Archives for December 2005
Tuesday Two-fer
Published on 28 Dec 2005 at 2:42 am.
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Filed under Eqiupment, Images, Observation Log.
Well at long last the sky has cleared up and the haze has lifted. The temperature is 47º F (which is so cold for us here that I’m tempted to express it in Kelvin… but anyway) and I’d say the seeing is about as good as it ever gets.
I took the scope out on Christmas [...]
Hallelujah!!
Published on 20 Dec 2005 at 3:40 pm.
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Filed under In the News.
Praise the Intelligent Designer!! A Pennsylvania school district can not teach the concept of intelligent design.
“We have concluded that it is not [science], and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents,” Jones writes in his 139-page opinion posted on the court’s Web site…
Read the CNN article.
One small step.
Cosmos Boxed Set (Collector’s Edition) DVD
Published on 13 Dec 2005 at 8:54 pm.
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Filed under Reviews.
I purchased the Cosmos Boxed Set (Collector’s Edition) DVD a number of months ago. I was only recently able to make some time to get through the last few episodes and I wanted to say that I am as impressed with the series now as I was when it first aired in 1980. Even [...]
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Moon and Mars Redux
Published on 12 Dec 2005 at 11:19 am.
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Filed under In the News.
The Moon and Mars were in conjunction once again last night, separated by about 1º. I happened to notice it through the trees in the west as I was bringing the dog in at about 1 AM. I had just come out of the studio and had taken a sleeping pill or I’d have been [...]
Gray Days and the 300 ft Man
Published on 11 Dec 2005 at 4:53 am.
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Filed under Reviews, Thoughts & Ramblings.
Ok, now that the weather has been nice and cool in the evenings, nature has seen fit to cloud over the sky and deliver off and on rain for the last 10 days. Go figure that. At anyrate, all this "me time" has allowed me to finally crack open a book I’d been pining to [...]
