Trips from January 2009
AAS January 2009
Every January, the American Astronomical Society organizes a conference for all astronomy-related activities. It's considered the biggest and broadest astronomical conference around. Being in Long Beach this year, I spent 4 days there listening to talks and helping man the LISA booth.
The AAS meetings are primarily based on research posters, although some people are invited to give oral talks as well. Along with the posters are a large number of booths from missions, contractors, and publishers. Among these was the new LISA booth that I helped design and a full-size replica of the LISA spacecraft. We had one of the best mission booths there, and the laser pointers we gave out were some of the best giveaways (possibly eclipsed only by SIM's flash drives). I've posted some of my photographs of the exhibits.
Site Upgrade
Over a year after Drupal 6 came out, I've finally upgraded. All of the modules I had been using are now upgraded and while I'm still working out some of the bugs, everything is hopefully working. Now I can get back to posting new content.
New Old Photographs
I've finally finished looking through my photographs for the last several years and creating entries for all my photography trips. There's also several new posts for December and January for my trip to New York. Because the old photos are backdated, here's a list of them:
- 2003
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- California
- Lilac Festival
- Watkins Glen
- Adirondacks
- July 4th Fireworks in NYC
- Trip Across US
- Day 1: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan
- Day 3: Michigan, Illinois, and Iowa
- Day 4: Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado
- Day 5: Rocky Mountain National Park
- Day 6: Rocky Mountains to the Desert (including Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park)
- Day 7: Mesa Verde National Park
- Day 7: Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah
- Day 8: Zion National Park
- Day 9:Utah, Nevada, and California
- Sequoia National Park
- 2008