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  1. Sick bastard that I am, the holiday weekend has turned into an opportunity to do more AAVSO chart work and publish articles and blogs.
  2. @LouisS Love the Doors. They have a lot of spacey theme music if you twist them just right to get the juice out. :^)
  3. A true legend of amateur astronomy, Albert Jones- http://simostronomy.blogspo...
  4. I just took the turkey out of the oven and boy he looks good. NOW I'm hungry!
  5. Spectra of the eruptive variable in Eridanus suggests it's a nova- http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.a...
  6. My favorite post from Carnival of Space this week- http://lablemminglounge.blo...
  7. @VisualAstronomy Congratulations, Sean! They got me too! http://www.universetoday.co...#more-45965
  8. Slacker podcast features supernovae and Caroline Moore, youngest person to discover one http://www.slackerastronomy...
  9. AAVSO requests observations of TT Ari to support GALEX observations http://www.aavso.org/public...
  10. Amateur SN hunter Berto Monard bags another one, SN2009lc. Discovered on Nov. 14 at magnitude 17.7, 7 arcmin to the NW of ESO 287-G40.
  11. Quasars and blazars and black holes, oh my! http://bit.ly/3DB3Pz
  12. Z CamPaign Update Nov. 12, 2009 http://bit.ly/499fDX
  13. IAU Circular 9093 states the new nova in Scutum now has the GCVS name V496 Sct.
  14. In Cambridge getting things prepared for the meeting and tomorrow's council session.
  15. Woke up in the middle of the night and thought the brightly moonlit frost was a fresh coat of snow. I'm not mentally ready for snow...
  16. Putting the finishing touches on my Z Cam presentation for the paper session Saturday.
  17. 3C 66A, the farthest thing I can see in my telescope, 2 billion light years distant http://www.aavso.org/public...
  18. http://www.aavso.org/public... Alert notice--V1108 Her may be in outburst. Confirmation data sought.
  19. Busy uploading photometry files to the AAVSO chart plotter, working on reports for council, and my paper on Z Cams for the meeting next week
  20. Observations of epsilon Aurigae needed now! http://www.aavso.org/public...