Dean W. Armstrong

Scientific and other projects in astronomy, geoscience, physics, and electronics.

Saturday, March 19, 2005

"Your academic record is ... substantially below"

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3 down.
Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Bad Astronomy Bulletin Board :: View topic - Evidence of current life on Mars

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Bad Astronomy Bulletin Board :: View topic - Evidence of current life on Mars A followup to a previous post.
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Friday, March 11, 2005

VLF radio part 1

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A long time ago I dabbled in Very Low Frequency radio. These are radio waves with frequencies under 20kHz. They have obscenely huge waveleng...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Pentax Takumar lens

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I bought a 55mm f/1.8 Pentax screw mount lens off of Ebay last week to use as a wide-field imager in front of the Starlight Express SXV-H9 C...
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Saturday, March 05, 2005

Insert witty yet biting title here

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2 down, 4 left.
Wednesday, March 02, 2005

The size of modern mirrors

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http://www.pbase.com/polakis/image/40260687 Don't miss the next photo showing her thermal signature on the glass.
Monday, February 28, 2005

Cosmochemistry laughs

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It's amusing when while searching for a nice graph of the "Standard Abundance Distribution" that you end up on a website of a ...
Saturday, February 26, 2005

Horsehead Nebula

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Composed of 143 images of 30 seconds each.
Friday, February 25, 2005

Insert witty yet cryptic title here

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1 down, 5 left.
Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Ryerson Dome at night

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Steven was trying to observe an asteroid occultation at that moment.
Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Blue violet solar spectrum

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I read somewhere most of the lines in the blue and violet were due to the gazillion transitions that iron's electrons have. Click on the...
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Monday, February 21, 2005

Terrestrial oxygen

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Terrestrial oxygen as seen in the sun's spectrum, originally taken March 17, 2003. It's terrestrial only in the sense of being non-a...
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Sunday, February 20, 2005

Grad school applications

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I haven't heard yea or nay from a single school yet, and the waiting is driving me crazy. How long must I wait? ASU has a visitation wee...
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Saturday, February 19, 2005

Blog != Web Blog

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I have been informed "web blog" should be web log or blog, to be correct.
Friday, February 18, 2005

No, really, I like astronomy more.

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You might think from the first few entries in this web log that I'm currently obsessed with radioactivity. I'm not, and usually you ...
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Dean W. Armstrong has a B.A. from the University of Chicago in the geophysical sciences. My opinions are my own and do not reflect anyone or anything else's, unless they just happen to.
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