Frank's Sketchbook Entry of the Day
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![[Look to windward? Naw, totally different thing.]](images/Photos/frank-perseids-sm.jpg "[Look to windward? Naw, totally different thing.]")
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August 13, 2022
Last night I went to Mt. Pleasant by the Cornell Observatory (the HBO one,
that has nothing to do with the one that makes shows) with two friends to
take some pictures of the stars, hoping to catch some of the shooting
variety, since it's the peak time for the annual Perseids meteor shower.
It also happened to be the day after the full moon so it was pretty bright
and the night sky was pretty washed out. We saw a few with our eyes. I
haven't reviewed the pictures in detail but they didn't look too inspiring
(at least the ones pointed at the stars). Dianne took this picture of me
while I was doing something. I was surprised there was enough ambient light
to see my face, yet some of the stars in the background are visible and
even some ground lights in the distance, with a handheld shot. The light
reflecting off my glasses is from the full(-ish) moon. I wasn't
posing. I didn't realize she was taking pictures. The uncropped,
full-resolution version of that picture is
here.
And HBO stands for
Hartung Boothroyd Observatory.
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I tend to doodle. Over the years, I've accumulated lots of random
sketches of things, sometimes people, sometimes things, and sometimes
just abstract lines. The basic idea on these pages is for me to slowly
scan in highlights from my collection of random quick doodles. I also
am providing a place where I can explain what it is or what motivated
it or perhaps some reason why I'm not to blame. With the sketches of
people, their name may be hand-written, or there might be a talk title
provided, but I will tend to avoid providing full names. I don't mind
if people know who they are, I just don't want them coming up on search
engine hits, since that might be a bit rude.
Note that the images are PNGs with transparency. Mozilla and Firefox
properly render them. Safari too, I think. Internet Exporer doesn't.
I don't care.
If you want to see the image without the annoying blue-lined background
image, just click on the image.
This page last modified Jan 04, 2022.
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