Tag Archives: space

ISS Notify

By Nathan | June 8, 2011

Update, August 19:The kickstarter project was a huge success!! Now I have to figure out how to make hundreds of them. In the meantime I hosted a site about the project: open-notify.org. Update, June 13:Thanks everyone for their comments and feedback! For everyone who is interested in buying one, check out my kickstater page! If [...]

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Distance and Scale

By Nathan | March 12, 2010

I was thinking about the scale of the universe the other day (not an unusual activity for me) when I noticed that an “o” and a period are usually about the right size to be the Earth and the Moon respectively. Then I realized that one could write a sentence such that an o would [...]

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My First ISS Photo

By Nathan | March 6, 2010

I’ve never actually tried to take a picture of the International Space Station before. I have a camera and a tripod and the time, but for some reason I never got around to it. That changed when I heard that there would be a pretty good sighting in Portland tonight. I set up my camera [...]

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Space Shuttle Mystery

By Nathan | February 15, 2010

Last week space shuttle Endeavour launched on a mission to add one of the last pieces of the International Space Station. It was one of the last space shuttle launches and likely the last ever night launches. Among the people watching the launch was James Vernacotola who had his camera ready and waiting on a [...]

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Maps of the Sky

By Nathan | January 23, 2010

The other day I came across a very awesome graph of the entire universe. It shows more-or-less every object in space we know about on a logarithmic scale from the center of the earth to the edge of the visible universe. It got me thinking about what you can do with large datasets so I [...]

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