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The white area is greater Los Angeles. I observed from my driveway in Monrovia, indicated at the "red/white" border zone marked with cross-hairs My meteor watching setup – comfortable chair, blanket, clipboard, red flashlights, clock, binoculars, snacks The graph shows the ZHR (Zenithal Hourly Rate), which is the number of meteors an observer would [...] Herald-Bobroff Astroatlas Astroatlas B Chart page for Grus and Telescopium, well below Capricornus and Sagittarius NGC131 and 134 and a 5-spot of mag 10 stars NGC55 image by Morris Jones, used with permission While Mojo and I were observing at Amboy Crater on October 22, 2011, Cliff, another observer at the site pointed [...] Comet/2010 G2 (HILL) NGC7380 emission nebula and cluster The Great Galaxy in Andromeda, M31, with M32 and M110 nearby The Pegasus 1 galaxy cluster I love to take my telescope out to observe the sky, and I find that the objects studied or discovered by scientists (from the past or the present) make for an [...] My meteor shower first aid kit Waiting for moonset on Perseid night 2010, observing from Amboy Crater, CA Notice elevated rates from August 7th-15th, and a secondary peak on the 17th, and the 20th? Were you disappointed with the Perseids? Don’t feel bad, because most people in the US didn’t see very many this [...] The day before launch – Atlas V in 551 configuration (5-meter payload fairing, 5 solid rocket strap-ons). Under the fairing is a Centaur second stage and Juno. Launch 12:25 p.m. EDT August 5, 2011 Bound for Jupiter – a plume sundial. You can tell the time of launch by the shadow of the plume [...] A room with a view – overlooking beautiful Jones Street Chippewa Square, location of Forrest Gump's bench scenes Back in November 2010 I took a micro-vacation to Savannah, Georgia. Even though my visit was less than 24 hours long, I packed a lot of sightseeing into my short visit. I was traveling from Atlanta, Georgia, [...] The moon's summer and winter path, courtesy NASA's Starchild website The winter’s moon – a smiling crescent just after sunset Feb 5, 2011 (click to see moon upper center) Closeup of winter crescent moon The summer's "backwards C" crescent moon at sunset, late June 2007 (click to see moon in lower right) Closeup [...] Red Willow Dreamcatcher with Big Dipper and Milky Way The Fisher Stars, painting courtesy of Edwin Bighetti, Mathais Colomb First Nation Wesakaychak Pointing – courtesy of Edwin Bighetti, Mathais Colomb First Nation In March 2010, I was invited to be the keynote speaker at the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre’s annual Science and [...] Map of Manitoba showing Winnipeg, Nelson House and Churchill RASC Ron Berard and Guy Westcott at speaker dinner before my RASC talk my school talk at Otetiskiwin Kiskinwamahtowekamik K-8th school in Nelson House Churchill, Polar Bear Capital of the world, on Hudson Bay In early November 2010, I embarked on a wonderful ten-day speaking tour [...] How a lymphedema sleeve works I learned about an amazing partnership this week. A partnership connecting women who suffer from lymphedema (demystified below) with free compression sleeves (also demystified below)! This is cross-posted from my friend Susan’s Toddler Planet blog post “Can’t Afford Lymphedema Sleeves?” Crickett’s Answer, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in memory of Crickett [...] |
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