.pdf?attredirects=0&amp;amp;d=1"&gt;Questo il link&lt;/a&gt; per scaricare il file in pdf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-5822691379536932940?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/5822691379536932940/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=5822691379536932940&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/5822691379536932940'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/5822691379536932940'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/05/overlapping-galaxies-hubble-english.html' title='Overlapping Galaxies - Hubble - (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh4.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/Sd4xOO09VRI/AAAAAAAAAKM/HUb12UJ03Z8/s72-c/Overlap.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-6907640353576494103</id><published>2010-05-22T21:23:00.020+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-07T13:46:19.542+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Interviews - Interviste'/><title type='text'>Alice Interview - (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="medium_text" id="result_box" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;I also  translate the interview in Italian (at the bottom of the English one) with the awareness that it can not  make things the same way, even for my poor knowledge of English. I will &lt;/span&gt;refine the  translation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Ho tradotto anche in italiano l'intervista (segue quella in inglese) con la consapevolezza di non poter rendere le cose allo stesso modo, anche per la mia scarsa conoscenza della lingua inglese. Raffinerò la traduzione.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Surfing the net I came across several interviews published both on various official sites and on blogs, and I started thinking that it would be an interesting experiment to do. Even more interesting to interview someone over the network without ever having met in person and in a language that is not mine.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;My Blog talks about astronomy so I immediately thought of someone “known” through &lt;a href="http://galaxyzoo.org/"&gt;GalaxyZoo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;I decided to interview Alice.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rfhv4lPQhSY/SkvQJQIVW-I/AAAAAAAAAbg/CVDMZtXMU-Q/S220/Penguin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rfhv4lPQhSY/SkvQJQIVW-I/AAAAAAAAAbg/CVDMZtXMU-Q/S220/Penguin.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;For participants in the &lt;a href="http://galaxyzoo.org/"&gt;GalaxyZoo Project&lt;/a&gt; and especially for the members of the related &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php"&gt;forum&lt;/a&gt;, Alice needs no introduction.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;But I will not anticipate anything, even if I believe that&amp;nbsp; the result is quite interesting, so I don't want to ruin the surprise and go immediately to the interview.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Introduce yourself to the Blog readers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: Hi, I'm Alice - &lt;a href="http://aliceingalaxyland.blogspot.com/"&gt;Alice in Galaxyland&lt;/a&gt; to the blogosphere and &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/penguingalaxy"&gt;PenguinGalaxy&lt;/a&gt; to the twittersphere - but, to the Galaxy Zoo Forum, I'm that mad bossy moderator who has been there since the beginning. For many years I was a bored girl in poor health, trying out lots of jobs and living in lots of places, and not really getting anywhere with anything. While I was training to be a science teacher, I discovered Galaxy Zoo. I was effectively told by the teaching profession to choose between one or the other. I choose the zoo.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;How do you get in touch with GalaxyZoo Team ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.banguniverse.com/images/bookcover.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.banguniverse.com/images/bookcover.gif" width="254" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span id="goog_923608519"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_923608520"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;You mean how do I pass all the forum messages on? Hah! I PM and e-mail them mercilessly, poor things. If you mean how did I get to meet them, that is a long story. &lt;a href="http://chrislintott.net/"&gt;Chris Lintott&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ed: Astrophysicist, promulgator and more&lt;/span&gt;) wrote "BANG!" with &lt;a href="http://www.brianmay.com/"&gt;Brian May&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ed.: Yes, the Queen legendary guitarist&lt;/span&gt;) and &lt;a href="http://www.sirpatrickmoore.com/"&gt;Sir Patrick Moore&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ed: Astronomer, promulgator and many, many, many more&lt;/span&gt;) when I was 24, and set up &lt;a href="http://www.banguniverse.com/"&gt;a website&lt;/a&gt; for questions. I wrote in, reviewed the book on Amazon, and met them at Astrofest (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ed: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;a major  conference on astronomical themes, which takes place every year in  Kensington (London)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;. Chris was ever so friendly about answering my often ignorant questions and rants about education. He gave a free public lecture one evening, and I completed a practical early so that I could go along. The lecturer wasn't pleased, but it was one of the most fortunate journeys I ever made. It's always worth talking to scientists - that is, if you are interested in their work or have something to say.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Did you ever think of becoming the moderator of a forum ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Never. A few months previously I had to ask my sister what a moderator was. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;What prompted you to play this essential role of moderator ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://galaxyzooforum.org/Themes/Zoo/images/forum_header1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="36" src="http://galaxyzooforum.org/Themes/Zoo/images/forum_header1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;I was dumbfounded to get a PM from Chris, within a few minutes of signing up, asking me "to moderate some of the boards for us - just keep an eye out for swearing and spam generally." I soon found out that a lot more needed doing than that, and with huge encouragement from &lt;a href="http://www.astro.yale.edu/ks57/research.html"&gt;Zookeeper Kevin&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ed: Astronomer and one of the founders of GalaxyZoo Team. In GalaxyZoo the founder are called  ZooKeeper&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;) and from users, I gained the confidence to see myself as actively running the place.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;What was the biggest challenge you encountered in moderating the forum ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;When a lot of people, or prominent people, seriously disagree with the way I've run things. I found out about a campaign to get me sacked, which was more stressful than I should have let it be. On the one hand I get so many letters telling me that it's the most civilised and relaxing place on the Internet (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ed: I&amp;nbsp; can testify this&lt;/span&gt;) because I don't allow all the things that other forums allow (swearing; links to sexual stuff or sexual language, long rows about religion/politics/UFOs/climate change; battles between individuals instead of a community which credits each member's contribution; routine flame wars). On the other hand I get accusations of repression and not allowing free speech, which probably appear quite fair to people who don't participate much. Frankly, though, there's quite enough&amp;nbsp; sites people can do those things - Galaxy Zoo is where we go to have a break from that, and a strict atmosphere works very well. However, the community itself sets the tone nowadays and incredulity has less effect, so I very rarely have to fight these battles any more.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Have you ever regretted your decision?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Have you ever regretted your ability to breathe? Seriously, it's both like going on my first real journey, and like finding my first real home.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Tell us something about GalaxyZoo. Why should anyone participate? Because the project is important from a scientific point of view?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/galaxy_zoo.jpg?1273563041" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="195" src="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/galaxy_zoo.jpg?1273563041" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;There are a thousand reasons to give it a try. Why not have a look at what the Universe looks like, the place which made you, the place which is so vast we can explore it for the rest of our lives? Why not see the heartbreaking beauty of starforming nebulae, of peaceful golden ellipticals whose inner workings conceal great violence, of delicate mathematical spirals which build up such marvellous patterns? Socially, too, I recommend taking part in what today's scientists are doing. Science is what moves a culture on, creates history, promises a future. It distinguishes each age. By contributing to science, you immortalise yourself in a tapestry of human accomplishment.&lt;span id="goog_923608539"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_923608540"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;My favourite feature is that this project uses people in a new and very active way. It doesn't just study people, or ask you to download a program. You learn a lot, and besides spotting something unique you might also influence the way data are collected - collecting something new, for example, or trying to correlate one thing with another in a way that hasn't been done before. My impression is that the Zoo's findings are contributing hugely to cosmology - I don't know whether it's Nobel Prize worthy discoveries or not, but I do know it's a new step in the way science is done.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;What would you say to those who think that participating is just a waste of time ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;I'd smile, tell them I feel absolutely no need to force it on anyone, and let them be. Of course, if they ask me any questions, it will take a long time to shut me up. Actually I often feel slightly abashed at parties or meetings when somebody asks me what I do and, before I know it, the whole room is listening. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;I&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;n your experience as a teacher you think these projects are important also from an educational perspective ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;My experience as a teacher was very painful - I never completed the course - so, sadly, at the moment I'm quite cynical. I aim to grow out of that day by day and get more helpful! It was a great grief to me that I could not stray off the pre-ordered lesson plan even for one minute to tell the pupils something interesting, even if they were listening raptly - or that we couldn't take a little time off work to just marvel at things, swap scientific stories, and show them what was there on the horizon. I had to stick to "the objectives" and pre-set questions "because they won't understand&amp;nbsp; it" or "you are wasting their valuable exam preparation time". It made me sick that everything was about exams. It is rather telling how many people see a galaxy and discussion thread, and say: "This guessing is just confusing, what is the RIGHT answer?" When I explain to them that there isn't a right answer, it's not in the back of a hidden textbook, there is no test, and we are the ones generating the first guesses at any answers, it comes as an absolute revelation.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;To me, school science was a prison without windows, but projects like the zoo set you free. You can enjoy yourself, you don't have to worry about exams and targets and government hoops, it is about your interest. And you have a genuine mission, not a rehearsal tick-box exercise. You see, and do, science as it actually is rather than the entirely incorrect impression of it you get at school. I think a lot of people dislike and indeed despise science, preferring to turn to fanciful things such as astrology and psychics which seem more imaginative and personable, because they got so turned off at school. To get involved in projects such as Galaxy Zoo teaches you about the proper scientific method, as well as the wonder of what is really out there, and familiarity with this probably allows people to make better decisions. A more scientifically literate society, for example, will choose policies by evidence rather than by tabloid hype. I am really very, very ambitious for what projects like Galaxy Zoo can achieve for education and society as well as for science.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;In addition to moderating the forum very well you’re actively involved in disseminating knowledge in astronomy and science in general. Have you ever had the feeling of being snubbed by studioso and scientists or you perceived sense of detachment from them ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Why thank you! No, people don't usually snub me at all. Of course I am often corrected by more knowledgeable people, for which I'm grateful (the ones who do so insultingly either reform or don't last here long). Also I'm occasionally profiled by the media as a zoo user, but the results of this can look a little flat as they usually ask me about my not-very-much-any-more classifying rather than my forum work, but that's not anybody's fault. I have received an embarrassing but very touching number of accolades from scientists and from people about my efforts to explain and enthuse - these never fail to move me, not to mention spur me on to work harder to get things right (I dread to think of the number of people I might have misinformed). I do sometimes wish I could work more closely with the zookeepers, but as I got to know them - and they are very kind about explaining things to me - I am glad I am not an academic. Academia is not my thing: instead I am very privileged to have my own niche.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;You recently attended the international “&lt;a href="http://www.sheisanastronomer.org/"&gt;She is an Astronomer” &lt;/a&gt;Conference. Can you describe briefly what is the initiative ?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Worldwide, not very many women are astromoners, and it varies from country to country - some having half of each gender and others having no women at all. It is fairly clear that this is due to social issues, not to women being less good at it than men, so &lt;a href="http://www.sheisanastronomer.org/"&gt;"She is an Astronomer"&lt;/a&gt; wanted to get a lot of female astronomers together to discuss what could encourage more women into science and why so many drop out at higher levels. We discovered a lot of unconscious and unintended prejudice, from both genders. We agreed that we should get out into the public more, not concentrate quietly on our own work, and make sure we nominate women for awards and invite them as speakers. On the other hand, we also felt that academia should do some changing, rather than expect women to become more like men. It was a really terrific conference and I do hope I've been a useful part of such an important movement.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sheisanastronomer.org/templates/rhuk_milkyway/images/siaa_banner_white1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="70" src="http://www.sheisanastronomer.org/templates/rhuk_milkyway/images/siaa_banner_white1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Now you can say what you want.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;What, aren't you bored yet? Well, I wish I had more time - or rather, I wish I could organise my time better - to get up to speed with all the Hubble Zoo things going on. I feel a bit left behind and people are pointing out to me that all our tutorials are revoltingly out of date. On the other hand, the community is so large and knowledgeable now that I can't do it on my own - and wouldn't want to. I have the feeling I'm going to fade into the woodwork a bit as there get to be more and more zoo projects out there, and more and more interested people, so I'm starting to look for some specialities!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;One last question. What did you think when I asked you to do this interview ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;I was very flattered and grateful to be allowed to go on so much (do please cut out anything you like! (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ed: Impossible, what cut away '?&lt;/span&gt;). You asked some extremely interesting, penetrating and knowledgeable questions, by the way, showing yourself to be a real expert on what is happening&amp;nbsp; (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ed: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;as  usual always exceedingly kind with me&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;. You're an excellent interviewer, I think, asking just the right questions to tell some in-depth, revealing stories, and I can't wait to read those you do with other people! (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ed: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;who knows that is not the first and last&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;Interesting, isn't it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;It been a great experiment and even a very good  exercise, especially to improve my English.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;Naturally  choosing Alice already knew to be safe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;Many  thanks for the depth and sincerity of the answers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;Alice  is always a fundamental point of reference for the zoo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;Thanks Alice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;Navigando in rete mi sono imbattuto in  diverse interviste pubblicate sia sui siti ufficiali che su vari blog ed  ho iniziato a pensare che sarebbe stato un esperimento interessante da fare. Ancora più  interessante intervistare qualcuno sulla rete e senza averlo mai  incontrato di persona ed in una lingua che non è la mia.Il mio blog parla di astronomia così ho  pensato subito a qualcuno "conosciuto" attraverso &lt;a href="http://galaxyzoo.org/"&gt;GalaxyZoo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rfhv4lPQhSY/SkvQJQIVW-I/AAAAAAAAAbg/CVDMZtXMU-Q/S220/Penguin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rfhv4lPQhSY/SkvQJQIVW-I/AAAAAAAAAbg/CVDMZtXMU-Q/S220/Penguin.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;Ho deciso di intervistare Alice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;Per i  partecipanti al progetto &lt;a href="http://galaxyzoo.org/"&gt;GalaxyZoo&lt;/a&gt; e soprattutto per i membri del &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php"&gt;Forum &lt;/a&gt; correlato, Alice non ha bisogno di presentazioni.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;Ma non voglio  anticipare nulla e rovinare la sorpresa e passare subito all'intervista.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span id="zippyspan" onclick="_rolldown()" style="display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt; Presentati ai lettori del Blog.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: Ciao, io sono Alice - &lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;a href="http://aliceingalaxyland.blogspot.com/"&gt;Alice  in Galaxyland&lt;/a&gt; (Alice nel Paese delle Galassie) nel mondo dei blog (blogosphere) e &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/penguingalaxy"&gt;PenguinGalaxy&lt;/a&gt; (GalassiaPinguino) nel mondo fi Twitter (Twittersphere) ma, nel forum di GalaxyZoo, sono quella pazza moderatrice prepotente che sta' li fin dall'inizio. Per molti anni sono stata una ragazza annoiata ed in cattiva salute, provando un sacco di lavori e vivendo in molti posti diversi e non ricavando in realtà niente da nessun posto. Mentre venivo addestrata per diventare un'insegnante di scienze ho scoperto GalaxyZoo. Fui costretta dalla professione di insegnante a scegliere tra una o l'altro. Ho scelto lo Zoo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Come sei entrata in contatto con &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;il Team di GalaxyZoo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: Vuoi dire come faccio a gestire tutti i messaggi del forum ? Hah ! Io invio loro messaggi personali (PM) ed e-mail senza pietà, poveretti. Se intendi come ho fatto ad incontrarli, questa è una lunga storia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.banguniverse.com/images/bookcover.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.banguniverse.com/images/bookcover.gif" width="254" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;a href="http://chrislintott.net/"&gt;Chris Lintott&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;NdR: astrofisico, divulgatore ed altro ancora&lt;/span&gt;) ha scritto "BANG !" con &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brianmay.com/"&gt;Brian May&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;NdR: Sì, il leggendario chitarrista dei Queen&lt;/span&gt;) e &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sirpatrickmoore.com/"&gt;Sir Patrick  Moore&lt;/a&gt; (NdR: astronomo, divulgatore ed altro, altro ed altro ancora), quando io avevo 24 anni, e venne creato un &lt;a href="http://www.banguniverse.com/"&gt;sito &lt;/a&gt;nel quale porre domande. Scrissi nel sito, feci una recensione del libro su Amazon e li incontrai all'AstroFest (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;NdR: una importante conferenza su temi astronomici che si svolge ogni anno a Kensington (Londra)&lt;/span&gt;). Chris fu così amabile nel rispondere alle mie domande da ignorante e nell'ascoltare le mie invettive contro l'insegnamento. Tenne una conferenza pubblica gratuita una sera e così completai il mio percorso iniziale in modo da poter andare avanti. Il conferenziere non fù contento ma fu per me uno dei viaggi più fortunati che abbia mai fatto. Vale sempre la pena parlare con gli scienziati - tutto qui, se siete interessati al loro lavoro o avete qualcosa da dire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Avresti mai pensato di diventare la moderatrice di un Forum ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;:&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;Mai. &lt;/span&gt;Alcuni mesi prima avevo dovuto chiedere a mia sorella cosa fosse un moderatore.