Are you ready for AAS 248 in Pasadena; SpaceX IPO; Neil Turok strives for simplicity; Dark Sky Network; El Nino coming!

 Greetings from Palmia Observatory,

While I was deciding whether or not to go to the AAS 248 meeting in Pasadena, I also enjoyed watching Neil Turok plan to simplify the understanding of the universe,

Trying to gain some insight on the Hubble Tension with Adam Riess at UCI special physics colloquium

 Greetings from Palmia Observatory,

Well, this week I finally made it back to the UCI physics colloquium to hear Nobel winner Adam Riess speak about the Hubble tension.

Greetings on Pi Day; Looking into Gravitational Waves and trying Grok; Black Hole Wind; Infalling matter and radiation efficiency

 Greetings from Palmia Observatory,

It's been a while and what better day to start off again like Pi Day.  Also let's talk about black hole wind and matter falling into black holes and asking Grok to comment.

Looking up at the night sky for rocket launch contrails; Just pointing an iPhone at the Moon and Jupiter; Beeple's robot dogs with people's heads art show

 Greetings from Palmia Observatory,

This week we went outside with just an iPhone, without DSLR and flimsy tripod, and looked up at the Falcon 9 launch contrails.

Some background on binary star systems and mergers; Almost full moon; Visitors on the observatory patio?

 Greetings from Palmia Observatory

Well, this week I attended the CSULB physics colloquium and had interesting presentation on binary system evolution and mergers by Professor Margaret Lazzarini, CSULA.