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)

Saturday, July 12, 2025

Trying out Google AI Search Overview; Can the multiverse concept now be tested? How does AI do with witches? Finally, its the full moon!

 Greetings from Palmia Observatory,

Well, this week we had some fun with Google AI searches and watched good multiverse discussion video and finished with a peek outside of the full moon.

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Gravity Wave Detections and Fireworks; Is it faith or just Bayesian Statistics?; Daydreaming about finding ice on the Moon and making a martini with it.

 Greetings from Palmia Observatory

Hope you all had a happy and noisy 4th of July celebration! For me, it seemed the GW event app on my iPhone was very noisy too, always chirping whenever a binary black hole merger was detected.

Monday, June 2, 2025

Can we go out now and see Mars retrograde motion? No, you have to wait, but let's look at ephemeris data simulation

 Greetings from Palmia Observatory

During a recent PBS show "Ancient Skies" the Ptolemaic view of the universe described the use of epicycles to correct for the retrograde motion of Mars.  Can we go outside now and observe the motion?

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.