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May 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Space Studies
The semester at UND is finished, so I will have time to finish all those little projects (both on this blog and at home) that were put on hold. The only course I took this semester was Space Policy and Politics, taught by Eligar Sadeh. Dr. Sadeh will be teaching at the US Air [...]

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Tags: General

Whew!

December 4th, 2006 · No Comments

Well, the semester is winding down, and I’ve been pretty busy - which means that there has been a drop in the number of posts. There’s only so much time in the day, and if something has to give between work, school, and writing, writing loses.
Once finals are over, I should be able to get [...]

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Tags: Everyday Maps · Everyday Space · General

M71 Image - Post Processing

October 9th, 2006 · No Comments

Last month I posted a preliminary image of M71 taken by me using the UND Space Studies Internet Telescope. This was just a first run using the observatory, and was not meant for anything special. But I thought that I’d process the image a little bit and see what it looked like.
To review, the image [...]

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Tags: Space Science

M71 - A First attempt

September 10th, 2006 · 5 Comments

As my bio says, I’m a grad student in Space Studies at the University of North Dakota. I’ve taken classes on several topics, and this semester my classes are Extraterrial Resources and Observational Astronomy.
As part of the Astronomy course, we will be using the internet controlled telescope at the UND observatory. Last night was my [...]

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Tags: Space Science

Taking a few days off

April 25th, 2006 · 2 Comments

As many of you know, in addition to my day job, I’m a grad student at UND. Well, I’ve got some papers due this week, so probably won’t post my regular features until next week. Depending on my grades, I may use the papers for a post or two here later. The major one [...]

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