Ok, so not done one for a few days, this of course means that This is going to have to be a bigger one! Enjoy the links!
The View from Chajnantor:
Russia, France to team up on new launchers:
CHAPS Pressure Suits Evaluated During Simulated Missions In Centrifuge:
Name That Telescope Array - News Blog - SkyandTelescope.com:
New satellite gets INSANELY hi-res view of Earth | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine:
News Update: Hubble & Spitzer Heir to Open Eye to Cosmos in Search for Signatures of Life:
NASA - Expedition 29 Crew Lands:
China plans major effort in pursuing manned space technology:
Images Captured with DMK 21 and DBK 21 Camera:
Countdown! NASA's Dream-Machine Search for Mars' Life Imminent:
Color of the Moon:
NASA Satellite "Drove Over" the Cloud Streets of Hudson Bay | Flickr - Photo Sharing!:
NASA - Claritas Fossae, Mars:
Showing posts with label Phil Plait. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phil Plait. Show all posts
November 23, 2011
June 2, 2010
Goodness from Bad Astronomy
Is Betelgeuse about to blow? | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
Testing new "Blog This" extension :) That and it's a cool story, and my mancrush is still going strong :D
aaaaand ....
aaaaand ....
This is just beautiful ...
January 31, 2010
Hear hear!
From The BadAstronomer himself:
"I’m tired of it. When I look out my window now I see a future I’ve been dreaming of my whole life, a future that seems just out of my reach. When my children, my grandchildren, look out their windows in that future, y’know what I want them to see?
"I’m tired of it. When I look out my window now I see a future I’ve been dreaming of my whole life, a future that seems just out of my reach. When my children, my grandchildren, look out their windows in that future, y’know what I want them to see?
The blue-green crescent Earth hanging in a pitch black sky over a cratered horizon.
Let’s give space a chance."
Too. Bloody. Right.
I am in complete concordance with this.
January 27, 2010
Back on the Rails (somewhat)
Ok. Tonight I went down to the domain, armed with Jacqui's 20D, some fairly well remembered instruction, some mints and faithful AstroTorch. Determined I was to get me some dSLR pics, and well, I did :) You can see them over at Jacqui's and my Flickr Page or of course on the Picasa Web Albums .. here.
Phew! I can see how people can lose themselves in this camera thing, sometimes to the expense of their photographs! My mind was spinning after my last post. Well to be honest I was weeping like a spoiled 3-year old who can't have anymore lollies.
First off, I need a job, then, when I have a job, I need a new scope, with nice motorised mount and a good dSLR mount and .. oh crap, oh well. I guess I will just have to keep to the spirit of this blog and do it myself.
Coming soon! Jason attempts astromount III - this time with the length to fit the 25mm! And one of these!
Meanwhile, as you chuckle at the thought of me messing about with tools, here's some VERY pretty pictures for you to look at.
First off, NASA has this and a bit of this, oh and a whole heap of these. Then the charming, witty and terribly attractive Dr Plait has this to feast upon! Or for the full mind-intercourse .. click here. So back to NASA, or more precisely HiRISE is offering you the chance to pick the next photograph of Mars, which by the way is at closest approach on Friday if anyone's interested! Oh you will need to open an account with HiRISE if you go there.
Okies, well that about wraps it up for this post - I am happy that I got some results from the 20D .. this is a good thing, so all I need now is some time, and motivation for the IXUS mount and Scotch Mount!
Phew! I can see how people can lose themselves in this camera thing, sometimes to the expense of their photographs! My mind was spinning after my last post. Well to be honest I was weeping like a spoiled 3-year old who can't have anymore lollies.
First off, I need a job, then, when I have a job, I need a new scope, with nice motorised mount and a good dSLR mount and .. oh crap, oh well. I guess I will just have to keep to the spirit of this blog and do it myself.
Coming soon! Jason attempts astromount III - this time with the length to fit the 25mm! And one of these!
Meanwhile, as you chuckle at the thought of me messing about with tools, here's some VERY pretty pictures for you to look at.
First off, NASA has this and a bit of this, oh and a whole heap of these. Then the charming, witty and terribly attractive Dr Plait has this to feast upon! Or for the full mind-intercourse .. click here. So back to NASA, or more precisely HiRISE is offering you the chance to pick the next photograph of Mars, which by the way is at closest approach on Friday if anyone's interested! Oh you will need to open an account with HiRISE if you go there.
Okies, well that about wraps it up for this post - I am happy that I got some results from the 20D .. this is a good thing, so all I need now is some time, and motivation for the IXUS mount and Scotch Mount!
January 12, 2010
Salty, Mars, Darkness, Rocketry
Well first off NASA has the salty over here ... mmmm nicely salted. Then then indomitable Dr Plait has put us onto more Mars Goodness ... which is again, teh awes0me. And a little late - the ESA have some nice films about the Ariane which celebrated the 30th anniversary of the first launch. Then there's the NatGeo article on Darkness that's worth a read too!
January 11, 2010
Things from around and about
First off, a bunch of stuff I have missed over at Nasa. There's this and this and 12 billion years and then say hello to my little friends. So that's us caught up there.
Then there's always the marvelous Dr Plait, who posts things like this and this and hellishly interesting things like this. As well as a bunch of awesome skeptic stuff too!
And just to leave you all, I know link posts are like those Simpsons shows where they just revisit old shows, here's a couple of cool things. Big Dipper to Southern Cross is worth a visit, especially for those who have hankered after seeing northern stars like me. Then there's Nightshade, based on Stellarium, so how could you go wrong?
K, see you all next time!
Then there's always the marvelous Dr Plait, who posts things like this and this and hellishly interesting things like this. As well as a bunch of awesome skeptic stuff too!
And just to leave you all, I know link posts are like those Simpsons shows where they just revisit old shows, here's a couple of cool things. Big Dipper to Southern Cross is worth a visit, especially for those who have hankered after seeing northern stars like me. Then there's Nightshade, based on Stellarium, so how could you go wrong?
K, see you all next time!
December 21, 2009
And then, More Wow!
December 17, 2009
What I want to do when I grow up ...
I want to take pictures like these:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/12/15/top-ten-astronomy-pictures-of-2009/
As a budding, and very amateur, astrophotographer I stand in awe. That and I have a little man-crush on Dr Phil Plait.
Oh and thanks to Bill, there's also this one,:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/a-spacewalk-as-seen-from-earth/
But then who didn't want to be an astronaut when they grew up?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/12/15/top-ten-astronomy-pictures-of-2009/
As a budding, and very amateur, astrophotographer I stand in awe. That and I have a little man-crush on Dr Phil Plait.
Oh and thanks to Bill, there's also this one,:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/a-spacewalk-as-seen-from-earth/
But then who didn't want to be an astronaut when they grew up?
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