WOW – what a clickbait title that is… Back from having spent a few days between Christmas and New Year in Palma, Majorca. On the last day there I noticed I could just see the dome of the Planetarium of Majorca (or the telescope dome, I’m not sure which) from the hotel terrace. Seeing conditions …
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Over 2000 letters, none of which were ever delivered. 600 of which have never been opened. We’re going to try to virtually open then using X-Rays. More here : http://brienne.org/
DG asks “How dirty is your mug?” I think mine is a good 7 on his scale. I also think my lab desk probably rates highly too.
Can you really be an eclipse chaser if you’ve only actually chased one eclipse? My chased eclipse was August 1999 – south west England. Back in the mid 1980s I had a book of fascinating astronomical facts, it listed the dates of upcoming eclipses until the far-off Year 2000. I decided that I’d see that …
Doing a bit more snooping around the radio spectrum with the RTLSDR (My HackRF should be here tomorrow!) I spotted these patterns in the transmitted signals from DAB stations. I’m fairly sure these are not just moiré patterns. I expect they probably tell you something about the multiplexing of the signals in the transmission.
