- Dec 28, 2016
Bicentennial Star Shines On
With the conclusion of 2016 comes the end of two Indiana Bicentennial Legacy Projects that encouraged people to celebrate the state's...
- Dec 22, 2016
Snapshots of Time
The holidays came early for me, and with magnificent gifts. This week I gathered up a dozen small aluminum containers from around the...
- Dec 20, 2016
Solstice Is Solargraph Time
Near the solstice is the best time either to mount or to recover a solargraph, which is a long duration image of the sun using a simple...
- Nov 9, 2016
Think Bigger Than A Supermoon
It's time to get back to the serious practice of science. The so-called "supermoon" of Monday, November 14, may be a darling of...
- Nov 7, 2016
Main Street Solargraph
An early Anniversary Solargraph result is in, and it's promising. Pinhole cameras atop the JMS Building in downtown South Bend, IN,...
- Nov 7, 2016
Experimenting With SunPrint Solargraphs
Feel free to ride along with me for an experiment. I want to know if I can use SunPrint or a comparable product to make a day-long...
- Nov 6, 2016
Learning From Gravitational Waves
How big of a wave can you make? Supermassive objects that collide can distort time-space itself, as the radiating waves carry away...
- Nov 6, 2016
Sun Stops for the Cubs
When the Chicago Cubs won the 2016 World Series, even the sun paused in its trek across the sky to take note. Around the June solstice,...
- Oct 27, 2016
Solargraphs Capture School Vistas
Fourth grade students of Prairie Vista Elementary School in Granger, IN, have put six Anniversary Solargraphs in place to capture images...
- Oct 19, 2016
One Orbit Later
My poster for the 2016 Great Lakes Planetarium Association Annual Conference in Flint, MI, reflects on the past year of astronomy...
