Comet 2022 E3 ZTF

I went out at 9PM on the night of 1/26/23 to photograph the now famous “green comet.” I used the backyard Stellarvue 5″ APO astrograph. […]

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Crab Porn

I’ve spent much of the day trying to get my astrophotography stacking software to stack cometary data correctly. So far, I have not been successful, […]

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This Week in COVID

This is week 149 of the COVID apocalypse. How the time flies! Here is Dr. Klotman’s weekly COVID update. The highlights are: Other COVID news […]

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Beef Porn

Last night was the last of three chilly nights, and Susan decided to make beef stew. Like roasted tomato basil soup, this is a dish […]

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NGC1501 and -2

My friend and fellow medical retiree, AD Smith, sent me picture of a planetary nebula last week. It seemed vaguely familiar, but there are several […]

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Oligarchy

Vladimir Putin has the likes of Oleg Deripaska, while Donald Trump has Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. There are other oligarchs in both Russia and […]

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NGC2419

The night of 1/22, I set the 5″ astrograph to take pictures of comet C/2022 E3 ZTF. Unfortunately, the comet’s position in the sky put […]

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Girded Loins

The loins are the iliopsoas muscles that span from the lower spine to the upper inner femur. They are flexor muscles, and they are delicious […]

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Poorly Kept Secrets

Back in the decade when I worked in the defense industry, my workmates had a running joke that most of the military secrets that we […]

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Lap Dance

When we brought Kedi and Maia to live with us, they had been fostered for several months. They seemed at ease with their foster mom, […]

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