Saturnalia…
I bought my ‘backyard telescope’ a few years ago, and can count the number of times I’ve tried it out on one hand. Maybe tonight I’ll give it a serious go (if the weather co operates). Seriously, if I head to the western part of the county I should be able to avoid light pollution.
Since I’m thinking of the skies anyway, there’s been some really cool computer modeling of the Alpha Centauri system. If current theories of planet formation are right, our nearest neighbor has really good odds of having a terrestrial planet in the ‘habitible zone’ of Alpha Centauri. If I read it right, the model also predicts that the planetary system will be detectable from Earth. This sounds like a job for Hubble to me.
I’ve been thinking of moving this blog to wordpress (to keep all my blogs on the same user account). I’ll play around and see how hard it is to import old entries, or whether I should just continue from there.
