Astronomy and related sciences
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2010 Jul 19 The Perseid meteor shower [2010 apparition]
2010 Feb 10 Did Homer describe an eclipse in The Odyssey? [Magnasco talk 2010 Feb 8]
2010 Jan 10 Astrophotography with simple digital cameras [RF, not SLR, models]
2010 Jan 4 Mars opposition of 2010 [observing by eye and binoculars]
2009 Nov 11 End of Pleiades occultations [current season ends in 2010]
2009 Oct 12 Observing double stars [topics for home astronomers]
2009 Oct 9 Human artifacts on the Moon [landings and crashes]
2009 Sep 19 Targets for skies over New York City [deep sky objects]
2009 Aug 13 Operation of the astrolabe [use, function of mediaeval device]
2009 Jul 5 Non-Messier object cross-reference [Hartmut Frommert's table]
2009 Jul 5 Examples for spectral classes
2009 Jun 6 Stellar spectrometry [topics for home astronomy]
2009 May 30 The planispheric astrolabe [Chandler talk 2009 May 22]
2009 May 9 Blessing the Sun [Birkat Hachama, Jewish astronomy]
2009 Apr 27 Do I see omega Centauri? [seeing NGC5128 & 5139 from NYC]
2009 Jan 2 Jupiter Neptune triple conjunction [May, Jul, Dec 2009]
2008 Dec 21 Moon-Jupiter-Venus conventions [planet conjunctions]
2008 Dec 15 Forgotten Stars [Manilius conf 2008 Oct 24-25
2008 Nov 15 That is one long eclipse! [epsilon Aurigae]
2008 Sep 7 Ecliptic cyclorama
2008 Aug 31 Decanates [Greek and Egyptian stars]
2008 Aug 31 Table of asteroid groups
2008 May 27 Striking water and striking out [Hayd Plm's Phoenix show]
2008 Feb 16 How high can you jump on the Moon?
2008 Jan 5 Will Mars get gonged? [asteroid 2007-WD5 collision]
2007 Dec 11 Sun's selenographic colongitude
2007 Dec 8 Astrology for astronomers?
2007 Dec 8 What's my qibla? [direction to face Mecca]
2007 Oct 23 Strange lights on the Moon [Crotts talks in 2007]
2007 Sep 23 Moon's void of course [astrology feature]
2007 Sep 9 In the shadow of the Moon [movie review]
2007 Jun 13 Greener greater New York [greening the City for 2030]
2007 Apr 15 The Pioneer anomaly [Isaac Asimov debate, March 2007]
2007 Feb 8 Is that a planet on my image?!?! [epsilon Eridani]
2006 Oct 28 Sunshine at Ground Zero [Wedge of Light at WTC site]
2006 Sep 19 New trends in astrodynamics [AstroCon-3 2206]
2006 Mar 10 Oh!, Cincinnati [theft of Cincinnati Observatory lens]
2006 Mar 8 L, l, 1 Carinae [star designation]
2006 Jan 26 Saturn ring crossings
2006 Jan 16 How often is that star occulted?
2005 Dec 26 International law of outer space
2005 Dec 24 Roving Mars [Squyres talk 2005 Dec 13]
2005 Oct 19 Babylonian moons [fixing full and new Moon]
2005 Oct 15 Station at the center of the universe [Grand Central]
2005 Oct 9 Happy 70th birthday [Hayden Planetarium]
2005 Aug 2 The leap second
2005 Apr 3 America's future in space [Allies in Space 2005 April]
2005 Mar 28 They're closing in!! [gamma Virginis]
2004 Jun 11 Venus on the Sun [transit 2004 Jun 8]
2004 Apr 7 Moon, Mars, and beyond [Tyson talk 2004 Mar 13]
2003 Dec 3 Marsapalooza! [coming landing of Mars rovers]
2003 Oct 17 Welcome back, Hermes [asteroid recovery]
2003 Aug 3 Outline of 18th century astronomy [invention, discovery, theory]
