AA OSA Meeting next Tuesday, 13 November - How to Make Your Own Color Holograms

I'm passing along this notice from the Ann Arbor Optical Society of America:

One again, we are having an excellent and interesting talk this month - "How to Make Your Own Color Holograms" by John Nees on 13 November (Next Tuesday) and then in December, a talk by Dr. Stephen Rand on "New Frontiers in Non-Linear Optics" (11 December).  We encourage you to come and also let other people know who might find these AA OSA talks interesting.

Meeting Flyer

Astronomy Blogs

If you are interested in astronomy here are four astronomy blogs that you should explore...

Bad Astronomy (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/).

Blog run by Phil Plait. Phil Plait is a skeptic, astronomer and author of the book "Bad Astronomy". The Bad Astronomy Blog is moving to Slate magazine on November 12.

NASA (http://blogs.nasa.gov/).

Actually a series of blogs, each one run by a different NASA scientist or engineer.

The Planetary Society (http://planetary.org/blogs/).

Also a series of blogs, covering a variety of topics in planetary science, exploration and advocacy. 

Star Stryder (http://www.starstryder.com/).

Blog run by Pamela Gay. Pamela Gay is assistant research professor in the STEM center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She cohosts the podcast Astronomy Cast (along with Fraser Cain) (See http://www.astronomycast.com/).

Comet 168P Hergenrother

Comet 168P Hergenrother is breaking up check this link for more information go to this link http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/m/news/index.cfm?release=2012-349
You can also see images of the comet spliting and read additional information on the comet at
http://remanzacco.blogspot.it/2012/10/splitting-event-in-comet.html?m=1

Supernovas

Super-rare, super-luminous supernovae are likely explosion of universe's earliest stars

Nano Satellite

Michigan Tech students designs a nano satellite to catalogue space objects.
Michigan Tech Cadet Receives Air Force Research Award

9 Gigapixel View of the Milky Way

Here is a post taken from the Michigan_Astronomers Yahoo group regarding a very cool web site worth looking at. Enjoy & pass it on....

One of my sons passed this information to me and I thought some of you would enjoying seeing this link of 9 gigapixels of the Milky Way. There's an interactive way of viewing it and it's extremely high resolution! :-) 

http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/117375

A belated Halloween astronomy photo

 This is a ghostly reminder of Halloween!
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121101.html