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The territorial balance of the recreational and cultural offer of the Distrito Central city (Tegucigalpa y Comayagua) and the classification of the public spaces according the administration type, are analyze in the article “Geospatial Distribution of the Public Spaces in the Distrito Central of Honduras”, to now of the availability of the public spaces of the 21 Cultural Agenda.To get to the objective, methodologically, with the tools of the softwares of geographic system information for analyze the concentration and dispersion of the cultural, recreation and sport infrastructure in relation to the center or the city to make the classification of the public spaces according the type of administration (public, privet and nonprofit) and with thar generate the indicators of the availability of public spaces.Of the analysis of the maps concludes that the most part are sport installation, there are lees appropriations of cultural installation. About the geospatial distribution, there are three tendencies, one, the location of sport installation are distributed throughout the city, the cultural installation are concentrate in the center of the city and third, the limited availability of parks and residential places where residents of a neighborhood to make their recreation.Revista Ciencias Espaciales, Vol.7(1) 2014, 61-75

This research concludes that statistically Coronal Mass Ejections sun (CME for its acronym in English), are large eruptions of solar coronal magnetic fields and plasma (considered the fourth state of matter) that reach the Earth’s orbit, with special features to speed in this specific case study, become Geomagnetic Storms, whether high or low speed. To develop these research data coronal mass ejections of solar, with defined properties were studied; speed, mass, and different types of energy from 1990 to 2012, which could become geomagnetic storms. Research is focused on speed events with a range of greater than or equal to 0.5 days and less than or equal to one days time to calculate the time of arrival to Earth in days, using the average distance between Earth and the sun. From data CME speeds; results have as few fluctuations of the magnetic field, ie few geomagnetic storms; but k indexes values were observed from 0 to 9. In general making a comparative analysis of the results of the characterization of CMEs with solar activity, it was observed that the peak cycles were atypical, concluding that actually the minimum cycles they have long, downward trend in solar activity is highlighted and as a result there are decreasing trend in the occurrence of coronal mass ejections are the main cause of geomagnetic storms.Revista Ciencias Espaciales, Vol.7(1) 2014, 21-34

One of the first activities of the Department of Aeronautical Sciences (DAC) after its formation has been presenting conferences to the Honduran aerial general population. During the years 2013 and 2014 were developed seventeen conferences on three areas of disclosure: 1) a project linking University-DAC and society called “Cycle of Conferences on Civil Aviation in Honduras”, 2) the Congresses of Scientific Research which develops each year the Direccion de Investigacion Cientifica y Posgrado (DICYP) and 3) the Scientific Conferences of the Faculty of Spatial Sciences. This article makes a brief tour of the topics, speakers and participant to finish proposing a series of conclusions from which we can improve practices of scientific disclosure.Revista Ciencias Espaciales, Vol.7(1) 2014, 6-19

This paper provides an overview of the academic status of the discipline, from its beginning to the present, to project the future of the discipline in the coming years which should be marked by a strong and permanent presence in higher education. A comprehensive analysis between Cultural Astronomy different studies – in formal and non-formal education- is conducted in order to know the trends and subjects that are shaping today’s body of knowledge and skills of the graduates of these studies. Due to the discipline’s low inclusion in the academic environment worldwide creating a Degree in Cultural Astronomy as the next necessary for the development of the discipline step is proposed.Revista Ciencias Espaciales, Vol.7(1) 2014, 116-131

Many of honduran archaeological sites are located in private properties or badly preserved, this situation make these sites difficult to study from the archaeoastronomical point of view by classical astrogeodesical methods. Otoro Valley is a well known rich area in lenca archaeological sites, despite of that it presents several problems for research purposes, particularly for Archaeoastronomy. Between them we have mainly property or entry issues, bad conservation status and invaded or partially invisible structures because of the tropical vegetation. In this work the use of modern geodesical techniques is proposed for archaeoastronomical studies in this type of context as alternative to classical techniques using Jesus de Otoro Valley as a case study.Revista Ciencias Espaciales, Vol.4(2) 2011, 33-41

