Driving Perseverance in your pajamas (with AR); Hooray, the real Perseverance lands on Mars! Avi Loeb and Oumuamua and new book, "extraterrestrial"; More Starlinks

 Greetings from Palmia Observatory

Well while we waited for the real rover landing on Mars, I had to try out an augmented reality (AR) version of the rover.

Starlinks seen, with naked eyeballs, moving across the sky; Upcoming Starklink rocket launches; Perseverence Rover to land on Mars on Feb 18

Greetings from Palmia Observatory

Well, this week's prediction by Heavens-Above, showed good observational opportunity of Starlinks in the OC area from 5:32 to 5:37 am, Feb 14.

Blast from the past with Falcon Heavy! Upcoming possible Starlinks observation; Finally tried Einsteinpy to calculate Christoffel symbols; Offshore Nuclear Power Plants?

 Greetings from Palmia Observatory

Well my social media site reminds me of past events and this time was when we were at Kennedy Space Center for the first launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy with Starman aboard Elon's red Tesla.

Resident Astronomer gets his first jab; Will Lie Group E(8) be the Theory of Everything?; FAA Part 450; Starship SN9 mostly successful, but ends in RUD!

 Greetings from Palmia Observatory

Well this week we listened to some interesting discussion on on E(8) symmetry and Theories of Everything and Starship SN9 finally makes a test hop, but first this Resident Astronomer got in line for his first COVID-19 vaccine injection.

Clouds can be ok; Starship SN9 and SN10 ready for launch; Planet Formation & Observation; AAS Habitable Worlds Meeting; ALMA Virtual Tour; Simons Observatory; Chern-Simons and Cosmic Birefringence & Lorentz violation

 Greetings from Palmia Observatory

Well the night sky is still a bit cloudy and rain and even some hale have struck here in Orange County.  But the clouds can be  good thing in bringing beautiful sunsets.