Sunday, November 21, 2010

Doonesbury Astronomy


I enjoy the tension in Garry Trudeau's work Doonesbury.

I also enjoy finding astronomical errors. I shared the comic strip of November 14, 2010
(to be found at:
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/archive/2010/11/14
in its entirety)
with my students. They were able to find the mistake.

Assuming the time in the panel above is 3 AM, can you find the astronomical mistake?


Sunday, November 14, 2010

Eastern Standard Time


Last weekend Barbara and I were at Myrtle Beach for the change back to Eastern Standard Time.

To remember how the change affects observing:

It gets light earlier in the morning.
It gets dark earlier in the evening.