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Cosa ti ha spinto a svolgere questa fondamentale funzione di moderatore ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://galaxyzooforum.org/Themes/Zoo/images/forum_header1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="36" src="http://galaxyzooforum.org/Themes/Zoo/images/forum_header1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;:&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;Fui sbalordita nel ricevere un Messaggio Personale (PM) da Chris a pochi minuti dalla mia registrazione chiedendomi di "moderare alcuni degli argomenti per noi - di tenere d'occhio il linguaggio offensivo e lo spam in generale". Mi accorsi presto che c'erano molte più cose da fare oltre queste e grazie all'enorme incoraggiamento ricevuto dallo &lt;a href="http://www.astro.yale.edu/ks57/research.html"&gt;Zookeeper Kevin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ndr: Astronomo ed uno dei fondatori del Team GalaxyZoo. In GalaxyZoo i responsabili sono chiamati ZooKeeper (Guardiani dello Zoo)&lt;/span&gt;) e dagli utenti sono diventata fiduciosa nel vedermi in grado di condurre il gioco.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Quale è stata la difficoltà maggiore che hai incontrato nel moderare il forum ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: Quando numerose persone, o persone importanti, esprimono un forte disaccordo con il modo in cui gestisco le cose. Ho scoperto anche una campagna tesa a farmi licenziare. che è stata così stressante che avrei dovuto lasciar andare le cose così come andavano. Da una parte ricevo così tante lettere che mi dicono che è il posto più civile e rilassante su internet (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ndr: Io posso testimoniare questo&lt;/span&gt;) perchè non permetto tutte le cose che altri forum permettono (linguaggio volgare, link a sfondo sessuale o linguaggio sessuale, lunghi dibattiti su religione/politica/UFO/cambiamenti climatici, guerra all'individualità in contrapposizione con una comunità che da credito al contributo di ogni singolo membro, le solite catene di insulti)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. Dall'altro lato ricevo accuse di repressione e di non permettere la libertà di parola, che probabilmente è l'impressione che riceve la gente che non partecipa molto. Francamente, però, ci sono già abbastanza siti dove le persone possono fare quelle cose - GalaxyZoo è dove andiamo per avere una pausa da questo ed un ambiente rigoroso funzinoa molto bene. Tuttavia, oggigiorno la comunità stessa definisce il tono e l'incredulità ha meno effetto, così ho dovuto raramente combattere questa battaglia altre volte.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Ti sei mai pentita della tua scelta ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: Hai mai rimpianto la tua capacità di respirare ? Seriamente, è come fare il mio primo viaggio reale e come trovare la mia prima vera casa. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Raccontaci qualcosa di GalaxyZoo. Perchè si dovrebbe partecipare ? Perchè il progetto è importante da un punto di vista scientifico ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/galaxy_zoo.jpg?1273563041" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="195" src="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/galaxy_zoo.jpg?1273563041" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: Ci sono mille motivi per fare un tentativo. Perchè non dare un'occhiata a come l'Universo appare, il luogo che ti ha creato, il luogo così vasto che potremmo esplorarlo per il resto della nostra vita ? Perchè non vedere la bellezza straziante delle nebulose in cui si formano le stelle, la pace trasmessa dalle dorate ellittiche il cui interno nasconde una grande violenza, le delicate matematiche spirali che costruiscono tali modelli meravigliosi ? Da un punto di vista sociologico, inoltre, vi consiglio di prendere parte a quello che gli scienziati di oggi stanno facendo. La scienza è ciò che fa evolvere una cultura, crea la storia, promette un futuro. Caratterizza ogni era. Contribuendo alla scienza, resterete immortalati nell'arazzo delle realizzazioni umane.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La mia definizione preferita è che questo progetto si avvale delle persone in un modo nuovo e particolarmente attivo. Non è solo studiare le persone o chiedergli di scaricare un programma. Impari molto e oltre a poter individuare qualcosa di unico puoi anche influenzare il modo in cui vengono raccolti i dati - raccogliendo qualcosa di nuovo, per esempio, o cercando di correlare una cosa con un'altra in un modo mai fatto prima. La mia impressione è che le scoperte dello Zoo stanno contribuendo enormemente alla cosmologia - non so se degno di un Premio Nobel per le scoperte - ma so che un nuovo passo sulla via della scienza è stato fatto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Cosa risponderesti a quanti pensano che partecipare sia solo un'inutile persita di tempo ? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: Sorrido, dico loro che non sento assoluitamente il bisogno di forzare nessuno e lasciare che ognuno rimanga se stesso. Naturalmente se mi pongono delle domande impiegheranno molto tempo per farmi star zitta. In realtà mi sento spesso un po' in imbarazzo a feste o incontri quano qualcuno mi chiede che cosa faccio e, prima che me ne accorga, tutta la stanza sta' ascoltando.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Nelle tue esperienza maturate come insegnante pensi che siano importanti questi progetti anche da un punto di vista didattico ? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: La mia esperienza come insegnante è stata molto dolorosa - non ho mai completato il corso - così, purtroppo, al momento sono abbastanza cinica. Il mio scopo è crescere giorno per giorno e divenire utile ! E' stato una grande dolore per me non poter deviare dal piano di lezioni preordinato, nenahce per un minuto, per poter raccontare qualcosa di interessante agli alunni, anche se erano in ascolto rapiti - o che non abbiano potuto dedicare un po' del loro tempo libero solo per ammirare le cose, condividere storie di scienza e mostrare loro cosa c'è oltre l'orizzonte. Ho dovuto attenermi "agli obiettivi" e preimpostare le domande "perchè non vogliono capirle" o "tu stai sprecando il loro prezioso tempo per la preparazione agli esami". Mi faceva star male che tutto fosse incentrato sugli esami. Si tratta piuttosto di dire quante persone vedono una Glassia ed un argomento di discussione d dicono: "Questa supposizione è confusa, qual'è la risposta giusta ?" Quando spiego loro che non c'è una risposta giusta, non esiste nel retro di un libro di testo segreto, non c'è prova e che siamo noi a generare la prima risposta ad ogni risposta, questo arriva come una rivoluzione assoluta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Per me la scienza scolastica era una prigione senza finestre ma progetti come lo zoo ti rendono libero. Potete divertirvi, non dovete preoccuparvi degli esami e degli obiettivi e dei vincoli governativi, si tratta dei vostri interessi. E voi avete una missione vera, non un esercizio di prova dove selezionare una casella. Tu vedi, e fai, la scienza così come è in contrapposizione con l'impressione del tutto errata che si riceve a scuola. Penso che ad un sacco di gente non piace e addirittura disprezza la scienza, preferendo rivolgersi a cose fantasionse come l'astrologia o sensitivi che appaiono più immaginativi e di bell'aspetto, solo perchè il loro interesse si è spento a scuola. Essere coinvolti in progetti come GalaxyZoo insegna il giusto metodo scientifico, così come la meraviglia di ciò che è veramente là fuori e la familiarità con essa, probabilmente, consente alle persone di prendere decisioni migliori. Una società maggiormente educata da un punto di vista scientifico, ad esempio, sceglierà le proprie politiche basandosi sulle prove piuttosto che sulle pubblicazioni dei tabloid. Sono molto, molto confidente di quello che progetti come GalaxyZoo possono raggiungere per l'istruzione e la società, così come per la scienza.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Oltre a moderare egregiamente il forum partecipi attivamente alla divulgazione delle conoscenze in campo astronomico e scientifico in generale. Hai mai avuto la sensazione di essere snobbata da studiosi e scienziati del settore o percepito un qualche senso di distacco da parte loro ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: Perchè ! La gente in genere non mi snobba. Naturalmente vengo spesso corretta da persone più istruite, alle quali sono grata (quelli che lo fanno in modo offensivo o riformulano o non durano a lungo). Anche io, occasionalmente, vengo indicata dai media come un utente dello zoo, e può sembrare un po' limitativo rispetto alle mie classificazioni ed al lavoro svolto nel forum, ma questo non è colpa di nessuno. Ho ricevuto un imbarazzante ma molto toccante numero di riconoscimenti da scienziati&lt;/span&gt; e da persone circa i miei sforzi per spiegare e entusiasmare - questo non manca mai di commuovermi - per non parlare di quanto sia di stimolo a lavorare duramente per fare le cose nel modo giusto (Ho paura di pensare al numero di persone che posso aver male informato). Vorrei a volte poter lavorare a più stretto contatto con gli ZooKeeper, ma nonostante abbia avuto modo di conoscerli - e loro sono molto gentili nello spiegarmi le cose - sono contenta di non essere un accademico. Non fa per me: invece io ho il privilegio di avere la mia nicchia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Hai recentemente partecipato alla conferenza internazionale "She Is an Astronomer". Puoi descrivere brevemente in cosa consiste l'iniziativa ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: Nel mondo&lt;/span&gt;, non molte donne sono astronomi e questo varia da nazione a nazione - alcune raggiungo la metà ed altre non hanno donne affatto. E' abbastabza chiaro che ciò è dovuto a questioni sociali, non al fatto che le donen siano meno brave degli uomini, così "She Is an Astronomer" (Lei è un Astronomo) vuole raggruppare insieme molte donne astronomo per discutere di ciò che potrebbe incoraggiare più donne alla scienza e perchè tante sono escluse dagli alti livelli. Abbiamo scoperto un sacco di pregiudizi inconsci e non intenzionali, in entrambi i sessi. Abbiamo convenuto che si debba mostrarsi in pubblico di più, non concentrarsi tranquillamente sul nostro lavoro e assicurarci di nominare delle donne per i premi ed invitarle in qualità di oratori. D'altro canto, abbiamo anche la sensazione che il mondo accademicodebba fare alcuni cambiamenti, piuttosto che aspettarsi che le donne diventino più simili agli uomini. E' stato un convegno davvero fantastico e spero prorio di essera stata una componente utile a questo importante movimento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sheisanastronomer.org/templates/rhuk_milkyway/images/siaa_banner_white1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="70" src="http://www.sheisanastronomer.org/templates/rhuk_milkyway/images/siaa_banner_white1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Adesso puoi dire quello che vuoi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: Cosa, non sei ancora annoiato ? Bene, vorrei avere più tempo o meglio vorrei poter organizzare il mio tempo in modo migiore - per poter gestire più velocemente tutte le attività in corso nell'Hubble Zoo. Mi sento un po' dimenticata e tutti mi accusano perchè i nostri tutorial non sono più aggiornati. D'altra parte la comunità è ormai così grande e sapiente che non posso fare tutto da sola - e non voglio. Ho la sensazione che presto svanirò nell'oblio man mano che sempre più progetti prendono vita e sempre più persone sono interessate, per cui sto' pensando di specializzarmi !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;:  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Un'ultima domanda. Cosa hai pensato quando ti ho chiesto ri rilasciare questa intervista ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;Alice&lt;/span&gt;: Sono stata molto lusingata e grata di aver avuto cosi tanto spazio (puoi tagliare quello che vuoi (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;NdR: impossibile, a cosa rinunciare ?&lt;/span&gt;)). Hai posto domande estremamente interessanti, penetranti e sapienti, tra l'altro, mostrando di essere un vero esperto do cosa sta' accadendo (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;NdR: come al solito sempre esageratamente gentile nei miei confronti&lt;/span&gt;). Sei un eccellente intervistatore, io credo, che pone le domande giuste per per consentire di raccontare in modo approfondito, narrare storie e non vedo l'ora di leggere quel che farai ad altre persone. (&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;NdR: chissà che non rimanga la prima e l'ultima&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;:&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Interessante vero.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;E' stato un bell'esperimento ed anche un bell'esercizio, soprattutto per migliorare il mio inglese.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Naturalmente nello scegliere Alice sapevo già di andare sul sicuro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Un sentito ringraziamento per la profondità e sincerità delle risposte.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Alice è sempre un fondamentale punto di riferimento per tutto lo zoo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Grazie Alice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-6907640353576494103?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/6907640353576494103/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=6907640353576494103&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/6907640353576494103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/6907640353576494103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/05/alice-interview-english-italiano.html' title='Alice Interview - (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rfhv4lPQhSY/SkvQJQIVW-I/AAAAAAAAAbg/CVDMZtXMU-Q/s72-c/Penguin.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-651754870545452476</id><published>2010-05-21T17:44:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-07T13:42:51.773+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Overlapping Galaxies - Galassie Sovrapposte'/><title type='text'>449 Galaxies overlapped by M31 (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;Who has  read some of my previous posts knows that I am particularly attracted by  the galaxies optically superimposed (&lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/03/overlapping-galaxies-english-italiano.html"&gt;Overlapping Galaxies&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;Paul  Hodge, from University of Washington (Seattle), and Karl Krienke, from Seattle  Pacific University (Seattle), published a study on the subject  available at the following &lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2233"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box" style="font-size: small;"&gt;In particular, starting from the study of 30 images of the Galaxy M31 (the Andromeda Galaxy) captured by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) they have identified and analyzed 449 galaxies visible throught the disk of the galaxy itself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;Happy reading.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1002/andromeda_wise900.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="419" src="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1002/andromeda_wise900.jpg" width="600" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)"&gt;M31 in Infrared &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Credit:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;a href="http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=it&amp;amp;sl=en&amp;amp;tl=it&amp;amp;u=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/main/index.html&amp;amp;rurl=translate.google.it&amp;amp;twu=1&amp;amp;anno=2&amp;amp;usg=ALkJrhi8QOYajYRD7YJmUXnGgok-nldaPA"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;  / JPL-Caltech / UCLA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Chi ha letto alcuni miei precedenti post sa che sono particolarmente attratto dalle galassie otticamente sovrapposte (&lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/03/overlapping-galaxies-english-italiano.html"&gt;Overlapping Galaxies&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Paul Hodge, dell'University of Washington (Seattle), e Karl Krienke, della Seattle Pacific University (Seattle), hanno pubblicato uno studio sull'argomento reperibile al seguente &lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2233"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;In particolare partendo dallo studio di 30 immagini della Galassia M31 (La galassia di Andromeda) catturate dall'Hubble Space Telescope (HST) hanno individuato e analizzato ben 449 galassie visibili attraverso il disco della Galassia stessa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Buona lettura.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Half65. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-651754870545452476?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/651754870545452476/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=651754870545452476&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/651754870545452476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/651754870545452476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/05/449-galaxies-overlapped-by-m31-english.html' title='449 Galaxies overlapped by M31 (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-412303750632347382</id><published>2010-05-14T19:34:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-21T18:16:21.569+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zooniverse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GalaxyZoo'/><title type='text'>Galaxy Zoo Hubble - (Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Come già specificato in  precedenti  posts le informazioni, in Italia, sul  progetto GalaxyZoo  non sono molto  diffuse ad esclusione di scarni  trafiletti sul alcune  riviste e siti  specializzati.Ho così pensato, come fatto in precedenza,  di scrivere un post solo in Italiano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;As just said in previous posts the    information, in Italy, on GalaxyZoo are not very common except litt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;le arcticle on som&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;e specialized magazines and websites.I  thougth so, as before, to write a post only in Italian.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://galaxyzoo.org/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="29" src="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/live_galaxyzoo.gif?1272368039" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;L'ultima evoluzione dell'originale progetto di GalaxyZoo è costituito da &lt;a href="http://galaxyzoo.org/"&gt;GalaxyZoo Hubble&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;In particolare il metodo ed il sistema di classificazione è derivato da quello di &lt;a href="http://zoo2.galaxyzoo.org/"&gt;GalaxyZoo2&lt;/a&gt; e richiede quindi anch'esso un maggior numero di click rispetto all'originale &lt;a href="http://zoo1.galaxyzoo.org/"&gt;GalaxyZoo1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/galaxy_zoo.jpg?1273563041" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/galaxy_zoo.jpg?1273563041" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Le immagine utilizzate questa volta non provengono dallo Sloan Digital Sky Survey ma dal telescopio spaziale Hubble. Le immagini sono più dettagliate e, grazie alle differenti caratteristiche del HST, "guardano" più lontano nello spazio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Come per i precedenti lo scopo è raccogliere informazioni sulla configurazione delle galassie e le loro eccezioni. La possibilità offerta dal HST di vedere "più lontano" e quindi andare "indietro nel tempo" consentirà di ottenere informazioni utili allo studio dell'evoluzione delle galassie. Sarà possibile indagare le galassie che si fondono&amp;nbsp; tra loro (Merging Galaxies) e capire, ad esempio dal loro numero, in che percentuale hanno contribuito alla formazione delle galassie attuali.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Come ormai consuetudine esiste una pagina nella quale apprendere come partecipare (&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzoo.org/how_to_take_part"&gt;How to take part&lt;/a&gt;) e nella quale vengono spiegate le caratteristiche di ogni singolo tasto e vengono presentati numerosi esempi. Rispetto a GalaxyZoo2, illustrato in un &lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/04/galaxyzoo2-il-progetto-prosegue.html"&gt;precedente post&lt;/a&gt;, sono state aggiunte delle scelte di classificazione in più.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Particolarmente interessanti, nella suddetta pagina, i video che mostrano gli esempi per il riconoscimento delle lenti gravitazionali (&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/11125009"&gt;These are lenses&lt;/a&gt; e &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/11125091"&gt;These are not lenses&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Sono sempre presenti il &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php"&gt;forum originale&lt;/a&gt; del progetto, dove poter porre domande, segnalare curiosità, imparare molto e "conoscere" gli zooities ed un &lt;a href="http://blogs.zooniverse.org/galaxyzoo/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; dove seguire l'evolversi del progetto ed i risultati conseguiti direttamente dai membri del progetto. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Per partecipare, come gli altri progetti, non sono richieste conoscenze scientifiche o particolari capacità.