Archives for December 2008
A cool photo
Published on 11 Dec 2008 at 11:47 am.
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Filed under space shuttle.
I am in the middle of grading final exams and assigning final grades. In addition, I’ve had more than the average number of problem students (and students with problems) to deal with, so I’ve had no time for blogging.
However, I got a phone call that the Space Shuttle was taking off live on TV. I […]
CoS 82
Published on 7 Dec 2008 at 11:53 pm.
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Filed under blogging.
The 82nd Edition of the Carnival of Space is now live at Space Disco. I am in the midst of final exams week, so I am not going to be blogging much this week.
Be sure to read the entries at the carnival. It is a collection of various space related topics from many different blogs […]
Spacecraft
Published on 2 Dec 2008 at 9:56 pm.
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Filed under Uncategorized, space exploration.
The plural of spacecraft is … spacecraft.
English is sometimes a strange language. Like all languages, English has rules for handing words. Unlike most languages, though, English has a lot of words that don’t fit the normal rules. Remember the spelling rule “i” befor “e”? Except that does not hold for words like “neighbor” or “weird.” For […]
Pictures of the conjunction!
Published on 1 Dec 2008 at 7:05 pm.
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Filed under astrophotography.
A little while ago I took these photos of the conjunction that I blogged about a few hours ago. As before, click on the image to get a bigger sized view.
Both photos were taken with a Nikon D70, ISO 1600. The upper one was an 0.5 second exposure, and the lower one was a […]
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Pretty planetary grouping
Published on 1 Dec 2008 at 3:31 pm.
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Tonight there will be a rather uncommon grouping of two planets and the Moon. Look in the southwestern sky and you’ll see the crescent Moon and two bright “stars” very near it. The brighter of the two stars is actually the planet Venus. The next one is the planet Jupiter. Click on the image above […]
