The paper on 2002 TX300 or KBO 55636 was (finally) published in Nature magazine.  It’s exciting for me, because even though I was one of many researchers involved in the project, it was a first in science and a first for me, though I hope it won’t be the last. Jim Elliot and his team were able [...]

This project was driven out of necessity. Several factors make it challenging to record occultation timings, and a couple more so in the New England winters. Let me start with an overview of the process setting up before and tearing down after capturing lunar grazes and stellar occultations.   First, one has to assemble the [...]

This article was translated from Portuguese to English by Google, hence it isn’t ‘perfect’ English. To translate to another language, use the dropdown selection on the upper right of this page. Diário do Nordeste FENÔMENO ASTRONÔMICO (19/2/2010) Ceará é ponto de observação Ceara back to the point of observation of scientists. This time, the phenomenon being [...]

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. [...]