AstronomyAstronomy - LiveJournal.com(Untitled)- June 10, 2008 When they say "the internet is for porn," they must mean for people like me getting to drool over pictures of Hubble images of the Coma galaxy cluster.droolhttp://community.livejournal.com/astronomy/535560.html Imaging a Giant- June 6, 2008 Imaging the CosmosOn Thursday night, Shemp and I were treated to a night of very good transparency and at times - exceptional atmospheric stability. Normally, a day the hits the 90's F isn't good for anything but swarms of mosquitoes - but this wasn't the case. Instead of nasty summer haze - the skies were very clear and in the wee hours of the morning the Milky way was very striking. However the damned mosquitoes were pretty nasty and even with several applications of bug spray I am still...http://community.livejournal.com/astronomy/535413.html "Calibration" proofs- June 5, 2008 Nature Physics just sent me the proofs for my short story, "Calibration," with which I received help from all of you. They tell me it will be in the July issue.http://community.livejournal.com/astronomy/535087.html (Untitled)- June 4, 2008 Eep."Officials at the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) telescope are stepping up security at its construction site in Chile after two researchers were kidnapped on a nearby road."I guess they just wanted the car.http://community.livejournal.com/astronomy/534843.html Looking for Telescope Advice- June 3, 2008 Greetings, fellow travelersI'm a very amateur astronomer from southeast Wisconsin. By "very amateur" I mean that I'm able to identify 4 constellations, and name about as many stars.Despite my limited familiarity ability to remember what's what in the night sky, I've always been enamored by the cosmos. I had a cheap telescope when I was a young teenager, but it wasn't very powerful and it was difficult to find objects.Now, though, I'm looking to buy a decent telescope that I hope will show me..http://community.livejournal.com/astronomy/534649.html |