433rd 2009-2010 registration and information updates

Please checkout our main web site for registration and event updates for the 2009-2010 season!

More updates will be coming throughout the season.

One year of Bat Blogging!

The Bat Page is now one!

I don't have an astounding article to share, or a web site face lift, or anything else 'major'. I thought I'd just reflect on what has been an interesting year. Along the way I learned a lot about blogging, made connections, found new some great resources, made new friends, and wrote a few good articles.

I started this blog along with a blog for the 443rd Scouts so I could write about Scouting related and side interests that might not be of interest to all of the families in our group. It began with a few ideas that would support badgework, scoutcraft, and getting in touch with other Scout groups (see Scoutblogs and Scoutreach). And I thought I had some topics might have some interest and be of use to Scouting like groups and perhaps some others.

Just a few days ago the Bat Page recorded its 20,000th visitor ( in just 9 months of tracking). That's far more than I expected when I started this. Wow! Not bad for a Scouters blog.

The chart above shows those visits. The spikes from left to right are:

• Carnival of Space #61: Tunguska Edition,
• Scam psychology, Whack-a-mole and the next 2012 hoax,
• Greenwash, Security Theatre, and Skepticism - Critical Thinking, and
• Astronomical distances are .... (well) astronomical.

Back in May I wrote Mang's Most Popular. This was before the spikes generated by The Carnival of Space and Stumblers. There is still steady interest in articles like:

• Build your own Planisphere (Star Finder)!, and
• Navigation without a compass (or GPS).

One things I tried to do with the last two articles, was to make sure they provided answers for those in both the northern and southern hemispheres.

The Web and tools like blogs have the potential to transform and expand Scouting. Events like JOTI are a fantastic complement to traditional jamborees. The promise of Scoutblogs is to keep this kind of grass-roots communication going all the time. There are great examples of Scout Bloggers, but I think there is room for a lot more. I know Scouters that have a wealth of relevant and useful information covering all of the domains of Scouting knowledge. More of them need to share this. Scouters could take a lesson from the Space/Astronomy blogging community that has shown one way it can be done.

There are a lot of people who've shown how to do it and I'd like to thank some of them: Scouters Joy, Ken, and Clarke; and Space bloggers Fraser, Ian, and Phil.

433rd.com web site upgrade

Click here for information on the 433rd main website upgrade.

Mang's Most Popular

This is about what people have found interesting on this site so far. Overall, the most popular articles are:

• 13% Build your own Planisphere (Star Finder)!
• 11% Black Hole discoverer to be eaten by land developers (The DDO sale)
  
• 8% Earth's Other Moons
• 8% the home page
  
• 6% Navigation without a compass (or GPS)
• 6% Calculating Easter
• 3% How many planets have rings?
• 3% Laser pointers, bans, and stupidity
  

People find sites in two main ways. Direct references linked from other sites (or in emails) and through search engines.

The Bat Page traffic breaks down about as follows:

• 42% from searches
• 24% links from Carnival of Space articles
• 22% without a referrer
• 12% from Scouts, Email and other articles on this site

While I can't say much about the unreferred sites, people following direct links from Carnivals, emails, and other scouting links have a pretty good idea what they're getting. One place where it gets interesting is traffic coming from search engines.

So, what are people searching for?

• 24% templates for making northern/southern planispheres (star finders, star wheels)
• 7% games about knots and tides
  
• 7% rings around planets
  
• 6% finding your way without a compass
• 6% the DDO
  
• 5% information on twilight, sunset, and sunrise
  

Now some of these results were a bit of a surprise. In part this is because blogs tend to grow organically. I was pleased with the results for the star finders and finding your way without a compass. I was hoping for this, so when I wrote them I didn't limit them to my location. I specifically made sure to find out how this would work in the southern hemisphere and not just up north here in Canada.

One of the reasons for installing website tracking capabilities is to help web site authors and managers to tune the site to their audience. There are lots of tools for doing this but many of these use the same basic techniques. For a discussion of these, see "Understanding website tracking".