2003 Jun 11 Disc parameters for Mars [observing the planet]
2003 Jun 5 Oppositions of Mars [1900-2035]
2003 May 24 The Stonehenge effect in New York City
2003 May 23 Observing the aurora in New York
2002 Nov 2 Seeing the Milky Way from New York
2002 Oct 27 American Urban Star Fest [stars from Central Park, Manhattan]
2002 Sep 27 Are those stars looking back at us? [exoplanets]
2002 Jul 25 AAVSO convention in Hawaii [July 2002]
2002 Mar 17 What is a Kreutz comet?
2001 Nov 19 The Leonids did roar! [meteor storm of 2001]
2001 Nov 6 AAVSO 2001 fall meeting in Somerville
2001 Nov 4 The other dark sky [light pollution in New York]
2001 Oct 25 Hohmann orbits [space flight]
2001 Oct 3 The Lagrange points [libration, equilibrium, L points]
2001 Aug 2 Planetary synodic cycles
2001 Aug 1 The cardboard diffraction micrometer [double stars]
2001 Aug 1 Halo minor and parhelia [atmospheric optics]
2001 May 26 Sky orientation
2000 Oct 28 The promise for starry eyes [light pollution in New York]
2000 Jul 1 Bump, bump, bump, bang! [Hayden Planetarium show]
2000 Jul 1 Lopsided sunrises? [sun's diurnal motion]
2000 May 10 Photoessay of the Hayden Planetarium [00-09 of 60]]
2000 May 10 Photoessay of the Hayden Planetarium [10-19 of 60]
2000 May 10 Photoessay of the Hayden Planetarium [20-29 of 60]
2000 May 10 Photoessay of the Hayden Planetarium [30-39 of 60]
2000 May 10 Photoessay of the Hayden Planetarium [40-49 of 60]
2000 May 10 Photoessay of the Hayden Planetarium [50-59 of 60]
2000 Apr 1 A star on the move [gamma Virginis]
1999 Dec 18 Leonids storm the planet! [1999 meteor shower]
1999 Nov 30 From the Bronx to Buzzard's Bay [AAVSO fall 1999]
1999 Oct 31 The therapeutic stars [Monefiore Children's Hospital]
1998 Nov 1 New York's new Hayden Planetarium
1997 Mar 11 Observations of comet Hale-Bopp 1995-O1 [from New York & Brooklyn]
1996 Oct 7 Closing the gap! [electric trains to Boston, light pollution]
1996 May 1 Brief comet Hyakutake reports [comet 1996-B2 in New York]
1996 Mar 29 Yuji Hyakutake, discoverer of the great comet of 1996]
1995 Sep 1 General news about comet Hale-Bopp 1995-O1
1994 Dec 1 Manhattan can go by GPS [proof that GPS works]
1994 Oct 15 4th magnitude [light pollution on Manhattan]
1994 Sep 1 Jupiter and Shoemaker-Levy-9 [comet-Jupiter collision in 1994 July]]
1994 Mar 1 New cluster in Puppis [Arline Caldwell's star cluster]
1994 Jan 1 What an eclipse! [lunar eclipse of 1993 Nov 28]
1993 May 1 George Lovi -- 1939-1993 [obituary for Brooklyn astronomer]
1992 Jun 1 Earth's new dustdeck [Pinatubo volcano eruption]
1992 Feb 1 ABCs and PQRs of CCDs [early CCD imaging systtems]
1991 Apr 1 The new Instrument Shop [ATM in New York]
1991 Jan 1 The Brooklyn College Observatory
1988 Jun 1 The Awad Power-of-10 Model [scale model of universe]
1987 Aug 1 Antique astronomy books [collecting old books and maps]
1987 Jun 1 Supernova 1987A in Large Magellanic Cloud
1986 Sep 1 Amateur astronomers and the Hubble Space Telescope
1984 Mar 1 The emancipation of the urban astrophotographer
1981 Mar 1 The spectacularity of deep sky objects
1979 Sep 1 Dewey Decimals in outer space
1977 Nov 1 A new star cluster in Camelopardus? [Pazmino's Cluster]
