shooting across the atlanta skyline

i went out last night into atlanta to meet a friend for dinner and a movie; it was good to get out of decatur for a few. despite what has always been my experience with meteor showers (i don't actually see them), i am constantly on the look out for their immediate presence in my nightlife. while driving down ponce i saw what looked like a meteor inch down into the darkness. i'm sure it was a firework or gunshot or something, but it was terribly beautiful. 

i need to ask dr. lovell what she wants from these blogs, more specifically. so far i've just been going on.

christening post

so begins my journey into astronomical (and everything else) blogging--with jeff buckley as my musical companion. 

i'll admit my motivation for creating this blog is selfish in nature; in my galaxies and cosmology class we have been instructed to post a blog each time we approach a new "model" during the lecture and readings. we spent a week in class reviewing the more mathematical aspects of the intro course (kepler's laws, newton's form of kepler's third law, electromagnetic radiation and its relation to spectra and temperature, wien's law, the stefan-boltzmann law, and the doppler shift). we start this week on the chapter about the sun. 

get ready for sun models!