I use a service called Statcounter which is free with a small amount of log space. Statcounter gives me several types of information about my visitors:

• Their IP address and an indication if they are a returning visitor (cookies are used but I don't get to see them),
• What page referred them (e.g. Toronto Scouts, Carnival of Space, or a Search Engine),
• Browser and system information (see here),
• Search terms if the visitor came from a Search Engine.
• And, of course, what pages were visited.

Understanding Website Tracking

Most web sites track their visitors for any of a host of reasons. What the operators do with that information depends on their motives and intent. I track visitors to this site using a free service called Statcounter. My motives are to understand my audience better. One example of this is my article "Browser Wars part Deux". Others track for security, or ad revenue, or more sinister purposes. We as an audience may choose to agree or to disagree with how we are tracked and why.

There is a lot of misunderstanding out there about security and privacy on the Internet and during our browsing experience. Trying to understand the ins and outs of all of this is technical and a bit arcane. Most people don't have the time, patience or the background for it. I do. It's part of my job. Information security has been part of my job for most of my career.

With security and privacy, most of the time people get upset about the wrong things. It's not that their concern is misplaced, it just that people aren't that good at estimating risks.

Sometimes we choose to give up a bit of our privacy for things like free email accounts. Most people believe that companies like Google use their free email as vehicle to deliver ads. Automated analysis suggests something you might want. The most successful companies doing this will be the ones that are effective (suggesting something you really want or need) and not offensive or pushy.

Occasionally, these services get it wrong and the results can be quite funny. Because this blog is hosted by Google, I use a Google account just for it. A lot of the emails going through relate to scouting and astronomy. Google, through Gmail , displays a line at the top of my inbox informing me of interesting products and services. Sometimes it tells me about things relating to camping or astronomy. Regularly, it tells me about astrology, or doom and gloom sites (Nostradamus), and other weirdness. I don't mind it as it's not too pushy.

Website visitors are typically tracked by IP addresses and "cookies". Many people get upset about companies tracking their browsing habits. It's seen as an invasion of privacy and been the focus of a wide debate. The other part of the problem is their use by spammers and criminals.

As with most things, organizations that are the most aggressive in their use of technology tend to cross a line and become the focus of intense debates such as this. The debate then focuses on the use, abuse, and perceived abuse of the technology which then becomes a question of trust. This is no different from your real world business choices.

The first thing people need to know is that not all tracking is bad. In fact, some is necessary. To tell the difference, you need to understand how tracking works. There are several methods described below. If you don't want all the nitty-gritty read the italic paragraphs in each section.

People are tracked by means of IP addresses, Cookies, Web Bugs, and by coordinating the use of these things. Cookies and Web Bugs can even track you as you move a laptop from one place to another (e.g. home, work, hot spots).

IP addresses

Basically, IP addresses aren't all that good for tracking people by themselves because they can be shared and because they don't remain constant. If you want to see your IP go to What's my IP address.

That may change in the future as we change to a newer standard for IP addresses called IPv6 which is intended to allow every device to have its own unique IP.

If you want to know more about how this works read the points below. Otherwise skip a bit.

• IP stands for Internet Protocol. IP addresses are how are computers know to talk to each other. When you visit this blog, your browser needs an IP address. You type mangsbatpage.433rd.com and your browser asks the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) to return an address. Today it sent back 72.14.207.121. Because this is a server at Google, it's unlikely to change too often. The computer I'm writing this on also has an IP address. It's dynamic and assigned by a home firewall/router. It's also private and can't be seen on the Internet. Finally there is the one that my firewall/router has. That one is assigned by my ISP dynamically and changes from time to time. It can be seen on the Internet. That one is also shared by other computers in my house.
  
• IP addresses were intended to be unique. In practice their aren't enough of them and they get shared and reused. As a result, they aren't in themselves all that good at tracking people.
• As I mentioned, some IP addresses are dynamic and change over time.
  
