15 days ago by plutovian

It’s hard to believe, but Clyde Tombaugh really did make his own telescope essentially from scratch. In an effort to try to understand how this was actually done, I hunted down old reference guides that would make the process plain. These images are from 1001 Celestial Wonders, published in 1931. Fo ...

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16 days ago by plutovian

Clyde Tombaugh’s plans to go up to Lawrence to college were foiled by an inopportune hailstorm — the oats that were to furnish his college funding were destroyed. Crop prices in 1928 were solid and would have provided a substantial income to the Tombaughs; the chance hailstorm that destroyed the oat ...

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23 days ago by plutovian

Oh, how they hated this thing. You put your eye (just one) against the brass ocular, and stared and stared and stared, while images jumped before your eyes. It made a clack-clack-clack noise, and gave off a smell of burned dust. While interviewing Henry Giclas (who was on staff at Lowell Observatory ...

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23 days ago by plutovian

As I understand it, these images would each have been about an inch square (in other words, a very small section of the 14 x 17 inch plates ). Clyde found Planet X in February 1930, after about 10 months of searching.

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24 days ago by plutovian

Taken the year before his death.

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26 days ago by swadmin

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71 days ago by kenramsley

Friday, October 8, 2004, 8:30am From my passing window the face of Lake Cochituate is even glassier than yesterday morning – a near-perfect mirror with nary a ripple of any kind. Also once again there are no clouds overhead – a day more like Flagstaff in northern Arizona than Natick in southern New ...

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132 days ago by Frank Warren

By Kevin RandleA Different Perspective7-28-09 Well, I see that good old Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy has struck again. I’m not sure why, if he is so convinced there is nothing to UFO reports, he feels the compulsion to return to the subject so often, but he does. And, surprising me if no one else, he ...

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243 days ago by Dr. Bruce Cordell

Continuing last week’s mini-tour of Space Age sites associated with the 1960s Apollo Maslow Window, one has to be especially impressed with the spectacular space icons of southern New Mexico and Arizona, and how they point to the approaching, new Space Age near 2015. The elegant McMath-Pierce Solar ...

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638 days ago by admin

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