The Solar System Perspective Project
at
Stinson Beach
October 3-4, 2009
Crack of DawnHow do Pat and Anna convince me to get up this early in the morning? On a weekend, no less? |
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Circus in Town?
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Nope, it's another wedding on the beach! This time it was somebody Craig and Christina know, which is the reason we wanted to come out on this particular weekend.
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We remembered the shovel! I somehow hoodwinked Pat into doing most of the digging. |
Some people were out there walking pretty early. These guys turned up at Jupiter shortly after we put the post in the ground. |
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Adjusting the SunThere was some wind, so we found ourselves periodically fiddling with the pipes and tent stakes that hold up the sun. Note for those at home: The surface temperature of the actual sun is nearly ten thousand degrees Fahrenheit. Putting your hands on it is not advised. |
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Once the planets are up, there's time for relaxing. Here we see Pat, contemplating a new idea for simulating the motion of a binary star system as it hurtles through the galaxy.
But that's another installation altogether.