Posts Made By: Charles R Genovese, Jr MD

Nice. Too cold for me. Looks like we'll be overcast for at least a week. At least I got a few near oppisition shots in.

The optics on these scopes generally are dismal.

Jason - Great shot. I enlarged it 200%, RGB alligned(shifted the blue a few pixels), rotated it, and played with the histogram in Registax 5. Then cropped it in a photo program. see what you think. Charles

Beautiful!

Dave- I think it should be "more and less fog the hotter and colder it gets." I love these records- "most fog in 50 years"...What was the cause 50 years ago? Of course in San Francisco earthquakes are from global warming too.

I have learned much over the years reading letters or questions to the editor. In the case of these articles, spend the time to read all the comments after the article. I read about 2/3's of them and lots of view points are represented. One none mentioned, however, was that now NASA's funding will relegate it to studying climate change-no more space exploration. Hmmm. My ex-wife has a PhD in civil engineering(BS chemical and MS environmental engineering) and was a major writer of the computer programs used to model water bodies in Louisiana. They are unique as the land is so flat and close to sea level that almost all of our rivers and streams are tidal (water flows upriver at high tide) with mud bottoms that adsorb pollutants(which are resuspended when disturbed). They spent several years collecting data to refine the models (so I have some-second hand- experience with how models work. The point is after modeling a south Louisiana bayou and presenting the findings -which were negatively impacted by rice farming -it took 1 day before the funding was cut off. Is it possible science at NASA might be influenced. hmmm
One other thing to consider. In the climategate letters, one interesting comment was that it was lamentable that the satellite data was diverging from proxy data. Proxy data (ice cores, tree rings, sediment borings, etc) are what have been used to determine all the estimates of temperature, CO2, rainfall, etc from the past. They all show the temperature going down for 30 years, so the new temperature data was grafted on since 1980 and the proxy data is no longer used at all. Of course it can be argued the direct temperature data is so much better. Yea, but if the proxy data is not good now, then I guess it can't be good for the past, so how could you compare old and new temperatures?

Many lawyers would be better turned into carbon

Starliner mount but the dec tangent arm is from a meade ds 16

Oh Rod comeon....it lifted up and then re- sank- geological. The article's premise necessarily requires that sea level went down in 1970 and has since gone back up - not just enough to barely cover it, but enough that it can't be found!

reprocessed a little lighter. another moon popped out