Friday, December 31, 2021

Censorship in Cyberspace 1991-2021

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I placed myself outside the accepted norms on two discussion boards for amateur astronomers, The Sky Searchers and Cloudy Nights. I withdrew...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

Cultured Carrot Fermented Foods

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How do you get your kids to eat sauerkraut? For Kristin Simpson, the solution was to develop a line of fermented foods that their palates wo...
Saturday, December 11, 2021

Merry Newtonmas 2021

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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.   If your neighborhood is like ours, th...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Funky Mello: Feel Good Marshmellows

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We have not been treated to vendors at the Wheatsville Co-op since Covid started and it was a pleasant shock to see Delisa and Zach of Funky...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Two Deep Sky Targets

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 On 28 November, I viewed the Double Cluster in Perseus for the first time. The following night, I was able to find the globular cluster Mes...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Learning Lyra

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My spatial reasoning scores are always lower than my verbal acuity grades. Consequently, the standard star charts for Lyra, a simple quadril...
Sunday, November 14, 2021

Discovering gamma Arietis

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Having packed away the three 70-mm entry-level refractors I was enjoying ( last week ), I returned to my Explore Scientific First Light 102-...
Saturday, November 13, 2021

Book Review: The Science and Art of Using Telescopes

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The essence of the book is given in the opening. Get past the beginner stage by finding new interests; specialize in subbranches of observat...
Sunday, November 7, 2021

70-mm Shootout

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Start with the mount. Just as the scabbard called “Avalon” was more powerful than “Excalibur” (the blade it sheathed), the positioning mecha...