http://theodorakis.net/astroblog Amateur astronomy weblog Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:53:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 20 February 2008: Lunar Eclipse A total lunar eclipse was forecast for tonight. Earlier this day, I had poor hopes for good visibility; it was snowing when I woke up (the kids; school district called for a two hour delay, which just messes up everyone's schedule) and the sky was completely ... http://theodorakis.net/astroblog/2008/02/21/lunar-eclipse-2008/ 25 December 2007 Around 10:00 pm I had few quiet moments. I had spent much of the day cooking (roast beef, pastitsio, roasted potatoes, and stewed green beans) and cleaning up. After dinner I watched It's a Wonderful Life with my daughters—one of them hadn't seen it before, and the other ... http://theodorakis.net/astroblog/2007/12/26/christmas-day-2007/ 30 November 2007: Early morning naked-eye observations Around 6:30 am I was outside to let the dog out. The sky was still dark, and it was crisp and clear. I looked around and saw the moon (about half-full), Mars, Saturn, and Venus (shining like a bright jewel in the eastern sky) ... http://theodorakis.net/astroblog/2007/11/30/venus-in-the-daytime/ 28 November 2007: Comet Holmes, Mars Over the last few weeks either circumstances or weather conspired to keep me from tracking Holmes, but tonight I had a chance and the sky was clear with only a few high clouds scattered about. Around 7:30 I scanned the area around Perseus with my ... http://theodorakis.net/astroblog/2007/11/30/comet-holmes-3/ 4 November 2007 After a lot of messing around with the CSS for this blog, I think I finally got it to look something close to the way I wanted it, with only some minor glitches. http://theodorakis.net/astroblog/2007/11/05/tweaking-the-look/ 2 November 2007: Comet Holmes This was my third night that I observed comet 17P/ Holmes (The first two observations were on Oct 28 and Oct 29). Around 10:30 pm I went outside to look at the sky. It was pretty clear; some scattered clouds were about, and the seeing ... http://theodorakis.net/astroblog/2007/11/03/comet-holmes-2/ 29 October 2007: Comet Holmes Around 9:30 tonight I took the 10 in. Dob out for another quick look at comet Holmes. It looked much the same as it did yesterday, with the exception that there was only one bright point of light (perhaps the nucleus) just off-center. So yesterday's observation ... http://theodorakis.net/astroblog/2007/10/30/comet-holmes/ I'm trying to change the look of this astroblog to make it resemble the style of some of the pages in the rest of the site. I'm still having trouble trying to figure out where some of the extra margin is coming from. http://theodorakis.net/astroblog/2007/10/29/updating-theme/ 28 October 2007: Comet 17P/Holmes Comet 17P/Holmes underwent a huge burst of brightness a few days, leading to much chatter on various astronomy boards, websites, and other internet groups. Unfortunately constant cloud cover over central Indiana prevented me from observing this event until tonight, which was finally clear. Around 8:20 I looked ... http://theodorakis.net/astroblog/2007/10/29/comet-17pholmes/ I decided to relaunch this astronomy weblog as a WordPress application; maintaining it by updating a static HTML page was getting to be too much of a pain, which is why I stopped doing it. Bear with me while I figure the best way to use and configure WordPress. http://theodorakis.net/astroblog/2007/10/20/relaunch-of-astroblog/