Some background on binary star systems and mergers; Almost full moon; Visitors on the observatory patio?

 Greetings from Palmia Observatory

Well, this week I attended the CSULB physics colloquium and had interesting presentation on binary system evolution and mergers by Professor Margaret Lazzarini, CSULA.

Searching for Comet Lemmon in city lights viewing in Orange County

 Greetings from Palmia Observatory

Well, there has been a lot of talk about Comet Lemmon and how it is sort of naked eyeball visible, so I had to get out of my easy chair and take the flimsy tripod and DSLR outside and take a look.

Trying out Google AI Search Overview; Can the multiverse concept now be tested? How does AI do with witches? Finally, its the full moon!

 Greetings from Palmia Observatory,

Well, this week we had some fun with Google AI searches and watched good multiverse discussion video and finished with a peek outside of the full moon.

Gravity Wave Detections and Fireworks; Is it faith or just Bayesian Statistics?; Daydreaming about finding ice on the Moon and making a martini with it.

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Hope you all had a happy and noisy 4th of July celebration! For me, it seemed the GW event app on my iPhone was very noisy too, always chirping whenever a binary black hole merger was detected.

Can we go out now and see Mars retrograde motion? No, you have to wait, but let's look at ephemeris data simulation

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During a recent PBS show "Ancient Skies" the Ptolemaic view of the universe described the use of epicycles to correct for the retrograde motion of Mars.  Can we go outside now and observe the motion?

Attended APS Global Physics Summit; Attended some of the PCGM; Trying to remember the first part of Gauge Theory; Can we measure the acceleration of Andromeda in the lab?

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Well, it's been a while since we last made a blog post.  I guess I'm just losing energy and have a tougher time deciding to blog about any ongoing activity. I've made 559 posts over the past 10 years and this Physicist Wannabe is just getting tired.