• Other IPs are fixed and represent many people. Large companies typically funnel all of their employee browsing through a few IP addresses. While most Internet Service Providers assign individual IP addresses to customers, AOL is (or was) a counter example and operated much like a large company.
• IP addresses in and of themselves aren't a great indicator of individual behaviour.
• There should be a healthy privacy debate around IPv6.

Cookies

Cookies are more commonly used for this tracking and as a result they are both abused and misunderstood. Cookies are essentially a way of associating information with a name to provide a memory for web servers. That's actually needed because in their basic form web servers can't tell one page request (or people) apart. Cookies that are very specific and restricted facilitate transactions. Cookies that are broad and unrestricted are open to abuse.

If you want to know more about cookies read the points below:

• Web servers are "stateless" which is just a fancy way of saying that they have no memory from one page to another. This is fine if the site is just only informational. If there is some kind of transaction happening the site must have a memory. You wouldn't want it any other way.
• Cookies can be restricted to specific sites. So-called secure cookies are generally a good thing. For example when you bank on the Internet, you most likely use cookies. When you sign on to a secure web site the server returns you a cookie called a secure session cookie. It's really just an enormous random number. Each time you click a new button or move to a new page withing that site, that number is how the web site knows how to connect the dots between the actions on each page. Of course the if someone were to get this number they could impersonate your session. There's a whole host of things done to prevent this.
• That's one reason why the banks encrypt their sessions.
  
• The random number must be extremely strong to prevent guessing.
• The random number is only good for a short while. When it expires, you must login again.
• Some web sites change the random number from page to page.
• Shopping cart sites use cookies to keep track of what's in your cart. They are similar to what the bank does but you might not need to log in.
• Wikipedia has an article on Cookies here.
  

Web Bugs

Another way you can be tracked is by the use of so-called "web bugs". These are references to invisible files hidden in a web page that are associated with a unique number. By embedding the same bug in emails and different web pages along with additional reference information, you can be tracked. Unlike cookies and IP addresses, I'm not aware of a clear need for web bugs beyond tracking. In fact there are lots of examples of abuses using this technology.

If you want to know more about cookies read the points below:

• Web bugs are often image files such as JPEGs that are drawn with a 1 pixel x 1 pixel size. There are other methods and a broader description can be found on Wikipedia.
  
• The references number is usually an argument to the file name (after the ? in the URL)
• The bug is really the reference and not the file.
  
• Tracking is possible because the name of the file and the unique number appear in the logs of servers you visit.
• Several email products can disable web bugs.
  

Tips

• If you are doing transactions like banking, you might want to shut down your browser and start it up from scratch to do your banking and shopping. When done the shut down and restart again. This will minimize the possibility of information accidentally leaking between different web sites.
• Most browsers allow you to select which cookies you'll allow to be set. You can also block entire sites and networks. The down side is that the frequent interactions when the browser asks you about each cookie can be highly annoying. There are also cookie managers that allow you to remove and block unwanted cookies.
• Browsers often allow you to control the loading of offsite image files
• Java script can be even more dangerous in what it can steal from your computer. I strongly recommend people use tools like Firefox's NoScript Add-on. This allows you to permit specific sites to use scripts.
  

Browser wars part deux!

Most people take browsers for granted and think of the browser wars as ancient history. Well they're back.

Some of this diversity is a good thing. But the problems of security and compatibility lurk beneath the surface.

Browser diversity

There are a surprising number of browsers out there and even a small site will get a fair spread of visitors. Judging from the visitors to this site (and discounting my own activity), we have:

• Internet Explorer or IE (50%) with 3 versions
  
• Firefox (36%) with 6 versions
  
• Safari (7%) with 1 version
  
• Opera (1.3%) with 5 versions
• Others (5%) including Konqueror, Camino, Netscape, Mozilla (pre firefox), and the ever popular blank or noname.

I have yet to see a visit by a Flock user.

Recently Apple has been trying to make a big splash with Safari. They got themselves into a bit of hot water by being aggressive and misleading using the iTunes updater to install Safari on Windows, here. And looked a bit silly because the click through license disallowed installs on Windows, here.

