by Pamela | Apr 18, 2008 | Personal
It’s 4:47am. Up until I couple moments ago, I was dead asleep. Then the bed started shaking. Normally this means the dog is scratching violently. The dog wasn’t scratching. I think (?!?!?) there was just a fairly long duration , fairly strong, Earthquake...
by Pamela | Apr 15, 2008 | Personal
I’m blogging from my iPhone. I’m home safe, and my husband and my cellular wireless card are in California on a business trip. My cable, Internet, and telephone are all dead. There is, after much anxious waiting, someone here. Unfortunately, the problem is...
by Pamela | Apr 13, 2008 | Personal
No Spring/Summer AAVSO meeting would be complete without a field trip. Over the years there have been trips to the VLA, Star Parties, Yerkies, Mauna Kea – All manner of modern astronomy marvel has been oogled at by bus loads of sleepy, cheerful astronomers who...
by Pamela | Apr 12, 2008 | Personal
Every once in a while, statistically detected once a day or so, a GIANT star explodes as a hypernova (an over grown supernova) and channels its energy straight at us. This energy is mostly contained in an insanely powerful beam of gamma rays. That said, they also give...
by Pamela | Apr 12, 2008 | Astronomy, People
Earlier today I was talking with Rebecca Turner, another alumni of Slacker Astronomy and a staff member of the AAVSO. She and I are about the same age and often have our hair dyed the same random shades of red (I’ve let myself go to a boring auburn this...
