Oct 10 2011	"Wowwww! Double Rainbow Maaaan"
	Dave and I found the perfect spot at Lake Somerville this weekend (no, I will not tell you the site number). The spot was so perfect, even the heavens were approving of the site with a lovely double rainbow. It was really a triple rainbow; however, my camera has apparently decided on its own that the other one was too faint to even register on the sensor and therefore was just a figment of our imagination. Wonder what I will be saving up for next year? Be afraid camera, be very afraid. Anyway, we will be going back sooner than later. Jacob and Xavier would flip over this place
Posted: 2011-10-10 10:19:55    Comment?

Oct 6 2011	Da' Moon and Joopweters
	Ahhh... the joy of being Jacob! Every day the moon is visible, Jacob is always kind enough to point it out to me. It's been a while since I took out the telescope and this was the first time Jacob was really old enough to look through the telescope on his own. So, we set our sights on the moon (AKA "Da Moon") and Jupiter (AKA "Joopweters") so Jacob could get closer to them than ever before. No way was I ready to jump back in and try to mount the camera and do astrophotos (Jacob is not quite at the sharing telescope time age yet), but I did get some cell phone camera shots of Jacob doing his thing. And now for something completely different... felt like doing a little photoshoping this week, so I thought I would throw out a few of those around the whole "Chuck Testa" thing that was fun for about 10 minutes or so. Enjoy!
Posted: 2011-10-06 10:05:03    Comment?

Oct 26 2010	Star Chart
	In a quest for even more content, I manged to write and deploy a real-time star chart for zip code 77070. I'll be adding the abilty for folks to customize them for their area and to specify the time of day they want the chart for, but for now, I'll just sit back and enjoy a breather (it were a whole lots of maths and stuffs... especially calculating local apparent sidereal time.) http://www.growlervision.com/starchart.php Lunch is over, back to the salt mines!
Posted: 2010-10-26 13:10:01    Comment?

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