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Flagstaff Musings
I. So here I am in Flagstaff, Arizona, birthplace of crazy Mars canals theories and the demoted planet Pluto. I like this city. Coming from the arid and bleakly beautiful San Juan Basin (the geological...
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The Great Vanishing Act (of the Night Sky)
Ever drive out into the countryside and marveled at the big strip of the Milky Way arching across the sky and thousands of stars shining everywhere, then wondered why you couldn’t see that from...
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Light, the Universe and Everything: The City Dark (Punkastronomy Film Review)
The City Dark, a new documentary by Ian Cheney has the deceptively modest goal of exploring just one tiny aspect of “human progress”—the use of artificial light to conquer the night. Ostensibly The...
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Ipod Astronomy: Augmented Reality Meets Stargazing
When it comes to new gizmos, I am neither a luddite nor a gadget head. I don’t have to have the newest thing. But neither am I afraid of them. I don’t eschew old technology. I love my old 1948 Smith...
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Stunning Time Lapse from the Space Station
This thing is just stunning. One of the unsung benefits of digital SLR cameras–and the almost limitless storage space and ease of processing digital offers–is a resurgence of time-lapse photography....
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Dark Sky
Lexicographer Grant Barrett published a list of words that entered into common usage in 2011 that he thinks will be with us for a while. One of them was this: DARK SKY Designates a place free of...
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The Other Stars of the Titanic Tragedy
My wife and daughter and I visited the Titanic exhibition at the National Geographic Society yesterday, and on the way in we were interviewed by a local CBS radio reporter. I’m afraid we didn’t have...
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