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Il contributo di tutti, anche di poche classificazioni, è importante ed il consiglio, come sempre, è provare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-412303750632347382?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/412303750632347382/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=412303750632347382&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/412303750632347382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/412303750632347382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/05/galaxy-zoo-hubble-italiano.html' title='Galaxy Zoo Hubble - (Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-5984788346466710190</id><published>2010-05-11T18:37:00.013+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-21T17:56:16.046+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zooniverse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GalaxyZoo'/><title type='text'>Zoouniverse - Nuovo progetto  - (Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Come già specificato in precedenti  posts le informazioni, in Italia, sul  progetto GalaxyZoo non sono molto  diffuse ad esclusione di scarni  trafiletti sul alcune riviste e siti  specializzati.Ho così pensato, come fatto in precedenza, di scrivere un post solo in Italiano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;As just said in previous posts the   information, in Italy, on GalaxyZoo are not very common except litt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;le arcticle on som&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;e specialized magazines and websites.I thougth so, as before, to write a post only in Italian. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" style="background-color: white;" title="Ho così pensato, come fatto in precedenza, di scrivere un post solo in Italiano."&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Un nuovo progetto di ricerca al quale potete partecipare è stato rilasciato nella sua forma definitiva.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.moonzoo.org/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="29" src="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/live_moonzoo.gif?1273563041" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Il nuovo progetto riguarda la classificazione di crateri lunari.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Ho aggiornato anche il relativo &lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/05/zooniverse-levoluzione-italiano.html"&gt;post su Zooniverse&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Half65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-5984788346466710190?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/5984788346466710190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=5984788346466710190&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/5984788346466710190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/5984788346466710190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/05/zoouniverse-nuovo-progetto.html' title='Zoouniverse - Nuovo progetto  - (Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-6011960550405881277</id><published>2010-05-07T23:30:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-07T13:47:52.505+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Planetarium - Planetari'/><title type='text'>The Rome Planetarium - Il Planetario di Roma (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div face="trebuchet ms" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The Planetarium of Rome was historically located in the Octagonal room, called the Minerva, near the Baths of Diocleziano, in the city center.&lt;br /&gt;Opened the 28th October 1928 was equipped with a projector ZEISS II donated from Germany to Italy as a war reparation of WWI. The instrument, composed by 150 microlenses, for the brightest stars, and 5.000 pinholes for the faintest stars, was a true wonder of optics and made the Planetarium of Rome one of the most important in Europe and the first in Italy.&lt;br /&gt;In 1980, for making the restoration of the Octagonal room, the instrument was removed and placed in a series of crates and, delivered at "La Sapienza" University of Rome, was filed, or rather buried, at Astronomical Observatory of Monteporzio (Rome).The city was thus deprived of a rare and fundamental area of scientific interest and one of the landmark of great importance, not only for the citizenship but also for Italians and foreigners visitors, vanished.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/S-NMEK5rIsI/AAAAAAAAAag/JPeJYE4twJ8/s1600/Museo+Civilt%C3%A0.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/S-NMEK5rIsI/AAAAAAAAAag/JPeJYE4twJ8/s320/Museo+Civilt%C3%A0.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After twenty years of oblivion Rome, finally, had the pleasure to see the new Planetarium opened, in a new location, in May 2004.The new site, even if is not in the city center, is located in the beautiful surroundings of the "Museum of Roman Civilization" thus allowing to merge ancient past and modern time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/S-NMrDawalI/AAAAAAAAAao/5pb2WiZ_ZI8/s1600/Zeiss+Totale.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/S-NMrDawalI/AAAAAAAAAao/5pb2WiZ_ZI8/s320/Zeiss+Totale.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The old Zeiss projector, the only one remaining in the world, makes a fine show of himself at the new facility and it still retains its original charm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new Planetarium occupies an area of about 300 square meters and consist of a dome 14 meters in diameter with 100 seats. The old Zeiss was replaced by an optical projector 88SN, French-built, fully automated able to recreate about 4.500 stars plus planets.The shows presented vary to fit all ages from children to older students to adult and you can travel in space but also in time.&lt;br /&gt;Next to the Planetarium was created an Astronomy Musuem composed by models, dioramas and interactive stations.Very interesting and suggestive are the 3D representation of the planets, especially attracting for children, and the mechanical device (orrery) for simulating and understanding the phenomena of eclipse.&lt;br /&gt;For more information, visit the official website &lt;a href="http://www.planetarioroma.it/"&gt;http://www.planetarioroma.it/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/S-MvhNy-miI/AAAAAAAAAaI/v_gTEQydRu8/s1600/Particolare+Plastico.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468266620243581474" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/S-MvhNy-miI/AAAAAAAAAaI/v_gTEQydRu8/s320/Particolare+Plastico.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The co-location with the Museum of Roman Civilization can also make a leap into the past due to the presence of ancient works and the numerous reconstructions, with models and dioramas, of roman buildings and machines of war and siege.&lt;br /&gt;Of particular importance the plaster casts of Traiano's Column and the large model of Imperial Rome, which occupies an area of 200 square meters (In figure a detail with the Colosseum).&lt;br /&gt;For more information, visit the official website of the Museum &lt;a href="http://www.museociviltaromana.it/"&gt;http://www.museociviltaromana.it/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il planetario di Roma aveva la sua sede storica nella sala Ottagona,  detta della Minerva, presso le Terme di Diocleziano, nel centro della  città.&lt;br /&gt;Inaugurato il 28 ottobre 1928 era dotato di un proiettore  ZEISS II donato dalla Germania all'Italia come riparazione dei danni di  guerra della I Guerra Mondiale. Lo strumento, dotato di 150  microobiettivi, per le stelle più brillanti, e di 5.000 fori  stenoscopici, per le stelle più deboli, era una vera meraviglia  dell'ottica e rendeva il planetario di Roma uno dei più importanti  d'Europa ed il primo in Italia.&lt;br /&gt;Nel 1980, per effettuare dei lavori  di restauro della sala Ottagona, venne rimosso e riposto in una serie di  casse e, consegnato all'Università La Sapienza di Roma, venne  depositato, o per meglio dire tumulato, all'Osservatorio Astronomico di  Monteporzio (RM).&lt;br /&gt;La città venne così privata di uno dei rari e  fondamentali luoghi di interesse scientifico presenti, venendo a  mancare, sia alla alla cittadinanza che ai numerosi visitatori, sia  italiani che stranieri, un punto di riferimento di grande rilievo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/S-NMEK5rIsI/AAAAAAAAAag/JPeJYE4twJ8/s1600/Museo+Civilt%C3%A0.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/S-NMEK5rIsI/AAAAAAAAAag/JPeJYE4twJ8/s320/Museo+Civilt%C3%A0.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dopo  vent'anni di oblio Roma ha avuto finalmente il piacere di veder  inaugurato il nuovo planetario in una nuova sede nel maggio 2004.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La  nuova collocazione, pur se decentrata rispetto all'originale, si trova  nella splendida cornice del Museo della Civiltà Romana consentendo così  di poter unire antico e moderno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/S-NMrDawalI/AAAAAAAAAao/5pb2WiZ_ZI8/s1600/Zeiss+Totale.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/S-NMrDawalI/AAAAAAAAAao/5pb2WiZ_ZI8/s320/Zeiss+Totale.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;Il vecchio proiettore Zeiss, unico  esemplare rimasto al mondo, fa bella mostra di se all'ingresso della  nuova struttura conservando ancora intatto il suo fascino.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il nuovo Planetario occupa un spazio di circa 300 mq ed è costituito da una cupola di 14 metri di diametro con 100 posti a sedere. Il vecchio Zeiss è stato sostituito da un proiettore ottico SN 88, di costruzione francese, totalmente automatizzato in grado di proiettare circa 4500 stelle oltre ai pianeti.&lt;br /&gt;Gli spettacoli presentati variano da quelli per bambini a quelli per gli studenti più grandi e per adulti ed è possibile viaggiare non solo nello spazio ma anche nel tempo.&lt;br /&gt;Accanto al  Planetario è stato realizzato un Museo Astronomico costituito da modelli, diorami e postazioni interattive.&lt;br /&gt;Molto interessanti e suggestive sono le riproduzioni in 3D dei pianeti, che attraggono soprattutto l'attenzione dei più piccoli, ed il dispositivo meccanico (orrery) per la simulazione e la comprensione dei fenomeni delle eclissi.&lt;br /&gt;Per maggiori informazioni è possibile consultare il sito ufficiale &lt;a href="http://www.planetarioroma.it/"&gt;http://www.planetarioroma.it/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/S-MvhNy-miI/AAAAAAAAAaI/v_gTEQydRu8/s1600/Particolare+Plastico.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468266620243581474" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/S-MvhNy-miI/AAAAAAAAAaI/v_gTEQydRu8/s320/Particolare+Plastico.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;La coubicazione con il Museo della Civiltà Romana consente anche di effettuare una salto nel passato grazie alle opere qui conservate ed alle numerose ricostruzioni, con plastici e diorami, di edifici e macchine da guerra e da assedio. Di particolare rilievo i calchi in gesso della colonna traiana ed il grande plastico di Roma Imperiale che occupa una superficie di ben 200 mq (nella foto un particolare con il Colosseo).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per maggiori informazioni è possibile consultare il sito ufficiale del Museo  &lt;a href="http://www.museociviltaromana.it/"&gt;http://www.museociviltaromana.it/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-6011960550405881277?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/6011960550405881277/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=6011960550405881277&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/6011960550405881277'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/6011960550405881277'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/05/rome-planetarium-il-planetario-di-roma.html' title='The Rome Planetarium - Il Planetario di Roma (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/S-NMEK5rIsI/AAAAAAAAAag/JPeJYE4twJ8/s72-c/Museo+Civilt%C3%A0.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-6607226145554364998</id><published>2010-05-07T15:00:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-02T13:36:00.455+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zooniverse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GalaxyZoo'/><title type='text'>Zooniverse - L'evoluzione (Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Come già specificato in precedenti  posts le  informazioni, in Italia, sul  progetto GalaxyZoo non sono molto  diffuse  ad esclusione di scarni  trafiletti sul alcune riviste e siti   specializzati.Ho così pensato, come fatto  in precedenza, di scrivere un post solo in Italiano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;As just said in previous posts the   information, in Italy, on  GalaxyZoo are not very common except litt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;le  arcticle on som&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;e specialized magazines and  websites.I thougth so, as before, to write a post only in  Italian. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Il progetto affonda le sue radici nel caro vecchio &lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/03/galaxyzoo-1-le-origini-italian.html"&gt;GalaxyZoo&lt;/a&gt;, inziato nel luglio del 2007.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;La popolarità ed il gran numero di partecipanti ne hanno decretato il successo e la sua prosecuzione con altri progetti correlati, sempre di carattere astronomico.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zooniverse.org/"&gt;Zoouniverse&lt;/a&gt; nasce per essere "la casa", così come &lt;a href="http://www.zooniverse.org/about"&gt;definito nel sito ufficiale&lt;/a&gt;, del progetto di "citizen science" più grande, più popolare e di maggior successo (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;citazione dal sito ufficiale: &lt;i&gt;"The Zooniverse is home to the internet's largest, most popular and most  successful citizen science projects."&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zooniverse.org/"&gt;Zoouniverse&lt;/a&gt; è quindi un portale attraverso il quale accedere a tutti i progetti in atto e potervi partecipare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Attualmente i progetti attivi sono:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://galaxyzoo.org/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="29" src="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/live_galaxyzoo.gif?1272368039" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;- Galaxy Zoo Hubble, naturale prosecuzione di Galaxy Zoo 2;&lt;span id="goog_2042441574"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_2042441575"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span id="goog_2042441571"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_2042441572"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://solarstormwatch.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="29" src="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/live_solar_stormwatch.jpg?1272368039" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;- Solar Stormwatch, sull'attività solare;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://mergers.galaxyzoo.org/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="29" src="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/live_mergers.gif?1272368039" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;- Galaxy Zoo Mergers, sulla simulazione delle interazioni fra galassie;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://supernova.galaxyzoo.org/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="29" src="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/live_super.gif?1272368039" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;- Galaxy Zoo Supernova, per l'individuazione delle supernova.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.moonzoo.org/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="29" src="http://www.zooniverse.org/images/live_moonzoo.gif?1273563041" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;- Moon Zoo, per la individuazione dei crateri lunari &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Come per i precedenti progetti non è necessario essere uno scienziato o avere particolari conoscenze astronomiche per partecipare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Provate per verificarlo di persona.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-6607226145554364998?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/6607226145554364998/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=6607226145554364998&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/6607226145554364998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/6607226145554364998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/05/zooniverse-levoluzione-italiano.html' title='Zooniverse - L&apos;evoluzione (Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-1317020528751833188</id><published>2010-05-06T13:12:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-06T13:15:20.563+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Back on track - Di ritorno</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;After a long period of "silence" I'm back in my blog. I'm now rearranging links and very soon I'll post new infomations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dopo un lungo periodo di "silenzio" sono di nuovo tornato nel mio blog. Al momento sto' sistemando alcuni links e molto presto pubblicherò nuove informazioni.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-1317020528751833188?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/1317020528751833188/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=1317020528751833188&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/1317020528751833188'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/1317020528751833188'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/05/back-on-track-di-ritorno.html' title='Back on track - Di ritorno'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-1544671143805913266</id><published>2009-08-30T00:02:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-08-30T00:11:51.541+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Extraction from GalaxyZoo Forum (English)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=230"&gt;ElisabethB&lt;/a&gt;, a member of &lt;a href="http://galaxyzoo.org/"&gt;Galaxy Zoo&lt;/a&gt;, asked me to extract some data from the &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php"&gt;GalaxyZoo Forum&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In particular she asked me to extract data from&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=90.0"&gt;Ring Galaxies&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=273992.0"&gt;Hoag Type Galaxies and Collisional Ring&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=7711.0"&gt;Possible Polar Ring Galaxies&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=10635.0"&gt;Ringed and Pseudoringed Galaxies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I create dedicated places to store result for:&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half1965/hoag-type-galaxies-and-collisional-rings"&gt;Hoag Type Galaxies and Collisional Ring&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half1965/possible-polar-ring"&gt;Possible Polar Ring Galaxies&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half1965/ringed-and-pseudoringed-galaxies"&gt;Ringed and Pseudoringed Galaxies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Ring galaxies will come soon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-1544671143805913266?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/1544671143805913266/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=1544671143805913266&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/1544671143805913266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/1544671143805913266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/08/extraction-from-galaxyzoo-forum-english.html' title='Extraction from GalaxyZoo Forum (English)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-6904111813922503978</id><published>2009-07-31T10:56:00.114+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-06T21:23:07.231+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GalaxyZoo Paper'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GalaxyZoo'/><title type='text'>GalaxyZoo - Documenti Pubblicati - (Italiano)</title><content type='html'>Grazie al lavoro degli oltre 230.000 volontari partecipanti al progetto è stato possibile analizzare una grande mole di dati. E' stato così possibile per gli astronomi del progetto disporre di un numero consistente di informazioni tali da consentire la pubblicazione di un notevole numero di studi scientifici.