White Dwarfs
WD1145+017:
Summary of Results for past 4 years and latest observing
season description link
PAWM
(search for planet transits & starspot variability, 45
observers, currently inactive)
PAWM2
(more of above, fewer observers, currently active)
WD
2359-434 (starspot
variable, secular fade, low level activity)
G29-38
photometric monitoring for transits
See WD1145 links above
Misc. Astronomy
KIC 8462852
(mysterious fades, possibly due to comet breakup)
Astrophotos
(planets, novae, galaxies, tutorials & many astronomy
links)
YY
Gem (2 M-type, binary, eclipsing)
UV Per (cataclysmic
variable with superhumps)
A-SETI
(archive of mysterious transient events)
NSV 19335
(irregular variable, several observers)
Asteroids
Tutorial on
producing faint asteroid light
curves (as faint as mag 19.6?)
NEA "2011UW158" -
rotates too fast for NASA human mission
Asteroid 86279 (brucegary)
phase curve (albedo & size)
NEA size & taxonomy observing
project (28 NEAs characterized in 9 months, not yet in public
domain)
BL86,
NEA, Jan 26, 2015, international collaboration (article
submitted to Icarus & accepted for publication)
2012
DA14 (NEA, 2013 Feb 15 close-pass, rotation LC, P=9.5
hrs)
1998 QE2
(NEA, 2013 May/Jun close pass, rotation LCs w/ binary mutual
events)
Apophis,
2014 MN4 (NEA, 2005 close pass, 1st rotation
LC)
1999
NC43 (2014 close pass, article in Icarus, Reddy
et al, May 2015, 252, pp129-143)
Dawn,
consulting (not yet in public domain)
Ceres,
7-band spectrum, rotation plots, phase effect (article published in
Icarus)
Vesta,
7-band spectrum, rotation plots, phase
effect (unpublished)
12753
Povenmire, rotation LC (many oppositions, 2nd article
published MPB, 42, #3, 2015 Jul-Sep)
86279 2007
& 86279 2015
"86279 Brucegary"
Other NEAs
SA-100 transmission
grating, miscellaneous
asteroid spectra
Photometry Tutorials
All-Sky Photometry
- Basics
All-Sky
Photometry - My Preferred Method
Differential
Photometry - Overview
Creating
SED
Converting between magnitudes (color/color plots)
SA-100
(transmission grating lessons learned)
M67
Secondary Standards (47 stars w/ BVg'r'i'z' mag's using
all-sky technique)
CCD
Transformation Equations Derived
Miscellaneous
Hereford Arizona Observatory, HAO:
wikipedia description at link,
my description at link
Cloudiness
statistics at HAO
Gaian Bottleneck
passage derivation (why SETI will fail)
Planet
imaging
Objects
Within Our Galaxy (nebulae, star clusters)
Galaxies
Novae
Atmospheric Seeing (animation)
Sermon
on Stating Measurement Uncertainty
The
Big Picture
No
Hype
Misc.
quotes & articles
Pre-Retirement (Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
MTP video
(airborne instrument, one of my ideas that took off &
continued to be improved after I retired)
Ozone
Hole
Clear
Air Turbulence
Misc.
Meteorology Studies
MTP Tutorial
Moon
Mapping
Rants
Eusociality,
Society and Psychopaths (why civilizations will never
endure)
Futility
(the futility of trying to save humanity)
Psychopaths Doom
Civilization (biology analogies abound, casting
psychopaths as a cancer upon civilization)
Sociopaths
Doom Civilization (sociopaths threaten civilization)
The Holocene Experiment and
Global Terrorism (a sociobiology-based rant)
The Roobification
of America (prospects for America's next election debacle)
Democracy
is Fragile (prospects for losing it to Roob voters)
Books
Eusociality and Psychopathy
(2020): Amazon.com
and PDF download
Civility and its Discontents
(2018) Amazon.com
and PDF download
Exoplanet
Observing for Amateurs (2014)
Quotes
for Misanthropes (2014)
Midnight
Thoughts (2014)
Genetic
Enslavement: A Call to Arms for Individual Liberation
(2014)
Misanthrope
Holiday: Vignettes and Stories (2007)
Synopsis
of some of my books