December 7th, 2007
For most of people who love their astronomy buffs, they can’t see the appeal of some of the gadgets we buy. It’s good that we’ve found significant others who love us in spite of our desire to stand alone for hours in the dark gathering faint photons from the sky with god-knows-what-that-thing-is.
If you found […]
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December 7th, 2007
Sometimes when I’m bored, and admittedly that’s not very often, I’ll go through flickr and type in something silly in the search box, sort the results by Most Interesting and see what comes up.
I did that yesterday with “Telescope Christmas” and saw this photo (click on it to see a bigger one):
Image Credit: uBookworm
Apparently, […]
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December 4th, 2007
Image Credit: Marchetype
The clean, cold, crisp nights of winter are THE best for observing. The fact that here in the northern hemisphere we get more starlight hours helps too. This is the season of the amateur astronomer.
At no point in the year will we get clearer, stable skies. The boiling atmosphere […]
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December 3rd, 2007
The Geminid meteor shower is coming up in a little over a week.
On December 13th at around 10pm or so, start looking towards the constellation Gemini to see what promises to be the best meteor shower of the year.
Here’s where to look (click on it to see a bigger one):
Geminids will start around 10:30pm December […]
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