This summer has included a LOT of travel. Here is the next installment of my travelogues! (See also, Part 1) (As usual, all writing on this blog is solely my opinion and does not reflect the attitudes of any of…
Tag: telescope
Japanese Rock Ode to a Telescope
If you love music and astronomy, this is the coolest video you will see all day. If you love music and radio astronomy, this is the coolest video you’ll see all month, at least. The Japanese rock band ACIDMAN released…
Conference Travel: URSI Day 1
Warning, much radio astronomy geekery ahead! Wednesday was the first day of the National Radio Science Meeting in Boulder, CO. As I did two years ago, I spend most (if not all) of my time in Commission J: Radio Astronomy.…
UVa’s McCormick Observatory Celebrates Quasquicentennial!
Okay, that word makes me giggle. Quasquicentennial. It means 125 years, and that’s how old the McCormick Observatory at the University of Virginia is on April 13 (tomorrow)! Many people know it on Grounds as that dome on O-Hill if…
Astronomical Tales to be Told!
So, I just finished watching, and being very entertained by, “The Pluto Files,” a NOVA special by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Go watch it. Seriously! I’ll wait… There was a part where Clyde Tombaugh’s son was showing off some of his…
AAS Reports: The Allen Telescope Array
The first official day of the conference, my collaborator and I spent quite a bit of time hanging out at the poster group for the Allen Telescope Array. Although they work at a different frequency regime than we do (check…
AAS Wrap-up: Personal Perspective and the Big Stories
What a crazy ride! I am finally recovered, mostly, from the big American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, DC, that occurred last week. What a ride! For me, the conference started off with a teaching workshop put on by the…
Dragon*Con Post-Op
Holy. Frakkin. Wow. So, I attended, no, experienced my very first Dragon*Con. It was on a scale of something that I have never seen before. Tens of thousands of freaks and geeks, many in costume, descended upon downtown Atlanta to…
My Philly-Atlantic City-New York-Poconos Experience
My webernets presence has been pretty sparse lately, as I’ve been away from home and on the road for almost a week and a half. And I had a blast! So much so that I’m having trouble readjusting to being…
Astrophotography contest!
Hey all you starry-eyed shutterbugs out there. Celestron and Discover magazine are sponsoring an astrophotograpy contest this month. The rules include a stipulation that the images must be taken through Celestron optics, but other than that, it can be any…