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Category Archives: astronomy

Astrophotography by Chris Kotsiopoulos

Check out the photography of Chris Kotsiopoulos. He has some impresive astrophotography on his website, and has been featured on APOD several times.

Formation of the Solar System

Sky and Telescope posted an interesting article summarizing recent models of the formation of the solar system.

Fort Wayne light pollution ordinance text

The City of Fort Wayne passed a light pollution ordinance this week. The quantity of criticism of this commonsense law is amazing. I certainly agree that this shouldn’t need to be a law, but unfortunately, it does. The only problem I see with this ordinance is that it only applies to residential properties. It is [...]

Light pollution ordinance: Surprising good news

In surprising good news, the Fort Wayne city council passed–and the mayor signed–a residential light pollution law. This is something I have supported for at least twelve years. I can see the point of some on the council that this shouldn’t be a law, but their reasoning is wrong. It shouldn’t need to be a [...]

Amazing eclipse pictures

I found this picture linked from APOD. The 2008 eclipse pictures on Miloslav Druckmüller’s site are by far the best use of HDR type photography I have seen. Most of the time people overdo the processing. This is perfect. Praesepae, Mercury, Moon, Comet and Corona up to 20 solar radii(© 2008 Miloslav Druckmüller, Peter Aniol, [...]

Venus

Todays RealClimate post about Venus and Venus Express is very interesting.