Security

Older browsers are vulnerable to all kinds of security problems and are actually unsafe on many pages.

Unpatched security vulnerabilities make it possible for criminals to easily infect computers by planting malicious code on web sites and waiting users to visit. It's been called "drive by downloading". It's not just reserved for fake websites and spam blogs, many legitimate web sites have been laced with nasty malware.

Security studies in 2005 and 2006 comparing IE with Firefox found that IE (v6) was unsafe 98% of the time! In fact, about 30% of our visitors are running unpatched browsers.

• About 20% of the visitors to this site are running the insecure IE v6!
• Also about 2.5% of visitors to this site are running insecure versions of Firefox.
  

Of course, not all vulnerabilities are equal and if you want to do some research, vulnerability information can be found at Secunia.com as well as numerous other websites. Click on one of these links for a vulnerability summary for IE7, IE6, IE5.5, IE 5.0, Firefox 2, Firefox 1, Netscape 7, Camino, Opera 9, Opera 8, Safari 1, and Flock 1.

Firefox can be supplemented by a variety of Add-ons which can improve both functionality and security. A few of my favorites are NoScript and Adblock Plus.

Compatibility

Older browsers are also functionally problematic. It goes beyond not supporting newer web functionality, some of them don't follow standards and require web developers to go through all kinds of quirky hoops to get even simple web pages to display properly in all browsers. IE6 and earlier were notorious for being non-standard. Developers even have a name for one of the problems, it's called Quirks Mode. It's been argued that Microsoft likes this because it promotes their lock-in. Developers by and large hate it because it destroys interoperability and promotes lock-in.

By way of example, when our web developer put together the "Forest Friends" page for the 433rd website the animals originally lined up properly only in IE. The site looked nasty in every other browser. Some experimentation and adjustment was required to get it working for standards based browsers like Firefox and Opera. If you look in the page source, you will see comments describing the gory details of how the page was adjusted.

End6!

One web developer has been so miffed by these problems, he started a campaign called End6! to get rid of IE6 (and earlier) non-conforming browsers. This was picked up by another group, here, and caused some controversy, here. Just to be clear, he's not trying to get rid of IE. Just old non-conforming IE.

Take the End6! test, here. Of course it requires JavaScript to be enabled.

Polite Comments are Welcome, SPAM is not.

I encourage comments on this blog. I just ask that if you make them consider that the audience is includes kids. In particular kids of Cub and Scout age (8-13).
All comments are reviewed with this audience in mind. Inappropriate comments and comments containing bad language will be removed (there is no way to edit out bad words). Spammers and very offensive material will be reported and removed. 

Comments posted to recent articles will  appear immeadiately and will be reviewed.  Comments posted to older articles will be held for review.

The following are subject to rejection:

• Obvious product advertisements (and additionally reported)
• Offensive languages (and potentially reported)
  
• Personal attacks and "flames"
• Random nonsense (possible testing by spammers)
• Unsolicited and off topic
• Unreachable links

If a post is otherwise worthwhile, I may choose to re-post and delete individual bad words.

I will attempt to be reasonable, if there is a discussion about a type of product. Simple and informative posts about something in the same class of product and discussions of pros and cons of these products are expected.

I reserve the right to revise this policy without notice, reinstate comment moderation or take other actions to control spam/offensive material.

And to the spammers who wanted us to know about your alleged anti-virus solution, weight loss product, and enhancements Now you know. BTW, your blogger ID and all your links were reported as abuse.

Unofficial Carnival of Space Search Widget

I've created a Google Search Widget for the Carnival of Space.

It's experimental only in that it is subject to tinkering. The intent is to be able to search through sites and pages related to the Carnival of Space. Tinkering will be limited to the addition of related sites, and changes to options to limit how far the search can expand itself.

Currently, the widget searches each page has hosted the Carnival and dynamically includes pages linked from these pages. The search should not expand beyond this to the larger Internet.
I will also be adding individual sites from the carnival.

