Planetoriums in the San Francisco Bay Area

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Here is a list of some great planetoriums in the San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland area. Lawrence Hall of Science Planetarium | Lawrence Hall of Science ...

Star gazing OR: Double stars in the big dipper

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Tonight was my first night with an old Celestron C8* SCT telescope that I recently assembled. The scope is not in very good shape and it took me a little while to adjust to working with it. Thankfully, the motor drive works well so it can track stars. The biggest ...

Maps of time by David Christian – A review

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

David Christian more or less started the field of Big History and "Maps of Time: An introduction to Big History" is thus the first and best book on the subject available today. David's theme is the evolution of complex entities that can process increasingly larger energy flows and thus prevent disorder. ...

A Big History Reading List – Cosmology, Geology, Evolution, and Human History

Friday, August 7th, 2009

I have recently had an increased interest in the upcoming field of Big History. Big History tries to take the entire history of the universe starting from the Big Bang and present it in a single far reaching story. The different authors take different approaches to connect this story into ...

Calstar 2008

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Here are some useful links for this year's CalStar party at San Antonio lake.  Have a happy star gazing experience. http://www.sjaa.net/calstar/ The exact program schedule is on the following link http://www.sjaa.net/calstar/CalStar2008Program.pdf