7 માર્ચ, 2017

At the Zabriskie Point Café...



... bundle up, stargazers.

37 ટિપ્પણીઓ:

Original Mike કહ્યું...

Coldest I've ever observed with a telescope is -5 F. (Don't lick the scope's truss-tubes!)

Anne in Rockwall, TX કહ્યું...

Professor, am I right in thinking you have made many comments about disliking travel? Did Meade convince you?

madAsHell કહ્યું...

I'm sure the small gas stove with Meade tending over mouth-watering hot chocolate is just outside the field of view!

No?

Original Mike કહ્યું...

"I'm sure the small gas stove with Meade tending over mouth-watering hot chocolate is just outside the field of view!"

Hot liquids (with a little kicker added) is a must for enjoyable cold-weather observing.

Ann Althouse કહ્યું...

There was no fire and no hot liquid. No morning coffee even until 60 miles after we left that place.

Ann Althouse કહ્યું...

@Annie C

Meade is more travel a erse than I am!

Peachy કહ્યું...

No coffee for 60 miles? oh... the humanity! Was it worth it to see the Milky Way?

Original Mike કહ્યું...

"There was no fire and no hot liquid. No morning coffee even until 60 miles after we left that place."

Next trip I suggest a small camping stove and a thermos. Make the coffee/chocolate the night before in your room/camp.

chickelit કહ્યું...

Shades of full burqa jacket

Lyle Sanford, RMT કહ્યું...

can't say why exactly - but love that pic! maybe a weird cross of sci-fi and humor?

Original Mike કહ્યું...

"Was it worth it to see the Milky Way?"

Oh...the humanity!

William કહ્યું...

Seen one galaxy, you've seen them all.

Original Mike કહ્યું...

Blogger William said..."Seen one galaxy, you've seen them all."

NGC 253, 1365, 1532, LMC, M31, ...

You know not of which you speak.

ga6 કહ્યું...

No one get the film reference yet???

Peachy કહ્યું...

LOL - I would love looking up at the stars without light pollution. Rare to do so.

Original Mike કહ્યું...

"LOL - I would love looking up at the stars without light pollution. Rare to do so."

Unfortunately, nowadays it takes an effort.

mockturtle કહ્યું...

You will emerge from that cocoon a butterfly!

traditionalguy કહ્યું...

IIR Dances With Wolves got an Oscar nomination for costume design of indigenous inhabitants of the Great Plains, and now you have out done them on the Buffalo Gal look. Cute.

buwaya કહ્યું...

Looks like fun!

I could never get my wife into such straits though.
You are a good sport.

Heartless Aztec કહ્યું...

The burqua becomes you.

I Have Misplaced My Pants કહ્યું...

Guess what? I'm sitting in the United Club in the Houston airport and I'm 90% certain that Ron Paul is sitting at the next table.

I Have Misplaced My Pants કહ્યું...

Never mind. 100% sure. A man just walked up to him and addressed him as Dr. Paul and he offered him a chair. If I didn't have my grimy baby on my lap I'd say hello myself.

mockturtle કહ્યું...

Guess what? I'm sitting in the United Club in the Houston airport and I'm 90% certain that Ron Paul is sitting at the next table.

Give him a kiss for me. :-) I voted for him for President twice.

Peachy કહ્યું...

Pants - cool!

Peachy કહ્યું...

Tell him I missed him on the Mandy Connell show the other day. Drat! She's he's #1 fan in CO.

tcrosse કહ્યું...

It can get mighty cold in the desert at night. But as they say in the Upper Midwest, it's a dry cold.

TWW કહ્યું...

"No one get the film reference yet???"

We get it; we just don't care to reference one the truly worst films of the twentieth century. Some say, 'Plan Nine from Outer Space'. I say 'Zabriskie Point'(or maybe 'AI").

Meade કહ્યું...

Pants, we passed Koch Brother, David in the Furnace Creek lobby when we checked in last Friday. 100%.

bwebster કહ્યું...

That may be my new favorite photo of you, Ann. :-)

khesanh0802 કહ્યું...

Great photo!

rehajm કહ્યું...

From the Vault 7 CIA leaks, this fun little tidbit:

Another profound revelation is that the CIA can engage in "false flag" cyberattacks which portray Russia as the assailant.

Big Mike કહ્યું...

@Althouse, that's really you under all those layers? I'd have thought you'd be wearing a light spring jacket, being from Wisconsin and all.

Original Mike કહ્યું...

"@Althouse, that's really you under all those layers? I'd have thought you'd be wearing a light spring jacket, being from Wisconsin and all."

It's been my observation that the difference between people from warm vs cold climes is not that the coldsters can tolerate cold better, but that they have enough sense to wear clothes.

buwaya કહ્યું...

"It's been my observation that the difference between people from warm vs cold climes is not that the coldsters can tolerate cold better, but that they have enough sense to wear clothes."

I am an old hand at observing tropical people in cold climates. No, clothes don't suffice.

Guildofcannonballs કહ્યું...

I don't allow myself to bitch about the cold, seeing as how I ain't never even been to Bastogne and all.

jez કહ્યું...

I would recommend a detour through Utah. Maybe Zions National Park or Capital Reef. You are in my lovely neck of the woods l. good on ya!

khesanh0802 કહ્યું...

@rejahm Thanks for the llnk. Makes those Silicon Valley guys who support big government look pretty stupid or naive or both.

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