Sunday, August 14, 2016
4.3 ly away
Popping up in headlines but I don't see anything official yet... A rocky planet around red dwarf Proxima Centauri.
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- it was local
- checked proof
- another council meeting
- checked the field
- not so clear (Blue Mountains)
- checked on first fly-by
- possibly maybe
- fixed chair
- fixed bins
- fresh gravel
- reached focus (Blue Mountains)
- showed how to print
- multi-tasking night (Blue Mountains)
- tested CGEM again
- fun with old lens (Blue Mountains)
- astronomy for birds (Blue Mountains)
- 2 but not 3 (Blue Mountains)
- helped new supers
- imaged lambda Arietis (Halifax)
- squeezed in NGC 1023 (Halifax)
- checked CGEM
- fixed starter
- made a shield
- didn't work
- from the floor (Blue Mountains)
- viewed Sun two ways (Blue Mountains)
- enabled Hibernate
- captured IC 289 (Halifax)
- shot 42 Psc (Halifax)
- imaged NGC 246 (Halifax)
- captured HD 196411 (Halifax)
- imaged theta Lyrae (Halifax)
- ST4 announced
- photographed NGC 884 (Halifax)
- shot NGC 869 again (Halifax)
- captured NGC 1501 (Halifax)
- images HD 186224 (Halifax)
- imaged 70 Ophiuchi (Halifax)
- on deck for TSTM
- all MODLs leased
- downgraded BOINC
- view the Palomar globs
- IDA installed
- over 800
- spotted planets (Bradford)
- work party prep
- received some 869 data (Halifax)
- thanked Dr Seager
- received NGC 891 data (Halifax)
- captured NGC 663 (Halifax)
- imaged NGC 457 (Halifax)
- also Ha and O-III (Halifax)
- re-framed Pac-Man (Halifax)
- tested USB 2 adapter
- and then the rain
- shot The Veil again (Halifax)
- ahead of the rain (Blue Mountains)
- wishful thinking (Blue Mountains)
- did a quick tour (Blue Mountains)
- delivery service
- quick peek (Bradford)
- 2017 calendars available
- saw the Moon (Toronto)
- Klingon ale on its way
- meteor seasons
- tidied the blog and companion
- 4.3 ly away
- listened in to SpaceX
- sent late article
- dark again
- went to special meeting
- SS5 for Android available
- of the clock
- too tired (Silent Lake)
- captured cluster and nebula (Halifax)
- photographed NGC 185 again
- caught NGC 40 (Halifax)
- fuzzy viewing (Silent Lake)
- reshot the southern piece (Halifax)
- stood in awe
- clear out east
- snowball now blue
- zip process glitched
- FITS-less
- imaged NGC 7789 (Halifax)
- second snowball (Halifax)
- caught NGC 185 (Halifax)
- run halted again
- being patient
- imaged NGC 6995 (Halifax)
- noted an empty queue
- like it or lump it
- one more month
- found SN Sep/Oct 2016
- BGO up
- aurora!
- learned of startup issue
- post-party observing (Blue Mountains)
- delivered sky tour
- tested tent
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