Category Archives: Science!

Hi-dilly-ho, neighborino!

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Kai

😀 I saw my first deep sky object! Deep sky object = DSO, fuzzy things generally too faint to see with the naked eye like nebulae and galaxies). Took the telescope out tonight – ogled a bit at Jupiter again … Continue reading →

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Sky watching

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Kai

I got a telescope for Christmas! Unusually for us I’ve started using it already in the hopes of maybe seeing comet ISON which may break up at the end of this month. Telescope is a Sky-Watcher Heritage 130p and its … Continue reading →

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Starmen

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Kai

Tonight I saw the International Space Station go overhead for the first time (knowingly). I’ve seen satellites before (though not often in recent years, oddly – used to see them all the time when I was younger), but this was … Continue reading →

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We like tha moooon!

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Kai

I’d like to tell you a story. It’s a story of great destruction, but also of rebirth, and even features drunken debauchery. It’s thought to be a true story. Once upon a time, there was a star. It was fairly … Continue reading →

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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Kai

I’ve been reading a book. Sort of. The book in question is an app, which causes the lines between reading and watching and indeed playing to blur a little, but fundamentally it was a book, and mostly I read it. … Continue reading →

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One moon, circling.

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Kai

I watched Stargazing Live tonight and their talk of the plaques sent out into space on Voyager’s 1 and 2 reminded me of a Next Generation episode, the one where the crew suffered non-REM sleep and went slowly mad. Deanna … Continue reading →

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Just remember that we’re standing on a planet that’s evolving…

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Kai

…and revolving at 900 miles an hour. It’s orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it’s reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The Sun and you and me and all the stars that we can … Continue reading →

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