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  • Fernbank Observatory, 2007 August 16

    Fernbank Observatory, 2007 August 16 Lightbox enlargement

  • Fernbank Observatory, 2007 Aug 16

    Fernbank Observatory, 2007 Aug 16 Lightbox enlargement

  • Fernbank Science Center Observatory (2 views)

    Fernbank Science Center Observatory We had a lovely night at the observatory at Fernbank. The weather was cool and clear. There weren’t many people and when there aren’t many people that means you get a chance to look at a variety of celestial bodies. Outside, one of the smaller telescopes was trained on the moon,…

  • In the Name of Research I Visit the International UFO Museum, Part 1

    In the Name of Research I Visit the International UFO Museum, Part 1

    [highlight highlight_type=”italic” color=”yellow”]Part One in a series of posts on subjects found in the book Thunderbird and the Ball of Twine. In Which I Explore the International UFO Museum and Research Center at Roswell, New Mexico To where would Odile McDonald have made a point of making a pilgrimage after having seen a UFO? Okay,…

  • MAN IN THE METEORITE

    Man in the Meteorite, Fernbank Science Center, 2007 Light box enlargement H.o.p. and I spent the past several days reviewing our knowledge on comets in preparation for a planned Friday night excursion to the Fernbank Science Center observatory to see Comet Holmes. As it turned out, they were having troubles with the telescope and the…

  • The Perfume of Serious Welding Has Been Wafting the Air

    Oh, this has been going on a while, hasn’t it. On March 14 I blogged about a pipe feeding the radiant heaters that had apparently busted in our kitchen wall, in January, and how it was humidly wrecking havoc on the kitchen with steam pouring through the wall, peeling paint etc. And it couldn’t be…

  • Window on Antares

    Fernbank Observatory, 2007 Aug 16 Lightbox enlargement At left is the astronomer who gave the presentation at the planetarium and then was the sky guide at the observatory. H.o.p. loves the atmosphere. So do I. Perhaps because astronomers are going to like what they’re doing (or they seem to), and perhaps because the people who…

  • When Worlds Collide (a plodding movie deserves a plodding blog, I guess)

    The credits to “When Worlds Collide” are backed by flames, lots of flames, then smoke, blue streams of it against black, looking suspiciously like lurking under the bottom of the screen are positioned a number of special effects techs puffing away on packs of Camels. And for some reason, don’t ask me why, I wonder…

  • Fernbank Science Center – What we learned at the Planetarium today (3 views)

    Fernbank Science Center – What we learned at the Planetarium today (3 views)

    Pond at the Fernbank Science Center It’s a fairly nice small pond to sit beside for a little while. In this case after viewing the show at the Planetarium today which was on the stars of summer in our hemisphere (difficult to follow via just a sometimes too quickly moving pointer) with some information also…

  • I spent my day stitching paper bones together with artificial sinew

    The world is falling apart and here I am performing the essential duty of stitching paper bones together. However did that come to pass? Yesterday we’d planned another excursion to North Georgia, but H.o.p. was slow slow slow to get going, so slow that by the time we instead arrived at the Fernbank Science Center…