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McDonald Observatory and West Texas 2012 15 Oct 2012 | 02:20 am
I traveled out to McDonald Observatory for work back in July and I'm just now getting around to posting the photos! This was the first time I'd been out in 5 years, and the first time since I had vent...
A few thoughts on college education 13 Oct 2012 | 06:49 am
Since I'm trying to get back in to blogging and writing more, I thought this would be a good place to jot down a few rambling thoughts I had today - mostly so I would have a place to refer back to it ...
Re-scanning all my negatives 11 Oct 2012 | 10:50 pm
I've recently decided to embark on a large project to scan and/or re-scan all of my negatives, particularly those from some of the bigger vacations I've taken (which you'll find the travel journals of...
My first HDR photo 11 Oct 2012 | 10:43 pm
I had been wanting to try HDR photography (read more about HDR here) for a while and finally got serious about learning the camera settings and getting the software needed to actually do it. So while ...
Space Shuttle Endeavour visits Austin 20 Sep 2012 | 09:37 pm
The shuttle Endeavour left Florida on its way to Los Angeles where it will be housed at the California Science Center and on the way it has made a few stops and flybys. It stopped over in Houston last...
A summer to say goodbye to heroes 27 Aug 2012 | 02:06 am
Although I think both Sally Ride and Neil Armstrong shied away from the label 'hero' both were heroes to me. I had the great pleasure of meeting Sally Ride when she gave a talk at UT a few years ago....
Transit of Venus 19 Jun 2012 | 05:09 am
Now that I've had time to recover a little, I thought I would write up my experience organizing and running the public viewing of the June 5, 2012 Transit of Venus event. Based on my experiences with...
Sherwood Forest Faire 2012 26 Mar 2012 | 08:03 am
I've posted my photos from last weekend's trip to the Sherwood Forest Faire over on Flickr. I didn't get quite as many good photos from the joust this year since the area where I took up close photos ...
Thunderstorm from summer 1998 19 Feb 2012 | 07:31 am
While I was going through some old video transfers at work, I found the one I did of a video I shot at Enchanted Rock State Park back in 1998. I was out there to give a talk about meteor showers durin...
Historial Astronomy exhibit at the HRC 16 Feb 2012 | 09:23 am
Heliocentric diagram from Nicolaus Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus" I mentioned in a previous post that I went over to the Harry Ransom Center on the Friday at the end of the AAS meeting to see the sm...
