Showing posts with label space exploration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label space exploration. Show all posts
Sunday, January 23, 2022

Massive Constellations of Artificial Satellites: What if they were natural?

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Many of my colleagues in astronomy, both professional and amateur, are vocal in their opposition to Starlink, the SpaceX project that is pla...
Friday, September 3, 2021

I Like Satellite Constellations

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As an amateur astronomer, I am happy to see strings of satellites passing overhead in the night sky. They are the consequence of thoughtful ...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

60 Years Ago: Gus Grisson and Liberty Bell 7

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We were on vacation in Daytona Beach, but had to come home on the 20th. So, we did not see any of the launch, except, of course, on televisi...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Virgin Galactic VX01 VX03

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 A picture is worth a thousand words. NASA-TV cut between its own feed and the press feed from Unity 22. These are all sequential as present...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Astrophotography is a Lot Like Love

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It took five hours over four nights to figure out how to get an image with my new iPhone 11.  I gave up trying the smaller telescopes, a 2-3...
Sunday, August 4, 2019

Armadillocon 41

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The only people signing autographs here are authors. Armadillocon is a very literary science fiction convention for writers, editors, art...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

A Moment of Science Fact as Science Fiction

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The picture that appeared on Reuters.com was startling familiar.  "My god! Someone built the Time Tunnel!" I thought.  But, it wa...