Lexicographer Grant Barrett published a list of words that entered into common usage in 2011 that he thinks will be with us for a while. One of them was this: DARK SKY Designates a place free of nighttime light pollution. For example, the island of Sark in the English Channel is a dark-sky island. This is [...]
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Stunning Time Lapse from the Space Station
This thing is just stunning. One of the unsung benefits of digital SLR cameras–and the almost limitless storage space and ease of processing digital offers–is a resurgence of time-lapse photography. This one was taken from the Space Station. It really gives you a sense of what it looks like out one of the portal windows [...]
Posted by DougReilly on November 16, 2011
http://punkastronomy.com/2011/11/16/stunning-time-lapse-from-the-space-station/
Ipod Astronomy: Augmented Reality Meets Stargazing
When it comes to new gizmos, I am neither a luddite nor a gadget head. I don’t have to have the newest thing. But neither am I afraid of them. I don’t eschew old technology. I love my old 1948 Smith Corona typewriter, though I’m not writing this essay on that particular machine. I love [...]
Posted by DougReilly on September 27, 2011
http://punkastronomy.com/2011/09/27/ipod-astronomy-augmented-reality-meets-stargazing/
Light, the Universe and Everything: The City Dark (Punkastronomy Film Review)
The City Dark, a new documentary by Ian Cheney has the deceptively modest goal of exploring just one tiny aspect of “human progress”—the use of artificial light to conquer the night. Ostensibly The City Dark is about light pollution, that is, light spilling into places we don’t want or intend it to go: the night [...]
Posted by DougReilly on August 14, 2011
http://punkastronomy.com/2011/08/14/light-the-universe-and-everything-the-city-dark-punkastronomy-film-review/
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