Astronomy: Search The Galaxy

This is a shot I took of Saturn last night. I had my larger scope out in the Anza area and, while I hoped to use the CCD cam, my remote set-up problems set me toward a quick shot of Saturn before turning to visual observing. …
Original post by andyschlei

I’m expecting to move this summer, so I’ll have much shorter distances to travel each day than I do now, which not only means less milage for the car but also creates new transportational possibilities that wouldn’t work right now, …
Original post by Delvo

Friday night was the scheduled date for the LASS observing session and after a rain on Thursday night and a cloudy start Friday morning, it cleared off and the sky was beautiful. We had invited members from the Ft Worth club to come out …
Original post by bigadd

The Last Saturday night of March 2008. The NCAA is down to the Final Four. Opening Day for the Reds is Monday. And it’s Messier Marathon night for the Richland Astronomical Society. It’d been awhile since I went somewhere to have a …
Original post by Charlie in Dayton

Where Am I? It started simply enough… wondering what various astronomical objects would look like ‘up close’, where they occupy a significant portion of the sky. How bright is a nebula? If the Sobrero Galaxy had the same angular size …
Original post by LostInSpace

If any of you in England would like to meet me too, I’ll be at, the Castle on Castle Hill (warning - there are two Castle pubs in Cambridge) on Friday night from 1800 to at least 1945 (if many people come, I’ll stay longer). …
Original post by PamelaGay

The first time I attended a Center for Astronomy Education (CAE) Teaching Excellence workshop was also the first time I had really seen the technique of peer instruction. By “peer instruction”, I mean the kind promoted by Eric Mazur: A.
Original post by P.E. Robinson

Seyffie Maeki’s vegitarian chili was the winner of the first annual Physics and Astronomy Chili Cook-Off on Feb 14th. He narrowly edged out Prof. LaBrake’s spicy venison chili, in voting by students attending the departmental pot-luck …
Original post by Chad Orzel

A paper by a team of researchers including Union Prof. Rebecca Surman has been featured in the March 20th, 2008 issue of Physical Review Focus . The paper, “Fission Cycling in a Supernova r Process” by J. Beun, GC McLaughlin, R. …
Original post by Chad Orzel

Recent observations show that the temperature recorded at the poles of certain planets and moons in the solar system is higher than would be expected or predicted by direct thermal heating from the sun. Does anyone know if and how …
Original post by ATKINS