Necessary Facts

Observations, reports, and discoveries that are true of necessity because they are perceivable and reasonable, empirical and logical, evidentiary and rational, synthetic and analytic. Truths are objective statements.

Showing posts with label astronomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label astronomy. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Waves Passing in the Night

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In the history of astronomy, there was a conjecture in the 1760s that the planets orbit the sun in distances that can be described by a simp...
Sunday, July 5, 2026

Telescope Toy Story

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You know the story. Andy’s sixth birthday brings him Buzz Lightyear, displacing Sheriff Woody. The other toys share Woody's grief until ...
Sunday, March 22, 2026

Setting Up and Using Three Small Telescopes

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21-March-2026 General Observing -  14:00 - With a weather forecast of clear and warm (70F) tonight, I took out my usual telescope, an Explor...
Monday, December 30, 2024

Solar Imaging

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 We are approaching a sunspot maximum for 2024/2025 and already are above statistically likely events.  Images with Explore Scientific 102mm...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Tunguska, Chelyabinsk, Berlin, and New York

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(See the previous post.) After my article on the Tunguska Event of 1908 was published, it was removed from This Month in Astronomical Histor...
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