Greetings from Palmia Observatory
Well this blog post has me at the airport flying to Las Cruces, NM, for the AAVSO (https://www.aavso.org/) annual meeting and tours of the Apache Point Observatory. So, no observing to report, but I do hope to get some pictures of the Milky Way in the darker skies in New Mexico. More about the meeting later, but first let's review some other activities.
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)
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Sunday, October 13, 2019
Has Gaia Data Resolved the tension in measurements of the Hubble Constant? Can Pluto be seen in city lights viewing?
Greetings from Palmia Observatory
Well here we are in another busy week. We have upcoming conferences and also a chance to do some astrometry, which is now helping to maybe resolve the tension between two estimates of the Hubble Constant, in our search for finally trying ourselves to (though not yet) get an image of Pluto.
Well here we are in another busy week. We have upcoming conferences and also a chance to do some astrometry, which is now helping to maybe resolve the tension between two estimates of the Hubble Constant, in our search for finally trying ourselves to (though not yet) get an image of Pluto.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Astronomers' brains wanted: Night of the Living Dead; OC Physicists to search for vampire emanations; Primordial Black Holes, Dark Matter, Neutrinos and other deeply hidden things
Greetings from Palmia Observatory
Last week we talked about the search for ghostly particles from nuclear power plants and this week we continue exploring some illusive deeply hidden things.
Last week we talked about the search for ghostly particles from nuclear power plants and this week we continue exploring some illusive deeply hidden things.
Saturday, October 5, 2019
Saturn, Jupiter and Moon under the stars with jazz; Hunting for Ghosts from Nuclear Reactors; Using opaque liquids rather than transparent; Sizes of Black Holes; Global CO2 and GDP; Robots and interactions in the Observatory
Greetings from Palmia Observatory
Well this week the scope remained packed up, but at least we spotted Saturn, Jupiter and the Moon close together and recorded the view with the iPhone.
Well this week the scope remained packed up, but at least we spotted Saturn, Jupiter and the Moon close together and recorded the view with the iPhone.
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Hooray, watch Elon go from Brownsville, TX!; Hooray, our eyeballs, but not our cameras saw the JWST!; More great free Coursera
Greetings from Palmia Observatory
Well we have had some rain and cloudy weather that cancelled this month's OCA star party, but looking up at the sky is what Elon Musk did in his annual review of the Starship and Super Heavy progress.
Well we have had some rain and cloudy weather that cancelled this month's OCA star party, but looking up at the sky is what Elon Musk did in his annual review of the Starship and Super Heavy progress.
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