Greetings from Palmia Observatory
Well this is my 4th day at the winter AAS meeting and can share a few comments, this time mostly from my wandering around the exhibit hall and one special award announcement for an amateur astronomer.
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)
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Some summary comments from the American Astronomical Society 231st meeting in Washington, DC; Pan-STARRS; Juno; Tidal Disruption Events; Riess and Hubble constant tension
Greetings from Palmia Observatory
Well this has been the first full day of plenary sessions at the 231st meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). There has already been some really interesting presentations and I find I'm having a harder time to summarize what I heard, but here goes. The AAS 231 was held outside of Washington DC, actually at National Harbor in Maryland. There were way too many sessions to choose from, but my approach was to attend all of the plenary sessions and one special session dealing with Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii and how its publicly available data is being used and can be accessed by the public and citizen scientists and a short summary of those sessions will be presented.
Well this has been the first full day of plenary sessions at the 231st meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). There has already been some really interesting presentations and I find I'm having a harder time to summarize what I heard, but here goes. The AAS 231 was held outside of Washington DC, actually at National Harbor in Maryland. There were way too many sessions to choose from, but my approach was to attend all of the plenary sessions and one special session dealing with Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii and how its publicly available data is being used and can be accessed by the public and citizen scientists and a short summary of those sessions will be presented.
Monday, January 8, 2018
Hooray, trip to 2019 eclipse in Chile arranged! Some comments on the first two days of Python and Astropy pre-meetings at the American Astronomical Society 231st meeting in Washington, DC
Greetings from Palmia Observatory
We are currently offsite at the American Astronomical Society 231st meeting in Washington, DC. So, this blog post does not have any telescopic observations or images, but does have a few comments about the pre-meeting workshops and some good news about the upcoming eclipse trip to Chile in 2019.
We are currently offsite at the American Astronomical Society 231st meeting in Washington, DC. So, this blog post does not have any telescopic observations or images, but does have a few comments about the pre-meeting workshops and some good news about the upcoming eclipse trip to Chile in 2019.
Friday, January 5, 2018
What to do when the clouds come in? Well, study clouds! HDF size comparison; See you at the 231st AAS meeting in Washington, DC; Bayesain models for astrophysics
Greetings from Palmia Observatory
Well again we are just waiting for the cloudy weather to go away or rain, whatever. So the first part of this post covers some images of the sky and clouds and does some analysis to measure sky brightness compared to the clouds. The second part of the post covers the upcoming American Astronomical Society 231st meeting in Washington, DC, and some of the Python and Bayesian programming workshops that I hope to attend.
Well again we are just waiting for the cloudy weather to go away or rain, whatever. So the first part of this post covers some images of the sky and clouds and does some analysis to measure sky brightness compared to the clouds. The second part of the post covers the upcoming American Astronomical Society 231st meeting in Washington, DC, and some of the Python and Bayesian programming workshops that I hope to attend.
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Quiet sun on Jan 1; Lunar occultation of Regulus not visble in OC; Erik Verlinde lecture at PI on emergence of gravity from quantum information
Greetings from Palmia Observatory
Well here we are in the new year (Happy New Year Everyone!) and two astronomical opportunities showed up right away. First, we took a look at our sun and to see what is happening there on this New Years Day. Also readers will remember our previous posts about various possible occultation, between stars and planets and moons and asteroids, and now we see in latest issue of Sky and Telescope the upcoming occultation of Regulus by the Moon. Let's review these activities and finally comment on a great video lecture by Erik Verlinde.
Well here we are in the new year (Happy New Year Everyone!) and two astronomical opportunities showed up right away. First, we took a look at our sun and to see what is happening there on this New Years Day. Also readers will remember our previous posts about various possible occultation, between stars and planets and moons and asteroids, and now we see in latest issue of Sky and Telescope the upcoming occultation of Regulus by the Moon. Let's review these activities and finally comment on a great video lecture by Erik Verlinde.
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