"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
--1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.

"Correction: It is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum. The 'Times' regrets the error."
NY Times, July 1969.

— New York Times

Astrophotography

The dark side of photography. Deep space and planetary imaging. Occasionally some day light pictures of the Sun.

M44 Beehive

By dtrapani at Sat, 02/14/2009 - 11:43pm

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California Nebula

By dtrapani at Sat, 02/14/2009 - 11:42pm

1 comment

Infinite Dreams

By Anonymous at Tue, 02/10/2009 - 12:43am

I hope you all like this picture. It looked yellow when I saw it but I don't see yellow in the pic. When the moon was appearing over the rooftops it looked bigger and like I was looking through a soap bubble. Weird. I hope this file is not too big or redundant. I thought it was interesting. I seem to be taking a lot of moon pics lately. By the time I got the camera out the buble effect disappeared. I set the cam to manual exposure and manual focus. Now that I think some more...