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Full Moon Fun!
Go outside tonight and check out the Full Moon. Near it you will see a brilliant 'star' - this is the giant planet Jupiter. If you have a small telescope and/or binoculars its well worth the look.
If its cloudy - well...
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"Let there be SHINY!"
.The Doctor said, and there was SHINY and it was Good.
Last week I was at the 19th Peach State Star Gaze, held at the Deerlick Astronomy Village or DAV. On Friday I gave a talk on Lunar Geology for the Solar System Symposium and imaged all manner of deep sky objects during the mostly clear night skies ( Read more... ) -
I are Old
Yep, I celebrated another trip around the Sun. I turned 55 on October 6 and spent the 'wee hours' imaging Jupiter and the Moon. The seeing was pretty good, and some of the Moon images were spectacular.
So take a look..
Crater Triesnecker and numerous volcanic rilles
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He's Pining for the Fjords!
No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage!Still on LJ - barely. I do go on to read posts a couple times a day, but for the most part I'm on FB. I post LOTS of images and astronomy/science stuff on there, so if you haven't friended me yet - so so (as Richard Jakiel ( Read more... ) -
Venus Transit - 6/5/12
On the 5th of June, much of the world was treated to one of the rarest of all predicted events - a transit of Venus across the disk of the Sun. Visible as an extremely dark, sharp 'dot', this is the silhouette of planet seen against the intensely brilliant disk of our Sun. Though visible throughout the states, only beginning to mid-transit would be ( Read more... ) -
Of Conjunctions and Planets
Its been a busy week of planetary and solar system imaging/viewing. Earlier this week, the Crescent Moon made a close pass of first the planet Jupiter ('a bright star') low in the western sky. The following day (March 26), the Moon was in conjunction with Venus (the brightest 'star'). Hopefully, some of you had a chance to observe this spectacular ( Read more... ) -
Early Spring Images
A lot has happened since my last picture post, both at Mars House and LJ land in general. My old college gf Sharon (who I haven't seen in over 25 years) came down from Springfield, VT for a visit during the last week of February. We went to the Atlanta Zoo (she used to be a zoo keeper for the Buffalo Zoo), some local parks and a weekend at the ( Read more... ) -
My newest occupation..
Look arachnid 'hoes, here comes the Spider Pimp!
"Spider-pimp, Spider-pimp,
Does whatever a Pimp-man can.
Spins a web any size, Catches Johns just like flies.
Look out - here comes the Pimp'n Man"...
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Goddess of Love..
Lupercalia!
Valentines is for the boring/mundanes - give me the ancient festival Lupercalia. By the best part is the use of sacrificial raw skin thongs - the februa to whip the tender bottoms of eager young ladies. Sigh.. Those were the days ( Read more... )
