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Science and outdoor enthusiast, wanna be pilot, astronomer with a telescope who knows how to use it.

Sandusky, Ohio, USA
Joined March 2009
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Mars on Monday night as seen through my 20-inch Obsession telescope. Nice night for drawing Mars.
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Six years later, still the best view of Mars I've ever had.
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In this animation from GOES Lightning Mapper, you can see a quick moment where it shows "lighting strikes" in a row just north of Cleveland. This is actually detecting the meteor burning up as it enters the lower atmosphere! #fireball #meteor #cleveland #OHwx
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This experiment performed at Neil Armstrong test facility in Sandusky Ohio couple miles from my home.
This experiment breaks your brain 🤯 Remove air in the world’s largest vacuum chamber, drop a bowling ball and feathers, and Galileo is proven right—400 years later.
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Here's an image of a 110 year old glass plate of two images of Jupiter taken by the renown astronomer E.C. Slipher in 1915. This item is part of my astronomy collection. #astronomy #vintage #solarsystem
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What I'm currently reading. – at Millbrae, CA
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Remember when smartphones did not divide us the way smartphones do today? Sad. – at Sandusky South, OH
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Cars I have owned. A complete list. Chevy Monte Carlo. Ford Mustang (co-owned with Loraine), Toyota Corolla, Ford Taurus (2x), Ford Focus, Pontiac Aztec (a fave), Subaru Outback, Subaru Impreza.
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Feel so good to be healthy. Often we don't realize how close all of us come to one day being on the other side of this equation. – at Sandusky South, OH
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What I'm reading right now. Excellent read.
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"Here, I grew up". Abraham Lincoln said it first. This is where it happened for me. – at Sandusky South, OH
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Don't pay much attention to the deaths of rockstars, but Ozzy Osbourne's demise--while not one of my favorite artists--his work permeated the background for most of my youth and beyond.#crazytrain
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I became interested in astronomy when I was young. Maybe 11 or 12. Here is one of my first star charts. The stars glowed in the dark!
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I recently partnered with our local library and presented this children's workshop. – at Sandusky South, OH
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X, I've been neglecting you. Can't really say as to why. – at Sandusky South, OH
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Something is happening with our culture...
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Where the term "black ball" originated, or at least one example of it. Found in the Lorain County, Ohio Historical Society.
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Mitch Luman retweeted
A brilliant physics comparison [🎞️ veritasium]
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Overheard while my Mom was looking at my brother in laws new hearing aids and comparing them to hers at lunch. All I heard was, " you've got big balls". – at Stony Prairie, OH
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Over the years when house hunting I said, " oh if we could just pick up this house and move it someplace else, that would be perfect". I think this is more about the improvements you made and familiarity than anything else. Every new place eventually works out. – at Sandusky South, OH
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