Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
Curt Renz maintains an excellent site with resources on Astronomy and what to see on any given night. I especially love his Monthly Astronomical Calendar. He also has details on all the planets and Meteor Showers.
Must go for all astronomy lovers
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
SLOOH Is a great resource for people without telescopes. For 50$ a year you can observe one of the telescopes that telecast their observations to this website.
A great way to do astronomy using big telescopes for cheap!!.
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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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