A Vertical Sundial

The photo below shows a new take (for me) on the a sundial, mounted vertically on a building instead of horizontally. You can see from the shadow that is was around noon. Also indicated (I think) are zodiacal positioning, at least that’s what the symbols looked like. And to top it off look carefully and you can see that now only did a Crow snap the picture, a Crow posed in it!


Location: Murtenhof, Mürten, Switzerland

UWO Astronomy Student Names an Asteroid after Orchestra London

Congratulations to Crow Emily on winning the William H. Wehlau award!

 

Crow Emily was recently recognized as the top student in the Astronomy graduate program: (via the UWO Physics & Astronomy Blog). She is shown being presented the award by Astronomy Prof. Amelia Wehlau at the Department picnic. We Crows are all so proud of Emily!

Venus Transit Event @westernu

Nice to see some many people out in #ldnont getting a painless dose of #science at the #venustransit 

I’ve posted a few pictures on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobsica/sets/72157634859742751/

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory science team has posted some terrific movies of SDO’s view of the Venus Transit. Plus you get to say ingress and egress!

The Hubble Space Telescope also captured the event.

That's odd @NASA upon first meeting Mrs. Sica and saying that I got slapped #SuperMoon #May5

via science.nasa.gov

Perigee "Super Moon" On May 5-6 - NASA Science