lumpy darkness

Observation notes (with equipment details), photos, sketches, reviews, random thoughts, from my amateur astronomy sessions.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

welcome to the off-site area

These pages contains companion material to my lumpy darkness blog (over at blogger.com). The pages are stored on my corporate server (for a variety of reasons). They are managed with a terribly old version of Dreamweaver for Windows.

Below, on this page, you'll find copies of presentations I have delivered, along with handouts provided.

The telescope links on the right access separate pages for my Mom's and my 'scopes. We keep detailed information and photographs here of the equipment and accessories.

In the tradition of naturalists, birders, and astronomers, I keep "life lists" of astronomical sightings and accomplishments.

You'll find reference materials in the "other" area. For example, if you need to include Greek characters in your web pages, see my notes.

And finally, I've included a variety of links to external web sites. This includes sites for magazines, retail stores in Ontario, clubs, weather and sky condition sites, and so on. Not an all-encompassing list by any stretch; just ones I regularly use...

dark skies,
Blake
astronomy AT computer-ease.com

 

Thursday, March 20, 2008

OneWorld weather station presentation

Below is the presentation from the RASC members' night meeting (delivered on 19 Mar 2008). This slide show featured the OneWorld tws1000 portable weather station (available at Canadian Tire). Originally, a Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 file; converted to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Also included is the handout comparing Oregon Scientific eb313hg and the OneWorld units.

  • OW weather station presentation (640 KB)
  • OS and OW compared (60 KB)

Hope you enjoy them.

 

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Oregon weather station presentation

Uploaded the presentation from the members' night meeting (delivered on 19 Sep 2007). This slide show featured the Oregon Scientific eb313hg portable weather station. Originally, a PowerPoint 2003 file; converted to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).

  • OS weather station presentation (390 KB)

Enjoy.

 

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Awenda presentation files

Uploaded the presentation files from the Awenda Provincial Park astronomy lecture (delivered on 16 Aug 2007). Originally, PowerPoint 2003 files; converted to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).

  • fun facts "pre" presentation (1.9 MB)
  • main information presentation (1.7 MB)

Enjoy.

 

Monday, January 15, 2007

library page added

Having added a few new books to the collection lately, I thought it high time I document all of them.

 

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

new pointer

Slight change to the menus in this site: created a "pointer" to emphasise which page you are presently viewing. Hope you like it!

 

 

 

links

    lumpy darkness sites:
    blog proper
(*)   lists home
   
    telescopes:
    my cat
    Mom's newt
    accessories
   
    life lists:
    planets, moons, etc.
    constellations
    notable stars
    double stars
    Messier objects
    other deep sky objects
   
    other lists:
    Greek alphabet in HTML
    judging angular size
    atlases, books, software
    what's up for the year
    meteor showers
    with just your eyes
   
    web site links:
    magazines
    sky conditions
    science and research
    double stars sites
    retail stores
    clubs and associations
    DIY observatories
    miscellaneous