Tag: Astronomy
Venus in Transit
There are some things worth sitting without air-conditioning in Houston traffic for. Viewing the last opportunity in my lifetime to view the transit of Venus across the face of the Sun is one such event, and it happened yesterday! Phil Plait, @BadAstronomer, requested and received pictures from all over Earth and I highly recommend checking [...]
Q&A with @BadAstronomer
This afternoon, Phil Plait announced that we was doing an impromptu UStream live Q&A about his Top 24 Deep Space Pictures of 2011, and that he could take questions via twitter. Here was mine: Here’s the answer, paraphrased – I tried to catch it all, but he had a lot to say in a fast-paced [...]
Carl Sagan Day
On November 9th, representing the Houston Atheists, I hosted a Carl Sagan Day event at Super Happy Fun Land. Other groups were invited, including the Super Secret Science Club, the Houston Science Events meetup group, and the Greater Houston Skeptic Society. The evening began with mingling, snacks and drinking as guests filtered in. As the [...]
Grounds for Inspiration
Two weeks ago, while searching for events for the Houston Atheists to participate in, I discovered that Rice University has an observatory with a 16″ scope. Open house was that night, and later in the evening I enjoyed a cool breeze on the upper deck of Brockman Hall, viewing Jupiter, the Moon, and binary pair [...]