&lt;br /&gt;In questo post sono elencate le pubblicazioni fino ad ora accettate e quelle ancora in attesa di approvazione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102); text-align: center;"&gt;Titolo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center; color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt;Autori&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;Anno&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;Stato&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);"&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); text-align: left;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: Disentangling the Environmental Dependence of Morphology and Colour&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt;Ramin A. Skibba, Steven P. Bamford, Robert C. Nichol, Chris J. Lintott, Dan Andreescu, Edward M. Edmondson, Phil Murray, M. Jordan Raddick, Kevin Schawinski, Anze Slosar, Alexander S. Szalay, Daniel Thomas, Jan Vandenberg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2008&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/Galaxy%20Zoo%20:%20Morphologies%20derived%20from%20visual%20inspection%20of%20galaxies%20from%20the%20Sloan%20Digital%20Sky%20Survey"&gt;astro-ph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ukads.nottingham.ac.uk/abs/2008arXiv0811.3970S"&gt;UKADS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); text-align: left;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: The Large-Scale Spin Statistics of Spiral Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt;Kate Land, Anze Slosar, Chris J. Lintott, Dan Andreescu, Steven Bamford, Phil Murray, Robert Nichol, M. Jordan Raddick, Kevin Schawinski, Alex Szalay, Daniel Thomas, Jan Vandenberg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2008&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pubblicato da MNRAS&lt;br /&gt;Vol. 388&lt;br /&gt;pag. 1686-1692&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://uk.arxiv.org/abs/0803.3247"&gt;astro-ph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ukads.nottingham.ac.uk/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2008MNRAS.388.1686L"&gt;UKADS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); text-align: left;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo : Morphologies Derived from Visual Inspection of Galaxies From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt;Chris J. Lintott, Kevin Schawinski, Anze Slosar, Kate Land, Steven Bamford, Daniel Thomas, M. Jordan Raddick, Robert C. Nichol, Alex Szalay, Dan Andreescu, Phil Murray, Jan VandenBerg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2008&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pubblicato da MNRAS&lt;br /&gt;Vol. 389&lt;br /&gt;pag. 1179-1189&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://uk.arxiv.org/abs/0804.4483"&gt;astro-ph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ukads.nottingham.ac.uk/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2008MNRAS.389.1179L"&gt;UKADS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); text-align: left;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: The Dependence of Morphology and Colour on Environment&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt;Steven P. Bamford, Robert C. Nichol, Ivan K. Baldry, Kate Land, Chris J. Lintott, Kevin Schawinski, Anze Slosar, Alexander S. Szalay, Daniel Thomas, Mehri Torki, Dan Andreescu, Edward M. Edmondson, Christopher J. Miller, Phil Murray, M. Jordan Raddick, Jan Vandenberg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2008&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pubblicato da MNRAS&lt;br /&gt;Vol. 393&lt;br /&gt;pag. 1324-1352&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://uk.arxiv.org/abs/0805.2612"&gt;astro-ph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ukads.nottingham.ac.uk/abs/2008arXiv0805.2612B"&gt;UKADS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); text-align: left;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: Chiral Correlation Function of Galaxy Spins&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt;Anze Slosar, Kate Land, Steven Bamford, Chris J. Lintott, Dan Andreescu, Phil Murray, Robert Nichol, M. Jordan Raddick, Kevin Schawinski, Alex Szalay, Daniel Thomas, Jan Vandenberg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2008&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pubblicato da MNRAS&lt;br /&gt;Vol. 392&lt;br /&gt;pag. 1225-1232&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://uk.arxiv.org/abs/0809.0717"&gt;astro-ph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ukads.nottingham.ac.uk/abs/2009MNRAS.392.1225S"&gt;UKADS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); text-align: left;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: A Sample of Blue Early-Type Galaxies at Low Redshift&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt;Kevin Schawinski, Chris J. Lintott, Daniel Thomas, Marc Sarzi, Dan Andreescu, Steven P. Bamford, Sugata Kaviraj, Sadegh Khochfar, Kate Land, Phil Murray, Robert C. Nichol, M. Jordan Raddick, Anze Slosar, Alex Szalay, Jan VandenBerg, Sukyoung K. Yi&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2009&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pubblicato da MNRAS&lt;br /&gt;Vol. 396&lt;br /&gt;pag. 818-829&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3415"&gt;astro-ph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ukads.nottingham.ac.uk/abs/2009MNRAS.396..818S"&gt;UKADS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); text-align: left;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: The Properties of Merging Galaxies in the Nearby Universe - Local Environments, Colours, Masses, Star-formation Rates and AGN Activity&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt;D. W. Darg, Sugata Kaviraj, Chris J. Lintott, Kevin Schawinski, Marc Sarzi, Steven P. Bamford, J. Silk, Dan Andreescu, P. Murray, R. C. Nichol, M. Jordan Raddick, Anze Slosar, Alex S. Szalay, Daniel Thomas, Jan Vandenberg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2009&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;In attesa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5057"&gt;astro-ph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); text-align: left;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: The Fraction of Merging Galaxies in the SDSS and Their Morphologies&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt;D. W. Darg, Sugata Kaviraj, Chris J. Lintott, Kevin Schawinski, Marc Sarzi, Steven P. Bamford, J. Silk, R. Proctor, Dan Andreescu, Phil Murray, Robert C. Nichol, M. Jordan Raddick, Anze Slosar, Alex S. Szalay, Daniel Thomas, Jan Vandenberg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2009&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;In attesa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5057"&gt;astro-ph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); text-align: left;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: Exploring the Motivations of Citizen Science Volunteers&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt;M. Jordan Riddick, Georgia Bracey, Pamela Gay, Chris J. Lintott, Kevin Scawinski, Alex Szalay, Jan Vanderberg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2009&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;In attesa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); text-align: left;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo: A Correlation Between Coherence of Galaxy Spin Chirality and Star Formation Efficiency&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt;Raul Jimenez, Anze Slosar, Licia Verde, Steven P. Bamford, Chris J. Lintott, Kevin Scawinski, Robert Nichol, Dan Andreescu, Kate Land, Phil Murray, M. Jordan Raddick, Alex Szalay, Daniel Thomas, Jan Vandenberg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2009&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;In attesa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.0994"&gt;astro-ph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); text-align: left;"&gt;Galaxy Zoo Green Peas: Discovery of A Class of Compact Extremely Star Forming Galaxies&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt;Caroline Cardamone, Kevin Scawinski, Marc Sarzi, Steven P. Bamford, Nicola Bennert, C.M. Urry, Chris J. Lintott, William C. Keel, John Parejiko, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel Thomas, Dan Andreescu, Phil Murray, M. Jordan Raddick, Anze Slosar, Jan Vandenberg&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2009&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;In attesa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.4155"&gt;astro-ph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-6904111813922503978?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/6904111813922503978/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=6904111813922503978&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/6904111813922503978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/6904111813922503978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/07/galaxyzoo-published-paper-english_31.html' title='GalaxyZoo - Documenti Pubblicati - (Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-8990048363026591582</id><published>2009-07-25T15:01:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-25T15:19:11.746+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Birthday GalaxyZoo Forum - (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Two years ago was born the &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php"&gt;Forum &lt;/a&gt;associated with the fantastic &lt;a href="http://galaxyzoo.org/"&gt;GalaxyZoo&lt;/a&gt; Project.&lt;br /&gt;The Forum, created initially as a support tool to the participants in which to ask questions and pose doubt, or send items considered strange or simply beautiful to see, it was soon proved to be a valuable tool for learning, not just subjects of astronomy, a place of "meeting" and an instrument of support for the team of developers of the project from which to start other projects in parallel with GalaxyZoo.&lt;br /&gt;Were was for me two years intense and where I came back to take care of one of my greatest passions and where I "met" many interesting people.&lt;br /&gt;Here a &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=275790.msg354307#msg354307"&gt;link &lt;/a&gt;to a forum post that celebrates this anniversary and below a beautiful &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK9nGAuiLag"&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; made by EdV a GalaxyZoo and Forum member.&lt;br /&gt;Thanks Galaxy Zoo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="525" width="660"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BK9nGAuiLag&amp;amp;hl=it&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BK9nGAuiLag&amp;amp;hl=it&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="525" width="660"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Due anni fa nasceva il &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php"&gt;Forum &lt;/a&gt;associato al fantastico progetto di &lt;a href="http://galaxyzoo.org/"&gt;GalaxyZoo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Il Forum, nato inizialmente come strumento di supporto per i partecipanti nel quale poter fare domande e rappresentare dubbi ovvero inviare oggetti ritenuti particolari o semplicemente belli da vedere, si è ben presto dimostrato un validissimo strumento per apprendere, non solo argomenti di astronomia, un luogo di "incontro" ed uno strumento di supporto per il team di sviluppatori del progetto dal quale sviluppare altri progetti paralleli a GalaxyZoo.&lt;br /&gt;Sono stati per me due anni intensi e nel quale sono tornato ad occuparmi di una delle mie più grandi passioni ed in cui ho "conosciuto" tante persone interessanti.&lt;br /&gt;Qui un &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=275790.msg354307#msg354307"&gt;link &lt;/a&gt;ad un post del Forum che celebra questa ricorrenza e sopra un fantastico &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK9nGAuiLag"&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; creato da EdV uno dei membri di GalaxyZoo e del Forum.&lt;br /&gt;Grazie Galaxy Zoo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-8990048363026591582?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/8990048363026591582/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=8990048363026591582&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/8990048363026591582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/8990048363026591582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/07/happy-birthday-galaxyzoo-forum-english.html' title='Happy Birthday GalaxyZoo Forum - (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-1029030211107842391</id><published>2009-07-17T22:26:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-17T22:26:38.758+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Overlapping Galaxies Data Updated - (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>The overlapping data updated to 17th July 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half1965/overlapping-galaxies"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; the link&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I dati delle galassie sovrapposte sono aggiornati al 17 luglio 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half1965/overlapping-galaxies"&gt;Qui&lt;/a&gt; il link&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-1029030211107842391?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/1029030211107842391/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=1029030211107842391&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/1029030211107842391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/1029030211107842391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/07/overlapping-galaxies-data-updated.html' title='Overlapping Galaxies Data Updated - (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-5112808480247419116</id><published>2009-06-12T15:03:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-07T13:40:24.997+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Overlapping Galaxies - Galassie Sovrapposte'/><title type='text'>Overlapping Galaxies Data Updated - (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>The overlapping data updated to 12th June 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half1965/overlapping-galaxies"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; the link&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I dati delle galassie sovrapposte sono aggiornati al 12 giugno 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half1965/overlapping-galaxies"&gt;Qui&lt;/a&gt; il link&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-5112808480247419116?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/5112808480247419116/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=5112808480247419116&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/5112808480247419116'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/5112808480247419116'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/06/overlapping-galaxies-data-updated.html' title='Overlapping Galaxies Data Updated - (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-3099347125930564781</id><published>2009-06-09T21:56:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-09T22:02:24.876+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ionized Cloud'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GalaxyZoo'/><title type='text'>Active Galaxies With Ionized Gas Cloud Data Update - (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>The ionized data updated to 9th June 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half1965/ionized"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; the link&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I dati delle galassie ionizzate sono aggiornati al 9 giugno 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half1965/ionized"&gt;Qui&lt;/a&gt; il link&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-3099347125930564781?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/3099347125930564781/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=3099347125930564781&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/3099347125930564781'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/3099347125930564781'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/06/active-galaxies-with-ionized-gas-cloud.html' title='Active Galaxies With Ionized Gas Cloud Data Update - (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-1627856687941253699</id><published>2009-06-03T10:55:00.017+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-18T19:08:31.260+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Near Galaxies'/><title type='text'>Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - Grande Nube di Magellano - (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;ra: 05:23:34.5 dec: -69:45:22 - 157.000 l.y. - Irregular&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Continuing the cosmic journey the third galaxy that is encountered is the Great Magellanic Cloud (LMC).&lt;br /&gt;It's an irregular satellite galaxy that has, however, a clear central bar and due to this fact we assume that the originally the morphology was a barred spiral galaxy, deformed by the tidal forces of the Milky Way. It's located at a distance of 157,000 a.l. from Earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" id="result_box" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;A stream of hydrogen and stars, the Magellanic Stream, is ejected from the Great Cloud and the Small Cloud (SMC) and connected with the Milky Way. Another stream, similarly composed, extends, however, between the Great and the Small Cloud and is called Magellanic Bridge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The discovery occurred in 964 by the Persian astronomer Rohman al-Abd al-Sufi but the name was attributed to Ferdinand Magellan who first described it along with the Small Cloud (SMC).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table border="1" style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; height: 28px; width: 600px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Optical (NASA Archive)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0804/lmcdeepwide_beletsky.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0804/lmcdeepwide_beletsky.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 281px; width: 281px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Infrared  (NASA Archive)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0609/lmc_spitzer.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0609/lmc_spitzer.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 281px; width: 281px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;La Grande Nube di Magellano (LMC)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;ra: 05:23:34.5 dec: -69:45:22 - 157.000 a.l. - Irregolare&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;Proseguendo nel viaggio cosmico la terza galassia che si incontra è la Grande Nube di Magellano (LMC). E' una galassia satellite irregolare che presenta, però, una evidente barra centrale che fa ipotizzare la sua orginaria morfologia di galassia a spirale barrata, deformata dalle forze di marea della Via Lattea. E' situata ad una distanza di 157.000 a.l. dalla Terra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un flusso di idrogeno e stelle, la Corrente Magellanica, fuoriesce dalla Nube e dalla Piccola Nube (SMC) e si connette con la Via Lattea. Un altro flusso, composto analogamente, si estende, invece, fra la Grande e la Piccola Nube ed è chiamato Ponte Magellanico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La scoperta avvenne nel 964 da parte dell'astronomo persiano Abd al-Rohman al-Sufi ma il nome fu attribuito a Ferdinando Magellano che per primo la descrisse insieme alla Piccola Nube (SMC).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-1627856687941253699?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/1627856687941253699/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=1627856687941253699&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/1627856687941253699'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/1627856687941253699'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/06/large-magellanic-cloud-lmc-english.html' title='Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - Grande Nube di Magellano - (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-5857663723404549800</id><published>2009-05-28T18:11:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T18:21:59.370+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Web'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wikipedia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GalaxyZoo'/><title type='text'>Wikipedia - (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>Starting from the request, on the &lt;a href="http://galaxyzooforum.org"&gt;Galaxy Zoo Forum&lt;/a&gt;, to &lt;a href="http://galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=275232.0"&gt;keep an eye on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; about the entry related to Galaxy Zoo I joined also &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most important entry was the &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Zoo"&gt;Galaxy Zoo Italian&lt;/a&gt; version that never exists before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the link to my &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Half65"&gt;Wikipedia English page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Partendo dalla richiesta, sul &lt;a href="http://galaxyzooforum.org"&gt;Forum di Galaxy Zoo&lt;/a&gt;, di &lt;a href="http://galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=275232.0"&gt;dare uno sguardo alle voci di Wikipedia &lt;/a&gt;riguardanti Galaxy Zoo mi sono registrato su &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagina_principale"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La voce più importante creata è stata quella su &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Zoo"&gt;Galaxy Zoo in italiano&lt;/a&gt; che non esisteva ancora.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questo è il link alla mia &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Half65"&gt;pagina Wikipedia in italiano.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-5857663723404549800?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/5857663723404549800/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=5857663723404549800&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/5857663723404549800'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/5857663723404549800'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/05/wikipedia-english-italiano.html' title='Wikipedia - (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-8527922742404746281</id><published>2009-05-26T11:26:00.012+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-18T19:05:55.344+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Near Galaxies'/><title type='text'>Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical (Sag DEG) - Nana Ellittica del Sagittario - (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical (Sag DEG)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ra: 18:55:19.5 dec: -30:32:43 - 65.000 l.y. - Elliptical&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The second galaxy that is found away from the Milky Way is the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical (Sag DEG). &lt;br /&gt;It's a satellite elliptical galaxy in polar orbit at 65.000 l.y. away from the Solar System and 50.000 l.y. from the galactic center.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some stars, torn by the force of gravity of the Milky Way, form a stellar stream in orbit around the Galaxy, while others were already "cannibalized".