On Wednesday night, February 17th, Breno & I were to met Dennis and other CASF members at the observatory of the high school where he teaches, the Colégio Christus. On the way to the school, we stopped at a restaurant to pick up Dennis, and briefly met one of the three teams representing the Paris [...]

I’ve been busy the past week… Arrived in Fortaleza about 7:30 on Tuesday (2/16/10) evening and I was met by 7 members of the Clube de Astronomia de Fortaleza. Three club members joined me for dinner after a quick stop at the Holiday Inn to check in and freshen up after 21 hours of travel. [...]

Well, here I am in the Aeroporto International de San Paulo. I upgraded my seat to Economy Plus and it was somewhat comfortable, certainly better than the back of the plane that the crew calls ‘The Village’. I slept for about 2/3 of the 10 hour flight. It’s now 11:30am and my flight to Fortaleza [...]

Well, it’s off to Brazil tomorrow on another research expedition to help characterize the minor planet 20000 Varuna. It’ll be visible to us in Gemini just after twilight, or rather it’s shadow will be visible as it occults GSC 1914:301 on Friday night, 23:06UT. I’m still packing so not much time to write now, but [...]