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(But it won’t REALLY be any bigger than any other full moon)
Right around the time of the summer solstice, the full moon’s are always a little interesting. There’s this illusions that happens, most noticeable near the summer solstice, when the moon looks very large as it rises over the eastern horizon.
The […]
Here’s my second video blog entry for AstronomyBuff. I was playing with Stellarium and trying out the video capture stuff to see how it would look for future videos.
It came out OK, the problem is resolution. In 320×240 format, the planet, star and constellation labels don’t show up very well, so I have […]
It’s no surprise to me that Colorado’s public school system is not good. I mean, I’m a product of the Boulder Valley School District and I can tell you first hand that it’s not great at preparing one for college, or anything for that matter.
So, it shouldn’t come as a big shock to me […]
I finally wrote a post for the Carnival of Space. This week’s carnival is hosted by Emily at The Planetary Society Weblog.
Here’s a link to the carnival, lots of good stuff there this week, I particularly liked Pamela Gay’s post. Enjoy!
Thanks for hosting Emily!
Why am I shouting!?
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(I sure as hell didn’t take it)
The New Scientist Space Blog is reporting that there is not much interest in the International Space Station from government or private agencies.
Duh. Could that be because no one knows what the hell it’s good for? Or what it’s purpose is? Or […]
When writing my last post, I spent some time reading Bill Keel’s Homepage where he had an interesting link entitled, Astronomy Students Say the Strangest Things.
Bill is a professor at the University of Alabama and apparently teaches introductory astronomy there. He posted some excerpts of things students have written in his class.
These are genuine, […]
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Well I’ll be dipped in mercury, it WAS true.
AstroGeek posted a comment on my last post with this link from Bill Keel showing the bullet holes in the primary of the 107-inch Harlan J. Smith telescope. It wasn’t an astronomer that did it though, it was a new employee who […]
In a paper that will come out in this week’s issue of the journal Nature, researchers proposed a blueprint for constructing a 20 - 100 meter (66 - 328 foot) diameter objective mirror using reflective liquid.
The authors propose using liquid mirrors in a telescope to be built on the moon because:
The major advantages of liquid […]
This idea seems a little far-fetched to me.
Putting up solar shields to cool the planet would be, not only a huge engineering challenge, but it seems to be that it would be very difficult to control.
For those who don’t wanna click on the link to find out what I’m on about, there’s this […]
Yay! Stellarium now works in window mode!
Thank the Gods! (sorry Andy) I just installed and started using the latest release of Stellarium and I’m doing my little happy dance.
Stellarium is a great (and free) planetarium program that I find very useful in showing me what’s up in the sky on a given […]
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