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The persistence of an elliptical morphology, despite the numerous passages through the central region of the Galaxy, it's probably due to the abundant presence of dark matter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Officially discovered in 1994 was clearly identified only in 2003 with infrared observations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/alapre.pl?script=setconf%20cm%3dnoreverse%3breticle%20off%3bscale%20off%3bget%20aladin%28AAO%2fR%2fDSS2%29%2018%2055%2003.1-30%2028%2042%3bget%20aladin%28SERC%2fI%2fDSS2%29%2018%2055%2003.1-30%2028%2042%3bsync%3bzoom%202x%3brgb%201%202%3bsync%3bsave%20-png%20768x768%3bquit&amp;amp;out=imageRGB" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/alapre.pl?script=setconf%20cm%3dnoreverse%3breticle%20off%3bscale%20off%3bget%20aladin%28AAO%2fR%2fDSS2%29%2018%2055%2003.1-30%2028%2042%3bget%20aladin%28SERC%2fI%2fDSS2%29%2018%2055%2003.1-30%2028%2042%3bsync%3bzoom%202x%3brgb%201%202%3bsync%3bsave%20-png%20768x768%3bquit&amp;amp;out=imageRGB" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 500px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 500px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;Credit: SIMBAD/ALADIN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nana Ellittica del Sagittario (Sag DEG)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ra: 18:55:19.5 dec: -30:32:43 - 65.000 a.l. - Ellittica&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;La seconda galassia che si incontra allontanandosi dalla Via Lattea è la nana Ellittica del Sagittario (Sag DEG).&lt;br /&gt;E' una galassia satellite ellittica in orbita polare a 65.000 a.l. di distanza dalla Terra ed a 50.000 a.l. dal centro galattico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alcune stelle, strappate dalla forza di gravità della Via Lattea, formano un getto stellare in orbita intorno alla Galassia mentre altre sono state già "cannibalizzate".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il permanere di una morfologia ellittica, nonostante i numerosi passaggi attraverso la regione centrale della Galassia, è probabilmente dovuta dalla abbondante presenza di materia oscura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ufficialmente scoperta nel 1994 è stata chiaramente identificata solo nel 2003 grazie ad osservazioni nell'infrarosso.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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The stars tear from that galaxy form a ring around our galaxy called Monoceros Ring and discovered using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).&lt;br /&gt;It was first discovered only in 2003 because, despite the closeness, it's being located on the galactic plane and it's obscured by dust and gas and was identified by infrared observations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0311/canisgalaxy_2mass.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0311/canisgalaxy_2mass.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 317px; width: 500px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;credit: &lt;a href="mailto:ibata%20at%20astro.u-strasbg.fr"&gt;R. Ibata&lt;/a&gt;  (&lt;a href="http://astro.u-strasbg.fr/"&gt;Strasbourg Observatory&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://www-ulp.u-strasbg.fr/"&gt;ULP&lt;/a&gt;) et al.,  &lt;a href="http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/"&gt;2MASS&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.nasa.gov/"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Galassia Nana del Cane Maggiore&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"&gt; (CMa Dwarf)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ra: 07:12:35.00 dec: -27:40:00 - 25.000 a.l. - Irregolare&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lasciando la Via Lattea la prima galassia che si incontra è la Galassia Nana del Cane Maggiore (CMa Dwarf).&lt;br /&gt;E' una galassia satellite irregolare a 25.000 a.l. di distanza dal Sistema Solare ed a 42.000 a.l. dal centro galattico fortemente disturbata dalle forze di marea della Via Lattea. Le stelle strappate da tale galassia formano un anello intorno alla nostra Galassia chiamato Anello dell'Unicorno scoperta usando lo Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).&lt;br /&gt;Fu scoperta per la prima volta solo nel 2003 in quanto, nonostante la vicinanza, trovandosi sul piano galattico è occultata da polvere e gas ed è stata individuata grazie ad osservazioni nell'infrarosso. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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The tidal forces are produced by the galactic gravitational field, and increases with the decreasing of distance, and they're able to deform the galaxies that arrives in the vicinity, as in the case of satellite galaxies, and also to "stripped" them and creates tails of stars and gases around the parent galaxy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ispirandomi al grande &lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/04/paolo-maffei-english-italian.html"&gt;Paolo Maffei&lt;/a&gt; nel descrivere le galassie "vicine" inizierò partendo da quelle più prossime per arrivare a quelle più distanti.&lt;br /&gt;In questo post raccoglierò i links ai singoli post come indice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le galassie tendono ad aggregarsi in ammassi, tenuti insieme dalla forza gravitazionale, contenenti anche migliaia di singole galassie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La Via Lattea fa parte di un ammasso denominato Gruppo Locale, che comprende circa 50 elementi, ed il cui centro gravitazionale, non ancora esattamente individuato, è ubicato fra la nostra Galassia e la galassia di Andromeda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il Gruppo Locale fa parte del Superammasso della Vergine che contiene circa un centinaio fra galassie e gruppi di galassie.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Con l'evolversi degli strumenti di osservazione sono andate aumentando il numero di galassie satelliti della Via Lattea, per la maggior parte notevolmente disturbate e modificate dalle forze di marea generate dalla nostra Galassia. Le forze di marea sono prodotte dal campo gravitazionale galattico, che aumenta con il diminuire della distanza, e sono in grado di deformare le galassie che vengono a trovarsi nelle vicinanze, come nel caso delle galassie satellite, e sono in grado di "spogliarle" andando a formare delle scie di stelle e gas intorno alla galassia madre.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/05/canis-major-dwarf-cma-dwarf-english.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Nana del Cane Maggiore&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(CMa Dwarf) - 25.000 l.y. (a.l.)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/05/sagittarius-dwarf-elliptical-galaxy-sag.html"&gt;Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical - Nana Ellittica del Sagittario&lt;/a&gt; (Sag DEG) - 65.000 l.y. (a.l.)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/06/large-magellanic-cloud-lmc-english.html"&gt;Large Magellanic Cloud - Grande Nube di Magellano&lt;/a&gt; (LMC) - 157.000 l.y. (a.l.)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/06/bootes-dwarf-galaxy-boo-i-dsph-english.html"&gt;Bo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/06/bootes-dwarf-galaxy-boo-i-dsph-english.html"&gt;ö&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/06/bootes-dwarf-galaxy-boo-i-dsph-english.html"&gt;tes Dwarf - Nana di Boote&lt;/a&gt; (Boo I dSph) - 197.000 l.y. (a.l.)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/06/small-magellanic-cloud-smc-piccola-nube.html"&gt;Small Magellanic Cloud - Piccola Nube di Magellano&lt;/a&gt; (SMC) - 210.000 l.y. (a.l.)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2010/07/ursa-minor-dwarf.html"&gt;Ursa Minor Dwarf - Nana dell'Orsa Minore&lt;/a&gt; (UMi dSph - UGC 9749) - 240.000 l.y. (a.l.)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-5798823051509986097?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/5798823051509986097/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=5798823051509986097&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/5798823051509986097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/5798823051509986097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/05/near-galaxies-english-italiano.html' title='The Near Galaxies - (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-2433849036379588313</id><published>2009-05-15T20:19:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-15T20:25:37.715+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ionized Cloud'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GalaxyZoo'/><title type='text'>Active Galaxies With Ionized Gas Cloud - (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1292"&gt;NGC3314&lt;/a&gt;, my overlapping galaxies guru, create another thread about &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=275014.0"&gt;Active Galaxies With Ionized Gas Cloud&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;I create a special place to store the data extracted from the &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php"&gt;GalaxyZoo Forum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the link with file containing images and SDSS link.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half1965/ionized"&gt;http://sites.google.com/site/half1965/ionized&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1292"&gt;NGC3314&lt;/a&gt;, il mio guru delle galassie sovrapposte, ha creato un altro argomento in merito alle "&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=275014.0"&gt;galassie attive contenenti nubi di gas ionizzato&lt;/a&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;Ho creato uno spazio speciale per archiviare i dati estratti dal &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php"&gt;forum di GalazyZoo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half1965/ionized"&gt;http://sites.google.com/site/half1965/ionized&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buona visione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-2433849036379588313?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/2433849036379588313/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=2433849036379588313&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/2433849036379588313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/2433849036379588313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/05/active-galaxies-with-ionized-gas-cloud.html' title='Active Galaxies With Ionized Gas Cloud - (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-6578422821723400284</id><published>2009-05-14T21:46:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-07T13:43:16.471+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Overlapping Galaxies - Galassie Sovrapposte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GalaxyZoo'/><title type='text'>Overlapping Galaxies Data Updated - (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>The overlapping data updated to 14th May 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half1965/overlapping-galaxies"&gt;Here the link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I dati delle galassie sovrapposte sono aggiornati al 14 maggio 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half1965/overlapping-galaxies"&gt;Qui il link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-6578422821723400284?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/6578422821723400284/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=6578422821723400284&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/6578422821723400284'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/6578422821723400284'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/05/overlapping-galaxies-data-updated_14.html' title='Overlapping Galaxies Data Updated - (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-6853624410839861799</id><published>2009-05-13T23:15:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-07T13:48:19.692+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Solar Eclipse - Eclissi Solare'/><title type='text'>A Solar Eclipse Observation - (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;NEVER OBSERVE THE SUN DIRECTLY THROUGH BINOCULARS, TELESCOPE OR OTHER TYPES OF LENSES PENALTY OF PERMANENT EYE DAMAGE.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NON OSSERVARE MAI IL SOLE DIRETTAMENTE ATTRAVERSO BINOCOLI, TELESCOPI O ALTRI TIPI DI LENTI PENA DANNI PERMANENTI AGLI OCCHI.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In speaking with a colleague of astronomical topics (for a change) I came back to mind the last eclipse of the Sun observed by Italy (29 March 2006 - Total for almost the whole of Europe but only partial in Italy), which became an interesting occasion to speak about astronomy and a period of aggregation. In fact we organized a sort of point of observation in the office.&lt;br /&gt;This post has no scientific validity but it is only to show that there is no need of sophisticated scientific equipment to assist to this phenomena (as shown in the photos attached - do not laugh too loud).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SgsmPKUlcLI/AAAAAAAAAO8/5gMn-vcdI38/s512/29-03-06_1133.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SgsmPKUlcLI/AAAAAAAAAO8/5gMn-vcdI38/s512/29-03-06_1133.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 184px; width: 312px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SgsmG2XgtII/AAAAAAAAAOo/YuxD2BoaXV4/s512/29-03-06_1049.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SgsmG2XgtII/AAAAAAAAAOo/YuxD2BoaXV4/s512/29-03-06_1049.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 184px; width: 312px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SgsmG16p3NI/AAAAAAAAAOs/EOTFVf-BDR8/s512/29-03-06_1054.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SgsmG16p3NI/AAAAAAAAAOs/EOTFVf-BDR8/s512/29-03-06_1054.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 184px; width: 312px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SgsmPO57VGI/AAAAAAAAAPA/80eoegqryTg/s512/29-03-06_1137.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SgsmPO57VGI/AAAAAAAAAPA/80eoegqryTg/s512/29-03-06_1137.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 184px; width: 312px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SgsmPfTbN1I/AAAAAAAAAPE/T9VhTshWDB8/s512/29-03-06_1148.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SgsmPfTbN1I/AAAAAAAAAPE/T9VhTshWDB8/s512/29-03-06_1148.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 184px; width: 312px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SgsmPfEiThI/AAAAAAAAAPI/WuQnGdAKm2k/s512/29-03-06_1233.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SgsmPfEiThI/AAAAAAAAAPI/WuQnGdAKm2k/s512/29-03-06_1233.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 184px; width: 312px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SgsmPSQDdcI/AAAAAAAAAPM/HeMqMXPXvRk/s512/29-03-06_1234.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SgsmPSQDdcI/AAAAAAAAAPM/HeMqMXPXvRk/s512/29-03-06_1234.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 184px; width: 312px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Nel parlare con un collega di argomenti astronomici (tanto per cambiare) mi è tornato alla mente l'ultima eclissi di sole osservabile dall'Italia (29 marzo 2006 - totale per quasi la totalità dell'Europa ma solo parziale in Italia) che divenne un interessante momento di confronto su argomenti astronomici ma soprattutto un momento di aggregazione dell'Ufficio. Organizzammo infatti una sorta di punto di osservazione.&lt;br /&gt;Quest post non ha nessuna validità scientifica ma è solo per dimostrare che non c'è necessità di sofisticate apparecchiature scientifiche per assistere a tali fenomeni (come dimostrato dalle foto allegate - non ridete troppo).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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"https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;try {var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-7900872-1");pageTracker._trackPageview();} catch(err) {}&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-82501778620610603?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/82501778620610603/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=82501778620610603&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/82501778620610603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/82501778620610603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/05/all-possible-nebulae-english-italiano_10.html' title='All Possible Nebulae - (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-914019430989916550</id><published>2009-05-04T00:37:00.024+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-06T20:37:03.343+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Measurement of Astronomical Distances (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Writing the &lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/04/paolo-maffei-english-italian.html"&gt;memory of Paolo Maffei&lt;/a&gt; I became curious about the galaxies closer to us and I have collected some information for an in deep study of the argument, closely related to the correct determination of their distance. The external links referred to Wikipedia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Nello scrivere &lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/04/paolo-maffei-english-italian.html"&gt;il ricordo di Paolo Maffei&lt;/a&gt; mi sono incuriosito in merito alle galassie più vicine a noi ed ho raccolto alcune informazioni per approfondire l'argomento, strettamente correlato alla determinazione corretta della loro distanza. I link esterni sono riferiti a Wikipedia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We start with the measurement of distances.&lt;br /&gt;In astronomy there are several methods for measuring distances.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For relatively nearby objects, we use the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax"&gt;method of parallax&lt;/a&gt; based on the apparent displacement of the stars in the sky, due to Earth's orbital motion, and the use of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometry"&gt;trigonometric&lt;/a&gt; calculation to determine the distance. This shift is little appreciable and this method becomes unusable for objects that are further away, just think about the stars nearest to us that have a shift lesser than an arc second. Today, thanks to the measurements made by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparcos"&gt;satellite Hypparcos&lt;/a&gt;, the method is reliable, with an error of 10%, up to about 300 light years.&lt;br /&gt;Our Galaxy is about 100,000 light years wide so the method is clearly unsuitable for objects beyond that distance, and especially outside of the Galaxy itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another method uses a particular class of variable stars: the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepheid_variable"&gt;Cepheid&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The Cepheid take their name from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Cephei"&gt;δ Cephey&lt;/a&gt; identified as a variable star in 1784 by &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goodricke"&gt;John Goodrick&lt;/a&gt;. These stars have a variable period of 1 to 50 days with a light curve that is always repeated the same to itself. In 1908 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Swan_Leavitt"&gt;Henrietta Leavitt&lt;/a&gt; published a research, based on the study of Cepheid in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellanic_Clouds"&gt;Magellanic Clouds&lt;/a&gt;, by which showed that more bright was the Cepheid was more slow was the cycle of variation. It was thus possible to determine distances for each Cepheid over another (for example one that was at a distance twice to another).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Only in 1918 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejnar_Hertzsprung"&gt;Ejnar Hertzsprung&lt;/a&gt; measured the distance of several near Cepheid with the method of parallax, thus making it possible to have an idea of absolute distances.&lt;br /&gt;The size of our galaxy has been determined on the basis of observations of Cepheid by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlow_Shapley"&gt;Harlow Shapley.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other widely used method is based on the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_effect"&gt;doppler effect&lt;/a&gt;, which is described by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Doppler"&gt;Christian Doppler&lt;/a&gt; in 1842, caused by variation in the frequency of light due to the motion of the source. If the source is moving away it's called an "expansion" of the frequency and hence a shift of the spectrum towards red, if the object is approaching we have a "compression" of the frequency and a consequent shift towards blue.&lt;br /&gt;In 1920 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble"&gt;Edwin Hubble&lt;/a&gt;, using the Cepheid, established that some nebulae, according to their distance, did not belong to the Milky Way and are obviously other galaxies. Putting these measurements in relation with the Doppler effect he formulated, in 1929, the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%27s_law"&gt;Hubble's Law&lt;/a&gt;, which establishes the existence of a linear relationship between distance and the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift"&gt;red shift&lt;/a&gt; of the spectrum, and therefore the speed of recession of a galaxy is directly proportional to its distance from us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;" id="result_box" dir="ltr"&gt;The greater precision of such measurements, made more precise by the development of more technologically advanced systems, allows to determine with greater accuracy the distances of nearby galaxies. But we will see this in a later post.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iniziamo con la misura delle distanze.&lt;br /&gt;In astronomia esistono numerosi metodi per la misura delle distanze.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per oggetti relativamente vicini si usa il metodo della &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallasse"&gt;parallasse&lt;/a&gt; basato sull'apparente spostamento nel cielo degli astri, dovuto al moto orbitale terrestre ed all'utilizzo del &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometria"&gt;calcolo trigonometrico&lt;/a&gt; per determinare la distanza. Essendo tale spostamento poco apprezzabile man mano che gli oggetti sono più lontani tale metodo diventa inutilizzabile, basti pensare che le stelle a noi più vicine presentano spostamenti inferiori al secondo d'arco. Attualmente, grazie alle misurazioni fatte dal &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparcos"&gt;satellite Hypparcos&lt;/a&gt;, tale sistema è attendibile, con un errore del 10%, fino a circa 300 anni luce.