Saturday, March 26, 2011

Notable sightings this week

I cannot express my excitement at the opportunity I had to see some legendary wonders of nature this past week. These are things I have only seen on the internet or on TV, but thanks to our local university astronomy club I saw the following with my own eyes:

Sirius
Saturn and its moons
a bolide
Crab Nebula
M82
M42 (Orion Nebula)
Tony Sinclair, famous drag entertainer Yes, I saw this legendary wonders of nature with my own eyes but he was at Panera Bread, not at the astronomy event (Sorry, I looked for a photo of Tony Sinclair but could not find any).

The photos are linked from other sites and were not taken by me. I include them here to give an idea of the visual quality of what I saw.

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