New Astro Blog

Astro Blog will detail the use of these two telescopes, a 9.25" and 14"
EdgeHD from Celestron.

Coming Soon! New Astro Blog

The exciting new future dedicated Astro blog is where you can partake in exciting astro details, projects and experiments!

Astro blog will include new ideas and techniques, observatory and equipment details for astro imaging the Moon, planets and/or deep sky objects. One major focus will include the penetration of clouds, less than ideal seeing conditions, and light pollution,. This includes increasing the quality of results and data obtained through smog, fog, haze, thin clouds, chemical air pollution, and minimizing or eliminating specific lighting such as LED, mercury vapor and sodium. The blog page may also include telescope, accessory and equipment reviews and hidden details revealed on the best astro deals worldwide. Astro blog may show results and details of what can be accomplished in the heart of the inner city when imaging through bright Bortle 9 skies with the highest levels of light pollution. Some interesting questions may include how to pole align when the North is blocked, and how to star calibrate the telescope when no stars are visible.

Space1 Fish Ears

SPACE1 studies reveal fish with hearing. Space faring fish will need sound considerations during rocket flights.

To keep fish from becoming psychotic, it's highly recommended to use external HOB tank filters where the hum and vibration of the aquarium filter and electric pump is more isolated outside the tank.

Sound that’s generated underwater stays underwater; very little sound passes from water to air. So you won't hear much when your loud filter motor is underwater. When your head is out of the water and you listen to a sound made underwater, you don’t hear much. But if you put your head under the water, the sound becomes much louder.

You also feel more of a sound when you’re underwater. Above the surface, the sound waves only vibrate your eardrum (unless the sound is very loud). When your head is submerged, your skull also vibrates with the sound because it's close to the same density and elasticity as water. Below the surface, sound waves pass directly through the water and into your head. These are all significant considerations for fish.

Water is a good conductor of sound. For starters, sound can travel through water up to five times faster than it travels through air. When a sound is carried to you through the air, you judge the location of its source by comparing when the sound reaches one ear versus the other. But when you’re under water, the sound travels so fast that it reaches both ears at almost the same time.

Space1 Dwarf Puffer Fish Update 1

1st photo from the new side Fish Cam

Brainy Dwarf Puffer Fish Updates
Space1 has taken charge of picky and brainy dwarf puffer fish which have applied for the Astronaut Training Program, and made changes thus creating their new environment. 

Their school is now doubled in size from one gallon to two gallons, along with two filters instead of one, a gravel floor instead of pellet soil, and with plants reconfigured to improve the environment and more readily amuse the fish.

The fish have grown in two weeks and are now accustomed to hand feeding of frozen blood worms. Their diet was recently supplemented with a mosquito that was eaten by the meat eating group faster than the eyes could see. Lighting from high intensity LEDs was turned off due to its creation of algae and are used only during feeding.

The worm in the small tank was identified as a harmless Rhabdocoela worm. These worms usually stay in the ground soil and only occasionally appear on the walls. If anything, they eat waste from the ground for recycling like tiny scavengers. The worm introduction to the new tank was carefully avoided as they compete with snails. The plan is to introduce common snails to the small tank for growing after the tank is reset. Then, snails will become another food staple for the fish who can grind their teeth on the shells.

Also modified is the Fish Cam, now relocated to the right side of the tank, and mounted on the small one gallon aquarium. On the order list is an aquarium twenty times the size of the original aquarium. A larger tank is much more stable and can hold more fish. The smallest fish tank may be repurposed as a terrarium to grow talking plants. The fish, always raised as a group, are not overly territorial and new plants will soon be introduced.

They often observe every leaf on the vegetation with much patience and curiosity but never pick at it for food remnants. They like to eat only fresh new introduced meat food and once it hits the ground, it will be ignored. For this reason, the instructor now holds the food at the water surface until the fish swarm and tear it from the hand. Keeping the tank clean requires a siphon pump and hose for cleaning the gravel every day.