Archives for March 2009
CoS #96
Published on 31 Mar 2009 at 2:03 pm.
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Sorry not to be keeping up with my blogging lately, but I’ve been buried in paperwork at the college.
However, you can keep up with a lot of astronomy news and thoughts with the weekly Carnival of Space. This week, the 96th carnival, is being hosted by Astroengine.com. For those new readers who don’t know what […]
Binocular Astronomy
Published on 23 Mar 2009 at 11:12 am.
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Filed under amateur astronomy, skywatching.
I am often asked what sort of telescope that I recommend for beginning amateur astronomers. What often surprises people is that I don’t normally recommend a beginner buying a telescope. Rather, I suggest that a beginner buy a good pair of binoculars. There are several reasons for this. Even seasoned amateur […]
Pi Day
Published on 14 Mar 2009 at 2:11 pm.
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March 14 is celebrated as Pi Day here in the US. That is because we write March 14 as 3-14 (backwards from how many countries do it). 3.14 are the first three digits of pi.
Pi, in mathematics, is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. It’s […]
Defining Planets (Part X)
Published on 10 Mar 2009 at 3:03 pm.
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I’m still busy with mid-semester paperwork, so I have not had time to blog much.
This is going to be my final entry (for now) on the defining planets series. Would you have believed when I started this a month ago that it would wind up being ten postings? This is a very difficult topic. It […]
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Defining Planets (Part IX)
Published on 3 Mar 2009 at 4:39 pm.
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I’ve been mired in paperwork at the college, so I have been slow blogging. Here we are, though, in Part Nine of this series, and I still have some more to write about!
I spent all of February covering aspects of what may go into a definition of the term planet. If you are new to […]
