For the second time, Jodi and I participated in the annual Stellafane Convention. Last year, I was a speaker at the pre-convention event (The Hartness House Workshop) and then again at the end of the convention. This year, Jodi spoke at the workshop and then both of us participated in […]
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This post comes days after “part 1” for a simple reason: when you host your own servers at home there is the risk of interruption. In our case, around 8:30pm on Tuesday evening, something caused a power bump or brown out at our house. All systems are on battery backup […]
Last year, I had the great honour of being the keynote speaker at the 2025 Stellafane Convention of the Springfield Telescope Makers Association. I had such a good time at the convention, which is held over 2 days in the hills of Vermont, that I vowed this would become and […]
This answer is for Alan. After my keynote talk at the Hartness House Workshop last night, he approached me with a really interesting question. What is the total mass of the neutrinos emitted by a core-collapse supernova (CCSN)? This is a great question and a chance to do some estimating […]