In the wake of comet lulin’s close encounter I’ve been spending some time observing the Moon, while also scoring a good few objects off the lunar 100 list. So far I have seen 26 of the 100 objects listed (and many more not listed), ranging from the oblique impact rays of Proclus to the the dark edges of the Mare Serenitatis as well as a tentative observation of the lunar graben otherwise known as the Vallis Alpes. I suspect that for many of the other objects listed I’m going to have to employ a telescope, but for the moment I’m happy to observe the Moon with my 25×100s.
Besides trekking my way across the surface of the Moon, I’ve also been trying to figure out how many search term combinations lead to my blog as the number one result in Google. You could be forgiven for thinking that I am being rather narcissistic but you’d be totally wrong. I discovered last week, much to my surprise, that I had been tagged by the acclaimed visual observer and astro sketching talent that is Jeremy Perez over at The Belt of Venus. The object of the game as I mentioned above is to find out how many different search terms lead to your blog as the number one result in Google.
This really is fun and it’s an interesting way of learning just how spiders and robots use the content, tags and meta data that you apply to each of your web pages or blog posts. The following search terms below returned Space Jockey as the #1 result:
Lulin Stenhousemuir
Astro Sketching Stenhousemuir
Astroart Scotland
Extrasolar Planet Scotland
25×100 Falkirk
Sinus Iridium Scotland
Afocal Photography Scotland
Astroart Stenhousemuir
It’s pretty clear to see that this blog is inseparably linked to Scotland and my home town. There were plenty of other search terms that returned Space Jockey as a result, in particular Lulin Scotland returned a page rank of 8 while Space Jockey itself came in at #5.
As this is a chain letter of sorts all that remains for me to do now is tag a few others: Phil, Stuart and Amanda. You don’t have to play and as Jeremy says: “you will not suffer bad luck, the clouds will not close in, and your house plants will not wilt.”
