Subject: Planetary madness for the month of February
Planetary madness for the month of February
February 1st, 2014 at 10:05 am ESTHello Friend, Will that Prognosticator, the infamous Wiarton Willlie, give us another 6 weeks of Hell? Only time will tell....... Despite the fact that this Winter has been somewhat on the harsher side, for amateur astronomers in NorthAmerica, it h ...
Sick of Winter already? Here's one possible solution
January 31st, 2014 at 9:47 am ESTHello Friend, The end of January has finally arrived. We are that much closer to Spring. Yippee! And pretty soon, we'll be hearing from that great Winter prognosticator of the far North, the one and only, Wiarton Willie. Yes, the groundhog that ...
The dogged determination of Scott Roberts..
January 30th, 2014 at 1:29 pm ESTHello Friend, Scott Roberts was a determined man.... Several years ago when he founded Explore Scientific, one of the first questions I asked him was: "So Scott, there are several manufacturer's of refractor telescopes already, do we really needa ...
It's Easy Peasy, 1 2 3!
January 29th, 2014 at 5:18 am ESTHello Friend, Yesterday, I shared with you a few slang British expressions, which were common when I was growing up in the UK and today I'll share a couple more : All in the interest of increasing your vocabulary. Ain't education a great thing? "K ...
Could this be the Mutt's Nuts in telescopes?
January 28th, 2014 at 6:08 am ESTHello Friend, The Mutt's Nuts? One of the great things about growing up as a lad in London, England was that the Brit's always hadsome rather interesting slang expressions for things. You know expressions like: "Bollocks" (BS) or "Bob's yer Unc ...
The haunting of the David Dunlap Observatory
January 26th, 2014 at 7:29 am ESTHello Friend, Helen Sawyer Hogg & the David Dunlap Observatory.....synonomous indeed. Noted Canadian astronomer Helen Sawyer Hogg, August 1st 1905 – 28 January 1993) was a woman who pioneered research intoGlobular Clusters and variable stars righ ...
Who will be the next Wolf of Wall Street?
January 25th, 2014 at 9:19 am ESTHello Friend, I recently saw the movie, "Wolf of Wall Street" which showed the excesses of wall street in the 1970/1980's. No question about it, Leonardo DiCaprio is a fine actor. Sure there were several over the top sex scenes in the movie (hint; ...
The weebles wobble, but they don't fall down....
January 24th, 2014 at 5:31 am ESTHello Friend, Perhaps our illustrious Mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, supported by the" Ford Nation", might have said those very words. Yes he wobbled, but he didn't fall down. He just got up again and kept going, and apologizing for the umpteenth tim ...
Evidence that life is created in a Comet!
January 22nd, 2014 at 6:32 am ESTHello Friend, Yesterday was certainly an exciting day with the information being shared on the Rosetta Orbiter,that had been traveling through space for several years, and had just "woken up" from it's long shutdownand tweeted and relayed it's first ...
The Rosetta Probe...could it reveal the secrets of our origins?
January 21st, 2014 at 6:43 am ESTHello Friend, The Rosetta Probe has awoken, after travelling over 800 million miles. Some theories suggest that life on earth began with a Comet. Large enough to have planted the seeds of life on the earth, after having landed here. That's why the ...