In depth recounting of my global wandering
Today’s journey will mark one bookend of the Arizona portion of this trip – that is, it’s the last day of sightseeing before I return to Tucson for the flight home. Today we’ll traverse about 350 miles, first east then …
Taking it easy. Believe it or not, I’d accomplished two (visiting Walnut Canyon and Lowell Observatory) of the three main items on today’s to do list and it was barely 13:00. I took an easy drive down Mars Hill Road …
At the end of the previous post, before my brief explanation of the Doppler effect, we left Vespo Slipher pondering the implications of his observations that the Sombrero nebula was moving away from the Milky Way while Andromeda was moving …
Before I recount the rest of my Sunday, there’s a little material remaining in your lesson in astronomy and cosmology and the important role of the Lowell Observatory so let’s get started on that ending. Red shift, blue shift (more …
Not as corny as Kansas in August. Clyde Tombaugh was born in Illinois in 1906 but he grew up in Kansas where his family bought a farm when he was a toddler. Perhaps his unpolluted view of the night sky …