Saturday, July 19, 2008

The Biggest Worlds of the Kuiper Belt

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As reported earlier the I.A.U has decided that Makemake is joining Eris and Pluto as Dwarf Planets of the Kuiper Belt. Here's a look a...

Julian Starfest

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There's a new astronomical celebration coming to southern California the first weekend of August - Julian Starfest . There will be all ...
Thursday, July 17, 2008

Congress and the International Year of Astronomy

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It seems that even the U.S. House of Representatives has been talking about the International Year of Astronomy. You can watch a clip of th...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

HPWREN's Image of the Week

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Some of my work, already seen here on this blog, was selected for the HPWREN Image of the Week . Scroll through the Image of the Week archiv...

Shoemaker-Levy 9 Anniversary

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Fourteen years ago today began perhaps the biggest week of astronomy ever as the fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 began to slam into Jup...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

And Then There Were Four

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The Dwarf Planet roll call has risen from three to four. 2005FY9, discovered at Palomar Observatory on March 31, 2005, has now officially ...
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Friday, July 11, 2008

Friday's Odds & Ends

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Here's a reminder that I'll be speaking at the Southern California Astronomy Exposition (SCAE) Seminar Symposium at 11:00 am on Sa...

Project 1640 Installation Movie

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Here's a time-lapse movie of the installation of the Adaptive Optics instrument and then the Project 1640 instrument into the Hale Teles...
Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Palomar on TV

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You can see Palomar Observatory & JPL's Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking program profiled tomorrow night on the History Channel's Mo...
Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Project 1640: installed

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You may remember my New Instrument. New Planets? post from late June. Well, the time has finally come for Project 1640 to get installed o...