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Since the October Topsfield Elementary School “Star Party” we’ve packed, headed south and returned to work. How appropriate, we’re “Navigators” at Disney Quest. My refractor hasn’t seen “light” for over a month and to boot, the celestial event I’ve been looking forward to see might be clouded out!
If you haven’t noticed the very bright objects in the southwest of the early night sky, I’d suggest you take a look. Jupiter, Venus (extremely bright) and the crescent moon are in conjunction. All three will form a beautiful triangle on the night of December 1, 2008. I’ve been talking it up around our campground but we’re currently experiencing some severe weather which may carry over to Dec. 1st. I hope all of you get a chance to see it. Actually, I’m having fun trying to see how long I can get away with my secret identity (Prof. Cosmo Q. Redshift). I’ve begun posting a “What’s up Tonight” info sheet on the Club house bulletin board. I post it (along with a photo of the Prof.) when something interesting is presenting itself in the night sky. So far, I’m still anonymous!
On our way south, we experienced our first motorhome tire blow-out. Fortunately, everything worked out in our favor. Now we have five old tires and one new one! The problem is, we wanted to replace all of them in the Spring of ’09… with larger tires! That means I’m going to get rid of a brand new tire! We hope we don’t have another flat on the motorhome before we return home! If we do, we’re certainly not going to toss out two new $350.00 tires, we’ll just have to keep the same size tires and replace only the old ones. Oh decisions, decisions!
Clear skies and Happy Holidays to all of you!
If you haven’t noticed the very bright objects in the southwest of the early night sky, I’d suggest you take a look. Jupiter, Venus (extremely bright) and the crescent moon are in conjunction. All three will form a beautiful triangle on the night of December 1, 2008. I’ve been talking it up around our campground but we’re currently experiencing some severe weather which may carry over to Dec. 1st. I hope all of you get a chance to see it. Actually, I’m having fun trying to see how long I can get away with my secret identity (Prof. Cosmo Q. Redshift). I’ve begun posting a “What’s up Tonight” info sheet on the Club house bulletin board. I post it (along with a photo of the Prof.) when something interesting is presenting itself in the night sky. So far, I’m still anonymous!
On our way south, we experienced our first motorhome tire blow-out. Fortunately, everything worked out in our favor. Now we have five old tires and one new one! The problem is, we wanted to replace all of them in the Spring of ’09… with larger tires! That means I’m going to get rid of a brand new tire! We hope we don’t have another flat on the motorhome before we return home! If we do, we’re certainly not going to toss out two new $350.00 tires, we’ll just have to keep the same size tires and replace only the old ones. Oh decisions, decisions!
Clear skies and Happy Holidays to all of you!
