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On September 6th last year, I uploaded a video I made over the course of a weekend called The Hubble Deep Field: The most important image ever taken.
Since that time, it has been viewed almost one million times (975,557 as of today). I have a post and video blog entry prepared for the […]
This Saturday’s rare meteor shower has the potential to be very bright and interesting and given that it has only occurred about three times before (that we know of), it’s worth checking out.
Unfortunately, only people in the western part of the U.S. (and Alaska and Hawai’i), western Canada and Mexico are going to be able […]
Yesterday in my homeschool science class, we had a discussion of how dark energy is thought to drive the expansion of the universe.
“If you had a bottle one cubic centimeter in volume and sucked out everything in it: every atom, molecule, dark matter particle… everything… how much energy do you think would remain in the […]
I took my vidya camera outside last night to see how the lunar eclipse would look on video tape. Here’s the raw video footage:
For some reason, the player sticks six seconds into the thing, just slide the slider over a bit and it’ll start back up, there must be something strange with the […]
In a few weeks, I’ll be starting a unit on galaxies formation and evolution in my homeschool science class and while thinking about what activities I could have the students do, the first thing that popped in my mind was GalaxyZoo.org.
I plan to have a few discussions on how galaxies form and the various types, […]
Photo Credit: PhotoGraham
In all the posts about tonight’s lunar eclipse, it’s easy to get the impression that you need to go out tomorrow night to see it.
While technically that’s true, it is on Tuesday, you’re gonna need to go out tonight to see it. For people in North America at least, the eclipse […]
Well, I just got tagged for my first meme by AstroProf. Here we go…
Four Things Meme:
Four jobs I have had in my life:
Telescope salesman
Soldier in the army (worked on helicopters)
Ran a non-profit doing ‘Mr. Wizard’ type science demonstrations in schools.
Associate scientist
Four places that I have lived:
Homosassa, Florida
Manhattan, Kansas
Tallahassee, Florida
Boulder, Colorado
Four favorite Foods:
Any and all […]
Google’s latest version of Google Earth now lets you explore the night sky:
They’ve incorporated several datasets from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute, and Digital Sky Survey Consortium (which is a collaboration of many datasets, including Palomar’s sky survey). I was playing with it today and really thought it was cool.
I […]
It turns out that homeschooling science this year for my son is going to be pretty fun. I’ve spend the last few weeks developing my curriculum and I now have a rough outline of what I’m going to do.
I began by looking at the science standards set forth by the Boulder Valley School District […]
No matter what the field, it takes a lot of time to keep current on research. I know that just reading the papers relevant to solar imaging filters and calibration techniques (my particular area of expertise), takes more time than I have.
I try to offset what I don’t have time to read by going […]
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