Sources for Biography

http://books.google.com/books?id=JyoEAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA129&lpg=RA1-PA129&dq=alvan+g+clark+astronomer+biography&source=web&ots=cCsbvcICgo&sig=9cWddvFZl8h-1lQOZxHugOAmErc&hl=en

http://books.google.com/books?id=JyoEAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA129&lpg=RA1-PA129&dq=%22alvan+g+clark%22+astronomer+biography&source=web&ots=cCsbvcIDhh&sig=HimqGhqFjTulemprQnCuaBYzqTM&hl=en

http://books.google.com/books?id=uCszAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA433&lpg=PA433&dq=%22alvan+g+clark%22+astronomer+biography&source=web&ots=ZPDGuP_Fp8&sig=71X7yQjMHIs7li3tOuSl43tGt8w&hl=en

http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/5/8/2/15824/15824.htm

APOD 3.8

NGC 4676: When Mice Collide

This is really cool. To think that two galaxies can just tear each other apart is absolutely amazing. It is a wonder where they get their strength from. If galaxies can do that to each other and if there are galaxies out there beyond our own, what if some galaxy out their is slowly pulling our galaxy apart? What happens when a galaxy actually is pulled apart and what happens to everything inside that galaxy?

APOD 3.7

Moon Slide Slim

This is a pretty picture of the lunar eclipse. I wish that it was not so cloudy on Wednesday so that I could have seen the eclipse as I have never seen one and would like to see one. Watching the simulation online or whatnot is not as much fun as it is to actually sit outside and watch the moon in this glorious event. Oh well, guess I will have to wait another two years before I can see it, hopefully!

Star Formation Thingies

SITES!!!!!!!

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2000/01/image/a/

http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/space/missions/sts-103/hubble/archive/951103.html

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/07/star-formations.asp

http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8582

http://www.arm.ac.uk/~mds/Origin/cosmo.html

http://www.grantchronicles.com/astro17.htm

http://techluver.com/category/study/

PICTURES!!!!
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/stars_galaxies/images/antennae_pc.jpg

http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/docs/rst/Sect20/e0102electricbluet_m.jpg

http://www.grantchronicles.com/etacarinaebig.jpg

APOD 3.6

Long Stem Rosette

This is a very pretty picture. Unfortunately, it is the only pretty picture for this week. The rest of them are really bland and boring with no bright and vibrant colors which is really sad. I like bright colors. That's why I have so many pens in different colors and like to make my notes for class pretty. Notes that are pretty help me to learn better.. Well, on occasion at least.

Visual Magnitude Estimates Exercise

7:30-8:30

Aurigae 3.6
Eridani 1.5
Orionis 3.6
Tauri 1.3
Orionis 1.6
Orionis 3.2
Geminorum 1.5
Geminorum 1.5
Canis Majorum 3.6
Canis Majorum 3.6
Geminorum (Castor) 1.1

Observation Log 2/13 and 2/14

6- 6:30
I was out walking the baby again and looked up at the sky. Venus was closer to the horizon and Jupiter was at a further 45 degree angle

6-6:30
Out with baby again, could not see Venus or Jupiter anymore. Then again it was sort of cloudy out. Not much was visible.

APOD 3.5

Light Echoes from V838 Mon

This is a pretty picture. Hop thinks it looks like a furball. I agree. It does. Oh, and Hannah concurs with us. It's a pretty pretty, pretty, cool looking thing in space!!!! :) Also, Hannah and Hop are really cool, pretty much cooler than the furball. That last sentence was edited in by Hannah. Silly Hannah.

Observation 2/7

6 am to 6:30

Out walking Chauncy again when I noted that Jupiter is now at about a 45 degree angle to Venus.

Observation 1/31 and 2/1

6 am to 6:30

I was out walking my doggums (his picture is in my profile, what a cutie) and looked up at the sky and saw Jupiter and Venus. Venus looked like it was directly above Jupiter.

6 am to 6:30

I was out walking doggums again as I do every morning and looked up. It doesn't look like Jupiter and Venus are really aligned anymore.

APOD 3.4

A Solar Eclipse Painting from the 1700s

Yeah so I picked this as my APOD for the week because I found it interesting/scary. I have never gotten the chance to see a solar eclipse, but I really do hope that I will get to see one in my lifetime. The man in this picture looks completely freaked out. I know solar eclipses are not scary like at all, but I think that maybe back then when the people were not really used to seeing things like that happening and they probably thought that it was the end of the world or something crazy like that.