Cultural topics, mainly about New York City
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2010 Aug 8 Temperature conversion chart [Fahrenheit-Celsius] 2010 Apr 11 Yuri's Night in Tompkins Square [NYC party for Gagarin]
2010 Jul 24 Solar sailing [City Tech lecture, 2010 Jul 21]
2010 Mar 21 Springtime Sciencetime [2010 NYC Sci & Engg Fair]
2010 Mar 6 Evolution of English [recent changes in language]
2009 Dec 26 Building a digital slideshow [digital images and methods]
2009 Dec 13 Where are the moonrocks? [Apollo 11 & 17 gift samples]
2009 Nov 21 Evolution of New York subway cars [the R-160 coach]
2009 Oct 24 Subway series [baseball World Series in New York]
2009 Oct 19 The Higgs boson and the 2nd Avenue subway
2009 Apr 13 The New York World's Fairs [1939-1940, 1964-1965]
2008 Nov 16 Digital Yin Yang (digital TV converter box)
2008 Nov 7 Space solar power satellites [electric from space]
2008 Aug 30 Loopy loop at South Ferry [new subway station]
2008 Aug 25 Summer Streets - Week 3 of 3
2008 Aug 18 Summer Streets - week 2 of 3
2008 Aug 10 Summer Streets - week 1 of 3
2008 Mar 1 Canyon of heros [tickertape parades in Broadway]
2007 Dec 24 It's digital, baby [digital TV broadcast]
2007 Sep 11 What's running on 2nd Avenue? [2nd Av subway]
2007 Aug 14 Tornados in New York City [1950-2007]
2007 Jun 13 Greener greater New York [PlaNYC for growth of NYC]
2007 Apr 4 Science at Ground Zero [2007 NYC Sci & Engg Fair]
2006 Nov 11 86'ed on 86th [luminous graffiti in Yorkville]
2006 Jul 9 Perimeters of ignorance [Tyson talk 2006 May 6]
2006 Jun 21 The Pope and the scientist [religion & science]
2006 Feb 12 Snow Science today [2006 NYC Sci & Engg Fair snowed out]
2006 Feb 7 Einstein on race and racism [blacks and civil rights]
2006 Feb 1 Sudden sea [hurricane of 1938 on Long Island]
2005 Jul 5 Tsunami [Indonesia earthquake, Indian Ocean tsunami]
2005 Jun 24 Eruptions of Vesuvius [Dobran talk 2005 Jun 22]
2005 May 16 A week with Feynman and Einstein [celebrations]
2005 Apr 6 Bridges of Central Park [Puri talk 2003 Nov 19 & 2005 Apr 6]
2005 Mar 18 The Coney Island subway shops [tour 2005 Mar 8]
2005 Jan 26 Here comes robotrain! [automated train on BMT Canarsie line]
2004 Nov 28 Space is our survival [Gott talk 2004 Nov 20]
2004 Nov 13 Stand clear of the closing gates, please! [ride 2004 Nov 6]
2004 Sep 22 Devon Island Mars Station [Walker talk 2004 Aug 22]
2004 Sep 1 Space Jam 2004 [party for Tom DeLay at Rep Natl Conv]
2004 Jun 1 Diss da 'A' train! [March of Dimes subway tour]
2004 Mar 6 Crossing the Bridge [March of Dimes subway tour]
2004 Jan 19 The ice age stopped here [glaciers over New York City]
2003 Oct 6 Thermodynamic farewell [HTRF closing 2003 Oct 3]
2003 Aug 16 Blackout -- but no stars! [power outage in NYC 2003 Aug 14-15]
2003 Feb 22 Science at City College [2003 NYC Sci & Engg Fair]
2002 Dec 21 Notes for Star of Bethlehem [Christmas Star]
2001 Sep 19 Account of the World Trade Center collapse
2001 Jul 15 Nikola Tesla memorial in New York
1996 Jun 1 New science library opens [SIBL, Madison Av & 34th St]
1988 Oct 1 Cosmos-1900 [Soviet spy satellite's uranium power unit]