Friday, February 29, 2008

Monster Telescopes

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Waiting in the mail yesterday was the April (!) issue of Sky & Telescope magazine . The cover features TMT in an article entitled ...
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Monday, February 25, 2008

You are Invited

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You are invited to participate in the Globe at Night program. It is a free and easy way to help measure light pollution. You don't need...
Thursday, February 21, 2008

In the Shadow of a Giant

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George Ellery Hale died 70 years ago today. From Ronald Florence's The Perfect Machine : A few days prior to his death he felt well eno...
Sunday, February 17, 2008

The Punisher

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Just a short post today. Four years ago today 90482 Orcus was discovered using the Palomar 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope. Orcus (aka 200...
Saturday, February 16, 2008

Speaking of Fritz Zwicky and Supernovae . . . . .

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I mentioned earlier this week that Fritz Zwicky used the Palomar 18-inch Schmidt to make the first surveys of the night sky. Dr. Zwicky'...
Thursday, February 14, 2008

Happy Birthday Fritz Zwicky Part II

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Recently I have had the honor to correspond with Dr. Barbarina Zwicky, the daughter of Fritz Zwicky. In honor of the occasion of his 110th ...

Happy Birthday Fritz Zwicky

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February 14, 2008 marks the 110 th anniversary of the birth of astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky. His amazing scientific career is relatively u...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

On Top of the World

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Last Saturday I had the opportunity to again visit the top of the dome for the 200-inch Hale Telescope. The atmosphere was remarkably transp...
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Road Show

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If anyone is interested. I'll be giving a talk for the Orange County Astronomers on Friday, February 8th @ 7:30 p.m. What's on tap...
Saturday, February 2, 2008

Science News from the Past

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Science News , the weekly news magazine of science has a cool timeline feature with stories from the past. They just posted some information...