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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 27th, 2009
It’s spring time! Time to get all your camera gear in order and ready for your ourdoor activites. Notice any Crocus flowers around? This one popped up today in my front yard. I took it as a sure sign of spring, and a good chance to check out some camera lenses that I haven’t used [...]
Posted in Astronomy, astrophotography on Mar 25th, 2009
Well, we had a good run at Venus for the past several months watching it slowly change its phase and sink into the west just after sunset. Last week while I was out checking the Internation Space Station I managed to get a shot of the second planet closest to the sun. The planet is named [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 23rd, 2009
Well, I finally had some time to look at the video that I had shot last week of the International Space Station. It was taken with my Vixen ED100 (900mm) refractor. This was my first attempt at hand tracking and video recording the ISS through a Meade Electronic Eyepiece. The results are below. A lot [...]
A few weeks ago one of the members of our astronomy club posted a picture that he had taken of several Geosynchronous Satellites that he had recently had taken. After firing off a quick e-mail to my Satellite Samuri Leo Taylor, I managed to get enough information to take a shot at it myself. Last [...]
Posted in Science on Mar 16th, 2009
Hartford police identified the man who was killed on Friday March 13th at the Connecticut Science Center as 21 year old Chad O’Brien of Coventry, Connecticut. O’Brien was working on the 5th floor of the Science Center on an air conditioning and heating system at the time of his injury. The U.S. Occupational Safety and [...]
It was a great astronomy night for me tonight up here in the woods of Marlborough. Temps were in the high 40′s with no clouds, and no wind. My viewing sight (I was hoping) was perfect to try to see the Space Shuttle about 8 minutes after it lifted off. I got word that a [...]
Check this out! The Worcester Art Museum will host the new Smithsonian traveling exhibition Beyond: Visions of Planetary Landscapes. The exhibit paints a rarely seen and mesmerizing portrait of our solar system’s diverse worlds and their moons. The exhibition opens at the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts on March 29. Beyond will remain on [...]
Posted in Fire photography, Transportation, Uncategorized on Mar 5th, 2009
This was the scene that I went to yesterday on I-84 in the westbound lane 3/4 of a mile from exit 63. A spectacular accident in which a dump truck driver forgot to lower the dump body after leaving a construction site in Manchester just off of the highway, at 9:30am Wednesday March 4th. The [...]
As part of the Leitner Family Observatory at Yale University, the new planetarium which just opened to the public in January, already has had great success. Over the past several weeks just about every show has been filled, and the reviews are “out of this world”. Located at 355 Prospect Street in New Haven, the [...]
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