celestial altitude recorder
1telescope — /tel euh skohp /, n., adj., v., telescoped, telescoping. n. 1. an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens… …
2Pan American World Airways — Pan Am redirects here. For other uses, see Pan Am (disambiguation). Pan American World Airways IATA PA ICAO …
3SR-71 Blackbird — infobox Aircraft name = SR 71 Blackbird caption =An SR 71B Trainer over the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California in 1994. Note second cockpit is raised for the instructor. type = Strategic Reconnaissance manufacturer = Lockheed Skunk Works… …
4Pendulum — This article is about pendulums. For other uses, see Pendulum (disambiguation). Simple gravity pendulum model assumes no friction or air resistance …
5Spacecraft — Spaceship redirects here. For other uses, see Spaceship (disambiguation). More than 100 Russian Soyuz manned spacecraft (TMA version shown) have flown since 1967, originally for a Soviet manned lunar program, but currently supporting the… …
6Compass — This article is about the direction finding instrument used in navigation. For other uses, see Compass (disambiguation). A simple dry magnetic pocket compass …
7Cassini–Huygens — Artist s concept of Cassini s Saturn Orbit Insertion Operator NASA / ESA / ASI Mission type …
8g-force — This article is about a type of acceleration. For other uses, see G force (disambiguation). This top fuel dragster can accelerate from zero to 160 kilometres per hour (100 mph) in 0.86 seconds. This is a horizontal acceleration of 5.3 g …
9OSO 3 — The third Orbiting Solar Observatory, OSO 3, showing its Sail (upper), carrying solar experiments pointed at the Sun, and its rotating Wheel (lower), carrying two sky scanning survey instruments: the UCSD hard X ray experiment, and the MIT gamma… …
10photography, technology of — Introduction equipment, techniques, and processes used in the production of photographs. The most widely used photographic process is the black and white negative–positive system (Figure 1 >). In the camera the lens projects an image of… …
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