This week's report, after last week's digression into astrophysics and astronomy conferences, finally can share some real Astro photos. First up is a photo, taken with just a 600 mm telephoto at Palmia Observatory, shows the "strawberry moon", which just refers to a full moon that
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Observing with Street Lights

Dark sky sites not always necessary to see the Milky Way (This image was taken ouside of a B&B in Julian, CA)
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Monday, June 20, 2016
The American Astronomical Society meeting in San Diego and Society for Astronomical Science meeting in Ontario, If Iggy didnt show to teach you physics, check with your cat, and now you can do amateur radio astronomy too!
Greetings from Palmia Observatory
Well as we mentioned last time this week has been taken up with the AAS conference, sponsored by professional astronomers, in San Diego and the SAS conference, sponsored by amateur astronomers, in Ontario. Resident Astronomer Peggy maintained the observatory and Astronomer Assistants Danny and Ruby, while I flitted about
Saturday, June 11, 2016
Oops, here are the fuzzy photos of Jupiter and Mars, travelling to AAS meeting in San Diego and the SAS meeting in Ontario
Oops, I messed up and didn't have the Astro photos of Jupiter and Mars attached correctly. I'm still getting used to gmail and have now discovered that photos, once attached, will sort of fall off if you leave your IPad unattended till it falls asleep. Then When you come back and finish off the typing, sometimes the photos are gone. So here are the fuzzy
Get your copy of Quanta magazine, looking at Mars and Jupiter, June gloom, nuclear R-process, Iggy Azalea will teach you physics and explanation by Jimmy Kimmel
Greeting from Palmia Observatory
Let's get to the mail before we look at some photos of Mars and Jupiter. Retired Big Oil Chemist, Dr Arnold, forwarded a web reference for a great, online, free science type magazine called Quanta Magazine. I've enjoyed it and signed up. Thanks Arnold. If you're interested in
Saturday, June 4, 2016
HIgh school graduates grow up and move on, geology video shows look back time just as does astronomy, and the 4-D man question
Greetings from Palmia Observatory
Well we didn't get much Astro observing in this week. I guess I'm feeling the effects of a cold and maybe even some jet lag. We did manage to get out to a high school graduation ceremony, but not much Astro observing. This next week should have some good observing opportunities, especially now with Mars being in its closest approach to Earth. We should all take a look and see if
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