Welcome to my science page! It includes such things as Astronomy, Physics, and some Mathematics too. I am a total nerd, so I like these kinds of things! So anyway, look around a bit....and always drop me a line if anything perks your interest (or your distaste).
I've been into Astronomy for about 5 years now...I've got a Celestron Firstscope 60 EQ (2.4 inch refractor, f/15, EQ mount, solid base, .96 lens, 2 lens sizes,and a 6x24 finderscope), and a 6 inch eq that a friend picked up for me and I've converted into a dob. It's works rather well, but I messed up the balance, so I've got a combination of springs and weights to make it work...oh well, guess the Stellafane completion is a few years off for me :-)
I own two SLR cameras and have been experimenting with pictures of constelations, comets (Hale-Bopp), and other such things...(I can do some makeshift tracking with my mounts, so I can do exposures of up to around 10 or 15 minutes) I'll post them here presently, but for the momment, here are a bunch of pics from other places for you to enjoy.
M1, The Crab Nebula. M8, The Lagoon Nebula. M16, The Eagle Nebula(HST picture). B33, The Horsehead Nebula. Comet West. My Pictures from Stellafane, Vermont Stellafane is an absolute shrine to amerature astronomy. Inhabited by the Porter Turret Telescope and the crazy other hybrid-cassigrain, it's truely a wonderful place on a starry night. It's run by the Springfield Amerature Telescope Makers, (Web Page Here) and these are some pics I took at the two conventions I've been to. Sagittarius and the Milky Way Taken in the summer with a 50 mm lens. Taken on Fuji Super HG 1600, F/2 60s exposure. There's some odd artifacts in this one, but I like the clarity of the Milky Way. Comet Hale-Bopp Taken in the Spring of '97 with a 50 mm lens at F/1.4, 20s exposure. Film was Kodak Gold 400. Probably my best image of the comet. Auriga Just your standard constellation image...50mm lens at F/1.4 90s exposure with Kodak Gold 400. And I did a *little* tweaking on the red, since the film didn't seem to pick ANY up. Taurus and the Pleiades Another standard constellation pic. This on is at F/2 120s exposure with the same 50mm lens and the same Kodak Gold 400 Film.So I LOVE astronomy, but I SUPPOSE that astronomers wouldn't get very far without the physics to back them up (that's what they tell me in my Astro program at UMASS anyway :-P) so to that end, here's some random Physics and Math links for ya.
Physics News New stuff and current newletters relating to physics. Physics 2000An in-depth look at many of the topics in modern physics (also beginner material). A.I.P. Weekly Physics News An archive of the American Institute of Physics' newsletters. SIAM The society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Lots of info and back journals. This is Mega Mathematics! A huge page with interseting concepts on general ideas in mathematics. Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutran Stars A cool page, even though it doesn't have a whole lot to do with Mathematics Origins of the Universe Good comsology document about the origins of the universe. The MACHO project A good page for info on Dark Matter....although I think it's gonna be Neutrinos (even though a neutrino-dominated universe seems unlikely at this point) Fundemental issues in Cosmology Made by a nice guy named Joseph Silk, about Cosmology in generalHere are a few things that need to be on this page, but I'm not sure were to put them.
The SETI institute home page ET's are out there, and these are the guys that are going to find them. The Worlds Largest Telescopes Simply a list of the worlds biggest telescopes! Que Tal in the Skys A monthly star chart. The SETI LeagueA slightly different organization than SETI, although I'm not too sure what the differences are..... Automated Telescopes A web page about using some telescopes over the web (A great idea, but I've never tried it).