“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower.” – Kin Hubbard

Jupiter looks sharp in these two rooftop telescope images. Both were captured on November 17 from Singapore, planet Earth, about two weeks after Jupiter’s 2023 opposition. Climbing high in midnight skies the giant planet was a mere 33.4 light-minutes from Singapore. That’s about 4 astronomical units away. Jupiter’s planet girdling dark belts and light zones […]

Rain today! With a high of 8C and a low of 8C. 91 Humidity. 7 C currently. 23 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Wikipedia article of the day is Ormond Beatty. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Ormond Beatty (1815–1890) was an American educator and academic administrator who was the seventh president of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. An 1835 graduate of Centre, Beatty became a professor soon after, following a year of studies at Yale University. He taught […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 24, 2023: Édifice Price at night, Quebec city, Canada More Info

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.” – B. C. Forbes

“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso

The cosmic brush of star formation composed this interstellar canvas of emission, dust, and dark nebulae. A 5 degree wide telescopic mosaic, it frames a region found north of bright star Aldebaran on the sky, at an inner wall of the local bubble along the Taurus molecular cloud. At lower left, emission cataloged as Sh2-239 […]

Cloudy today! With a high of 6C and a low of 6C. 84 Humidity. -1 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from Southwest.