Andy Resnick's latest activity

I know! It's sobering to contemplate the vastness and our insignificant place in it. I typically run the image through Astrometry.net...

"Dar Młodzieży" training ship seen in Świnoujście last year. Right after landing, there was an possiblity to go seeing up close.

Venus and Jupiter last night. And the moon a few weeks ago:

Skarnoid (altered rhomb porphyry; foid-bearing trachyandesite QAPF zone 8b), Fen complex. While the rock may appear to be igneous (the...

Final image, ready for printing, of the Virgo Cluster. The image area is approximately 14 degrees on a side: At 1:1, it looks like...

No sooner did I share the Virgo panorama than we just had 10 consecutive nights of clear skies. I used most of those to complete the...

Photography from winter. Pollarded willows. Formerly it was typical view in polish rural landscape in villages. At now less and less.

Thanks! The only equipment switch is the lens (large telephoto to small macro), most of the changes are in-camera (ISO, shutter speed...

The next half-dozen or so samples are just beyond my ability to identify, so I have to resort to simple descriptions: Metasomatosed...

Rolling out of bed this morning, bleary-eyed b/c I was up way to late doing astrophotography, and I see sunlit morning dew. I have to...

@Andy Resnick you’re no fun. :-)

Well.... I'm definitely not going to intentionally contaminate a solution (positive control).

OMG thank you! This is EXACTLY the kind of answer I was hoping for. I'm saving and printing it out for permanent reference. The exact...

I don't want to wander too far off topic here- I'll simply note that the protocol references "An appropriate volume of a [water]...

I made up 0.1 nanomolar, the reality is that even a single bacterium (or mold spore, or yeast cell, or...) is too many. I should have...