I had tried some different options initially and found some the searches went a bit astray. I'll put this down to my inexperience with Google CSE widgets.

I'll update this post if I make significant changes.

Feedback is welcome.

I've also added it to the blog's side bar for when this rolls off into the archives.

For more on Google Custom Search Engine widgets, see here.

BTW. If you are considering using this widget or creating one of your own, Google's Terms and Conditions include some "Exclusivity" terms to preserve their lock-in. If I read it correctly, they don't want to share their widgets on pages with other search engines/widgets.

Update: No longer experimental. The options that I'm using to limit searching too broadly have been working well and there appears to be no need to tinker with them anymore.

Browser beware: Next Blog

The 433rd blogs are hosted by Blogger (a Google service). Part of that service includes the Blogger Navigation bar at the top.

Please note that the 433rd does not control where the Next Blog link will take you.

Current reports indicate there is ongoing abuse of blogging services to post objectionable materials. Some of these so-called spam blogs contain viruses and malware. If you do find yourself on a page with objectionable materials, please report it via the FLAG BLOG link (also on the Navigation bar).

At this time, we strongly recommend not using the Next Blog link.

Update: Google has been taking action to clean this up. There is a good article, here.

Nonetheless - use with care.

Move to 433rd.com and image problem

We are moving the 433rd and Mang's blogs to the 433rd.com domain. Both will be accessible via the 433rd.com and blogspot.com.

This site was the guinea pig and we hit a problem with Google's blogger where the header image doesn't always display. It seems this is a known problem and there is a fix about to be published.

Waiting with worms on our tongues :) --Oh sorry, that was bated breath.

Update 11/29: Google fixed the problem.

Mang's Bat Page - Contents

This index of the Bat Page is updated regularly.

