Brad Snowder 🔭

How about I set my clocks back 2 minutes every day for 30 days?

The easiest way to use all parts of the buffalo is to just let it be a buffalo.

Al Nagler (1935–2025) Albert H. Nagler, a pioneer of telescope optics, passed away at the office of his company Tele Vue Optics on Monday, October 27th.

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Four Nagler telescope eyepieces.

I suppose if I had a little plastic statue of someone on my dashboard it would be of Albert Nagler, who passed this last Monday. Here's to Al 1935-2025 🔭

I may be biased but I think the Milky Way is the best galaxy in the universe.🔭

Tonight I made Poor-Man's Nachos. It's just regular nachos, they're pretty cheap to make.

There were a dozen or so celebrities at JPL for the Curiosity landing, to whom I gave our NASA Social mission pins. Three of them have passed. Alex Trebek, Nichelle Nichols, and now June Lockhart.

I saw Vincent Price give a lecture on art. Besides acting, he was a painter. He said he and some friends formed a sort of club they called "The Art Improvement League." Whenever they traveled they brought along art supplies. When they encountered bad art in their hotel rooms, they "improved" it.

Might be the best I've ever seen.

Gaze or step back from the abyss. We have a line here.

Orion is leaning to one side. Someone should check on him. 🔭

I'm willing to reveal what became of the package of tiny donuts in exchange for immunity.

Imagine a pile of firewood as big as the sun. Now imagine a marshmallow the size of Jupiter. Okay stop.

As soon as you embrace that the Sun as a star, you are immediately faced with the possibility that when you look out into space, something is looking back. That is the essence of the Copernican Revolution. 🔭

After many decades I'm re-reading Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror and it occurs to me that 14th century France really could have used a #NoKings movement.

Asking for a fred.

Raven with a duck egg.

Here's a raven who stole an egg from one of our ducks.

When you are young you can remember which year you did what.

There are probably beings in the Andromeda Galaxy who are impressed with the Milky Way but they call it something we can't pronounce. 🔭

As I tell my students, we are living in a golden age of discovery.

I built the model from the kit back in the day. I wish I still had it.

Me, 5 yrs old.

The local sports team sure are good at that game that they play.

Where do I see myself in five years? Still waiting for this baseball game to end.

JWST has verified there is swirly goo in the cosmic poo. 🔭

Me: I've always liked gypsies tramps and thieves.
Her: Oh yeah, good song.
Me: Song?

Single maple turned autumn red, in the middle of green woods.

Flame Maple is flamed.

I appreciate that this lid is biodegradable but it could at least wait until I finish my coffee.

This is a good month to find M30 in Capricornus, the decent little globular cluster you failed to get during the Messier Marathon in March because you ran out of coffee, fell asleep, froze to death, or went looking for an all-night diner that has pancakes. 🔭

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