Category: Science

Tom J Martinez PhotoBlog: Blood Moon and Great Blue Heron

http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/2014/04/blood-moon-and-great-blue-heron_25.html?m=1

Fellow ASKC member and astrophotography Tom Martinez relates his recent adventures with the Blood Moon and Blue Heron.

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Why “Critical Density” Could Determine the Fate of the Universe

http://io9.com/why-critical-density-could-determine-the-fate-of-the-1550168923?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_twitter&utm_source=io9_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

I don’t remember seeing Esther (the author of the above article) at last Saturday evening’s ASKC meeting and Dr. Feldman’s lecture on Dark Matter and Dark Energy … but I’ve seen that graph very recently.

Hmmm…

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Dr. Feldman and the Definition of Cosmology

Professor Hume A. Feldman, Ph.D.

Watch a staggeringly beautiful time-lapse video of Yosemite National Park

http://io9.com/5878091/this-time-lapse-video-of-yosemite-is-staggeringly-beautiful

I’ve been to Yosemite twice. I loved it. It would be the only reason I would ever move to California.

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Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo.

This stunning time lapse combines several of my favorite photography subjects into four breath taking minutes: sunrises, sunsets, moon rise, Milky Way with meteors, nature, landscapes, etc.

And if four minutes wasn’t enough, try the five minute sequel from Project Yosemite:

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Yosemite HD II from Project Yosemite on Vimeo.

Dramatic photos of Venus disappearing behind the moon | Human World | EarthSky

http://earthsky.org/space/dramatic-photos-of-venus-disappearing-behind-the-moon#.Uw3M6MFME0M

Some day I hope to be in the right place at the right time to see an occultation like this.  If only I’d been visiting India this week.

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Video: The Problem with Facebook

Thanks to one of my astronomy Facebook friends, I watched a video on Faster Than Light Travel (don’t get your hopes up) by Veritasium (an element of truth), which led me to this excellent post on the Problem with Facebook:

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