1. Welcome
2. Your first telescope ...
3. Knot Games
4. Comet Holmes visits the 433rd!
5. Weather forecasts for Stargazers
6. Move to 433rd.com and image problem
7. Browser beware: Next Blog
8. Hut 33 finds Mowgli
9. Orion returns to the evening sky
10. Why Mang?
11. Merry Christmas and Thanks
12. Astronomy and space in the news
13. Help Save the David Dunlap Observatory!
14. The Tides Game
15. Twilight hours and a sunrise/sunset calculator
16. EarthHour - Saturday March 29, 2008 @ 8pm
17. The Wolf Moon!
18. The Toronto Fire Service visits the 433rd!
19. Another asteroid "near" miss?
20. ScoutBlogs - the search begins
21. Build your own Planisphere (Star Finder)!
22. ScoutBlogs #2 Nipissing and the Google Search
23. Reflections on light pollution
24. You want to get a star named after someone ...
25. Wakeboarding in February!?
26. How many planets have rings?
27. Earth's other moons ...
28. Astronomers Badge
29. APOD and other astronomy image sources
30. The Carnival of Space
31. Black Hole discoverer to be eaten by land developers
32. Unofficial Carnival of Space Search Widget
33. Observatory Tour - March 4th, 2008
34. Light Pollution Awareness - The Globe at Night - Feb 25 to Mar 8
35. BP Banquet 2008
36. Linking with the 9th Benoni Cubs
37. Snow Moon Eclipse - simple astrophotography
38. Scouts in Space (not kidding)
39. Polite Comments are Welcome, SPAM is not.
40. Astronomical distances are .... (well) astronomical
41. Article on Binocular Astronomy
42. David Dunlap Observatory Tour and Photos
43. Calculating Easter
44. Do you recognize this badge?
45. Making MOST
46. Browser wars part deux!
47. Navigation without a compass (or GPS)
48. April - Last chance to see DDO Canada's largest telescope
49. Laser pointers, bans, and stupidity
50. The 433rd goes to the Moon!
51. Emergency Preparedness Adventure - Saturday, May 10th, 9 am - 4 pm
52. 50 Ways to get kids hooked on the outdoors!
53. Understanding Website Tracking
54. Great Cubbing activities at Akela's Cubs!
55. Astronomy Sale ....
56. Mang's Most Popular
57. Astronomy Day - May 10, 2008
58. The Great Astronomers Badge Swap
59. Yummy Science Experiment - eating up the speed of light!
60. Emergency Preparedness Adventure - Photos
61. Carnival of Space # 54 is up
62. Greenwash, Security Theatre, and Skepticism - Critical Thinking
63. What's your favorite asterism?
64. Hut 33 returns ... more Scouting connections
65. Carnival of Space # 57 is up
66. Camp cleanup with destructive science!
67. Binocular Astronomy
68. Swimup Camp at Wye Marsh (June 21st)
69. Gone Home too soon ....
70. DMC-eh? Why Canada's new Copyright law is a mistake
71. What's a cub to do over the summer?
72. Breaking news on NeosSAT
73. Mentos and diet-coke explained
74. Tunguska's Legacy
75. Carnival of Space #61: Tunguska Edition
76. Top 10 excuses for not securing your computer
77. Using feeds to speed up your browsing
78. Carnival of Space #62 - The Image Extravaganza! @ Space Disco
79. Hut 33 and Astronomy
80. Carnival of Space #63
81. Missed it by that much ...
82. The Economist Has No Clothes ... Why Economics is failing the environment
83. More Scouting possibilities in Hut 33?
84. Scam psychology, Whack-a-mole and the next 2012 hoax
85. 2008 Scouts Registration
86. MOST caught on camera!
87. Mang gets a space telescope!
88. Hot Jupiter Trojans! MOST finds exoasteroids?
89. Background Checks and Scouting
90. Carnival of Space #70 is up at Orbital Hub
91. What's up @ Blue Springs Scout Reserve - Sky Forecast
92. What's Up @ Lloyd Manor Park - Sky Forecast
93. Double Iridium Flare spotted at the 433rd!
94. Mang interviewed in Etobicoke Guardian
95. Pyro Scouts and Boy Scout Trail
96. More Scouting insight at Scoutmaster
97. DDO Astronomers renew outreach program - Your Real Sky
98. Planets and Stars - video - Just how big are they?
99. Free Coin Counting Service!
100. Scout Scarves, 100th post
101. Carnival of Space #72 @ Twisted Physics
102. Welcome Chil!
103. 433rd.com web site updgrade
104. Custom Jigsaw Puzzles
105. Apple Day Reminder 2008 !
106. Coat Drive for Romero House
107. Welcome JOTI 2008 Particpants!
108. The Great World Wide Star Count - Oct 20 to Nov 3, 2008
109. Spaghetti Western Orchestra?!
110. Skies Badge - South Africa
111. First JOTI
112. TD Coin Counting Machines Pass Scout Apple Day Workout!
113. Padua JOTI "Light of the Peace" Video Project
114. Carnivals of Space 76 and 77