The Department of Archeoastronomy, seeks to enrich and organize their bibliographic order to perform their duties with more solvency acquis. The effort has been obtained by all means possible books, magazines, videos and websites with information on archaeoastronomy and related sciences.The objective is to collect literature on archaeoastronomy and related to the better performance of our research and teaching fields and to collaborate with other researchers and students. She began with an inventory of bibliographic material available Archaeoastronomy department, in order to assess immediate needs and strengths to the formation of the Documentation Centre. Conditioning has a work area and has placed upon existing literature organization. It has contacted individuals and institutions for grants and / or exchanges, budget is sought to buy books or magazine subscriptions, tabs for all referrals are made, was obtained digital material and placed in folders, revision is made scientists internet sites, videos for presentations are obtained and institutional documentation centers are reviewed.It seeks to have a documentation center unique in its kind, organized and accessible to teachers and students, allowing a proper developing teaching and research in the department of Archaeoastronomy. We conclude that the lack of suitable bibliographic material hinders the learning. The existence of updated bibliography promotes improved education, research and cultural development. Something that we seek to support the Documentation Centre.Revista Ciencias Espaciales, Vol.4(2) 2011, 67-88

His investigation named Arqueoastronomía in the rock Art of Choluteca and Valley had for aim analyze sites of rock Art in the departments of Valley and Choluteca of the south zone of Honduras, to determine his possible content of information Arqueoastronómica. The depth of the study implied describing, registering and analyzing the samples of rock Art found in the different sites and to determine a possible astronomic relation in his design. The accomplishment I include from August, 2013 to September, 2014. One worked with the archaeological sites that presented samples of rock Art in the south of Honduras, specifically in the departments of Choluteca and Valley. The present investigation is of descriptive and transverse type in that there was realized a description and analysis of the general environment of the sites, up to coming to the description and the analysis in situ and photographically of the rock Art with astronomic characteristics, already be these pictorial or petrograbados. Since results of the study we could verify the existence of designs of rock Art with possible astronomic content in different sites of the departments of Choluteca and Valley. This investigation allows to fill emptynesses of scientific information about the rock Art in the south zone of Honduras. It is explained that these are preliminary results to the putting in march of an innovative project of investigation in Honduras, Where the methodology of investigation is tested for the study arqueoastronómico in the rock Art.Revista Ciencias Espaciales, Vol.4(2) 2011, 89-120

The possible differences that may exist between the disciplines known as Archaeoastronomy and Cultural Astronomy are investigated, with the general purpose of obtaining a profile of the scope of both sciences that can be applicable to Honduras. Upon making a bibliographic revision of documents related to this matter, it was found that various definitions have been given for both disciplines, which were evaluated in order to have a wide perspective on this issue, from a conceptual point of view and related to the honduran situation. As a result, it is proposed that both disciplines are designated by the terms “Cultural Astronomy”, since these are comprehensive of the study of the relation that different cultures (whether they are ancient of contemporary) and the celestial bodies and phenomena, as it is discussed and supported in the following document. Also, a possible strategy to find the proximity of the Astronomical Culture to the physical and Humanistic Sciences is proposed, which could be the starting point for future studies on this matter.Revista Ciencias Espaciales, Vol.4(2) 2011, 6-13

The occurrence of astronomical events, in many cases, can be predicted, existing tools and methods to predict various astronomical events that occur and / or that have happened in the past. Particularly, the Maya recognized the movement of the stars in great detail, the occurrence of these events could have been recorded by the Maya in Copan, therefore, this information can support the work of research and interpretation of astronomical legacy of the Maya of Copan. The aim is to identify the relevant astronomical events, visible to the naked eye, at the site of Copan during the period 400 AD to 900 AD, by identification of solar and lunar eclipses. The selected time period coincides with the development of the Mayan Copan Dynasty. The research is descriptive and analytical type, the variables include the type of eclipse, dates of occurrence of eclipses, time duration and magnitude of the eclipses. For the collection of information,it have been used Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA databases for the geographical location of Copan. From the data, they were identified 160 solar eclipses and 236 lunar eclipses, incorporating the Julian dates and classified according to the corresponding Long Count.During this period, no total solar eclipses occurred in this area and during the period of Waxaklaju’n UB’aah K’awiil there werethree partial solar eclipses with more than 75% of observable magnitude, an annular solar eclipse and nineteen total lunar eclipses.Revista Ciencias Espaciales, Vol.4(2) 2011, 42-66

Following on the study of the differences and similitudes between Cultural Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy, we present in this article the evaluation that was done of the different methodologies used in archaeoastronomical or archaeological studies, but both related to astronomy reflected by remains of ancient cultures. In this case, the scope is only on studies of the maya culture, and the purpose was to identify the methodologies used for completing those works, so that they can serve as the base for developing new methodological technics and tools that are useful for pursuing the Astronomical Culture discipline in Honduras. Results are shown as both tables and graphics and prove to be useful for the above mentioned purpose. As additional results, Venus and the Sun are identified as the astronomical bodies of greater importance in the maya culture.Revista Ciencias Espaciales, Vol.5(1) 2012, 86-97