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The sky was cluded out this morning, so no nova. AAVSO reports have it faded to around magnitude 4.5. So here is a picture of Venus and the thin cresent Moon instead. Taken yetserday.
Read A Thin Moon (Links)
Similarly, we can say on the basis of the evidence seen in test series that Australia won its matches due to being more skilful than the English, not due to a voodoo curse on the English (although the English might not feel that way).
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Read Sad responses to the Australian?s Editorial (Links)
But best of all, the cool change had come through, and the sky was far more transparent and had no annoying cloud. The milky way was fairly clear, and I did not need to use averted vision to see the Nova (although it was much clearer in averted vision).
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Read Nova Scorpii Again (Links)
Read Only You Can Save the Earth (Links)
Read Nova Scorpii Seen! (Links)
Map of the eastern horizon in the Southern hemisphere at around 2:20 am (daylight saving time). It is currently magnitude 3.7, about as brigh as epsilon Crucis, the fifth star in the Southern Cross, and a bit dimmer than epsilon Scorpii, the star it is underneath.
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Read New Unaided eye Nova in Scorpius!!! (Links)
Read Watch TARDIS dissapear. (Links)
Yes, this is all very well and good, a nice interesting contribution to long term climate. On the other hand, the Australian has a history of letting Intelligent design creationism romp all over its pages, and has published appalling pieces of nonsense about global warming.
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Read The Australian is Anti-Science (Links)
In my ongoing campaign to image Iridium flares with my digital camera, I caught this one last night, not the best, the flare was supposed to be -4, but looked dimmer than the -2 one last night.
Read And a faint Iridium trace (Links)
Read Only 25 Day From Jupiter (Links)
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