Friday, July 31, 2009

I'm Your Moon

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The logical followup to my post about the Guitar Nebula is something with actual guitar in it. Thankfully I have a perfect astronomy song ...
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Guitar Hero

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The supernova explosion of a star is sometimes symmetrical and sometimes not. When the explosion is not symmetrical some of the energy of t...
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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Palomar in Ads - II

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It has been a while since I posted an advertisement featuring Palomar Observatory. This full-page magazine ad for Kodak film ran in back in ...

Rawhide

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People often ask me about the cattle guards and the cattle signs up on Palomar Mountain. They are often astonished to hear that there are r...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

First Light for Cosmic Web Imager

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Back at the end of May Cosmic Web Imager, the newest instrument for the 200-inch telescope, got a test fit . Actually, back then it wasn...

Daytime Open Dome

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It isn't often that the dome of the 200-inch telescope is open in the daytime. Normally, the dome is sealed up tight so that we can mai...

Video Tour pt. 2

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Here is part 2 of my tour with Thunderf00t. This one covers aluminizing the 200-inch mirror. You can watch it here or embedded below. You...

Eris Anniversary

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Four years ago today the discovery of dwarf planet Eris was announced . Eris was found using Palomar's Samuel Oschin Telescope. Of cours...
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Video Tour pt. 1

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Last week I got to meet Thunderf00t, a YouTube broadcaster with a channel known as beautyinthuniverse . I gave him an inside look at the Ha...
Saturday, July 25, 2009

Lost History?

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Years ago the late Walter Cronkite had a TV series called You Were There . In the show important events from history were recreated but with...
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