&lt;br /&gt;Estendendosi la nostra Galassia per circa 100.000 anni luce il metodo è chiaramente inutilizzabile per oggetti oltre tale distanza e soprattutto al di fuori della Galassia stessa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un altro metodo utilizzato  sfrutta una particolare categoria di stelle variabili: le &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variabile_Cefeide"&gt;Cefeidi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Le Cefeidi prendono il nome dalla &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variabile_Cefeide"&gt;δ Cephey&lt;/a&gt; identificata come stella variabile nel 1784 da &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goodricke"&gt;John Goodricke&lt;/a&gt;. Tali stelle presentano un periodo di variabilità da 1 a 50 giorni con una curva di luce che si ripete sempre uguale a se stessa. Nel 1908 &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Swan_Leavitt"&gt;Henrietta Leavitt&lt;/a&gt; pubblicò una ricerca, basata sullo studio delle Cefeidi presenti nelle &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubi_di_Magellano"&gt;Nubi di Magellano&lt;/a&gt;, con la quale dimostrò che più una Cefeide era luminosa più era lento il ciclo di variazione. Fu così possibile stabilire le distanze relative ad ogni Cefeide rispetto ad un'altra (stabilendo ad esempio che una si trovava ad una distanza doppia rispetto ad un'altra).&lt;br /&gt;Solo nel 1918 &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejnar_Hertzsprung"&gt;Ejnar Hertzsprung&lt;/a&gt; misurò la distanza di varie Cefeidi vicine, con il metodo della parallasse, rendendo così possibile avere anche una idea delle distanze assolute.&lt;br /&gt;La grandezza della nostra Galassie è stata determinata sulla base delle osservazioni delle Cefeidi da &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlow_Shapley"&gt;Harlow Shapley&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'altro metodo largamente utilizzato si basa sull'&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effetto_Doppler"&gt;effetto doppler&lt;/a&gt;, descritto da &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Andreas_Doppler"&gt;Christian Doppler&lt;/a&gt; nel 1842, causato dalla variazione della frequenza della luce dovuta al moto della sorgente. Se la sorgente si allontana si ha una "dilatazione" della frequenza e quindi uno spostamento dello spettro verso il rosso, se l'oggetto si avvicina si ha una "compressione" della frequenza ed un conseguente spostamento verso il blu.&lt;br /&gt;Nel 1920 &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble"&gt;Edwin Hubble&lt;/a&gt;, sfruttando le Cefeidi, stabilì che alcune nebulose, in base alla loro distanza, non appartenevano alla Via Lattea ed erano quindi altre galassie. Mettendo in relazione tali misurazioni con l'effetto Doppler formulò, nel 1929, la &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legge_di_Hubble"&gt;Legge di Hubble&lt;/a&gt;, che stabilisce l'esistenza di una relazione lineare fra la distanza e lo &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spostamento_verso_il_rosso"&gt;spostamento verso il rosso&lt;/a&gt; dello spettro  e che pertanto la velocità di recessione di una galassia è direttamente proporzionale alla sua distanza da noi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La maggior precisione di tali misure, rese sempre più precise dallo sviluppo di sistemi tecnologicamente più evoluti , ha consentino di poter determinare con maggior precisione le distanze della galassie vicine. Ma questo lo vedremo in un post successivo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-8571244486290771720</id><published>2009-05-03T19:50:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-07T13:43:44.008+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Overlapping Galaxies - Galassie Sovrapposte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GalaxyZoo'/><title type='text'>Overlapping Galaxies Data Updated - (English - Italiano)</title><content type='html'>The overlapping data updated to 2nd May 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half1965/overlapping-galaxies"&gt;Here the link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I dati delle galassie sovrapposte sono aggiornati al 2 maggio 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half1965/overlapping-galaxies"&gt;Qui il link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-8571244486290771720?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/8571244486290771720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=8571244486290771720&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/8571244486290771720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/8571244486290771720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/05/overlapping-galaxies-data-updated.html' title='Overlapping Galaxies Data Updated - (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-4672257364237094940</id><published>2009-04-30T20:28:00.017+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-14T18:20:17.078+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GalaxyZoo'/><title type='text'>GalaxyZoo2 - Il progetto prosegue (Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Le informazioni, in Italia, sul progetto GalaxyZoo non sono molto diffuse ad esclusione di scarni trafiletti sul alcune riviste e siti specializzati.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Ho così pensato, come fatto per GalaxyZoo1, di scrivere un post su GalaxyZoo2.&lt;br /&gt;Essendo presenti numerose informazioni in Inglese il post è solo in Italiano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The information, in Italy, on GalaxyZoo are not very common except litt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;le article on som&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;e specialized magazines and websites.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;I thought so, as for GalaxyZoo1, to write a post on GalaxyZoo2.&lt;br /&gt;There are many details in English so the post it's only in Italian.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Come detto &lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/03/galaxyzoo-1-le-origini-italian.html"&gt;nel post sul GalaxyZoo1&lt;/a&gt; la storia di questo affascinante progetto non è finita.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'enorme interesse suscitato dal lancio del progetto GalazyZoo e la rapidità dei risultati raggiunti  fanno intravedere, al Team di GalaxyZoo, la possibilità di proseguire con un nuovo progetto.&lt;br /&gt;Tale ipotesi si concretizza il 20 ottobre 2008 con il lancio della versione Beta del sito ed il 16 febbraio 2009 con il lancio del sito definitivo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Nasce così &lt;a href="https://www.galaxyzoo.org/"&gt;GalaxyZoo 2&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dall'iniziale numero di oggetti di GalaxyZoo 1 viene selezionato un campione più ristretto di 250.000 oggetti, presi fra quelli più vicini, più luminosi e più interessanti.&lt;br /&gt;Rispetto al progetto originario non viene richiesto di superare un test d'ingresso.&lt;br /&gt;Ai partecipanti è richiesta una maggiore precisione ed una più approfondita classificazione delle immagini.&lt;br /&gt;Non è sufficiente indicare la semplice morfologia della galass&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;ia ma viene &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;richiesta l'analisi di più fattori.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Di seguito le possibili opzioni.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SfoRZEUZ9JI/AAAAAAAAAMw/ZFfwyRSOnXY/s912/Zoo2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SfoRZEUZ9JI/AAAAAAAAAMw/ZFfwyRSOnXY/s912/Zoo2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 290px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 640px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Anche questa volta la risposta degli zooties, così si chiamano i partecipanti al progetto, è entusiasta. Già nella versione beta vengono raggiunti interessanti risultati.&lt;br /&gt;Il giorno del lancio della versione definitiva si raggiungono migliaia di classificazioni.&lt;br /&gt;Il progetto partecipa all'evento "100 ore di astronomia", nell'ambito dell'&lt;a href="http://www.astronomy2009.org/"&gt;anno internazionale dell'astronomia&lt;/a&gt;, ponendosi l'obiettivo di raggiungere un milione di classificazioni in tale periodo. Il risultato è stato superiore alle aspettative. Il milione di classificazioni si raggiunge in 72 ore ed alla fine della "maratona" le classificazioni saranno 2.617.570.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SfoVN_3LbcI/AAAAAAAAAM4/UY4BkoaM3DQ/1million.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SfoVN_3LbcI/AAAAAAAAAM4/UY4BkoaM3DQ/1million.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 273px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 640px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Questi numeri fanno parte di un insieme più grande. Il 2 aprile il progetto supera già i 20 milioni di classificazioni.&lt;br /&gt;Il nuovo progetto richiede un maggior numero di 'click' rispetto all'originale ma è sicuramente altrettanto avvincente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'invito a tutti è provare, ricordando comunque che si tratta di un progetto scientifico e non di una gara, e che anche poche classificazioni possono contribuire.&lt;br /&gt;Non dimenticate di consultare anche il &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php"&gt;forum&lt;/a&gt; ed il &lt;a href="http://galaxyzooblog.org/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; ufficiali.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La storia continua ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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Obviously in Italy the science in general and especially Astronomy are not in the news.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prof. Maffei was born in Arezzo in 1926.&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Passionate since boyhood of the problems of heaven, made the first observation from Umbria with an opera glasses and a monocular that an avid amateur astronomer who had made available.&lt;/span&gt;" (&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;taken from the book "Beyond the Moon" by Paolo Maffei&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;Obtained his degree in 1952 from the University of Florence and worked at the astronomical observatories of Arcetri, Bologna, Asiago, Hamburg and Catania.&lt;br /&gt;His scientific work is impossible to summarize in a few lines. Suffice it to say that the various work activities included a catalog of merging galaxies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A pioneer in the study of infrared astronomy gave a considerable impetus to this work coming to work directly with manufacturers of photographic material for the development of emulsions and filters for the specific astronomical use.&lt;br /&gt;The study of these materials and their practical application enables him, between 1967 and 1968, to discover two infrared galaxies, that have the name of  the discoverer, in the constellation of Cassiopeia.&lt;br /&gt;The Maffei 1 is a giant elliptical and the Maffei 2 is a spiral galaxy. Initially considered in the Local Group are now suspected as being part of a group by itself (Group Maffei) probably ejected from the Local Group because of a close encounter with M31 (Andromeda Galaxy).&lt;br /&gt;The two galaxies are very close to the galactic equator and much obscured by dust and gas and for this reason difficult to detect.This pioneering work led him to conceive the construction of a specific Antarctic telescope to observe infrared. This initiative is led, only recently, in the project IRAIT (International Robotic Antarctic Infrared Telescope) that will operate from the base of &lt;a href="http://www.concordiabase.eu/"&gt;Concordia - Dome C - 75 S - 123 E&lt;/a&gt;, built on the Antarctic plateau at an altitude of 3233 meters and testify the validity of  the hypotheses advanced.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;" id="result_box" dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With his name was also called an asteroid 18426 Maffei.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;He wrote numerous works of science through the journals, the press, radio and television. But, in my personal opinion, his books have been the true masterpiece. "Beyond the Moon" (1973), "The monsters of the sky" (1976), "The universe in time" (1982), "Comet Halley (1984), most of which are now out of print .&lt;br /&gt;In particular "Beyond the Moon" was the book that most struck my fancy boy. I remember that book with black and white photos and descriptions of distant worlds. With a scientific style but an exciting approach you was projected beyond the Moon to the Sun and the planets, to go to nearby and distant stars, to our Galaxies and beyond. A real journey into space.&lt;br /&gt;To understand the style of the book and the style of the writer I carry over a short excerpt taken from the book, in the chapter where the author describes the discovery of galaxies that bear his name.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="result_box" dir="ltr"&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The discovery of two new galaxies called Maffei 1 and Maffei 2 is the latest example of one of those extraordinary combinations for which while you search a thing you discover another. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; For that kind of discovery Horace Walpole coined a word that has no equivalent in Italian : Serendipity. This word derives its origin from a story of the Venetian Renaissance, which tells of three principles of Serendip (Ceylon) in search of one hundred verses, which contain the secret of a fluid capable of killing all the sea monsters. They found only a few fragments of the magic formula, but during the research, carried many unexpected discoveries, due simply to the fact that they were looking for something. Serendipity, then, is not a 'case' or 'luck', or rather not only that, but to 'discover, by accident and sagacity, things were not looking for&lt;/span&gt;'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like to think that now Prof. Paolo Maffei is up there among the stars who so loved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table  style="width: 600px; height: 28px;color:black;" border="1"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:85%;" &gt;Maffei-1 (NED Archive)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/img7/LGA/2MASS_Maffei_1_JHK.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 281px; height: 281px;" src="http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/img7/LGA/2MASS_Maffei_1_JHK.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:85%;" &gt;ra 02:36:35.4 - dec 59:39:19&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:85%;" &gt;Maffei-2 (NED Archive)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/img7/LGA/2MASS_Maffei_2_JHK.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 281px; height: 281px;" src="http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/img7/LGA/2MASS_Maffei_2_JHK.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:85%;" &gt;ra 02:41:.1 - dec 59:36:15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;E' recentemente scomparso, il 1 marzo 2009, il Prof. Paolo Maffei, astrofisico italiano di fama internazionale, e mi è gradito omaggiare chi, grazie alle sue splendide pubblicazioni divulgative, ha contribuito fortemente alla mia passione per l'astronomia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Alla sua scomparsa non è stato dato il risalto che avrebbe meritato in considerazione dei suoi meriti scientifici e dell'importanza della sua azione divulgativa. Evidentemente in Italia la scienza in generale e, soprattutto, l'Astronomia non fanno notizia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il Prof. Maffei nacque ad Arezzo nel 1926.&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Appassionato fin dalla fanciullezza dei problemi celesti, compì le prime osservazioni dalla sua Umbria con un binocolo da teatro e un cannocchiale che un appassionato astrofilo gli aveva messo a disposizione.&lt;/span&gt;" &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(tratto dal libro "Al di là della Luna" di Paolo Maffei)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conseguì la Laurea nel 1952 presso l'Università     di Firenze e lavorò presso gli osservatori astronomici di Arcetri, Bologna, Asiago, Amburgo e Catania.&lt;br /&gt;La sua opera scientifica è impossibile da sintetizzare in poche righe. Basti pensare che fra le varie attività lavoro anche alla realizzazione di un catalogo delle galassie in aggregazione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pioniere dello studio dell'astronomia dell'infrarosso diede un notevole impulso a tale attività arrivando a collaborare direttamente con le case produttrici di materiale fotografico per lo sviluppo di emulsioni e filtri per lo specifico uso astronomico. Lo studio di tali materiali e la loro pratica applicazione gli consentirono, fra il 1967 ed il 1968, di scoprire due galassie infrarosse ,che portano il nome del loro scopritore, nella Costellazione di Cassiopea. La Maffei-1 è una gigante ellittica mentre la Maffei-2 è una galassia spirale. Considerate inizialmente parte del Gruppo Locale vengono oggi ipotizzate come facenti parte di un gruppo a se stante (Gruppo Maffei) espulso probabilmente dal Gruppo Locale a causa di un incontro ravvicinato con M31 (Galassia di Andromeda). Le due galassie si trovano molto vicine all'equatore galattico e molto offuscate dalle polveri e dai gas e quindi di difficile individuazione.&lt;br /&gt;Tale attività pionieristica lo portò a concepire la costruzione di un telescopio antartico specifico per l'osservazione infrarossa. Tale iniziativa è sfociata, solo recentemente, nel progetto IRAIT (International Robotic Antarctic Infrared Telescope) che opererà dalla &lt;a href="http://www.concordiabase.eu/"&gt;Base di Concordia  - Dome C 75 S - 123 E&lt;/a&gt;, costruita sull'altopiano antartico ad una altitudine di 3.233 mt e testimonia la validità dell'ipotesi avanzata.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Con il suo nome è stato anche battezzato un asteroide 18426 Maffei.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scrisse numerose opere di divulgazione scientifica attraverso le riviste specializzate, la stampa, la radio e la televisione. Ma, secondo il mio personale parere, i suoi libri sono stati il vero capolavoro. "Al di là della Luna" (1973), "I mostri del cielo" (1976), "L'universo nel tempo" (1982), "La cometa di Halley" (1984), la maggior parte dei quali ormai fuori catalogo.&lt;br /&gt;In particolare "Al di là della Luna" è stato il libro che più ha colpito la mia fantasia di ragazzo. Ricordo quel libro con le foto in bianco e nero e la descrizione di mondi lontani. Con uno stile scientifico ma avvincente si veniva proiettati oltre la Luna, fino al Sole ed ai Pianeti, per passare alle stelle vicine e lontane, alla nostra galassie ed oltre. Un vero e proprio viaggio nello spazio.&lt;br /&gt;Per comprendere lo stile del libro e lo spessore dello scrittore riporto un breve estratto preso dal libro, nel capitolo in cui l'autore descrive la scoperta delle galassie che portano il suo nome.&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;La scoperta delle due nuove galassie chiamate ora Maffei 1 e Maffei 2  è l'ultimo esempio di una di quelle straordinarie combinazioni per le quali si trova una cosa mentre se ne cercava un'altra.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Per tale genere di scoperte Horace Walpole coniò una parola che non ha corrispondente nella lingua italiana: serendipity. Questa parola trae la sua origine da un racconto veneziano del Rinascimento, nel quale si narra di tre principi di Serendip (Ceylon), alla ricerca di cento versi, contenenti il segreto di un fluido capace di uccidere tutti i mostri marini. Essi trovarono solo pochi frammenti della formula magica ma, nel corso della ricerca, compirono numerose scoperte inattese, dovute semplicemente al fatto che stavano cercando qualcosa. Serendipity, dunque, non equivale a 'caso' o 'fortuna', o meglio non soltanto a questo, ma a ' scoprire, attraverso l'incidente e la sagacia, cose che non si stavano cercando'&lt;/span&gt;" &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(tratto dal libro "Al di là della Luna" di Paolo Maffei)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi piace pensare che il Prof. Paolo Maffei ora sia lassù, fra le stelle che tanto amava.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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(The following is one of the many existing versions of this myth).&lt;br /&gt;Zeus decided to create a child with a tremendous power, to prevent the extermination of men and gods: Heracles.&lt;br /&gt;As usual Zeus not generated the child with his legitimate wife, the queen of the gods  Hera, but with the beautiful Alcmena. Alcmena, fearing the anger of Heracles, left his son, after giving birth, outside the walls of Thebes.&lt;br /&gt;Athena, at the request of Zeus, led the queen of the gods in that place to stroll and, pretending surprise, noted that there was an abandoned child and she asked Hera, who had plenty of milk, for feeding.&lt;br /&gt;Hera approache the baby to the chest but Eracle attacked with such force that the goddess, for the pain, push him away and so a jet of milk flew into the sky, turning in to the Milky Way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, there are other beliefs that associate the Milky Way to the concept of the river, like the Inca that imagined it as the heavenly river from which the god of thunder created the rain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The American Indian believed, however, that it was the journey of souls being the crossing point between the earth and the sky.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But certainly the most interesting mith is attached to an ancient legend that told that would be a great disaster in heaven that would have caused the displacement of the Earth rotation axe and creating the resulting phenomenon of precession of the equinoxes.&lt;br /&gt;Aristotle argued that the Milky Way was the old path of the Sun before the disaster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mentre sistemavo il Blog ho pensato che un post sull'origine del nome della Via Lattea (raffigurata nell'intestazione del Blog) sarebbe stato interessante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come noto a tutti il Sole ed il nostro Sistema Solare fanno parte di una aggregazione di astri chiamata Galassia, con la G maiuscola per distinguerla dalle altre galassie.