Quiz Results! Elon salvages offshore oil platforms for at sea Starship launch sites; Golden Webinars from Chile; Daniela Calzetti explains expects of dust on galactic measurements

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Well the weather has turned cold and rainy so more time for inside activity.  First up we can report that some folks actually did some work on the quiz.

Hooray, Mars-Uranus-Moon! Time for another quiz; More from the 237th AAS Meeting; Looking for galaxy structure with Faber of Faber-Jackson Relation; DESI's 5000 robot helpers; Gravitational Lensing

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Well have more comments on the 237th AAS meeting, but first we have some DSLR images of the Moon-Mars-Uranus conjunction.

Weather interlude; More on RNA viruses and variants and genetic sequencing; Nucleoside Nomenclature; What is this common household item?

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Well the weather has turned very windy and cloudy and might get in the way of observing the conjunction of Mar/Uranus/Moon on Ja 20, so let's take a break and look at some news in virology.

Mercury low on the horizon and Mars & Uranus high up; Sample Return News; AAS237 Meeting; White Dwarfs and Gravity Waves; AGN; Gravity Energy Storage System; Shaken not Stirred!

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Well this week has had clear nights so we can show some DSLR shots of Mercury and Mars and Uranus, then comment on some space news and some more brief comments on AAS 237.

Orloj - The Prague Astronomical Clock; iPad Astrolabe; Hooray, first day of the online AAS 237th meeting; Pulsar Timing Arrays; Mars-Uranus nearing conjunction

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Earlier in the week we saw some TV show on astronomy and they showed the Orloj Astronomical Clock in Prague. Wo while we wait for the AAS 237th meeting to start, lets detour to that clock.

Get ready for AAS 237; Coming up on the Mars and Uranus Conjunction; How to sequence DNA; Astronomer Assistant Willow

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Well this week has kept busy indoors studying about how DNA genome sequencing works and practicing outdoors trying to photograph Uranus with a DSLR telephoto lens.  But first we should check the calendar for upcoming AAS meetings.

Happy New Year!; Great conjunction composite photo! My favorite COVID-19 at home self test? Hey, the Sun has some spots; Closing in on the last images and orbital measurement of Saturn's moon Titan

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Well, here we are in a new year and plan and hope for more successful, saner and safe and happy new year! Our end of year activity was busy trying to complete the measurement of Titan's orbit around Saturn and do some physics while sometimes getting sidetracked into armchair virology as we navigate our way through the pandemic.