115. Light pollution - even more in the spotlight
116. Carnival of Space #78 @ Simostronomy
117. Annual Humber West Hobby Show Crest Design Competition
118. One year of Bat Blogging!
119. Think of the fallen
120. 20008 Christmas Tree Sales begin soon
121. 2008 Weston Santa Claus Parade
122. What's up Sky Forecasts
123. What's Up @ Woodland Trails - Sky Forecast
124. Carnival of Space #79 @ One Astronomers Noise
125. What's Up @ Otter Lake Camp - SkyForecast
126. Carnival of Space #80 - (US) Thanksgiving Edition @ Starts with a Bang
127. What's Up @ Camp Goodyear - Sky Forecast
128. Tipsy Orion
129. Carnival of Space #81 @ Tiny Mantras
130. What's Up @ Haliburton Scout Reserve - Sky Forecast
131. What's Up @ the Torrence Barrens Dark Sky Preserve - Sky Forecast
132. 2009 Hobby Show Date and Details
133. Avoiding the Christmas trash-Telescope Blues
134. Skyforecasts all up for now
135. Carnival of Space #82 The Video Edition @ Space Disco
136. What's Up @ Camp Samac - Sky Forecast
137. Carnival of Space #84 @ Next Big Future
138. Ciao Padua - Welcome the Light of the Peace!
139. FREE - Toronto Astronomy Festival @ OSC - January 10, 2009
140. Project Earthshine!
141. Carnival of Space #85 @ Cheap Astro
142. Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse!
143. Carnival of Space #86 @ Collect Space
144. Carnival of Space #87 - returns to Mars
145. How You Could Pilot a Space Telescope (Upside Down)
146. Carnival of Space #88 @ TheSpaceWriters' Ramblings!
147. Astronomy Links from Jan/Feb 2009 Scouting Life Magazine
148. Easy "Red Eye" Exit Pupil Method
149. Carnival of Space 90 - Valentines Day Edition @ 21st Century Waves
150. Explore the Night Sky
151. Make Your Stargazing Events Shine
152. Carnival of Space #91 @ Next Big Future
153. Astronomy Tips for the Observer
154. Mang NOT seen hitchhiking at Kenedy Space Centre.
155. Earth Hour: Be Part of It
156. Carnivals of Space 92, 93, 94, 95, and 96
157. The Last Planet?
158. Space Carnivals 97, 98, 99
159. Orbits: Intro to NASA's Orbit Simulator - solar system small body tour
160. 100 Carnivals (of Space) on the wall
161. See the Sun through an Hydrogen-Alpha filter (May 2 11am-4pm)
162. Orbits: Comet/Asteroid/Meteor Close Encounters, Near Misses and Impacts
163. Carnival of Space #101 @ Robot Explorers!
164. Space badge resource for Girls and Boys
165. David Dunlap Observatory slated to reopen in the IYA2009!
166. Carnival of Space #102 @ The Spacewriter's Ramblings
167. Strange Orbits: Quasi-satellites, Horseshoes, Corkscrews and Earth Stalkers - Earths Other Moons II
168. David Dunlap Asteroid
169. Carnival of Space #104 - The Arrow Edition
170. Carnival of Space #105 @ Space Disco(very)
171. Three Ring Carnivals (of Space #106, 107 , 108)
172. Shrinking Mars will not appear as big as the full Moon
173. Twisted Carnival of Space #109
174. Pet Rocks? Naming things in Space
175. Carnival of Space #110 @ Kentucky Space
176. International Space Station ISS - Watch it Build
177. Carnival of Space #111 @ 21st Century Waves
178. Mosquitos, Camping, and Astronomy, oh my
179. Ribs! Ribs! Ribs! .... BBQ
180. Nostradamus 2012: Not fit for the KYBO
181. Carnival of Space #112 - The Big Moon Day Show @ Out of the Cradle
182. FREE - Apollo Talk and Star Party @ OSC - Tonight July 24th 8-11pm
183. UK Astronomy Badge
     
184. The Carnival of Space #113 takes a hit @ The Dynamics of Cats
185. Hey Boo-boo, look where they hid the picnic basket!
186. Carnival of Space #114 @ Cheap Astronomy
187. Iceteroids!
188. Strange Planetary Alignment and all I got was a T-shirt.
189. Carnival of Space #115 @ New Frontier News
190. What's up @ the Ontario Science Center
191. Carnival of Space #116 @ Habitation Intention
192. Antipodean Astronomical Weather Forecasts and more
193. Carnival of Space 117 @ Simostronomy
194. Petition: designate David Dunlap Observatory lands a National Historic Site
195. What's up @ Gordon's Park Manitoulin
196. Carnival of Space #118 @ Cumbrian Sky
197. 433rd 2009-2010 registration and information updates
198. 3 Star Parties!
199. Carnival of Space Hat Trick #119-121  
200. Pirates on the Grand!  
201. Star Symposium @ York University - Saturday October 3, 2009 
202. FREE Spooky Star Party - OSC - Friday, October 30th 
203. Carnival Quintette 122, 123, 124, 125 and 126  
204. Review: National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Night Sky
205. It's trashscope season again - don't be fooled