Crumby's Telescope Tomfoolery Notes

A brief break in the clouds was granted. Out to the east pasture I headed lickety split and looked at Cepheus since that direction was fairly clear. Beta, Xi and Delta were the ones espied. All these are repeat observations. But this time the methodology was followed with the resulting notes and drawings. Notes and drawings are a good idea. I can see where a person could forget how these stars look after perusing a couple of hundred of 'em.

Perhaps getting nearly an hour of observation time this week will keep me from ordering the Galileo Gravitator. I don't know though. Good Goddess, when I think of all the fun I could potentially have with one of those, well, it's, it's, indescribable.

Has anybody heard? Did the space shuttle do anything interesting yet?

Every time I try to read a popular article on serious astronomy I think to myself, by about the third sentence, that the author is convinced we're all gonna die due to the malfeasance of some heavenly anomaly. But then, later, the author reassures me that the whatever probably won't kill us off right away. On the other hand, if we're around in a million years, better watch out. I had to quit reading those type articles. Matter of fact, I never actually got all the way through any of them, only through the parts cited above.

Hey! Whatever happened to astro-tourism? Aren't we all supposed to be vacationing in orbit by now?