by Pamela | Apr 11, 2008 | Personal
As well as blogging this meeting as best I can, I’m also here try very hard to suck as many people into communicating astronomy as I can. To that end, I gave a talk on a project to create a Speaker’s Bureau, a Writer’s Bureau and an archive of...
by Pamela | Apr 11, 2008 | Astronomy, Observing
So, if you’re like, you may not own a telescope (story later, because I know you’ll ask). Like me, you may love looking through telescopes, taking images through telescopes, and just being able to intellectually get your hands dirty doing observational...
by Pamela | Apr 11, 2008 | Astronomy, Observing, Stars
Variable stars come in many forms – there are happy little regular stars, widely separated and merrily circling ones dancing an eon long dance. Some white dwarfs – dead stars, cooling into stellar embers of stars – become vampires as they...
by Pamela | Apr 11, 2008 | Astronomy, Stars
After several days of travel, I’ve settled into the front row of the BAA/AAVSO meeting in New Hall, in Cambridge, UK. Dr. Paula Skody is giving an excellent talk on pro-am collaboration to make Hubble Space Telescope observations of cataclysmic variables. She...
by Pamela | Apr 9, 2008 | Personal
Just a reminder, I will be at Castle Pub, on Castle Hill in Cambridge, UK on Friday at 6pm.
