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The sky is falling, the sky is falling!
Sometimes, literally..
Ever see large hail? How about it falling out of the sky, banging and bouncing off your car, roof and even your 12-inch telescope? Well, this 'fun times' at Mars House last Wednesday, when the radar signal went to purple and black - and hail stones up to 1 1/2 inches across dropped out of the sky ( Read more... ) -
"fly Robin, fly..
..up, up to the sky!'I still love this old 'Disco' song - it makes me think of springtime during the mid-70's back in upstate NY ( Read more... ) -
Island Universes..
OK, so who won last week's caption this picture contest? Well there were several good answers, so I broke it done into "G" and "PG13" categories. silme won the 'g' rated caption, while rick_day won the most strange/perverse caption. But even if you didn't 'win' - *everyone* benefits by a NEW shiny post.
This time with feeling..OK, today its fun with 'galaxies ( Read more... ) -
Cat fun at Mars House
I haven't had a good 'kitty update' post in some time - so what the hell.
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A very fat and lazy PC soaking up some morning sun.
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Spirals!
Its been at least two weeks since the last astro-SHINY post and after of all the recent weirdness - a picture post is overdue.
Today's theme - spiral galaxies. All of these majestic 'pinwheels' of stars, as and dust were imaged by the Doctor's setup - an 8-inch f/4 Astrograph + Canon 1000D (modified for red sensitivity) on a German equatorial ( Read more... ) -
Rapture this!
Or, stupid is what stupid does..
Well, it looks like the world survived the Rapture event on May 21, though perhaps with the help of The Macho-Man Randy Savage putting the 'atomic elbow' smack-down on Jesus.
But like the a bad plague of the terminally stupid, their fearless leader Harold Camping has *updated* the prediction to October 21, 2011.
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Thy END is Nigh!
In three days - May 21 at 6 PM to be exact, the rapture will commence and 3% of the world's most gullible, err.. 'devote' will be magically teleported off the surface of this world. Just imagine - Jesus at the helm of a ST:TOS transporter, cross circuiting to "B" to bring up the faithful ( Read more... ) -
Getting Edgy
The Universe with 'edges'Lots of interesting new images to post - deep-sky objects, planets, the Moon, wildlife and other 'nature themed' stuff. I think today we will have fun with 'edges' - i.e. - objects that are either presented 'edge-on' or have a rough/jagged appearance ( Read more... )
