HARPS-N Inauguration
The HARPS-N spectrograph was inaugurated on April 23rd. Here’s some photos. This write up is better late than never, I hope.
Month: May 2012
San Isidro Cattle Fair, 2012
This weekend they’re holding the second biggest livestock fair on the island, at San Isidro, in Breña Alta. (The biggest is San Antonio del Monte, in June). People bring their animals, and there are prizes for the best milk cow, best bull, best goat, etc. Most of the animals are tied up in big field while they wait for the judging, and you can go around admiring them. (I hope…
Exhibition comparing Mars and Earth
There’s a great exhibition about the Earth and Mars in Palacio Salazar in Santa Cruz de La Palma until Saturday May 26th. It features scale models of the two planets, lots of great photos of Mars, and explains the similarities and differences in geology, atmosphere and weather, and hydrology. Even better, they have a genuine meteorite from Mars which you can actually touch. The exhibition is open from 9 am…
Mars-Earth exhibition
Palacio Salazar in Santa Cruz de La Palma is hosting a great exhibition on the Earth and Mars until May 26th. It features lots of great photos of Mars, and explains the similarities and differences in geology, atmosphere and weather, and hydrology. Even better, they have a genuine meteorite from Mars. Did you know that a day on Mars lasts 24.6 hours compared to our 24? And the axial…
Transvulcania 2012
On Saturday, crazy people will be running an ultramarathon around La Palma. It’s the famous Transvulcania. The main race starts at 6 am down at the lighthouse at the southern tip of the island. The runners will race up the central spine of the island to the picnic site at El Pilar, then Punta de Los Roques. The race continues anticlockwise around the Caldera rim, climbing up to the observatory…
Freedom
I’ve given up the teaching job. It didn’t take up all that much time, maybe 5 hours a week, but that cut my writing time from about 7 hours a week to about 2. Not good. Worse, I always had a corner of my mind on the look out for teaching ideas, instead of writing ideas. I wasn’t getting any writing done at all. Luckily my client had another, well-qualified…