Category: Astro
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STS-134
The penultimate Space Shuttle mission, STS-134, began this morning as the shuttle Endeavor blasted into orbit this morning at a few minutes before 6AM PDT.<br />n<br />n<img src=”http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/545711main_2011-05-16-9_1600_428-321.jpg” alt=”” /><br />n<br />nAs usual, I was planning to be up and watching the launch via <a href=”http://spaceflightnow.com/” title=”space flight now dot com”>spaceflightnow.com</a>, but their site seemed…
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Salmon Sky
<a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaworskihouse/5242837961/” title=”Salmon Sky by jaworskihouse, on Flickr”><img src=”http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5121/5242837961_c835b2ce73_m.jpg” width=”240″ height=”180″ alt=”Salmon Sky” /></a><br />n<br />nLast October, I was privileged enough to help host a star party at a local elementary school. One of the astronomers that was setting up next to me gestured toward the western sky and commented about the salmon color it…
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SJAA Auction
The San Jose Astronomical Association (<a href=”http://www.sjaa.net/” title=”san jose astronomy”>SJAA</a>) yesterday held its thirtieth annual astronomy equipment auction. As a board member, I participated, actually worked the event.<br />n<br />nIt was amazing the amount of people that showed up. The Hall at Houge Park was filled with people and lots of gear. For the hour…
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SJAA Meeting – 2010.03.27
The SJAA General Meeting we held last Saturday evening was fantastic!<br />n<br />nConnie Rockosi, from UC Lick, talked about her work figuring out how galaxies form over (very long periods of) time. Some things that I found interesting and wrote down:<br />n- galaxies are not evenly distributed througout space<br />n- density perturbations -> gravity ->…
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SJAA Meeting – 2010.02.27
We had a great turn out for the San Jose Astronomical Association’s general meeting last night. Board elections, a visit from a representative from the Astromical Society of the Pacific and the featured speaker were on the agenda.<br />n<br />nThis was my first time at a meeting where board elections were held, and it went…