Author: Dale
The gods must be teasing me
Warm weather at night, but skies completely conceiled by a high overcast. For the past week. With light pollution to add insult. All the well, I've taken a sturdy cardboard box and a sharp knife and began constructing my aperture Read More …
Cloudy Nights
The past few nights here have been completely overcast with not even a break in the clouds. The other night I went down to Company 7 and picked up two things – a upgraded finder scope that is of the Read More …
More on Saturn and the Moon
I dragged my scope up to UMBC tonight to get another view of Saturn. Despite the light pollution from Baltimore, I got a pretty good view and studied it for a while. Although my eyes were tearing from the cold, Read More …
Orion Inteliscope Cable and Adaptor
Alright, so now I figured out the RS-232 pinouts on the telescope control computer interface. On its 4 wire RJ-11 plug, I found that Pin-1 was xmit, Pin-2 was recv, and Pin-3 was ground. Pin-4 is apparently unused. Bare basic Read More …
The Celestial Poles
Rob Carlson responded to my post last night about Precession and asked about the Northern Celestial Pole (NCP) I mentioned. Explaining this deserves its own entry, so here we go. We all know that Earth rotates on its polar axis. Read More …
Hey baby, what's your sign?
I'm having a tough time trying to fall asleep tonight, so I figured I would write something here. Recently, as I educate myself on all things astronomical, I came across an interesting bit of info on the Zodiac. As you Read More …
First Light
In the very early hours of December 25, 2004 at approx. 1:30am at 39.39875º N, 77.10772º W, I made first light with my new Orion XT10i Inteliscope dobsonian telescope. The sky was very good with little surface winds with a Read More …
Car Computer
So, I have a really cool car (Subaru Forester Turbo) and as you all may already know, I’m a Macintosh freak. I’ve been wondering how to marry these two together and trick out the Scooby with a tricked out Mac. Read More …
Where Have You Been?
I’ve been to these places: USA Germany (West) Switzerland The Netherlands Lichtenstein Austria Luxembourg Denmark Norway France Ireland create your own visited country map
Jordan’s Steakhouse
This past Friday evening, Sara, her mother Julia, Jason, and I went to Jordan’s Steakhouse at 8085 Main St. in Old Ellicott City. We arrived early in the evening and were greeted by the wonderful staff, including the maitre d’hotel, Read More …