I have friends with telescopes and I love the website APOD, Astronomy Picture of the Day.*** The original pictures on the site were often NASA or JPL, but nowadays the pictures are just as often from non-NASA personnel, amateur photographers with their telescopes out chasing astronomical phenomena. They take some brilliant pictures. All the same, [...]
I got a phone call at about 2 p.m. on September 11, 2001, from Georgetown Hospital. The hospital said that my son needed a blood transfusion, STAT. STAT I learned means right now and it would have been better earlier. I asked the hospital how I was supposed to get there, seeing that I lived [...]
Driving on Route 7 in Northern Virginia in late November poses a special challenge. There are a few days when the sun rises directly in line-of-sight down the road. Because it is so early in the morning the sun is low in the sky and blinds drivers. Traffic slows down as you come over certain [...]
I'm still reading Mary Evershed's own book about Dante and the early astronomers. She begins with a useful set of chapters explaining various theories and discussing Ptolemy. Part II is then her discussion of Dante. I'm not there yet. However, I did finish the biography that George sent me by Tracy Daugherty. Besides being interested [...]
Another lovely APOD Jupiter and Venus picture ... The Astronomy Picture Of the Day website has a new glorious picture of Jupiter and Venus together in the sky, along with a telescope, and children being shown this wonder. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230315.html ~*~*~*~ I got to thinking about Andrew II of Hungary, again. He seemed to be the [...]
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