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 | Personal
[Note: This post was written over three days] My second morning in Oxford can perhaps best be described as a series of directions: around the circle, through the campus, over the hill, past the castle, down the hill, dash at the bridge. I’m currently sitting...
by Pamela | Apr 11, 2008 | Personal
After the talk on spectral work by amateurs I fled across campus to the Pathology building and a room of Naked Scientists. More exactly, one of our wonderful fans e-introduced Chris Smith and I and said we should meet, and she was right. Chris Smith is the originator...
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...
