StargazerUSA

Mar 01

space-pics:

[S]paceplanes of Human spaceflight infographic
http://space-pics.tumblr.com/

Dec 07

Okinawa_32.jpg by ext237 on Flickr.

Nice collection of personal photos taken around the base I was stationed (Camp Machiminato, outside Naha) at around the time I was there (1979)!

Nov 23

M-240 machine gun at the ex-USNS Saturn by Surface Warriors on Flickr.

Fire at the waterline, sailor!

Apr 24

tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?

My earliest memory is sticking my hand up, inside the chute of the milk machine at Bay Shore Trailer Park - because it gave me a shock! 

Apr 04

pre1923:

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost.

Mountain Interval, 1916.

My very favorite poem, “The Star-Splitter,” encapsulates nicely the struggle of the amateur. Whose love, not unrequited, also knows no bounds.

“It wouldn’t do to be too hard on Brad

About his telescope. ”

Family Astronomy Day at Custer Observatory Ca. 1994

Custer Institute, Inc. Main Bayview Rd., Southold, Long Island, NY

631-765-2626

The observatory is open most Saturday nights. Hosted by volunteers, the public is encouraged to use many of the fine telescopes.