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Archive for September, 2013
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The First Starship
Written to commemorate and celebrate the Sept 12, 2013 announcement that Voyager 1 had entered interstellar space. (c) Stuart Atkinson Sept 13th 2013 The First Starship I needed no nacelles to push me onwards; No dilithium crystals crackled in my heart. Yet I have left Sol so far behind me she is Just a star […]
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2013-09-14
05:05:00 It’s the first morning I’ve tried my hand at any pre-dawn observing – any legitimate pre-dawn observing anyway. I knew this morning was gonig to be clear and have excellent viewing conditions so I set my alarm (and coffee pot) for 4am. -I have to say, pre-dawn observing (as opposed to early-evening/nighttime) is superior […]
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Mini Pond Tornados
On my daily commute to work, I pass a number of small, man-made ponds that ducks and geese frequent. For actually being basically runoff drainage ditches, they’re kind-of nice. I like ’em. Around this time of year when the days are still warm but the nights are getting cooler, the ponds will steam in the […]
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Saturn Cappuccino
This storm on Saturn popped up around 2010 and the spacecraft Cassini had a front row seat to take this beautiful image. The lighter colors are the cloud layers from deep down inside Saturn itself being churned up by the storm and brought to the top. The storm is around 9,000 miles in diameter – […]
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Weather Station project
-While the scope autoguider calibrates, I’d like to talk a little bit about my newest project. With a lot of help from Andy and the internet, I’m making an auto-logging weather station that will update a graph of the previous days temperature and barometric pressure to my website: jeffreysboldlygoingnowhere.com This is a project that I’ve […]