September 29, 2007
A new visual intimacy – with the universe and others
To understand my enthusiastic reaction to a new, tiny, and inexpensive 2.5-inch LCD video monitor, you have to understand my fundamental goal – helping people connect with the universe. In doing that I have been very suspicious of putting too...September 19, 2007
Video, sketching, observing and education
My focus of late has been on how to best integrate video astronomy into my educational programs - and personal observing - so I retain the sense of intimacy - the connections - with the night sky. I'm skeptical of...September 18, 2007
This morning's planets
Let's hear it for Venus! (not to mention Mars and Staurn ;-) I've been following Venus carefully this year since February, but for some reason it seems much brighter in our morning sky - what a beacon! Yet the cold...September 17, 2007
Don't bring down the Hubble yet, but . . .
. . . this is fantastic. First you have to understand that when I was a kid the 200-inch Mount Palomar scope was the telescope of dreams - the key to the universe. Then it slowly became eclipsed by other...September 11, 2007
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