“Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.” – Robert Delaunay

“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.” – Thomas Hood

Venus now appears as Earth’s brilliant morning star, shining above the southeastern horizon before dawn. For early morning risers, the silvery celestial beacon rose predawn in a close pairing with a waning crescent Moon on Thursday, November 9. But from some northern locations, the Moon was seen to occult or pass in front of Venus. […]

Rain today! With a high of 9C and a low of 9C. 94 Humidity. 7 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Wikipedia article of the day is Interstate 40 in Tennessee. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: In Tennessee, Interstate 40 (I-40) runs from west to east, from the Mississippi River at the Arkansas border to the Blue Ridge Mountains at the North Carolina state line. Paralleling the older U.S. Route 70 corridor, I-40 passes through Tennessee’s three largest […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 16, 2023: Solitary tree in Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany More Info

A 35mm camera, operated by astronaut William R. Pogue, Skylab 4 pilot, recorded this wide scene of his Skylab 4 crewmates on the other end of the orbital workshop. Astronauts Jerry P. Carr (right), commander, and Edward G. Gibson, science pilot, pose for the snapshot. Also in the frame are parts of three Extravehicular Mobility […]

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.” – Stanley Kubrick

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cataloged as M1, the Crab Nebula is the first on Charles Messier’s famous list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab Nebula is now known to be a supernova remnant, an expanding cloud of debris from the death explosion of a massive star. The violent birth of the Crab was witnessed by […]