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Cool. Nice pic of green flash:
http://www.icstars.com/Mad/Astro/GreenFlash.html

I can’t believe I forgot the Transit of Venus. Big deal for astronomy types. But we didn’t even get home from the Stanley Cup game until 3 or 3:30 am, and we don’t have our own solar filter, so we would have had to go to a place where filtered scopes were set up at dawn, and that sure wasn’t gonna happen after pulling in the driveway at 3:30am. Oh well. Great pix of the event abound. (and here, … here, …and here.)

Weird Clouds: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040607.html
(again, via presurfer)

Amateur takes killer pic of Orion Nebula:
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/Oriondeepfield.html

(link via fark)

Top astronomy images of 2003
(link via fark)

M went to the astronomy club meeting tonight, I didn’t go because of my bronchitis and I just feel run down. But this time the meeting was at the new observatory at the new local university, and they have a 16.5″ Ritchey-Chretien telescope. The lead astronomer was there and was telling them about how NASA is going to send some space probe into the tail of a comet to collect dust particles and they are going to collect the particles using this weird material that is like a gel but it is 99.8% air. He said they had some in a vial that you could look at and it was wild, it looked, as he put it, as though somebody had captured blue smoke in a vial and froze it there. He said that he saw a photo of this stuff laid out in a layer holding up a stack of books, so it’s strong in spite of being 99.8% air. The material was called “aero gel”, and the mission is called the “stardust mission”. http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov Now I wish I had gone to the meeting, but I just don’t feel good.

Miscellaneous stuff:

Herring talk to each other through farts … and there’s a link to HEAR the sound on that page! =:D Hahahaha! (link via FARK.com)

Interesting website for Space news, sci-tech news, etc:
RedNova.com
Very cool pic of Andromeda Galaxy:
www.rednova.com/news/stories/1/2003/11/04/story005.html (click photo to enlarge) (link via FARK.com)

Very interesting photo of many galaxies and then some:
www.rednova.com/rnprogs/iodgen?k=3&u=99&y=2003&m=11&d=5 (click photo to enlarge)

RedNova.com has a photo of the day, plus many neat photos and articles.

From CNN:

“Close-up: Best view of Mars in 60,000 years.

“If Neanderthals had telescopes, they would have seen it a little bit better than we will on August 27,” said astronomer Geoff Chester of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington. “ Read More…