Observing with Street Lights

Observing with Street Lights
Dark sky sites not always necessary to see the Milky Way (This image was taken ouside of a B&B in Julian, CA)

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Attended APS Global Physics Summit; Attended some of the PCGM; Trying to remember the first part of Gauge Theory; Can we measure the acceleration of Andromeda in the lab?

 Greetings from Palmia Observatory,

Well, it's been a while since we last made a blog post.  I guess I'm just losing energy and have a tougher time deciding to blog about any ongoing activity. I've made 559 posts over the past 10 years and this Physicist Wannabe is just getting tired.

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Halloween Visitor; Halloween Prank Video

 Greetings from Palmia Observatory


Well, we took some time off to meetup with a Halloween visitor, who landed on one of our patios.

Friday, August 16, 2024

Some summary comments from SSI 2024

 Greetings from Palmia Observatory

This post has some summary slides from online screenshots for the Standford Summer Institute 2024.  This draft version will be updated later, but for now is just used for discussion at OCA Astrophysics SIG.

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Rocket plume for SpaceX Starlinks Launch from Vandenberg AFB as observed from the Observatory

 Greetings from Palmia Observatory,

Well, this week the clouds sort of disappeared and we had a chance to look for rocket plume in the sky.

Sunday, June 16, 2024

Memorial Day; Some images on April 8 Solar Eclipse and impact on solar power generation; Imagining Astrophysics meetings with ChatGPT; Oh well, let's drink to that!

 Greetings from Palmia Observatory,

It's been a while since our last post so let's catch up with a cartoon on Memorial Day, some Apil 8 solar eclipse photos and ChatGPT imaginings of astrophysicist wannabes meetings.