drt on Oct 26 2007 | Filed under: Astronomy, Blog, Human Interest, Joke, Scam
Recently most of the letters from Nigeria scammers went into the junk mail folder or recyle bin directly, but this one went thru since it was from someone I knew. It takes few phone calls and emails to figure out that this was yet another scam. I wish I had googled it first before contacting [...]
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drt on Mar 04 2007 | Filed under: Astronomy, Miscellaneous, video
OK, I have to admit. In the beginning I was wondering why John Chow let all the spamming comments pass thru his blog. However, once I read this comment on It Pays to Network by one of the top spammers :-), I can understand now why were they racing in filling up John Chow’s comment spot. A win-win [...]
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drt on Mar 03 2007 | Filed under: Astronomy
The eclipse happened when the moon was just rising above the horizon. I had to move around searching for better position to avoid tree bracnhes and that was the reason why these pictures are not moving linearly across the frame.
Here are what I got tonight:
The first picture was taken at 18:46 and the last picture at 19:19 Central [...]
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drt on Feb 28 2007 | Filed under: Astronomy, Astrophotography, Satellite Tracking
Greg Roberts just alerted the Sea-sat readers this morning about this site. I went to take a quick look and I thought it’s another “need to visit” site for those who would like to get the latest Astronomical and Satellite Tracking related info from down under in South Africa. Not only that, if you have [...]
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