Time for Clean Up

Max's Birthday

2011-09-24T06:39:00.000-07:00

How time flies! Max has another birthday tomorrow.
He will be 4. On another blog page, he was just turning a year.
I have gotten pictures of Max, but God knows where I put them.
Good looking young boy.

from sky to earth

2011-09-11T12:16:00.000-07:00

September 11, 2011

Sunday-12:17PM-Queen Bean

Time to look a GIS systems. Quantum GIS is my starting point.

I have Grass installed but I don't know how to use it. Grass

is a plug-in for QGIS. So much to learn and so little time.

2009-06-20T20:39:00.000-07:00

A most historic day has just ocurred. I have been accused of being the father of Charlie/Max by Leslie. Ain't that great. I now have two women blaming me for a child I have never seen. I wonder about suspectious minds.

Charlie is called Max

2008-09-27T08:58:00.000-07:00

On Thursday, I called Max. Max is Charlie's birth name. I am not sure why mama changed from Charlie to Max. That is not my concern. I called Max up and wished him a "Happy Birthday." Of course him being only a year old, I had to go through his mother. He was outside playing with a forklift.

The Julian date for CE 2008 September 25 00:00:00.0 UT is JD 2454734.50000. I may go back and check this number. It should be 365 days greater than when he was born. A lot has happened since was born. I haven't seen his mother in over a year. I should get her to send me a picture.

Window Live Writer

2008-08-05T16:53:00.000-07:00

I just downloaded Windows Live Writer. All I got was a fancy page directing me to my email account. I must be doing something screwy.

Summer triangle in the morning

2008-05-06T16:38:00.001-07:00

I wish I could get the posting sequence straight.

one more try

2008-05-06T16:13:00.000-07:00

This is another try at uploading a simple sketch. It has more stars.

Saturn form the field

2008-05-05T16:46:00.000-07:00

I hope I get this image published before I die.

cold out

2008-01-15T11:08:00.000-08:00

Trebuchet-Large-January 15, 2008
It would be nice to start a good sequence of blog posts.

Charlie arrived

2007-10-08T10:38:00.000-07:00

Charlie was born September 25, 2007. I should get the Julian date.

The Julian date for CE 2007 September 25 00:00:0.0 UT is

JD 2454368.50000

astronomy podcasts

2007-08-01T16:44:00.000-07:00

Good afternoon. I captured this photo while trying to set up a cute video using Astronomy Cast/Universe Today as the audio track. The subject was variable stars. Fraser and Pamela do a great job. I also got photos of Algol in the constellation Perseus. The meteor showers should be coming up soon.

Towards the end of the year, Mars will be traveling in the constellation Gemini. There is one particular variable star that really upsets me. I guess that what makes star gazing great.

Planets are milestones of time

2007-06-20T14:50:00.000-07:00

This should be fun. Charlie is suppose to be born on October 10, 2007. I know Charlie exists because I saw him in a picture call a s.....gram. I know his name is Charlie. How do I know that? Because his mother told me. Let me get started.

What is the Julian date for October 10, 2007?

2454384.43405 Julian Date for October 10, 2007
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/JulianDate.html

The link below shows the position of the planets on October 10, 2007. This data is from "YourSky"
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Yourtel?utc=1998%2F02%2F14+20%3A55%3A01&date=2&jd=2454384.43405&lon=0h&lat=0%B0&ns=North&fov=45%B0&coords=on&moonp=on&deep=on&deepm=5.0&consto=on&constn=on&constb=on&limag=6.0&starn=on&starnm=3.0&starb=on&starbm=5.0&showmb=-1.5&showmd=6.0&imgsize=512&scheme=0&elements=

Retrograde motion--astronomy lecture note Rev-1

2007-05-26T14:27:00.000-07:00

Wow! This is wild. The last post(Rev-0) I couldn't get the links to start up. I guess I should get started. The purpose of this post is to get a line of thought for an astronomy lecture.

Seems like everything starts with http://www.google.com

Mars postion throught "Your Sky" site.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Yourtel?aim=4&z=1

An explaination of retrograde motion of planets.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mjpowell/Astro/Naked-Eye-Planets/Planet-Movements.htm#Movements

A related site explaining in detail Mars motion.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mjpowell/Astro/Naked-Eye-Planets/Mars-Path-2007-8.htm

Mars 2007 calendar of events.
http://www.seds.org/~spider/spider/Mars/mars2007.html

A generic Gemini constellation site.
http://www.astronomical.org/portal/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=38

A sequence or logic path of more and more detailed information of mapping of the constellation Gemini.
http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/constellations.html#o
http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/gem/index.html
http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/gem/gemp.html
http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/maps/gem/gem2p.gif

Finally a collection of fine photos of the constellation Gem.
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/peter.wienerroither/pwafof2/GEM.htm
http://www.biochem.szote.u-szeged.hu/astrojan/gemini.htm
http://allthesky.com/constellations/gemini/constell.html

A collection of data links for specific stars in Gem.
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellations/Gemini.html
http://www.seds.org/Maps/Const/Data/gemini_tab.html
http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/bsc/