Marek Mahut

First amateur radio astronomy detection of Cygnus A and the Hydrogen-line in Slovak Republic has been done with Fedora system using gnuradio software package.
More information on WavesFromSpace.org.

Please test gnuradio-3.1.3-2.fc10 bugfix update.

* Fri Dec 19 2008 Marek Mahut <mma…@fedoraproject.org> – 3.1.3-2
- Upstream release 3.1.3
- Comedi support
- RHBZ#473928 Unowned directories

Astronomers discovered on picture taken by Hubble Space Telesope of Fomolhaut star a tiny dot, which has been identified as its orbiting planet called Fomalhaut B. It has carved a path along the inner edge of a vast, dusty debris ring encircling Fomalhaut that is 34.6 billion kilometers across. Fomalhaut b lies 2.9 billion kilometers [...]

Small planetoid with name 8TA9D69 (also know as 2008 TC3) can cross Earth’s atmosphere just in few hours, chances of this are about 90%. This big bolide (very bright meteoroid that can be visible even during day) will enter Earth’s atmosphere at about 2h30 – 2h50 UTC 7th Oct 2008 There’s nothing to worry about, [...]

26th September is know as Researchers’ night (noc vedcu in .cz), launched in 2005 under the “Researchers in Europe” initiative, offers the large public a unique opportunity to discover the researchers and their magic world: dozens of labs, universities, enterprises, foundations… open their doors and unveil their secrets Europe wide, allowing each of you, “hand [...]

Year 2009, the international year of the astronomy, is coming!

Galaxy Zoo is an online astronomy project which invites members of the public to assist in classifying over a million galaxies. It is an example of Citizen science as it enlists the help of members of the public to help in scientific research. Everyone can participate!

If you have little bit of chance, you can even [...]

Photos from solar eclipse observation party at Cerova has been posted on my flickr account! Enjoy!
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We ran Fedora 9 with USRP to operate the radio-telescope. Great success!
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Nasa announced the opening of their gallery at nasaimages.org with many free pictures collected over many years.

Preparations for the lanch of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to the moon are in progress and should happen by end of year 2008. Want to join this ride to the moon? NASA is collecting names of people supporting this mission, all names will be placed on board before take off it to the moon. Send [...]