May 29, 2006
Marginal is good enough, but . . .
Well the Clear Sky Clock can be wrong! It was calling for pretty close to ideal viewing conditions between 9 and midnight last night and they turned out to be marginal at best. As I waited for four visitor’s to...May 28, 2006
You can't believe your eyes . . .
That's the bottom line - it's about what I'm seeing, or not seeing . . . It's muggy, it's humid, it's 3:30 am. Any astronomer with a modicum of experience would tell me to go back to bed. The transparency...May 27, 2006
Eyecandy from Cassini
Click - please do - to enlarge! The Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn has made a host of scientific discoveries, but this one you can just put in the awe column - it's simply beautiful. The little moon above...May 25, 2006
Blind and no bluff
Contour drawing, I’m talking about – but with no contours, either. Still, it helps – I’m convinced you see more when you do it. As usual, when I plan to get up early I end up getting a whopping 6-hours...May 24, 2006
Even the best laid plans sometimes go right ;-)
Shortly after 7 am yesterday I sent out a notice to the group planning to visit that night saying “this is going to be an iffy day - right now I expect it to be mostly clear this morning,...May 23, 2006
Twinkle, twinkle little nuclear explosion
I had a father and his10-year-old son come for their first visit to the Observatory yesterday and this time I think I started them off right. I’ve learned a lot during this first year of public observing sessions and...May 22, 2006
On bended knee . . . sometimes things just distract you.
On bended knee Globular clusters fascinate me – partly because they play a Cheshire Cat-type game with the cosmologists. See one of the things cosmologists try to calculate is the age of the Universe. However, some studies of globular clusters...May 21, 2006
Of comets, rings, and yellow warblers
I went to bed before 9, figuring that by normal standards I would be awake at 1:30 am giving me plenty of time to look for Comet SW-3 which continues to break up in interesting fashion – but is a...May 20, 2006
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