Proving the Analemma

[jrtom]

Wired article: On the Trail of the Analemma

(No, analemmae have no connection to lemmas; I just enjoyed that subject line. They are also, as far as I know, unrelated to lemmings. :> )

A cool thing for amateur observational astronomers, especially those that don't like staying up nights to do their observations. :)

Comments

[red-frog.livejournal.com]

Okay, and now you have to talk to mactavish. :)

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

I have to talk to all sorts of people. Many of these are people I need to talk to for professional reasons. But one of the things I liked about the Bay Area is that I rapidly became aware that there were all sorts of people up there I should be talking to. Even if I didn't get around to doing so very often. :)

[red-frog.livejournal.com]

Those that you met here this summer thought you were pretty nifty, too. :) But you can talk to Mary here, at least, and share geeking over astronomy pictures. You know APOD, right?

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

I'm nifty? Really? Does this mean that people are going to start worshiping me? :>

To be honest, though, I'm pretty much an astronomy geekage groupie: I like talking to people about the stuff that they do, but I don't really do anything astronomy-wise that's worth talking about, with the possible exception of hanging out with people like Richard and Sergey (whose research in pattern-detection has some applications in astronomical data-gathering).

APOD? Hadn't known of it before I Googled it, no. But I do now--thanks. :)