Science Daily: Mars
- Surprising insights about debris flows on Mars March 14, 2024
- Giant volcano discovered on Mars March 13, 2024
Science Daily: Uranus
- New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like January 5, 2024
- Ringing in the holidays with ringed planet Uranus December 19, 2023
Science Daily: Pluto
- How Pluto got its heart April 15, 2024
- Evidence of geothermal activity within icy dwarf planets February 15, 2024
Science Daily: Kuiper Belt
- How Pluto got its heart April 15, 2024
- Evidence of geothermal activity within icy dwarf planets February 15, 2024
Month: September 2008
Lowdown on the sun
There’s an interesting article on the solar wind on Science News today. For those of you too young to remember (and, ahem, those of us old enough to start having trouble remembering), the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft launched back in the 1970s are still plugging away returning interesting data on the nature of the …
NGC 7000 Not-so-Preliminary Image
I finally had time to try reprocess this image using data from the August 31 outing. Much better, but I still need some practice. The overall appearance is still a bit dark, but I need to go back to the originals and start from scratch again. If you look in the lower right-hand corner, you …
Linux Groupware Frustrations
I was asked to look into groupware for a grant project. Okay, I know there are several freebies out there that shouldn’t be too hard to set up. So I looked around and did a little reading and saw that really, it was hard to choose. I mean, there are some that are not well …
NGC 7000 Preliminary Image
We spent the long weekend in upstate New York at a friends house on the Delaware River. Naturally, I couldn’t resist taking the astrophotography equipment. I took the AstroTrac, the laptop, and everything needed to shoot with my Canon 350D. Friday night was a wash-out, but that was expected. Sunday night looked like it might …