Rapt in Awe: March 2006 Archives

March 31, 2006

Pushing the limits - why?

Let's see - this morning I was able to detect M51, a pair of colliding galaxies about 18 million light years away, with just 14X on the 80mm ED. It surprised me. On the other end of thngs, I came...

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March 26, 2006

Of hawks, craters and galaxies

Sometimes I learn things the hard way. No, I always learn them the hard way – sometimes I just carry that approach to the ridiculous. This is one such time. But I think I’m a little wiser, though not...

Posted by Greg Stone at 06:48 AM
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March 09, 2006

Comet Pojamanski

I saw Comet Pojamanski last week with the 15X45 IS Canon's by driving down the road a quarter mile where therw's a clear eastern horizon. Then when I got back home I realised it was visible from my driveway just...

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March 06, 2006

A lesson in context and framing

Lesson for me, that is, so I can better represent the universe to 8-year-olds. If you were wondering – ok, I know you weren’t – that’s what I was doing at 4 am this morning either huddled in the observatory,...

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