Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Comet Holmes
Hiya,
Have any of you seen Comet Holmes? Go to spaceweather.com for all the details. It is relatively easy to spot. Over the past several days it has blossomed from a 17th magnitude object to 2.5! That's a change of more than 1,000,000 times in brightness! I saw the comet for the first time Monday. It just looks like a star unless you use a pair of binoculars or a telescope. The comet has no tail. All you see is a big gray patch of fuzzy light. It is great!! Be sure to include any sightings in your observations.
Clear Skies,
Charlie
Have any of you seen Comet Holmes? Go to spaceweather.com for all the details. It is relatively easy to spot. Over the past several days it has blossomed from a 17th magnitude object to 2.5! That's a change of more than 1,000,000 times in brightness! I saw the comet for the first time Monday. It just looks like a star unless you use a pair of binoculars or a telescope. The comet has no tail. All you see is a big gray patch of fuzzy light. It is great!! Be sure to include any sightings in your observations.
Clear Skies,
Charlie
Sunday, October 14, 2007
October Data
Greetings!
Feel free to take your reading anytime this week. Closer to the 21st would be better, but fit it into your schedule curriculum-wise or weatherwise. Please send your results to my e-mail, not the school's that will only slow things down. Send it to cflindgren@comcast.net Also, if I don't get a reading from you this month, and you didn't send me one last month, I'll assume you are not participating and remove your school from the table. Tell us what you're doing with the data. Tell us how you collect your data. Tell us how things have changed climate-wise in your location from September until now. What big things happen in your school in October? We of course are anxiously watching our beloved Red Sox as they attempt to try to duplicate their 2004 performance. One furniture dealer actually ran a campaign early in the season where if the Red Sox won the World Series, any furniture you bought during that block of time (it ended April 15th) would be free!!!! I hope all is going well. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help you with this. The pictures you are sending are great. If you send me more I'll add them to your page, and archive one of the older images.
Clear Skies,
Charlie
Feel free to take your reading anytime this week. Closer to the 21st would be better, but fit it into your schedule curriculum-wise or weatherwise. Please send your results to my e-mail, not the school's that will only slow things down. Send it to cflindgren@comcast.net Also, if I don't get a reading from you this month, and you didn't send me one last month, I'll assume you are not participating and remove your school from the table. Tell us what you're doing with the data. Tell us how you collect your data. Tell us how things have changed climate-wise in your location from September until now. What big things happen in your school in October? We of course are anxiously watching our beloved Red Sox as they attempt to try to duplicate their 2004 performance. One furniture dealer actually ran a campaign early in the season where if the Red Sox won the World Series, any furniture you bought during that block of time (it ended April 15th) would be free!!!! I hope all is going well. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help you with this. The pictures you are sending are great. If you send me more I'll add them to your page, and archive one of the older images.
Clear Skies,
Charlie
Saturday, October 13, 2007
From Oregon
So, as luck would have it the sun was out on the 21st and we were able to go out and measure the sun angle!! In Estacada, Oregon, the students measured 45 degrees at solar noon time. Deb
