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November 10, 2011
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November 2, 2009
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July 29, 2009
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December 2, 2008
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October 15, 2008
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February 21, 2008
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May 10, 2007
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April 20, 2007
Saw this on the western horizon around nine last night. If I would have zoomed out a bit further we would have also seen the Pleiades to the right and a bit below the moon. If the weekend finds you awake at around 11pm and with c... more · · ÷ · · |
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January 8, 2007
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November 2, 2006
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October 6, 2006
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September 9, 2006
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May 3, 2006
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December 14, 2005
Cold morning here in Dogville and the Moon has a couple "dogs" parked next to it. There's so many ice crystals in the air that parking lot lights send multi-hued shafts to the heavens. It's times like this when I wish I brou... more · · ÷ · · |
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September 11, 2005
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June 7, 2005
This weekend I made a batch of my world famous ginger beer. I say world famous only because the article has generated emails from around the world, almost as many as our EV conversion site. This time of year the emails are from th... more · · ÷ · · |
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May 15, 2005
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April 27, 2005
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April 10, 2005
A shot of Jupiter from last night. Nikon D70 w/1.4 teleconverter, Orion 120mm refractor (f/8.3, 1000mm focal length), ISO 200, 1/6 second. On the left is the RAW file (straight from camera, little or no in-camera processing) and on... more · · ÷ · · |
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March 23, 2005
Getting ready for the trip, trying to wrap up a bunch of projects at work, and my nose has been buried in code almost non-stop for the past few weeks. Vacation is going to be like that feeling you get when switching from hiking boo... more · · ÷ · · |
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February 18, 2005
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January 22, 2005
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January 21, 2005
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January 1, 2005
This is a shot of the nebula in Orion taken Thursday night with the D70 hooked to the telescope. Thursday night was beautiful. Clear skies and the temperature was warm. You know it's been winter for a while when twenty degrees ... more · · ÷ · · |
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December 24, 2004
Actually the night before the night before (Wednesday) when the Moon was out. Happy Holidays everyone!... more · · ÷ · · |
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December 11, 2004
I've been enjoying the low-light photos over at no traces and thought I'd give it a try. Let me tell ya, I think you need SOME light in order to make the photos interesting. We've had a long string of cloudy nights and the reflect... more · · ÷ · · |
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November 20, 2004
Nikon D70: f/1.8, 50mm, ISO 500, 16 secs Nikon D70 on telescope: f/8, 1000mm, ISO 1600, 1/640 sec ... more · · ÷ · · |
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November 9, 2004
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November 5, 2004
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November 4, 2004
Taken around 5:30 this morning w/D70 hooked to telescope. 1000mm, 1.0 sec, f8, ISO 800. I took a longer exposure so the moons of Jupiter would be visible. In retrospect I should have taken a shot which brought out the best of Jupiter and... more · · ÷ · · |
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November 4, 2004
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October 28, 2004
We had a day full of clouds, casting eclipse plans into doubt. Then, as the sun set, the clouds rolled away and soon the moon rose to a mostly clear sky. I dragged the telescope outside and hooked up the camera. Experimenting with ... more · · ÷ · · |
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October 26, 2004
120mm Refractor, D70 using positive projection, 160/sec, 200 iso Don't forget, eclipse of the moon tomorrow night starting around 9:30pm EST. ... more · · ÷ · · |
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October 25, 2004
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October 24, 2004
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October 4, 2004
Inspired by a post at openbrackets this weekend I put together the following poem/song/nonsense. It's the first lyric from the number one pop song for each year since I was born. Determining the number one song in a year wasn't as strai... more · · ÷ · · |
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September 30, 2004
Technically the second shot isn't of the moon but of moonlight. With the zoom lens on the D70 and mounted on the telescope (taking advantage of the tracking motors for long exposures) it was focused off to the side of the moon ... more · · ÷ · · |
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September 1, 2004
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August 29, 2004
A couple images from the past week. The moon was captured through a 120mm refractor telescope using a 10mm lens and a 2x barlow (effectively a 5mm lens). I think that's a magnification of 24x without taking into account the camera lens... more · · ÷ · · |
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August 25, 2004
Yesterday was a good day. After three and a half weeks the summer cold of doom seems to be over. I wouldn't recommend getting it, no fun. Not the kind of cold where you sit home drinking hot tea with honey, eating Swanson's TV dinners,... more · · ÷ · · |
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August 24, 2004
Hop over to our weather page, scroll to the bottom, and you'll see that we are in for an almost perfect night of star gazing. We've been waiting all summer for this. While setting up the telescope I noticed the moon just hanging t... more · · ÷ · · |
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July 22, 2004
The moon last night and, below, the sunspots as of yesterday afternoon. Don't forget to glance outside off and on throughout the night. Possibility of Aurora. If I see some I'll make a post here. Better yet, go for a walk down a... more · · ÷ · · |
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July 16, 2004
