Comments on: The Harry Potter Objects – a year-round literary stargazing project – Updated July 2011 http://jane.whiteoaks.com/2009/07/09/the-harry-potter-objects-a-year-round-literary-stargazing-project/ Random thoughts about LA and the rest of the universe Sun, 09 Oct 2016 17:38:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: john smith http://jane.whiteoaks.com/2009/07/09/the-harry-potter-objects-a-year-round-literary-stargazing-project/comment-page-1/#comment-5492 john smith Thu, 04 Dec 2014 04:38:57 +0000 http://jane.whiteoaks.com/?p=1211#comment-5492 i love this website i’m doing a school report and me and my friends are doing it harry potter style

]]> By: jane http://jane.whiteoaks.com/2009/07/09/the-harry-potter-objects-a-year-round-literary-stargazing-project/comment-page-1/#comment-2480 jane Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:05:37 +0000 http://jane.whiteoaks.com/?p=1211#comment-2480 Yikes! And fixed this am. It was spelled correctly in the tag words, which is used for search.

]]> By: Caroline Sakaguchi Kunioka http://jane.whiteoaks.com/2009/07/09/the-harry-potter-objects-a-year-round-literary-stargazing-project/comment-page-1/#comment-2479 Caroline Sakaguchi Kunioka Wed, 13 Jun 2012 05:19:05 +0000 http://jane.whiteoaks.com/?p=1211#comment-2479 Hey, Jane, my name has been misspelled all these years! It’s saKaguchi – s. a. K!

Thanks! :( (Always wondered why I could never find this under my name…)

]]> By: Jarad http://jane.whiteoaks.com/2009/07/09/the-harry-potter-objects-a-year-round-literary-stargazing-project/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Jarad Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:15:07 +0000 http://jane.whiteoaks.com/?p=1211#comment-226 Hi Jane -
My daughter’s girlscout group is going to a Hogwarts weekend campout (one of the girlscouts camps is running it). They are dividing up into houses, having a House Cup contest, etc. I plan to use this as a guide for doing a star party on the second night of the campout for them. I think I’ll give out house points based on how many of the OWL and NEWT objects they can point out with my green “wand”.

Thanks for putting this together!

Jarad

]]> By: jane http://jane.whiteoaks.com/2009/07/09/the-harry-potter-objects-a-year-round-literary-stargazing-project/comment-page-1/#comment-117 jane Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:56:38 +0000 http://jane.whiteoaks.com/?p=1211#comment-117 Hi Edwardo – I’ll pass your nice comments on to Mojo. :-) In my day job at NASA I do a monthly podcast about the night sky: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/whatsup.cfm You can email be at work jane.h.jones@jpl.nasa.gov Hi to your wife Joy too! Take care! Jane

]]> By: jane http://jane.whiteoaks.com/2009/07/09/the-harry-potter-objects-a-year-round-literary-stargazing-project/comment-page-1/#comment-116 jane Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:54:46 +0000 http://jane.whiteoaks.com/?p=1211#comment-116 Nope no star named after any Potters or other characters, the potter characters were named after stars or constellations. The stars were there in the sky way before the Harry Potter books. :-) Jane

]]> By: Edgardo Molina http://jane.whiteoaks.com/2009/07/09/the-harry-potter-objects-a-year-round-literary-stargazing-project/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Edgardo Molina Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:13:28 +0000 http://jane.whiteoaks.com/?p=1211#comment-97 Dear Jane,

Thank you. I have browsed all of your postings and found Mojo is a lot like myself (or the other way around). My wife Joy laughed a lot for the similarities. I am also a ham radio operator and exhaust my hobbies like astronomy, astrophotography and computer science like he does. I also make a living out of Internet servers. http://www.iptel.net.mx. Would love to meet you both some day (will keep my fingers crossed). I have a brother living in LA and visit him twice a year. I also visit San Diego frequently for a secondary server node. Joy would love some day to take the trip from S.F. to Alaska just like you did! A lot in common and and a political border in the middle. How I feel fortunate to have contacted such an interesting and nice couple after looking for TV Ranger references on the net. Just love how life make our paths cross. I have an astronomy group called Pleiades. We just started last year with a web page, unfortunately now only in spanish but will soon be translating everything. http://www.pleiades.org.mx. Will look forward to contact you by email instead of leaving comments so distant now from those on this thread. My apologies for that! I promise to prepare a Harry Potter Marathon for youngsters and kids as weather improves and will let you know about the results. Hope you don´t mind landing your nice ideas to work. The credit will be all yours! Thank you for the nice photos. Have a nice week.

Best regards!

Edgardo

]]> By: jane http://jane.whiteoaks.com/2009/07/09/the-harry-potter-objects-a-year-round-literary-stargazing-project/comment-page-1/#comment-94 jane Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:16:59 +0000 http://jane.whiteoaks.com/?p=1211#comment-94 Thanks for your nice comments! Here is a picture of me and my Televue Ranger. http://photo.whiteoaks.com/2009-galileo&me/slides/janeranger.html You could print it out I suppose. :-) Here is what it looked like yesterday: http://twitpic.com/gn8x0 (It is all better now.)

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30260538&l=d404241d89&id=1522362890 Here’s one more. Bye!

]]> By: Edgardo Molina http://jane.whiteoaks.com/2009/07/09/the-harry-potter-objects-a-year-round-literary-stargazing-project/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Edgardo Molina Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:51:19 +0000 http://jane.whiteoaks.com/?p=1211#comment-93 Dear Jane,

Congratulations! I simply can not digest all of your creativity as a star gazer. I was looking for references of the Televue Ranger and got to you. You are certainly a one of a kind person with a tremendous amount of nice things to share among all of the people who might be interested to peek into the vastness of our universe! Would love to have a portrait of you and your Televue to show to our local group on our next meeting. I have contact with youngsters as I am a father of a boy (3) and a baby girl (about to be born) so the Harry Potter references result appealing! May all your pursuits and wishes come true.

Kind regards from Mexico,
Edgardo.

]]> By: jane http://jane.whiteoaks.com/2009/07/09/the-harry-potter-objects-a-year-round-literary-stargazing-project/comment-page-1/#comment-55 jane Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:49:50 +0000 http://jane.whiteoaks.com/?p=1211#comment-55 This is an astronomy article, not a gazeteer. I googled and came up with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Harry_Potter_characters I don’t see any character with Sam as first three letters. I’d google and maybe you’ll find more.

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