&lt;br /&gt;La Galassia è del tipo a spirale ed il Sole è posto su uno dei bracci a circa 30.000 a.l. dal centro.&lt;br /&gt;Vista dalla Terra la Galassia, in condizioni di scarsa luminosità e in notti limpide, appare come una striscia luminosa che attraversa il Cielo: tale formazione è ciò che noi chiamiamo Via Lattea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Varie storie, miti e leggende sono sorte nell'antichità a causa di questo aspetto lattiginoso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il mito più famoso dell'area mediterranea è legato ad Era ed Eracle. (Quella che segue è una delle tante versioni esistenti di tale mito).&lt;br /&gt;Zeus aveva deciso di generare un figlio dotato di una forza tremenda, tale da scongiurare lo sterminio di uomini e dei: Eracle.&lt;br /&gt;Come solito Zeus non generò tale figlio con la sua leggittima consorte, la regina degli dei Era, ma con la bella Alcmena. Quest'ultima, temendo proprio le ire di Era, abbandonò il filglio, dopo il parto, fuori dalle mura di Tebe.&lt;br /&gt;Atena, su richiesta di Zeus, condusse la regina degli dei proprio in quel luogo a passeggiare e, fingendosi sorpresa, le fece notare il  bimbo abbandonato invitando Era, che aveva latte in abbondanza, ad allattarlo.&lt;br /&gt;Era lo avvicinò al petto ma Eracle vi si attaccò con tanta forza che la dea, per il dolore, lo allontanò di scatto e così un getto di latte volò in cielo, trasformandosi nella Via Lattea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esistono, tuttavia, altre credenze che associano la Via Lattea al concetto di fiume, come gli Inca che l'immaginavano come il fiume celeste dal quale il dio del tuono faceva scaturire la pioggia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gli Indiani d'America credevano, invece, che fosse il cammino delle anime essendo il luogo di passaggio fra la terra ed il cielo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma, sicuramente, il mito più interessante è legato ad una antica leggenda secondo la quale sarebbe avvenuta in cielo una grande catastrofe che avrebbe provocato lo spostamento dell'asse terrestre creando il conseguente fenomeno della precessione degli equinozi.&lt;br /&gt;Aristotele sosteneva che la Via Lattea fosse il vecchio percorso seguito dal Sole prima della catastrofe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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In the pdf version you can click on the link above the image to go directly to SDSS page.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/Sd4xOO09VRI/AAAAAAAAAKM/HUb12UJ03Z8/Overlap.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/Sd4xOO09VRI/AAAAAAAAAKM/HUb12UJ03Z8/Overlap.gif" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 200px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 200px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Utilizzando il Perl (un linguaggio di programmazione particolarmente potente scoperto grazie a &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=6090"&gt;waveney&lt;/a&gt;, uno dei membri del &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/"&gt;Forum di GalaxyZoo&lt;/a&gt; ed un esperto programmatore) sono in grado di estrarre i dati dal &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/"&gt;Forum di GalaxyZoo&lt;/a&gt; ed in particolare dall'argomento &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=6732.0"&gt;Galassie Sovrapposte&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Ho inviato questi dati al Dr. William Keel (&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1292"&gt;NGC3314&lt;/a&gt; sul Forum di GalaxyZoo), l'astronomo che ha creato l'argomento &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=6732.0"&gt;Galassie Sovrapposte&lt;/a&gt;, come aiuto per la selezione delle galassie per le campagnie osservative presso il telescopio professionale WYIN (Kitty Peak). (&lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/03/overlapping-galaxies-english-italiano.html"&gt;altro&lt;/a&gt; ...)&lt;br /&gt;Questi dati cambiano frequentemente, grazie ai nuovi posts dei membri di GalaxyZoo, e, saltuariamente o su richiesta del Dr. Keel, produco nuove estrazioni.&lt;br /&gt;Così ho deciso di creare uno speciale spazio per archiviare i dati. &lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/half1965/overlapping-galaxies"&gt;Questo il link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;I files sono in formato pdf ed xls e contengono le informazioni circa le galassie, le immagini ed il nome del primo membro che le ha segnalate nell'argomento &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=6732.0"&gt;Galassie Sovrapposte&lt;/a&gt;. Nella versione pdf potete selezionare il link sopra l'immagine per essere reindirizzati direttamente alla pagina del SDSS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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- I discovered that I had contracted an incurable syndrome that forces me to search for new overlapping galaxies every time).&lt;br /&gt;The Overlapping galaxies are those galaxies that appear face to face, because of perspective arising from our position, but does not interact with each other and are not merging.&lt;a href="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=189.08941&amp;amp;dec=25.98707&amp;amp;scale=1.5845&amp;amp;width=512&amp;amp;height=512&amp;amp;opt=&amp;amp;query=" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=189.08941&amp;amp;dec=25.98707&amp;amp;scale=1.5845&amp;amp;width=512&amp;amp;height=512&amp;amp;opt=&amp;amp;query=" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason for this research: dust.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Overlapping galaxies are useful because they enable us to study the dust in each system.&lt;/span&gt;" - said &lt;a href="http://chrislintott.net/"&gt;Dr. Chris Lintott&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/"&gt;Oxford University&lt;/a&gt;, a member of the GalaxyZoo team  - "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Dust grains play a crucial role in the evolution of galaxies and how we see them - the presence of such dust is critical for star formation.&lt;/span&gt;”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dust with the interstellar gas contributes to the formation of stars and in turn these grains are produced in the atmospheres of cool stars and in the expanding envelopes of nova and supernova explosions. Dust reddens and dims starlight passing through it, as in our atmosphere at sunrise and sunset.&lt;br /&gt;It's, therefore, necessary to correct this effect to understand the star-forming history of galaxies, one of the most important ingredients of cosmic history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" id="result_box" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A most direct approaches to the problem is to use Overlapping galaxies in which one illuminates part of another. In the image below      is NGC3314 (familiar nickname ?) a beautiful example of Overlapping galaxies  about 140 million light-years away in the multi-headed constellation Hydra.  This color composite was constructed from Hubble Space Telescope images made in 1999 and 2000&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt; (&lt;b&gt;Credit: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/telescopes/"&gt;W. Keel&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; R. White (&lt;a href="http://www.astr.ua.edu/"&gt;Univ. Alabama&lt;/a&gt;, Tuscaloosa))&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0505/ngc3314_keel.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0505/ngc3314_keel.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 463px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 596px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The ideal case is a spiral half projected against the smooth light of an elliptical or lenticular galaxy or two Overlapping spiral galaxies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" id="result_box" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;At the launch of the project only 20 galaxies of this type was known. Just looking at the data entered in the various forum members Dr. William Keel identified 200 more.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;At the present time there are, filed by several members, about 5,000 images, although not all are, with certainty, overlapping galaxies able to contribute to the project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;With so many to select from, we can now examine how the dust content of galaxies changes with the galaxy's type and brightness.&lt;/span&gt;" - said Dr.  William Keel - "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;This work should lead to comparison with incoming Hubble data on galaxies in the early Universe, so we can trace the history of cosmic dust with a single technique. This matters because so much starbirth is dust-shrouded, making it crucial to understand how to compensate for this in our calculations&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" id="result_box" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The amount of information collected has allowed the members of the team to obtain access to the &lt;a href="http://www.noao.edu/wiyn/"&gt;WYIN&lt;/a&gt; (Wisconsin, Yale, Indiana &amp;amp; NOAO - pronounced "win") telescope of Kitty Peak (Arizona),  one of the largest in the Northern hemisphere and one of the most advanced in the world.&lt;br /&gt;Two campaigns was followed: the first 25-29 April 2008 and the second 17-19 November 2008.&lt;br /&gt;Here the link to &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/"&gt;GalaxyZoo Forum&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/"&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt; about the campaigns:&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=9102.msg90467#msg90467"&gt;We got observing time!&lt;/a&gt; (19th December 2007);&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/04/25/top-of-the-mountain-to-you/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Top of the mountain to you&lt;/a&gt; (25th April 2008);&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/04/26/first-images-on-the-fly/" rel="bookmark"&gt;First images on the fly&lt;/a&gt; (26th April 2008);&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/04/26/on-sky/" rel="bookmark"&gt;On sky…   &lt;/a&gt; (26th April 2008);&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/04/27/a-couple-of-peculiar-galaxies-before-bed/" rel="bookmark"&gt;A couple of peculiar galaxies before bed&lt;/a&gt; (27th April 2008);&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/04/28/the-best-galaxy-pair-yet/" rel="bookmark"&gt;The best galaxy pair yet…&lt;/a&gt; (28th April 2008);&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/04/28/what-is-this-dust-stuff-anyway/" rel="bookmark"&gt;What is this dust stuff for anyway?&lt;/a&gt; (28th April 2008);&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/04/28/caption-competition/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Caption competition&lt;/a&gt; (28th April 2008);&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/04/29/shades-of-opinion/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Shades of opinion&lt;/a&gt; (29th April 2008);&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/06/21/overlapping-galaxies-in-color-and-in-detail/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Overlapping galaxies in color and in detail&lt;/a&gt; (21st June 2008);&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/11/19/return-to-kitt-peak/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Return to Kitt Peak&lt;/a&gt; (19th November 2008).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/04/27/a-couple-of-peculiar-galaxies-before-bed/" rel="bookmark"&gt;      &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/04/25/top-of-the-mountain-to-you/" rel="bookmark"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/04/25/top-of-the-mountain-to-you/" rel="bookmark"&gt;     &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/04/28/caption-competition/" rel="bookmark"&gt;     &lt;/a&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I tried to separate out likely interacting system, and ignored very faint elliptical/elliptical pairs or ones to faint to learn much from without Hubble data, our current working catalog has just over 1500 pairs&lt;/span&gt;" - said Dr. William Keel in a recent message that he  kindly sent to me  - "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;We're looking now at how structure a catalog to be published both on line and in a journal.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must mention also the other members of the project Dr. Anna Manning, &lt;a href="http://www.astr.ua.edu/"&gt;Alabama University&lt;/a&gt;, and Dr. Benne Holwerda, &lt;a href="http://www.ast.uct.ac.za/"&gt;Cape Town University&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally the &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=6732.0"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; to the GalaxyZoo Forum thread about &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=6732.0"&gt;Overlapping galaxies&lt;/a&gt; and two example: the first one is the first images submitted to the Overlapping thread and the other one is my first classified galaxies in GalaxyZoo 1. Yes an overlap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=189.14276642&amp;amp;dec=11.23886332&amp;amp;scale=0.792254&amp;amp;width=512&amp;amp;height=512&amp;amp;opt=&amp;amp;query=" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=189.14276642&amp;amp;dec=11.23886332&amp;amp;scale=0.792254&amp;amp;width=512&amp;amp;height=512&amp;amp;opt=&amp;amp;query=" style="cursor: pointer; height: 250px; width: 250px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=243.49400844&amp;amp;dec=39.53063467&amp;amp;scale=0.09903175&amp;amp;width=512&amp;amp;height=512&amp;amp;opt=&amp;amp;query=" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=243.49400844&amp;amp;dec=39.53063467&amp;amp;scale=0.09903175&amp;amp;width=512&amp;amp;height=512&amp;amp;opt=&amp;amp;query=" style="cursor: pointer; height: 250px; width: 250px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must say many thanks to Dr. William Keel for his support and information given to me that grant the creation of this post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/Sd4xOO09VRI/AAAAAAAAAKM/HUb12UJ03Z8/Overlap.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/Sd4xOO09VRI/AAAAAAAAAKM/HUb12UJ03Z8/Overlap.gif" style="cursor: pointer; height: 200px; width: 200px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Half65 animation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;La proprietà delle immagini visualizzate in questo post, eccetto quando specificato, è del &lt;a href="http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/"&gt;SDSS&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In parallelo al progetto principale di classificazione di &lt;a href="https://galaxyzoo.org/"&gt;GalaxyZoo&lt;/a&gt; sono sorti altri progetti quali quelli per lo studio delle Galassie in Aggregazione, Irregolari o Sovrapposte.&lt;br /&gt;In particolare quest'ultimo progetto è stato lanciato sul forum dall'astronomo &lt;a href="http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel"&gt;Dr. William Keel &lt;/a&gt;dell'&lt;a href="http://www.astr.ua.edu/"&gt;Università dell'Alabama&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1292"&gt;NGC3314&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/"&gt;GalaxyZoo Forum&lt;/a&gt;) il 10 settembre 2007 (giorno del mio compleanno - destino ?- Ho scoperto di aver contratto una incurabile sindrome che mi costringe a cercare sempre nuove galassie sovrapposte).&lt;br /&gt;Per galassie sovrapposte si intendono quelle galassie che appaiono una di fronte all'altra, per via della prospettiva derivante dalla nostra posizione, ma non interagiscono fra loro e non sono in aggregazione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il motivo di tale ricerca: polvere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=0.81267&amp;amp;dec=16.14577&amp;amp;scale=0.7923&amp;amp;width=512&amp;amp;height=512&amp;amp;opt=&amp;amp;query=" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=0.81267&amp;amp;dec=16.14577&amp;amp;scale=0.7923&amp;amp;width=512&amp;amp;height=512&amp;amp;opt=&amp;amp;query=" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Le galassie sovrapposte sono utili perche ci consentono di studiare la polvere in ogni sistema&lt;/span&gt;" ha dichiarato il &lt;a href="http://chrislintott.net/"&gt;Dr. Chris Lintott&lt;/a&gt; dell'&lt;a href="http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/"&gt;Università di Oxford&lt;/a&gt;, un membro del team di GalaxyZoo "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I granelli di polvere svolgono un ruolo cruciale svolgono un ruolo cruciale nell'evoluzione delle galassie e sul modo in cui ci appaiono - la presenza di tale polvere è fondamentale per la formazione delle stelle.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La polvere insieme con il gas interstellare contribuisce alla formazione delle stelle e, nell'ordine, questi granelli sono prodotti nell'atmosfera delle stelle fredde e negli strati in espansione delle esplosioni create dalle nove e supernove. La polvere rende rossa e debole la luce stellare che vi passa attraverso, come avviene nella nostra atmosfera all'alba ed al tramonto.&lt;br /&gt;E', pertanto, necessario correggere questo effetti se si vuole comprendere la storia della formazione stellare delle galassie, uno degli ingredienti più importanti della storia cosmica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uno degli approcci più diretti al problema è quello di usare le galassie sovrapposte delle quali una illumina parzialmente l'altra. Nell'immagine sottostante NGC3314 (pseudonimo familiare ?) uno spettacolare esempio di galassie sovrapposte, a circa 140 milioni di anni-luce di distanza nella costellazione dell'Hydra. Questa immagine composita è stata realizzata con immagini scattate dal Telescopio Spaziale Hubble fra il 1999 ed il 2000 (&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;(&lt;b&gt;Credit: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/telescopes/"&gt;W. Keel&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; R. White (&lt;a href="http://www.astr.ua.edu/"&gt;Univ. Alabama&lt;/a&gt;, Tuscaloosa)).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0505/ngc3314_keel.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0505/ngc3314_keel.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 463px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 596px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il caso ideale è costituito da una Galassia Spirale proiettata per metà contro la luce uniforme di una Galassia Ellittica o Lenticolare. Ovvero due Galassie Spirale sovrapposte.&lt;br /&gt;Al lancio del progetto si conoscevano solo 20 galassie di questo tipo. Solo osservando i dati inseriti nel Forum dai vari membri Bill Keel ne aveva individuate 200.&lt;br /&gt;Al momento attuale sono state inviate dai vari membri circa 5.000 immagini, anche se non tutte sono, con certezza, galassie sovrapposte in grado di contribuire al progetto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Con così tante fra le quali selezionare, noi possiamo ora esaminare come la polvere contenuta nelle galassie varia a seconda del tipo e della luminosità delle galassie&lt;/span&gt;" ha detto il Dr. William Keel "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Questo lavoro dovrebbe portare al confronto con i dati dell'Hubble sull'Universo primordiale consentendo di tracciare la storia della polvere cosmica con una sola tecnica. Questo è importante perchè molte stelle nascenti sono avvolte dalla polvere, rendendo cruciale capire come compensare i nostri calcoli&lt;/span&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La mole di informazioni raccolte ha consentito di ottenere l'accesso al telescopio &lt;a href="http://www.noao.edu/wiyn/"&gt;WYIN&lt;/a&gt; (Wisconsin, Yale, Indiana &amp;amp; NOAO - pronounced "win") dell' Osservatorio Astronomico del Kitty Peak (Arizona), uno dei più grandi dell'emisfero settentrionale ed uno dei più avanzati nel mondo.&lt;br /&gt;Si sono susseguite al momento due campagne di osservazione: la prima dal 25 al 29 aprile 2008 e la seconda dal 17 al 19 novembre 2008.&lt;br /&gt;Di seguito i links al &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/"&gt;Forum&lt;/a&gt; ed al &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/"&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt; di GalaxyZoo riguardanti le campagne:&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=9102.msg90467#msg90467"&gt;We got observing time!&lt;/a&gt; (19 dicembre 2007);&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/04/25/top-of-the-mountain-to-you/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Top of the mountain to you&lt;/a&gt; (25 aprile 2008);&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/04/26/first-images-on-the-fly/" rel="bookmark"&gt;First images on the fly&lt;/a&gt; (26 aprile 2008);&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/04/26/on-sky/" rel="bookmark"&gt;On sky…   &lt;/a&gt; (26 aprile 2008);&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/04/27/a-couple-of-peculiar-galaxies-before-bed/" rel="bookmark"&gt;A couple of peculiar galaxies before bed&lt;/a&gt; (27 aprile 2008);&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/04/28/the-best-galaxy-pair-yet/" rel="bookmark"&gt;The best galaxy pair yet…&lt;/a&gt; (28 aprile 2008);&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/04/28/what-is-this-dust-stuff-anyway/" rel="bookmark"&gt;What is this dust stuff for anyway?&lt;/a&gt; (28 aprile 2008);&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/04/28/caption-competition/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Caption competition&lt;/a&gt; (28 aprile 2008);&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/04/29/shades-of-opinion/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Shades of opinion&lt;/a&gt; (29 aprile 2008);&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/06/21/overlapping-galaxies-in-color-and-in-detail/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Overlapping galaxies in color and in detail&lt;/a&gt; (21 giugno 2008);&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/11/19/return-to-kitt-peak/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Return to Kitt Peak&lt;/a&gt; (19 novembre 2008).