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Wednesday, December 04, 2002 |
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News - I've added photos to my blog! I'm using a service called Bravenet to create picture albums on the Web that I can link to my blog. The first photo I've posted in a shot I took at the 2002 Festival of Trees last week in Lansing. It's a photo of an M&M theme Christmas tree. To see the picture, go here and click on "Blog": http://makeashorterlink.com/?X16F257A2
In the future I'll use this service to post other pictures from our trips, events, etc. Let me know what you think.
News - Thanks to a heads-up from Jane, last night I got to see the very
unusual sight of the International Space Station and the Shuttle flying
across the northern sky at 6:10 p.m.:
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/shuttle_spotting_021202.html
Comment - It was pretty neat. The ISS was brighter and followed behind the
Shuttle at a distance of about four hand-widths. The two were 255 miles up
and traveling 18,000 miles and hour. It took them 3-4 minutes to cross from
the southwest to the northeast.
News - More astronomy news: Wednesday morning at dawn, I saw extremely
bright Venus in the eastern sky, with dimmer Mars close by (also a very
pretty sunrise): http://www.space.com/spacewatch/venus_morning_021122.html
Comment - I've never seen Venus so bright ("During the winter holidays it
will shine like a modern-day 'Christmas star in the east' before sunrise. It
reaches its greatest brilliancy for this morning apparition on Dec. 6 at
magnitude -4.7. This is as bright as it can ever appear and brighter than
any other planet or star."). This article says Venus is so bright, you can
check against the snow and see if the Venus-light is casting shadows.
News - I can't believe it! It was 18 below zero Tuesday morning in Lansing:
http://www.lsj.com/news/local/021204_new_cold_1a-5a.html
Comment - When I heard the temperature on the radio, I thought they were
talking about wind chill. And we're still two weeks away from the official
start of Winter. But, a couple years ago, we had a cold and snowy December
and then a warm January.
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News - I've added photos to my blog! I'm using a service called Bravenet to create picture albums on the Web that I can link to my blog. The first photo I've posted in a shot I took at the 2002 Festival of Trees last week in Lansing. It's a photo of an M&M (not Eminem) theme Christmas tree. To see the picture, go here and click on "Blog": http://pub2.bravenet.com/photocenter/album.php?usernum‘660163
In the future I'll use this service to post other pictures from our trips, events, etc.
News - Thanks to a heads-up from Jane, last night I got to see the very
unusual sight of the International Space Station and the Shuttle flying
across the northern sky at 6:10 p.m.:
Comment - It was pretty neat. The ISS was brighter and followed behind the
Shuttle at a distance of about four hand-widths. The two were 255 miles up
and traveling 18,000 miles and hour. It took them 3-4 minutes to cross from
the southwest to the northeast.
News - More astronomy news: Wednesday morning at dawn, I saw extremely
bright Venus in the eastern sky, with dimmer Mars close by (also a very
pretty sunrise):
Comment - I've never seen Venus so bright ("During the winter holidays it
will shine like a modern-day 'Christmas star in the east' before sunrise. It
reaches its greatest brilliancy for this morning apparition on Dec. 6 at
magnitude -4.7. This is as bright as it can ever appear and brighter than
any other planet or star."). This article says Venus is so bright, you can
check against the snow and see if the Venus-light is casting shadows.
News - I can't believe it! It was 18 below zero Tuesday morning in Lansing:
Comment - When I heard the temperature on the radio, I thought they were
talking about wind chill. And we're still two weeks away from the official
start of Winter. But, a couple years ago, we had a cold and snowy December
and then a warm January.
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