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Transit of Mercury Across the Sun this Wednesday!

Posted on November 7, 2006 by | 5 Comments

Mercury Transit

A somewhat rare (on average, 13 times a century) event takes place this Wednesday afternoon!

Mercury will make a transit across the Sun, and since it WILL be clear out, everyone is invited up to the rooftop of Sherzer to witness the event. We’ll have multiple scopes set up on the sun to view it, in both white light and H-Alpha. Members of the Astronomy Club at EMU and staff/faculty from the Physics & Astronomy Department will be on hand to answer your questions and show you the facility we are proud of.

Our Wonderful Facility

If you’ve never been on top of Sherzer before, this would be a great time to check it out. We have a great facility for Astronomy and are very proud of the equipment that we have. We’ve even impressed the University of Michigan Lowbrows with our facility. The Observatory is one of the best features of EMU and unfortunately there are still many people that don’t even know it exists.

Other Brief Notes and Future Events

Also, the Astronomy Club often has guest speakers at our weekly 7:30PM Thursday meetings in 402 Sherzer. On November 16th, we will have Mr. John Kirchoff of Rider’s Hobby Shop in Livonia giving a talk on Planetary CCD Imaging. The Observatory is also open on CLEAR Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights (following the meetings) during this semester.

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The Weeping Computer of Mark-Jefferson

Posted on September 14, 2006 by | 3 Comments

The Weeping Computer...

Some time during the strike, someone who perhaps wants to remain anonymous sent me this picture with the following text:

Symbolic of something, perhaps, is the attached photo taken last week. The site was a fifth floor room (509F) in Mark-Jefferson. The darkened surface area of the cart represents water that had leaked in and collected there. Particularly striking is the still wet monitor that reveals a weeping image. I have reason to believe that two administrators, one of whom was the interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, had the opportunity to observe this room and others like it last year.

I realize the point here is the poor state of conditions of Mark-Jefferson (and a bunch of other buildings on campus), but I have to say: I’m not sure you want to mess with a weeping computer. That seems way more powerful than, say, an image of the Virgin Mary grilled into a sandwich.

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