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Happy Spring



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and happy monday.

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Happy 90th Birthday Pete Seeger

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And many many more.

We are truly blessed to have you.

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A Perfectly Geeky Weekend

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The Boy Genius and I just had the official Best Weekend Ever. For a pair of geeks that is.

We started out on Saturday night at the Westchester Amateur Astronomers‘ monthly star party. Details are here but do allow me to brag about finally hitting my own personal White Whale – the Leo Triplet – without any computerized or motorized means. Plus we saw that rarest late evening site – the planet Mercury hanging low over the horizon.

Yesterday we headed up to Duchess County for the Mount Beacon Amateur Radio Club’s hamfest. We spent an hour or so rummaging through boxes of vacuum tubes and diodes and lusting over old radios and finally settled on a copy of the ARRL’s license manual and test guide for the technician class license. So if the boy gets his technician class I definitely have to upgrade to general. Time to relearn everything I forgot.

Pictures from the hamfest (with appropriate snarky comments for the Hamsexy crowd) are here.

Since we were already up north and not far from the Newburg Beacon Bridge, we headed to the other side of the Hudson after lunch and drifted south on 9W, past Storm King Mountain and West Point and ending up at Bear Mountain. We spent some time taking note of glacial marks on the rock outcroppings up on top of the mountain, took some pictures and admired the view.

And to top it all off, since he’s finished The Fellowship of the Ring, we’ve been watching the movie in bits and pieces (and it’s much better than I remembered it and I remembered it being pretty good).

Now back to work.

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To The Stars

DSC_0073, originally uploaded by david parmet.

Astronomy is one of those esoteric hobbies that have pretty much been saved by the Internet. Online retailers like Orion Telescopes have thrived where once we only had mail order and a few retail stores in major cities from which to purchase the tools of our trade.

And like other hobbies down the far end of the Long Tail – it’s a lot easier for us all to find each other online than it was back in the day when all we had was a subscription to Sky & Telescope.

NEAF – the North East Astronomy Forum – is the SXSW of amateur stargazing. Every April the Rockland County Astronomy Club throws a two day shindig in the bowels of a Community College gymnasium and thousands of the faithful come from all over the North East to gaze and paw at the latest in telescope gear.

This is a ‘hold on to your wallet’ event – unless you have a few grand in the bank, it’s hard to come back from NEAF with much of anything. But in addition to the vendors, there are demonstrations of archaic skills like mirror grinding and collimation. And the schwag is second to none.

So if you are a stargazer and live in the North East, don’t miss NEAF.

Cross posted to The Backyard Stargazer

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Tap Across The Tappan Zee

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After living in the Hudson Valley for most of my adult life, I think I’ve finally found a super secret spot to take decent pictures of the Tappan Zee Bridge.

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