Faith has been hacking like an old diesel tractor sputtering to life. For her it probably feels more like a sputtering out. She needs her spark plugs cleaned, maybe a gap adjustment, timing tweak, and that air filter has to be changed.... more · · ÷ · · |
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July 2, 2004
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June 20, 2004
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April 30, 2004
A gorgeous day yesterday, temps in the eighties and nary a breeze or discouraging word. Great day turned into great night and I hauled the telescope out on the deck to take in all of the planetary action. Saturn and Venus glowing bright... more · · ÷ · · |
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December 26, 2003
We just got back from a week of holiday travel to Arizona with a side-trip to New Mexico. Coming from non-stop New Hampshire precipitation it was strange to be in places that looked rain-free for the last century. Drinking water you fee... more · · ÷ · · |
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December 9, 2003
Up at five, bundled in winter wear, out the door by five thirty. Zeke dances up ahead as I stride purposely with snowshoes slung over a shoulder. The heavens give us snow and distant engineers give us funny shoes to stride upon. ... more · · ÷ · · |
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November 13, 2003
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November 8, 2003
The Moon is being eaten alive by the Earth's shadow!! Going... ...going... ...going... ...glowing... ...gone! Should you be curious, the photos were taken using different exposure lengths, ISO's, ... more · · ÷ · · |
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September 18, 2003
Managed to sneak a little star viewing in last night before the skies gave way to Isabel. Quite a clear and star filled night. The sun is starting to set earlier and the moon is rising later. Still, this is New England and Fall m... more · · ÷ · · |
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September 8, 2003
The moon was so bright it hurt to look at. Even with a filter it was like getting a lunar laser tattoo right on the retina. The nice thing about lots of light is that you can run it through lots of lenses. This shot is through a ... more · · ÷ · · |
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August 23, 2003
Woke up a little before four this morning. Well, actually, with the way my internal alarm clock works I woke up at 1 at 2 at 3 and a few points in-between. The sky was twinkly clear with the moon not quite above the tree lin... more · · ÷ · · |
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August 22, 2003
I bought a telescope this week. It's my very first and after waffling for some time I settled on a refractor (120mm) since it seemed like something I could use during the daytime as well. Last night Ted came over and we checked out Mars... more · · ÷ · · |
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August 14, 2003
Hey, the sky came back last night! The first real view of Mars so I rushed to the open field nearby and snapped a shot of the moon and Mars. I didn't look at the images until this afternoon and by then I'd forgotten about taking shots of ... more · · ÷ · · |
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August 7, 2003
It's been raining here like the end of the world. Every day there's a few false rays of sunshine and then clouds amble in, unleash a torrent or three, and rumble on eastward. Whenever I see a break in the rain I slosh out to the ... more · · ÷ · · |
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July 31, 2003
Did I mention that the new camera has all kinds of manual settings? Last night I gained an appreciation for folks who take photos of astronomical objects. At first I couldn't figure out how to turn the LCD off and was ... more · · ÷ · · |
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July 9, 2003
Almost forgot (not that she reads my weblog) today is my Grandma's 102nd birthday! That's a bunch of years. It's also: 3,752,784,000 heartbeats 37,200 sunrises 18 presidents 1,261 full moons 30 wars 23 bear markets ... more · · ÷ · · |
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May 16, 2003
Thanks to Barry for a link to this NPR tribute to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. It features some interesting covers, including a great one by a string quartet. Here's something else I'd never heard of: Legend has it Dark Side sync... more · · ÷ · · |
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December 19, 2002
Thursday? Jeezum, next thing you know it'll be Christmas or something. Not much new on the GPS, mostly retracing the same ol' routes. Tried to get a picture of the full moon rising yesterday afternoon but it just didn't make the grade (t... more · · ÷ · · |
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April 22, 2002
A beautiful morning except for the stray piece of trash fluttering in the wind on the driveway. Grumbling, I walk over and pick it up. "Make money while working from home!" reads the little paper sheet shoved into a glad sandwich bag wi... more · · ÷ · · |
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March 16, 2002
The Astronomy Picture of the Day has an interesting view of our moon taken during the Clementine mission. More images and info on the mission is avialable here.... more · · ÷ · · |
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February 12, 2002
For decades now I have been annoying friends and family with the fantasy of converting an old water tower into a house. Growing up in Nebraska you can't help but notice these horizon popping landmarks. Think of the possibilities: indoo... more · · ÷ · · |
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January 29, 2002
Faith has been substitute teaching the past two days. Yesterday was at the Junior High and the kids were in rare form. "Freaked out," is the term she used, and for the first time she dispensed yellow slips to the chief freakies. ... more · · ÷ · · |
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October 30, 2001
Is it a new picture of Mars? A bumpy harvest moon? A magnotropic image of the sun?Nope. Click the image to see what it looks like with proper illumination.While making halloween pumkins tonight I decided to take a snapshot of the pumpki... more · · ÷ · · |
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August 24, 2001
Zeke and I often go out for a walk after dark. On moonless or cloud filled nights the blackness is nearly infinite and I navigate by feel of road beneath bare feet or jingle of dog collar somewhere up ahead and to the right. Eyes start ... more · · ÷ · · |
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July 6, 2001
Heading out to Eureka, SD tomorrow. My Grandma turns 100 this weekend and there's a small family reunion and party taking place. Grandma is German, family from southern Russia. She was interviewed about 8 years ago which you can read a... more · · ÷ · · |