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ho tentato di separare i sistemi interagenti ed ignorato le deboli coppie ellittica/ellittica o quelle troppo deboli per poter apprendere qualcosa senza i dati Hubble, l'attuale catalogo di lavoro contiene più di 1500 coppie&lt;/span&gt;" - ha detto il Dr. William Keel in un recente messaggio che mi ha gentilmente inviato - "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Stiamo vedendo come strutturare un catalogo da poter pubblicare on line e su carta&lt;/span&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Corre l'obbligo di menzionare anche gli altri membri del progetto la Dr. Anna Manning, dell'&lt;a href="http://www.astr.ua.edu/"&gt;Università dell'Alabama&lt;/a&gt;, ed il Dr. Benne Holwerda, dell'&lt;a href="http://www.ast.uct.ac.za/"&gt;Università di Cape Town&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Infine il &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=6732.0"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; sull'argomento "&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=6732.0"&gt;Galassie Sovrapposte&lt;/a&gt;" nel Forum di GalaxyZoo e due esempi:&lt;br /&gt;la prima immagine inserita nel Forum sull'argomento e la mia prima galassia classificata in GalaxyZoo1. Si due galassie sovrapposte.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=189.14276642&amp;amp;dec=11.23886332&amp;amp;scale=0.792254&amp;amp;width=512&amp;amp;height=512&amp;amp;opt=&amp;amp;query=" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=189.14276642&amp;amp;dec=11.23886332&amp;amp;scale=0.792254&amp;amp;width=512&amp;amp;height=512&amp;amp;opt=&amp;amp;query=" style="cursor: pointer; height: 250px; width: 250px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=243.49400844&amp;amp;dec=39.53063467&amp;amp;scale=0.09903175&amp;amp;width=512&amp;amp;height=512&amp;amp;opt=&amp;amp;query=" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=243.49400844&amp;amp;dec=39.53063467&amp;amp;scale=0.09903175&amp;amp;width=512&amp;amp;height=512&amp;amp;opt=&amp;amp;query=" style="cursor: pointer; height: 250px; width: 250px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Devo ringraziare il Dr. William Keel per il suo supporto e le informazioni fornite che hanno permesso la realizzazione di questo post.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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The informations collected become the base for other scientific studies  in parallels with &lt;a href="https://galaxyzoo.org/"&gt;GalaxyZoo&lt;/a&gt;. The astronomers use the data sent by the members in the forum to start other scientific studies like overlapping galaxies, merging and irregulars.&lt;br /&gt;In particular about this two last projects &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=6090"&gt;waveney&lt;/a&gt;, a highly skilled members of the Zoo, made a very brilliant work to help the classifications of merging and irregulars galaxies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wavwebs.com/GZ/Irregular/Hunt.cgi"&gt;Irregular project&lt;/a&gt; is still active.&lt;br /&gt;For my &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=274685.msg295282#msg295282"&gt;Saturday Object Of The Day&lt;/a&gt; I made a &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=274685.0;attach=15177"&gt;Google Tour&lt;/a&gt; with a selection of Irregular to highlight this brilliant work.&lt;br /&gt;In the post just a few examples (Credit of images: &lt;a href="http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/"&gt;SDSS&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=171.10730286&amp;amp;dec=3.32948244&amp;amp;scale=0.5&amp;amp;width=200&amp;amp;height=200"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=171.10730286&amp;amp;dec=3.32948244&amp;amp;scale=0.5&amp;amp;width=200&amp;amp;height=200" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=587726033855250504" target="_blank"&gt;587726033855250504&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=193.71275717&amp;amp;dec=2.65409138&amp;amp;scale=0.5&amp;amp;width=200&amp;amp;height=200"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=193.71275717&amp;amp;dec=2.65409138&amp;amp;scale=0.5&amp;amp;width=200&amp;amp;height=200" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=587726032791404619" target="_blank"&gt;587726032791404619&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=170.06559248&amp;amp;dec=2.52343468&amp;amp;scale=0.5&amp;amp;width=200&amp;amp;height=200"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=170.06559248&amp;amp;dec=2.52343468&amp;amp;scale=0.5&amp;amp;width=200&amp;amp;height=200" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=587726032781049939" target="_blank"&gt;587726032781049939&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=184.2877037&amp;amp;dec=3.68052521&amp;amp;scale=0.5&amp;amp;width=200&amp;amp;height=200"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=184.2877037&amp;amp;dec=3.68052521&amp;amp;scale=0.5&amp;amp;width=200&amp;amp;height=200" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=587726016681410623" target="_blank"&gt;587726016681410623&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=228.76957252&amp;amp;dec=61.20322077&amp;amp;scale=0.5&amp;amp;width=200&amp;amp;height=200"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=228.76957252&amp;amp;dec=61.20322077&amp;amp;scale=0.5&amp;amp;width=200&amp;amp;height=200" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=587725818569621602" target="_blank"&gt;587725818569621602&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=122.78521172&amp;amp;dec=46.46569683&amp;amp;scale=0.5&amp;amp;width=200&amp;amp;height=200"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=122.78521172&amp;amp;dec=46.46569683&amp;amp;scale=0.5&amp;amp;width=200&amp;amp;height=200" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=587725471203459166" target="_blank"&gt;587725471203459166&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Nel &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/"&gt;Forum di GalazyZoo&lt;/a&gt; ci sono molte raccolte di galassie: &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=99.0"&gt;Spirali&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=264.0"&gt;Ellittiche&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=567.0"&gt;in Aggregazione&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=1432.0"&gt;Irregolari&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=6732.0"&gt;Sovrapposte&lt;/a&gt; ed altre ancora.&lt;br /&gt;Il &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/"&gt;Forum&lt;/a&gt; non è solo un posto dove fare domande sulla classificazione o inserire le immagini più significative. Le informazioni collezionate sono diventate la base per altre ricerche scientifiche parallele a &lt;a href="https://galaxyzoo.org/"&gt;GalaxyZoo&lt;/a&gt;. Gli astronomi usano i dati, inseriti dai membri nel forum, per iniziare altri studi scientifici quali le galassie sovrapposte, in aggregazioni e irregolari.&lt;br /&gt;In particolare, in merito a questi ultimi due progetti, &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=6090"&gt;waveney&lt;/a&gt;, un membro dello zoo dotato di notevoli capacità, ha portato a termine un brillante lavoro pe classificare le galassie in aggregazione e irregolari.&lt;br /&gt;Il &lt;a href="http://www.wavwebs.com/GZ/Irregular/Hunt.cgi"&gt;progetto delle irregolari&lt;/a&gt; è ancora attivo.&lt;br /&gt;Per il mio &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=274685.msg295282#msg295282"&gt;Oggetto del Giorno del Sabato&lt;/a&gt; ho realizzato un &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=274685.0;attach=15177"&gt;Tour di Google&lt;/a&gt; con una selezione di irregolari per mettere in luce questo brillante lavoro.&lt;br /&gt;Nel post sono riportati solo alcuni esempi (Foto credit: &lt;a href="http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/"&gt;SDSS&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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There are programs dedicated to do that or you can simply use a graphic program, like &lt;a href="http://www.gimp.org/"&gt;GIMP&lt;/a&gt;, that save files with .ico extension. You can start from an image and then resize at 16x16 pixels. This size is compatible with all browsers even the oldest ones.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Save the file on your personal page or in the site where you normally save images.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In the Blogger construction pages select "Edit HMTL" and find this text:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;title&amp;gt;&amp;lt;data:blog.pageTitle/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/title&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/code&gt;generally in the very beginning of the file.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Under this line put this one:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link href='favicon file' rel='shortcut icon' type='image/x-icon'/&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Substitute favicon file with the url of your favicon, copied from your images hosted site.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Save all.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Reload the Blog and look at the result.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;Half65&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;La &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon"&gt;Favicon&lt;/a&gt; (Acronimo di Favorite Icon) è un'icona di 16x16 pixels associata ad una pagina web.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questo Blog è ospitato su Blogger (by Google) e se volete aggiungere una Favicon basta fare queste semplici operazioni.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create la vostra Favicon. Ci sono programmi dedicati per farlo o si può semplicemente usare un programma di grafica, &lt;a href="http://www.gimp.org/"&gt;GIMP&lt;/a&gt; ad esempio, che salva i file in formato .ico. Si può partire da una immagine e quindi ridurla a 16x16 pixels. Questa grandezza è compatibile con tutti i browsers, anche quelli più datati.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Salvare il file in una pagina web personale o su un sito per la archiviazione delle foto on-line.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nella pagina per gestire il Layout di Blogger selezionare "Modifica HTML" e cercare questo testo: &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;title&amp;gt;&amp;lt;data:blog.pageTitle/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/title&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br /&gt;generalmente all'inizio del file.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sotto questa linea inserire questa:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link href='favicon file' rel='shortcut icon' type='image/x-icon'/&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sostituire favicon file con il URL della vostra Favicon, copiandolo dal sito in cui è ospitata.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Salvate il tutto.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ricaricare il Blog e guardare il risultato.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;Half65&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");&lt;br /&gt;document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;try {&lt;br /&gt;var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-7900872-1");&lt;br /&gt;pageTracker._trackPageview();&lt;br /&gt;} catch(err) {}&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432475076650220009-1056148874234329692?l=half65.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/feeds/1056148874234329692/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432475076650220009&amp;postID=1056148874234329692&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/1056148874234329692'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432475076650220009/posts/default/1056148874234329692'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/03/add-favicon-on-your-blog-aggiungi-una.html' title='Add a Favicon on your Blog - Aggiungi una Favicon al tuo Blog (English - Italiano)'/><author><name>Half65</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04999585952311583151</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbFdFr0chBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/y-p_9LLeu3Y/S220/Eagle.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432475076650220009.post-3873098677171601771</id><published>2009-03-16T15:34:00.011+01:00</published><updated>2009-05-12T09:02:24.351+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GalaxyZoo'/><title type='text'>Perso nello spazio ... ed altro ancora (Un Italiano nello zoo) (Italiano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Questo post è la versione italiana del&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2009/03/09/lost-in-space-and-more-an-italian-in-the-zoo/"&gt; post&lt;/a&gt; apparso sul &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/"&gt;Blog Ufficiale&lt;/a&gt; di &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzoo.org/"&gt;GalaxyZoo&lt;/a&gt;. Il post sarà quindi solo in italiano.&lt;br /&gt;This post is the Italian version of the &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2009/03/09/lost-in-space-and-more-an-italian-in-the-zoo/"&gt;post &lt;/a&gt;published on the &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/"&gt;Official Blog&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzoo.org/"&gt;GalaxyZoo&lt;/a&gt;. The post will be only in Italian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Più di un anno e mezzo fa un settimanale italiano annuncio la vendita, insieme alla rivista, della Saga completa di Guerre Stellari in DVD ad un ottimo prezzo.&lt;br /&gt;In considerazione del fatto che sono dipendente dalla fantascienza e che adoro quella Saga decisi di comprarla.&lt;br /&gt;Il settimanale non è uno dei miei preferiri e lo acquistai solo per il DVD lasciando la rivista su un tavolo.&lt;br /&gt;Un giorno nel mettere in ordine ritrovai la rivista e cominciai a dare una rapida occhiata alle pagine.&lt;br /&gt;All'improvviso. fui attratto da un articolo di carattere astronomico ed in particolare da un trafiletto su un progetto di classificazione delle Galassie.&lt;br /&gt;"Strana cosa", pensai sul momento ed immaginai che fosse qualcosa di simile al seti@home, utile ma noioso.&lt;br /&gt;Ma il computer era acceso, come sempre, e vicino a me così, distrattamenrte, iniziai a digitare lo strano URL composta da www e la parola zoo mischiata con galassia.&lt;br /&gt;Non sapevo, all'epoca, di essere a pochi passi dalla dipendenza.&lt;br /&gt;Inziai a leggere la home page ed a navigare fra i vari link e ... arrivai alla tutorial page.&lt;br /&gt;E Bang.&lt;br /&gt;Quelle immagini erano stupende.&lt;br /&gt;In quel periodo stavo rinverdendo la mia passione per l'astronomia ed avevo iniziato a seguire, sul web, le lezioni del Prof. Alexei V. Filippenko dell'Università di Berkeley.&lt;br /&gt;Rimasi intrappolato.&lt;br /&gt;Lessi tutto con molta attenzione. Seguii tutti gli esempi  e provai a svolgere il test di ingresso.&lt;br /&gt;Incredibilmente il primo tentativo fu un successo.&lt;br /&gt;"Ed ora ?".&lt;br /&gt;Ero perso nello spazio.&lt;br /&gt;Inizia a classificare e, alla classificazione n. 283, un terribile dubbio. Antioraria ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/half651.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 512px; height: 512px;" src="http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/half651.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"Non è importante!" fu il mio primo pensiero "c'è scritto di non agonizzare sulle immagini". Ero solo ad un click di distanza dal perdere una grande opportuintà di assuefarmi ad un'altra parte fondamentale del progetto: il &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/"&gt;Forum&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;"Un Forum ! Non ho mai partecipato ad un Forum. Perchè iniziare adesso ?" Non so perchè ma premetti il pulsante del Forum e Bang (un'altra volta).&lt;br /&gt;Pensavo che il Forum fosse una sorta di FAQ e quando mi accorsi che così non era e che la soluzione al mio problema era di inserire una domanda ed attendere una risposta mi sentii perso.&lt;br /&gt;"Niente di così difficile" direste voi. Si.&lt;br /&gt;Ma il Forum era in Inglese che non è la mia lingua.&lt;br /&gt;Ma feci un tenativo e scrissi un messaggio in un illegibile colore blu.&lt;br /&gt;Non preoccupatevi non vi voglio annoiare raccontando tutta la storia di cosa è successo dopo.&lt;br /&gt;Sono obbligato, però, a citare il primo membro che "parlò" con me dicendo: "Ciao Benvenuto nello zoo! Anche io vede un antioraria, puoi per favore non usare il blue nello scrivere ? Fa impazzire i miei occhi. Buona caccia."&lt;br /&gt;Era &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=982"&gt;fluffyporcupine&lt;/a&gt;. Bang (ce ne sono molti in questa storia).&lt;br /&gt;Probabilmente senza questo approccio gentile sarei stato fuori dai giochi ed è grazie a questo che ho potuto conoscere altri incredibili membri.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=41"&gt;Alice&lt;/a&gt; la più amabile moderatrice dell'Universo conosciuto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2623"&gt;Hanny&lt;/a&gt; la famosa scopritrice del "Hanny's voorwerp".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1292"&gt;NGC3314&lt;/a&gt; il mio guru delle galassie sovrapposte.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=6090"&gt;waveney&lt;/a&gt; il mio guru del linguaggio Perl.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=48"&gt;Edd&lt;/a&gt; il grande Amministratore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1042"&gt;weezerd&lt;/a&gt; il mio fratello elettronico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=230"&gt;ElisabethB&lt;/a&gt; la grande cacciatrice di asteroidi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=496"&gt;Elizabeth&lt;/a&gt; la voce dall'altra parte dell'Oceano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=12"&gt;Infinity&lt;/a&gt; l'agente segreto del Forum.&lt;br /&gt;Scusate se non posso nominare tutti i membri ma sarebbe mia intenzione.&lt;br /&gt;Inoltre ho scoperto una folle passione per le &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=6732.0"&gt;galassie sovrapposte&lt;/a&gt;, gli &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?board=5.0"&gt;Oggetti del Giorno&lt;/a&gt; ed il Linguaggio Perl.&lt;br /&gt;Sono in grado di partecipare a questo progetto grazie alla pazienza ed alla gentilezza dei membri, specialmente con i nuovi arrivati (newbie - Io mi considero ancora tale).&lt;br /&gt;Imparare l'Inglese.&lt;br /&gt;Parlare con veri Astronomi.&lt;br /&gt;Imparare molto e scoprire che c'è ancora molto da imparare.&lt;br /&gt;Sono stato in grado di mettere insieme una &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=10470.msg202979#msg202979"&gt;collezione di Oggetti del Giorno&lt;/a&gt; e fare un &lt;a href="http://web.tiscali.it/half65/File/GalaxyZoo%20OOTD.kmz"&gt;piccolo Tour dell'Universo&lt;/a&gt; che può essere visto con Google Earth.&lt;br /&gt;OK. Adesso devo smetterla.&lt;br /&gt;Non preoccupatevi se non conoscete l'Inglese, se non siete laureati, se pensate di non essere utili al progetto, che non sapreste fare la cosa nel giusto modo, che non potete fare questo.&lt;br /&gt;Smettetela di pensare ed andate al progetto e scoprirete che anche con una sola classificazione potrete far parte della Storia.&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S.: La versione Inglese della storia è stata realizzata con il gentile ed essenziale aiuto di &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=41"&gt;Alice&lt;/a&gt; realmente la più amabile moderatrice dell'Universo conosciuto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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Il "viaggio" dura 15 minuti. Se il tour non parte automaticamente premere il pulsante indicato nella foto dalla freccia rossa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buona Visione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbwDLFYhXKI/AAAAAAAAAB4/Ju19KfPKzbI/s1600-h/google1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 296px; height: 282px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbwDLFYhXKI/AAAAAAAAAB4/Ju19KfPKzbI/s320/google1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313125149348813986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbwDTSDFB0I/AAAAAAAAACA/9s_EOMEZKH4/s1600-h/google2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 285px; height: 280px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/SbwDTSDFB0I/AAAAAAAAACA/9s_EOMEZKH4/s320/google2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313125290187491138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I mentioned in the &lt;a href="http://half65.blogspot.com/2009/03/galaxyzoo-1-le-origini-italian.html"&gt;previous post&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href="https://www.galaxyzoo.org/"&gt;GalaxyZoo&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/"&gt;Forum&lt;/a&gt; it's published an &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?board=5.0"&gt;Object Of The Day&lt;/a&gt; (OOTD).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The Object Of The Day was originally chosen by the ZooKeeper, then the moderator was tasked and, recently, some members.&lt;br /&gt;Generally the starting principle is to take one of the spectacular images posted in the forum with the addition sometimes of other photos, links and scientific informations.&lt;br /&gt;The Object Of The Day are summarized in a &lt;a href="http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=10470.msg202979#msg202979"&gt;collection&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Starting from a selection of Object Of The Day I made a tour of in the sky that it'spossible to download from this &lt;a href="http://web.tiscali.it/half65/File/GalaxyZoo%20OOTD.kmz"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; and that run under &lt;a href="http://earth.google.com/intl/en/index.html"&gt;Google Sky&lt;/a&gt; (last version). The "voyage" takes 15 minutes. If tour doesn't start automatically click on button indicated from red arrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half65&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/Sbv_F-vC5QI/AAAAAAAAABQ/tF_ELRaSa5k/s1600-h/Google.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 530px; height: 256px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7t8nlL0jIXI/Sbv_F-vC5QI/AAAAAAAAABQ/tF_ELRaSa5k/s320/Google.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313120663618381058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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