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
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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
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